Linux Foundation snags three enterprise cloud vendors as new members

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	Linux Foundation snags three enterprise cloud vendors as new members The Linux Foundation has added three enterprise, cloud-focused companies to its membership, an interesting direction for the non-profit organization with a mission of supporting and promoting Linux. The new members are Eucalyptus Systems, Nebula and Virtual Bridges. The Linux Foundation has become a roll-call of companies that compete with each other -- all of them trying to have their say in the direction of the powerful server operating system kernel. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Zyrion CIOs demand visibility to IT service performance Cloud, Virtualization, Mobility, Unified Computing and more, are all creating new, complex IT management challenges. Organizations want integrated service-centric monitoring solutions for service impact visibility and SLA compliance, executive dashboards, datacenter manager operational reporting, and service problem analysis. Read More. In this Issue Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster Startup promotes simultaneous upgrades to IPv6, cloud Review: 4 Java clouds face off Office 365: Non-profit moves to cloud for global relief Apple preps OS X Lion for iCloud debut OpenStack spun out from Rackspace control Oracle snub of Benioff: Petty or just incompetent? Oracle fleshes out cloud plans at OpenWorld Symantec updates flagship storage, high availability suites WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase® IQ Accelerates Advanced Analytics The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora. Read More Startup promotes simultaneous upgrades to IPv6, cloud A start-up consulting firm founded by former Cisco engineers is targeting a new niche for enterprise IT departments: helping them deploy IPv6 and cloud computing simultaneously to reduce overhead costs. Read More Review: 4 Java clouds face off CloudBees, Google App Engine, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Cloud Foundry reveal the pleasures and perils of coding on a public cloud platform Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Best Practices: KVM Smart Card Authentication Systems Selecting a smart card-enabled KVM system? Choose one that supports PKI authentication to multiple servers from a single location and makes the necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. This White Paper examines best practices when evaluating a Smart Card solution. Learn More Office 365: Non-profit moves to cloud for global relief NetHope, a consortium of IT leaders serving humanitarian agencies, has been keeping things in-house with Sharepoint for years. But a recent move to the cloud via Office 365 is freeing up IT staff and allowing agencies to better share information. Read More Apple preps OS X Lion for iCloud debut Apple appears on track to release a Mac OS X Lion update by Oct. 12, when the company will roll out iCloud, its new online synchronization and backup service. Read More OpenStack spun out from Rackspace control Responding to the rapid adoption of their software, the folks behind the OpenStack cloud software are planning to form a stand-alone nonprofit foundation to steward future development of the open-source software suite. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Converged Infrastructure in the Branch Office HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time. learn more Oracle snub of Benioff: Petty or just incompetent? Petty or incompetent? There's no mistaking Marc Benioff's opinion: The Salesforce.com CEO believes he was booted from a 10:30 a.m. keynote spot today at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 by the shod foot of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Benioff last night sent this tweet both pointing a finger at Ellison and inviting followers to hear him speak at an alternative venue: Read More Oracle fleshes out cloud plans at OpenWorld Oracle is using this week's OpenWorld event to dispel lingering questions about its still-evolving cloud computing strategy. Read More Symantec updates flagship storage, high availability suites In order to provide greater private cloud capabilities, Symantec announced new product versions of Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1 and eight other products. Read More
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