Building on its open source software offering, Convirture has introduced ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition with add-ons of specific interest to enterprises like advanced automation and scalability features for running large-scale or mission-critical virtualized environments.
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Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source e-mail and collaboration software, announced today an agreement with LinuxMagic, the developers of MagicMail, which supplies e-mail, messaging and spam protection products to ISPs, telcos and enterprises across North America, as we...
The OpenNebula team has just announced the release the first beta version of what is to become OpenNebula 2.0 next September. OpenNebula 2.0 Beta 1 is targeted at testers and users that would like to peep at what’s coming to their clouds!. OpenNebula 2.0 beta includes a significant am...
Novell and Tencent, reportedly China’s biggest Internet service portal, have set up a research lab in Shenzhen, China, to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform.
Tencent, which is supposed to have 480 million active users and 568.6 million IM accounts,...
Cloud.com, a provider of open source private and public cloud computing software, on Wednesday announced it is collaborating with leaders in open source and cloud computing on OpenStack, an open source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud in...
University of Salamanca in Spain selected Linux-based Open-Xchange for e-mail and groupware at its nine campus facilities. More than 30,000 students use Open-Xchange for e-mail and 2,700 faculty and administration use the Open-Xchange premium groupware package for e-mail, calendaring, ...
The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will pull together more than 25 companies to play a key role in driving cloud computing standards for i...
Likewise software, integrating Linux, Unix, and Mac in Windows environments, reported a record first half of 2010, signing partnerships with HP, EMC, Canonical, VMware, deals with customers Gilead Sciences, Phillip Morris, NBC Universal and Qatar Petroleum, Morgan Stanley, TIAA-CREF an...
Rackspace Hosting on Monday announced the launch of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, a specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code that powers its Cl...
Wind River Linux Secure, a secure embedded Linux that should be available in 1H11, is in evaluation by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) to be certified to Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). If it passes, it’ll be the first commercial embedded Li...
AMD did better than people thought it would in Q2. Even so it barely looks like number two in a two-horse race.
Revenues were up 40% year-over-year to a record $1.65 billion when it was expected to come in with $1.55 billion and it would have earned 11 cents a share, better than the ...
Morphlabs Inc, the start-up revving up to go into direct competition with Eucalyptus Systems hawking its take on the same Eucalyptus open source cloud platform to the same customer set, has gotten a $5.5 million B round to fuel its coming push in the U.S. and Japan.
The rivalry may b...
Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source e-mail and collaboration software, announced today an agreement with NetCologne, one of the largest regional telecommunication and Internet service providers in Germany, to replace its existing webmail solution with Open-Xchange. P...
Admit it, you have a Facebook account. Whether you are an occasional user sharing family photos or a full-blown “friending” addict, it is nearly impossible not to use it. You probably have also seen several warnings from friends not to use an application that burned them or to ignore a...
IBM is setting up a research consortium with the European Union and European schools to flesh out a new computer science model that uses open source software and the cloud to derive a 40% cost reduction in the design, deployment and management of what it calls “e-service blends” – that...
Coraid, the Ethernet SAN start-up, has gotten caught in the legal crossfire between NetApp and Sun Microsystems and has pulled its new EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliances bundled with Nexenta’s ZFS distribution off the market at NetApp’s insistence.
NetApp, remember, is suing Sun clai...
SCO Wednesday filed notice that it means to appeal the Utah district court decision that Novell owns the Unix copyrights to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
It was a 10th Circuit decision that got SCO the jury trial that it wanted in the first place and now it wants the j...
NetSuite, the ERP people, and Zuora, the billing start-up, are going to jointly develop and offer combined solutions that automate metering, pricing and billing for subscription- and usage-based products.
Their first deliverable will integrate Zuora’s new Z-Commerce Platform with Net...
MySQL veterans either disaffected or dismissed by Oracle are starting a new company called SkySQL that will offer “enterprise-class support and services for the MySQL ecosystem.”
The outfit is being pulled together by former MySQL SVP of global services Ulf Sandberg and its one-parag...
Continuing a string of new implementations, today Open-Xchange announced an agreement with EuroDNS - a domain name registrar specializing in international domain extensions - to provide hosted e-mail and collaboration software to more than 250,000 customers of EuroDNS. In the next mont...
He said he was going to do it and he has.
