With 2012 now in the rear-view mirror, it's time to look ahead at what 2013 may bring, writes Katherine Noyes in an article for PCWorld. From the excitement about the Raspberry Pi 2013 and the array of "tiny, inexpensive, Linux-powered PCs," to whether 2013 will be the "Year of Linux on the Desktop," Noyes gazes at her crystal ball in "Five Linux predictions for 2013."
Posted January 24, 2013
With 2012 now in the rear-view mirror, it's time to look ahead at what 2013 may bring, writes Katherine Noyes in an article for PCWorld. From the excitement about the Raspberry Pi 2013 and the array of "tiny, inexpensive, Linux-powered PCs," to whether 2013 will be the "Year of Linux on the Desktop," Noyes gazes at her crystal ball in "Five Linux predictions for 2013."
Posted January 24, 2013
IBM has opened its first-ever KVM Center of Excellence focused on open virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) in Beijing, China. With this new KVM Center of Excellence, IBM is leveraging its KVM expertise in China to make it easy for clients and partners to have access to briefings, to enrich their staffs with training, and to conduct proofs of concept of their own solutions. Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, participated in the launch event and writes about the purpose of the new KVM CoE and why China was chosen as its location in a new blog.
Posted December 19, 2012
In a new blog post, Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, writes about the advantages of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, a workload optimized cloud that combines infrastructure and platform capabilities and supports multiple hypervisors - including KVM.
Posted December 19, 2012
The call for presentation proposals for the 2013 Red Hat Summit is going on now. The event, which will be held in June 10 - 14, 2013 at the Hynes Center in Boston, brings together thought leaders and executives from across the technology industry to participate in keynotes and sessions on community, innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
Posted December 19, 2012
The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC), the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products, will be held February 20-22 in San Francisco. The conference, now in its ninth year, has the largest collection of sessions dedicated exclusively to embedded Linux and embedded Linux developers. ELC consists of three days of presentations, tutorials and bird-of-a-feather sessions.
Posted December 19, 2012
SUSE's annual global user conference, SUSECon, will be held November 12-15, 2013, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The event provides the opportunity for SUSE users to learn about and see first-hand the latest open source developments from SUSE, including what's new in enterprise Linux, cloud computing, big data, server management, and integrated systems.
Posted December 19, 2012
The oVirt Project, developers of an integrated, open source virtualization platform built on the KVM hypervisor, invites all those with an interest in open virtualization to the project's next workshop, taking place at NetApp's Sunnyvale campus on January 22-24.
Posted December 19, 2012
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team has announced that the next beta release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 - is now available. According to the team, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 has been designed for optimized performance, stability and flexibility to cater to today's diverse workloads running in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Posted December 19, 2012
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1. The 3.1 release brings Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization forward with new features to enhance its scalability, user administration and management interface, networking, storage, and virtual desktop functionality. With this release, Red Hat also brings further flexibility for the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the full Red Hat portfolio, including its Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
Posted December 19, 2012
IBM has opened its first-ever KVM Center of Excellence focused on open virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) in Beijing, China. With this new KVM Center of Excellence, IBM is leveraging its KVM expertise in China to make it easy for clients and partners to have access to briefings, to enrich their staffs with training, and to conduct proofs of concept of their own solutions. Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, participated in the launch event and writes about the purpose of the new KVM CoE and why China was chosen as its location in a new blog.
Posted December 19, 2012
In a new blog post, Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, writes about the advantages of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, a workload optimized cloud that combines infrastructure and platform capabilities and supports multiple hypervisors - including KVM.
Posted December 19, 2012
The call for presentation proposals for the 2013 Red Hat Summit is going on now. The event, which will be held in June 10 - 14, 2013 at the Hynes Center in Boston, brings together thought leaders and executives from across the technology industry to participate in keynotes and sessions on community, innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
Posted December 19, 2012
The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC), the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products, will be held February 20-22 in San Francisco. The conference, now in its ninth year, has the largest collection of sessions dedicated exclusively to embedded Linux and embedded Linux developers. ELC consists of three days of presentations, tutorials and bird-of-a-feather sessions.
Posted December 19, 2012
SUSE's annual global user conference, SUSECon, will be held November 12-15, 2013, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The event provides the opportunity for SUSE users to learn about and see first-hand the latest open source developments from SUSE, including what's new in enterprise Linux, cloud computing, big data, server management, and integrated systems.
Posted December 19, 2012
The oVirt Project, developers of an integrated, open source virtualization platform built on the KVM hypervisor, invites all those with an interest in open virtualization to the project's next workshop, taking place at NetApp's Sunnyvale campus on January 22-24.
