Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others

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	Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others While some pundits predict cloud computing could kill the open source movement, Microsoft's former free software advocate sees it differently. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed 3 Ways WAN Optimization Pays Back One of the most complicated and expensive endeavors that an IT organization ever undertakes is disaster recovery. If you have DR requirements that aren't being met, before you think about buying more bandwidth or looking at other complex solutions, you should really look at Riverbed WAN Optimization. Watch the video to learn more. Learn more! In this Issue Nginx gets commercial backing Fedora 17 Recognized as Beefy Miracle Ubuntu 11.10 to feature Arm support, cloud orchestration Linux Foundation snags three enterprise cloud vendors as new members Red Hat Pays 136 Million To Enter Cloud Storage Space. Why? WHITE PAPER: Citrix Scale Up: Take Web Application Performance to the Next Level Citrix NetScaler takes performance, scalability, reliability and security of critical web applications to the next level. It also goes beyond traditional ADCs, enhancing database scalability and providing visibility into user experience. Download this technical white paper - Compliments of Citrix. Read now Nginx gets commercial backing Nginx, an increasingly popular open source Web server software program, has gotten some commercial backing. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Close the Gap between IT and Business Join a panel of international experts as they discuss methods to implement a more proactive approach to application lifecycle management and best practices to ensure an exceptional user experience. Learn More Fedora 17 Recognized as Beefy Miracle The past couple of weeks have been exciting over in the Fedora camp. Fedora 16 beta barely burst onto the scene when along came the codename announcement for the next release, Fedora 17, a.k.a. Beefy Miracle. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Measuring Private Cloud Payback With 2,000 employees spread across five continents, balancing the tradeoff between complexity and performance is no easy task. See how a natural resources firm leveraged WAN optimization to deploy their private cloud and achieve bandwidth utilization reductions of 70%-90% without having to make changes to routers or QoS configurations. Read now! Ubuntu 11.10 to feature Arm support, cloud orchestration The next version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, to be released next week, will be the first to run on the Arm architecture, as well as the first edition to offer a new cloud service orchestration engine, called JuJu. Read More 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. Read More Red Hat Pays 136 Million To Enter Cloud Storage Space. Why? As my Network World editor Julie Bort covered earlier this week, Red Hat made their first (and being it is October, maybe their only) acquisition of the year this week by buying Silicon Valley based, scale out storage vendor Gluster. Gluster develops the GlusterFS file system and the Gluster open source project. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 26 helpful open source network management tools Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, configure and map their networked devices. Here are 26 examples of open source network management software tools to help you do your job. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES 5 cloud security companies to watch Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft iPhone 5 rumor roll-up (continued) for week ending Oct. 7 Cops: 'Eureka, I found it' on cell phone with no warrant required Watch large hadron collider collisions with an Android app Beware of the iCloud Fedora 17 recognized as beefy miracle Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise Google launches Dart as a JavaScript killer 8 ways to become a cloud security expert
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