Affordable server virtualization with no vendor lock-in

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  Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) represents a true strategic virtualization solution to organizations looking for a total cost of ownership, faster Return on Investment (ROI), accelerated break-even, and avoidance of vendor lock-in when compared to proprietary virtualization vendors. RHEV for Servers The RHEV delivers record setting performance with a comprehensive management feature set at the lowest cost of ownership … Read More

Do cloud right: Four critical steps to selecting the right provider

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  Here is your Do Cloud Right list, designed to help you choose offerings wisely based on your needs: #1 : Choose the country of your provider carefully, or run it as private cloud locally. Firstly, all romantic notions about “information is free” and “the cloud is global” aside, the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program has aptly demonstrated that in these … Read More

QEMU 1.6 Brings A Whole Lot Of Changes

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QEMU 1.6.0 has been released and with this open-source processor emulator commonly used with Linux KVM are a whole lot of new features and capabilities. Among the features of QEMU 1.6 are an NVMe PCI block device, the XHCI USB 3.0 controller now supports live migration, ACPI hotplug on PCI bridge devices is now supported, an ARM model for the … Read More

NAKIVO Introduces v4 Enterprise Edition with OLR, Multi-Tenancy, and Self-Service

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Reliable, fast, and affordable VM backup & replication File recovery from local, offsite, and cloud backups Exchange objects recovery COMING THIS FALL Deduplication across entire backup repository Backup verification COMING THIS FALL Network acceleration, CBT, AES-256 encryption Multi-tenancy and Self-Service COMING THIS FALL vCloud Director support, Amazon Cloud integration Linux or Windows install, Web 2.0 UI, advanced reporting Register for … Read More

Migrating from UNIX to Linux Webinar Sept 5th

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Technology leaders are increasingly aware that many organizations, including those with some of the most demanding workloads, have made the switch to Linux due to its flexibility, reliability and lower costs.  The New York Stock Exchange, Google, Amazon.com and Facebook are just a few examples of companies that have successfully moved from UNIX to Linux across their organizations. While Linux … Read More

Debian Celebrates 20 Years, OpenSUSE 8

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Two distinguished distributions are celebrating birthdays this week. The openSUSE project celebrates 8 years of open Linux development and distribution. At the same time, Debian is gearing up for their birthday celebration at DebConf13 on August 16. Both projects provide invaluable and incalculable contributions to the Open Software sphere and the world economy. Happy Eighth Birthday openSUSE! The openSUSE project … Read More

Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software

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While most companies fight copycats, Red Hat embraces its top clone, CentOS. Here’s how that helps it fight real enemies like VMware. Imagine your company spent more than $100 million developing a product. Now imagine that a competitor came along and cloned your product and distributed a near-perfect replica of it. Not good, right? If you’re Apple, you spend years … Read More

Open source has won, let’s look to the future

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My nearly 11 minute keynote at OSCON 2013 this year, felt long enough when I gave it, but in terms of what I have to say about the future of open source, it wasn’t even close. Here I expand on the lessons I’ve learned from other people working in open source, new technologies emerging in open source that haven’t come … Read More

New Axigen version release 8.1.1

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August / 2013 Dear Axigen Customer, The new Axigen version 8.1.1 brings clustering without user-maps, smart email groups and enhanced delegated administration! Check out what’s new in 8.1.1 We are proud to announce you that we have released a new version, Axigen 8.1.1. We continue to maintain and to enhance our product so that our customers can deploy a robust … Read More

Is Linux Operating System Immune to Malware?

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To be true, No! No OS on this earth can be ever be 100% immune to Viruses and Malware. But still Linux never had a widespread malware-infection as compared to Windows. Why? Let us find the reason behind this. Some people believes that Linux still has a minimal usages share, and a Malware is aimed for mass destruction. No programmer … Read More

Is Red Hat Destined for Greatness?

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nvestors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable market-beating gains, with robust and improving financial metrics that support strong price growth. Does Red Hat (NYSE: RHT  ) fit the bill? Let’s take a look at what its recent results tell us about its potential for future … Read More

Top500 supercomputers and SUSE Linux Enterprise

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In June and November of each year the Top500 list of supercomputers is released. Each year, based on the list, the key operating system for supercomputing is Linux. Linux is cheaper to run and its excellent scalability features, along with its robust security and performance, make it an ideal choice for high performance computing (HPC) systems. The recently released November … Read More

FreeBSD Can Compete With Ubuntu Linux, Windows 8

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Yesterday I published results that show NVIDIA’s Linux driver is very competitive with Microsoft Windows 8 when it comes to OpenGL gaming performance. It turns out that the NVIDIA BSD driver, which is still mostly shared common code with Linux and Solaris and Windows, pairs very well with FreeBSD’s Linux binary compatibility layer. The NVIDIA BSD performance is very good … Read More

FSF launches fundraising program for Replicant, the fully free Android-based mobile OS

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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, July 25, 2013 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a fundraising initiative for Replicant (http://replicant.us), a fully free Android distribution and the first mobile operating system (OS) to run without relying on proprietary system code. Replicant’s small volunteer developer team is focused on improving their OS, while also expanding it to work on … Read More

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10 Beta Released

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Today we are pleased to announce availability of the Beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10. This release provides system administrators
with a secure, stable and reliable platform for their organization’s enterprise applications.