Posted December 19, 2012
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team has announced that the next beta release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 - is now available. According to the team, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 has been designed for optimized performance, stability and flexibility to cater to today's diverse workloads running in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Posted December 19, 2012
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1. The 3.1 release brings Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization forward with new features to enhance its scalability, user administration and management interface, networking, storage, and virtual desktop functionality. With this release, Red Hat also brings further flexibility for the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the full Red Hat portfolio, including its Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
Posted December 19, 2012
In a new blog post, Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, writes about IBM's PureFlex System: Hiding complexity - it has become the mantra of technology providers. As customers' IT resources continue to be stretched, staffs are asked to do more, and budgets remain flat or growing slightly, the demand for systems and interfaces that make operations simpler is increasing. We understand that - and with this customer requirement in mind, IBM created the PureFlex System. However, at IBM we still think that there are certain choices that should not be taken out of customers' hands because it will limit their agility now - and in the future
Posted November 20, 2012
In a new blog post, Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, writes about IBM's PureFlex System: Hiding complexity - it has become the mantra of technology providers. As customers' IT resources continue to be stretched, staffs are asked to do more, and budgets remain flat or growing slightly, the demand for systems and interfaces that make operations simpler is increasing. We understand that - and with this customer requirement in mind, IBM created the PureFlex System. However, at IBM we still think that there are certain choices that should not be taken out of customers' hands because it will limit their agility now - and in the future
Posted November 20, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM has been awarded the Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ - the highest level of assurance for an unmodified commercial operating system - for the Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP) including extended modules for Advanced Management, Advanced Audit, Labeled Security, and Virtualization for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Dell, HP, IBM and SGI hardware.
Posted November 20, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM has been awarded the Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ - the highest level of assurance for an unmodified commercial operating system - for the Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP) including extended modules for Advanced Management, Advanced Audit, Labeled Security, and Virtualization for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Dell, HP, IBM and SGI hardware.
Posted November 20, 2012
As part of its ongoing alliance with SAP AG, SUSE has announces that SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 Service Pack 2 is certified for integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. The SAP certification scenario - called "SAP NetWeaver High Availability Cluster (NW-HA-CLU) 730" - establishes a reference architecture to help ensure compliant implementation of high-availability scenarios for running SAP solutions.
Posted November 20, 2012
As part of its ongoing alliance with SAP AG, SUSE has announces that SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 Service Pack 2 is certified for integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. The SAP certification scenario - called "SAP NetWeaver High Availability Cluster (NW-HA-CLU) 730" - establishes a reference architecture to help ensure compliant implementation of high-availability scenarios for running SAP solutions.
Posted November 20, 2012
It is often assumed that KVM does not run Windows workloads, or at least does not run them very well, writes Mike Day, IBM distinguished engineer & chief virtualization architect, open systems development software architect, in a new blog.
Posted November 20, 2012
It is often assumed that KVM does not run Windows workloads, or at least does not run them very well, writes Mike Day, IBM distinguished engineer & chief virtualization architect, open systems development software architect, in a new blog.
Posted November 20, 2012
At LinuxCon Europe in Barcelona, The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announced that HP, previously a gold member of the organization, is making a strategic, long-term investment in Linux by upgrading to platinum membership.Fujitsu joins existing platinum members IBM, Fujitsu, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm Innovation Center and Samsung.
Posted November 20, 2012
At LinuxCon Europe in Barcelona, The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announced that HP, previously a gold member of the organization, is making a strategic, long-term investment in Linux by upgrading to platinum membership.Fujitsu joins existing platinum members IBM, Fujitsu, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm Innovation Center and Samsung.
Posted November 20, 2012
Webb is a supply change management company in Brazil that has built its SaaS solution on IBM BladeCenter running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (KVM). Webb also deployed IBM Systems Director with Active Energy Manager for systems management and IBM Storwize V7000 for storage. By using this KVM-based solution, Webb reduced its software licensing costs by 70%, reduced its virtual machine configuration time from 2 days to 15 minutes and reduced its server footprint by more than 80%.
Posted November 20, 2012
Webb is a supply change management company in Brazil that has built its SaaS solution on IBM BladeCenter running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (KVM). Webb also deployed IBM Systems Director with Active Energy Manager for systems management and IBM Storwize V7000 for storage. By using this KVM-based solution, Webb reduced its software licensing costs by 70%, reduced its virtual machine configuration time from 2 days to 15 minutes and reduced its server footprint by more than 80%.
Posted November 20, 2012
IBM has released the KVM Success Stories Book showcasing the use of KVM with IBM hardware and/or software. The book includes thumbnails of case studies with links for additional information on the clients' deployments.
Posted November 20, 2012
IBM has released the KVM Success Stories Book showcasing the use of KVM with IBM hardware and/or software. The book includes thumbnails of case studies with links for additional information on the clients' deployments.
Posted November 20, 2012
The need to streamline new application development is driving demand for a relatively new form of cloud computing known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), according to a new study released by the IBM Center for Applied Insights. Unlike other cloud computing services, such as infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service, PaaS uniquely offers a foundation of common application services, tools and templates for businesses to rent and build their own powerful software applications quickly and deploy them into an automated environment.