MySQL founder Monty Widenius has made good his quixotic threat to appeal the European Commission’s decision to approve Oracle’s acquisition of Sun – and with it MySQL, which Sun paid a downright silly billion dollars for two years ago. Oracle ...
Open source private cloud ISV Eucalyptus Systems, where ex-MySQL chief Marten Mickos is now CEO, closed on a second round worth $20 million in all of three weeks – ah, the Mickos magic – bringing total investment in the joint to $25.5 million.
The new money brings in a new investor N...
EucalyptusSystems, Inc., creator of the open source private cloud software, announced on Wednesday the completion of a $20 million round of funding led by new investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from current investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. This repr...
Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced today that Sachsen DV, a leading data center operator for security critical applications, is launching business-class e-mail and groupware as Software as a Service (SaaS) for their mid-sized and en...
Abiquo, a cloud management software provider, on Tuesday announced that it has hired Steve Soechtig as VP Global Sales and Nick Wetton as VP Regional Sales. Abiquo’s new sales executives will be responsible for leading Abiquo’s global and U.S. sales initiatives and expanding overall m...
Yahoo! Inc., a developer of Apache Hadoop, on Tuesday announced significant enhancements to the open source software, accelerating the potential for enterprise-wide adoption by mainstream businesses. Hadoop is the open source technology at the epicenter of big data and cloud computing,...
The Supreme Court of the United States finally handed down its long-awaited decision in the Bilski case Monday.
That's the one the FOSS movement hoped would throw a monkey wrench into software patents. Well, the FOSS folks are going to be sorely disappointed.
The Supremes in their in...
Eucalyptus Systems and HP are new BFFs.
The little open source cloud vendor now run by former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos has joined HP’s Developer and Solution Partner Program. Eucalyptus’ other BFF is Canonical whose latest Ubuntu distro includes Eucalyptus.
As a buddy of HP, there’s...
Oracle doesn't look like it's choking on Sun any.
It beat the Street and its own projections Thursday when it reported its fiscal Q4 numbers. Revenue was up 39% and income was up 25%. That translates into a record 46 cents a share on $9.5 billion - 60 cents non-GAAP on expectations ...
Nuxeo on Thursday announced an influx of venture capital of $3.3 million (2.7 million Euro) from lead investor OTC Asset Management. Nuxeo first raised $2.6 million in Series A funding in December 2008 from OTC Asset Management, led each time by board member Patrick de Roquemaurel. Wit...
On Thursday Zuora announced the release of Z-Commerce for the Cloud at GigaOM's Structure 2010 event in San Francisco. Z-Commerce for the Cloud enables the new business models introduced by cloud computing that enterprise customers now demand. The new solution is the result of 12 month...
IBM has unveiled a new technology platform designed to transform the way that financial services firms manage the ever increasing amount of data and transaction volumes generated by capital markets around the world.
Financial systems are tremendously data-intensive and rely on speed i...
On Wednesday Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group announced that it has standardized its IT architecture exclusively on the Microsoft platform for competitive advantage and to deliver a highly responsive "connected journey" experience for its guests. The announcement was made at the HITEC 201...
Objectivity is providing an Objectivity CDO data store for the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) community. The goal of providing this plug-in is to give the Java community of developers who use Eclipse EMF a fast and simple way to integrate their applications to Objectivity/DB .
The O...
Eucalyptus Systems and its open source private cloud software are going to support Windows as well as Linux virtual machines in the new Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0, the major upgrade of the company’s commercial software for private and hybrid cloud computing released Tuesday...
Terascala, the parallel file systems and Lustre-based high-throughput storage appliance house, has switched horses.
Founder and CEO Larry Genovesi has stepped down to be CTO and the company has brought in Steve Butler as CEO.
Prior to joining Terascala, Butler was CEO of ManageSoft...
Pentaho has taken its open source business intelligence (BI) widgetry and, through the wonders of VMware virtualization, made it into an on-demand subscription service that it fancies will remove critical barriers to BI adoption by giving customers control over how the solution is depl...
SCO Thursday lost its bid to get the jury verdict awarding Novell the Unix copyrights overturned along with its bid to get the copyrights despite the jury decision. It also lost its right to sue IBM for copying Unix code into Linux.
Unless it decides to appeal, it’s all over for SCO ...
NASA and Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) will be collaborating on interoperability between NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Platform and Japan's NII Cloud infrastructure. Nebula, NASA’s huge open source project for the purpose of on-demand cloud computing integrates cloud...
