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Registration for the 2013 Red Hat Summit is now officially open! Red Hat Summit will be held on June 11-14 in Boston, MA at the Hynes Convention Center. For the ninth consecutive year, Red Hat Summit will connect customers, partners, and technology experts to learn, network, and experience the full potential of open source. The Red Hat Summit is the … Read More

Why Linux Virtualization is Ready for Prime Time Virtualization technologies have gained a strong footing in enterprise data centers in recent years. According to Frost & Sullivan research, 65 percent of all U.S. businesses have incorporated virtualization into their data centers. For many of those, the commitment to virtualization is serious — 20 percent have virtualized more than three-quarters of … Read More

School budgets never seem to get any larger, but one way educational institutions may be able to cut costs is by deploying open source software. The open source community has developed applications that educators can use directly in the classroom, apps that are great for use at home and tools that administrators can use for school management. This month, we’ve … Read More

In addition to its focus on cloud computing, which will be led by an OpenStack-based distribution and robust support plans taking shape this year, Red Hat is also doublling down on its focus on Big Data. The company has announced that it “will contribute its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the ApacheTM Hadoop open community to transform Red Hat … Read More

For the first time, both hiring mangers (850) and Linux professionals (2,600) were surveyed in the 2013 Linux Jobs Survey & Report, which forecasts and provides a comprehensive view of the Linux career landscape, including business needs and personal incentives. The report also includes insights into why employers are seeking Linux talent now and what the top incentives are for Linux professionals. From Jennifer … Read More

Android phone makers can thank Sprint for much of their sales gains in the November-through-January period, says market researcher Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Samsung’s Galaxy S3 helped Android win more sales in the U.S. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Android has pulled ahead of Apple’s iOS in U.S. smartphone sales, according to data out today from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. During the three months … Read More

The Japanese electronics company has “an ambition” to release a Firefox OS phone next year in partnership with carrier Telefonica. BARCELONA, Spain–Under a broadened partnership with mobile network operator Telefonica, Sony Mobile is exploring support for Mozilla’s new Firefox OS and hopes to release a phone with it next year. “Our engineers are now working with Firefox OS Mobile and … Read More

Summary: Selecting the right IT service management tool has never been easy, and software-as-a-service now adds an extra dimension of complexity. Forrester’s SaaS ITSM Tool Market Overview covers the who, where and what. Topic: Cloud Follow via: RSS Email Alert 0Comments 1 Vote 27 inShare more + SaaS ITSM tools: Forrester delivers market overview Summary: Selecting the right IT service … Read More

What better way to keep up with Linux than listening to the experts talk about it while you’re working or driving? There are a number of great websites that report on Linux-related news. But sometimes it’s nice to listen to your news while driving to work…or playing in the background while getting some actual work done. For that, you need … Read More

  Upcoming Webinar with Live Q&A VMware Zimbra, the only enterprise cloud email solution based on open source standards is now available as-a-service to US federal, state and local government organizations through GSA contracts. Join VMware on February 27 at 10am PST, with special guest General Dynamics IT (GDIT), as we discuss how Zimbra is uniquely built for the highest … Read More

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 is now available Today, Red Hat announced the general availability of the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. This release includes a broad set of updates to the existing feature set and provides rich new functionality in the areas of identity management, file system, virtualization, resource management, … Read More

Summary: Google is frequently blasted for letting Android become too fragmented, with different versions and OEM customizations. Samsung has customized Android extensively and it’s now better than Google’s version. Google left Android open to modifciation by OEMs by design, and that led to fragmenting the platform. New Android devices are as likely to be running old versions of the OS, … Read More

Summary: Once again, a Microsoft partner claims that Linux is less secure than Windows. What else would they say? It’s 2013. but the Linux FUD just keeps coming. In the most recent example, security firm Trustwave claimed that Linux kernel vulnerabilities went unpatched more than twice as long as it took to fix unpatched flaws in Windows. This assertion would … Read More

Canary Islands Government Migrates Telecommunications Platform from VMWare to Red Hat 11 February 2013 To meet growing demand for its services, the IT department for the government of the Canary Islands needed to expand and update its existing VMware virtualization environment. After an exhaustive research process, the IT department chose Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization. Customer: Government of the Canary Islands … Read More

s the time right to grow your business with Digium Asterisk and UC solutions? Webinar Registration Please join us for this special webinar presentation on Digium Asterisk products. We are honored to be joined on this webinar by Mark Spencer, the founder of Asterisk open source software and CTO of Digium. He will share some insights about how Asterisk has … Read More