Posted November 20, 2012
The need to streamline new application development is driving demand for a relatively new form of cloud computing known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), according to a new study released by the IBM Center for Applied Insights. Unlike other cloud computing services, such as infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service, PaaS uniquely offers a foundation of common application services, tools and templates for businesses to rent and build their own powerful software applications quickly and deploy them into an automated environment.
Posted November 20, 2012
The number of different hypervisor brands deployed in data centers is "broad and expanding," according to a new blog by Aberdeen Group senior research analyst Dick Csaplar, highlighting the results of a May 2012 Aberdeen survey examining whether the hypervisor market is expanding or contracting.
Posted October 18, 2012
The number of different hypervisor brands deployed in data centers is "broad and expanding," according to a new blog by Aberdeen Group senior research analyst Dick Csaplar, highlighting the results of a May 2012 Aberdeen survey examining whether the hypervisor market is expanding or contracting.
Posted October 18, 2012
The Information On Demand conference, taking place October 21-25 in Las Vegas, will offer 700 technical education sessions, 110 hands-on labs, 300 customer speakers, usability sandboxes, the new Technical Unconference, as well as general sessions and keynotes, and the ability to network with experts, IBM executives and innovative IBM business partners. IBM's PowerLinux team will also be out in force at the conference.
Posted October 18, 2012
The Information On Demand conference, taking place October 21-25 in Las Vegas, will offer 700 technical education sessions, 110 hands-on labs, 300 customer speakers, usability sandboxes, the new Technical Unconference, as well as general sessions and keynotes, and the ability to network with experts, IBM executives and innovative IBM business partners. IBM's PowerLinux team will also be out in force at the conference.
Posted October 18, 2012
KVM can help provide protection from the sting of increasingly expensive virtualization licensing costs especially for Linux and mixed workload environments, writes David Hsu, program director, WW IBM Linux and KVM Marketing. He offers a pricing analysis of the KVM stack compared to its competitors (i.e., VMware and Microsoft) in a new blog.
Posted October 18, 2012
KVM can help provide protection from the sting of increasingly expensive virtualization licensing costs especially for Linux and mixed workload environments, writes David Hsu, program director, WW IBM Linux and KVM Marketing. He offers a pricing analysis of the KVM stack compared to its competitors (i.e., VMware and Microsoft) in a new blog.
Posted October 18, 2012
The Red Hat Forum will be held October 23 at the Westin Tokyo (Ebisu). In addition to sessions on building your own cloud, big data, cloud development, and solutions on the cloud, Red Hat executives, including Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst and others, will present keynotes. IBM is also a gold sponsor of the one-day event and Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, will present a luncheon keynote.
Posted October 18, 2012
The Red Hat Forum will be held October 23 at the Westin Tokyo (Ebisu). In addition to sessions on building your own cloud, big data, cloud development, and solutions on the cloud, Red Hat executives, including Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst and others, will present keynotes. IBM is also a gold sponsor of the one-day event and Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, will present a luncheon keynote.
Posted October 18, 2012
Heterogeneous and hybrid are two key aspects of cloud computing that matter, according to a survey that Red Hat conducted among more than 400 attendees of the recent VMworld conference in San Francisco.
Posted October 18, 2012
Heterogeneous and hybrid are two key aspects of cloud computing that matter, according to a survey that Red Hat conducted among more than 400 attendees of the recent VMworld conference in San Francisco.
Posted October 18, 2012
SUSE has released SUSE Manager 1.7, the latest version of its systems management solution for enterprise Linux environments. SUSE Manager helps enterprises manage SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers with a single centralized solution. The new version includes flexibility and compliance enhancements that help customers grow their Linux deployments while reducing management effort.
Posted October 18, 2012
SUSE has released SUSE Manager 1.7, the latest version of its systems management solution for enterprise Linux environments. SUSE Manager helps enterprises manage SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers with a single centralized solution. The new version includes flexibility and compliance enhancements that help customers grow their Linux deployments while reducing management effort.
Posted October 18, 2012
A new blog posted by the Red Hat and IBM Performance Teams showcases the new performance results for KVM, which is incorporated in both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
Posted October 18, 2012
A new blog posted by the Red Hat and IBM Performance Teams showcases the new performance results for KVM, which is incorporated in both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
Posted October 18, 2012
It is critical to align business requirements and IT capability but this assumes that business drives IT and not other way around, writes Marcel den Hartog in Enterprise Tech Journal. With the combination of Linux on System z, IBM paired the flexibility of Linux and the reliability of the mainframe, which den Hartog notes is a "match made in heaven," particularly for IT managers "who understand that only an IT strategy without technical bias and driven by the business is sensible."
Posted October 18, 2012