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
As part of its community's efforts to provide education about oVirt and to bring more contributors into the fold, oVirt is hosting a workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012, which is scheduled for November 5-9 in Barcelona, Spain. Interested parties are invited to attend these workshops free of charge, and all workshop participants are eligible for a $200 discount on their LinuxCon registration courtesy of The Linux Foundation.
Posted October 18, 2012
As part of its community's efforts to provide education about oVirt and to bring more contributors into the fold, oVirt is hosting a workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012, which is scheduled for November 5-9 in Barcelona, Spain. Interested parties are invited to attend these workshops free of charge, and all workshop participants are eligible for a $200 discount on their LinuxCon registration courtesy of The Linux Foundation.
Posted October 18, 2012
Mike Day, IBM distinguished engineer & chief virtualization architect, Open Systems Development Software Architect, looks at some of the features anticipated in upcoming enterprise Linux releases in his new blog post. According to Day, enterprise adoption of KVM is growing, and KVM features are continually being updated and expanded. Development in KVM is focused not only on high performance - the must-have for enterprise adoption - but also on support for application developers and Systems Administrators storage, usability, high availability, disaster recovery, and security.
Posted September 20, 2012
Mike Day, IBM distinguished engineer & chief virtualization architect, Open Systems Development Software Architect, looks at some of the features anticipated in upcoming enterprise Linux releases in his new blog post. According to Day, enterprise adoption of KVM is growing, and KVM features are continually being updated and expanded. Development in KVM is focused not only on high performance - the must-have for enterprise adoption - but also on support for application developers and Systems Administrators storage, usability, high availability, disaster recovery, and security.
Posted September 20, 2012
IBM announced an updated mainframe server with new, cutting-edge System z capabilities for security and analytics. The IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) enterprise system is the result of an investment by the IBM Systems and Technology Group of more than $1 billion in IBM research and development primarily in Poughkeepsie, New York as well as 17 other IBM labs around the world and in collaboration with some of IBM's top clients.
Posted September 20, 2012
IBM announced an updated mainframe server with new, cutting-edge System z capabilities for security and analytics. The IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) enterprise system is the result of an investment by the IBM Systems and Technology Group of more than $1 billion in IBM research and development primarily in Poughkeepsie, New York as well as 17 other IBM labs around the world and in collaboration with some of IBM's top clients.
Posted September 20, 2012
Technology has never been more important, Doug Balog, general manager, System z, IBM, told the audience in his keynote at SUSECon, the first annual global conference for SUSE customers, partners, in Orlando, Florida. In fact, according to IBM's most recent global CEO study, for the first time, CEOs identified technology as the most important external force impacting their organizations. Standing out amid all the other challenges organizations face are three macro-level themes - the massive amounts of data flowing into organizations, the increasing mobility of the workforce and the accompanying security risks that can bring, as well as the need to get more from their infrastructure in order to drive greater efficiency, be more flexible and more reactive.
Posted September 20, 2012
Technology has never been more important, Doug Balog, general manager, System z, IBM, told the audience in his keynote at SUSECon, the first annual global conference for SUSE customers, partners, in Orlando, Florida. In fact, according to IBM's most recent global CEO study, for the first time, CEOs identified technology as the most important external force impacting their organizations. Standing out amid all the other challenges organizations face are three macro-level themes - the massive amounts of data flowing into organizations, the increasing mobility of the workforce and the accompanying security risks that can bring, as well as the need to get more from their infrastructure in order to drive greater efficiency, be more flexible and more reactive.
Posted September 20, 2012
OpenStack announced the launch of a new, independent OpenStack Foundation to promote the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software. As the independent home for OpenStack, the foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform.
Posted September 20, 2012
OpenStack announced the launch of a new, independent OpenStack Foundation to promote the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software. As the independent home for OpenStack, the foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform.
Posted September 20, 2012
In a new blog, Adam Jollans, program director, Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy, IBM, examines the issues causing organizations to opt for mixed x86 hypervisor environments.
Posted September 20, 2012
In a new blog, Adam Jollans, program director, Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy, IBM, examines the issues causing organizations to opt for mixed x86 hypervisor environments.
Posted September 20, 2012
While conventional wisdom suggests that enterprises are standardizing on a single x86 hypervisor for their IT infrastructures, the reality may well be different. Recent research published by Gabriel Consulting Group shows a widespread use of multiple hypervisors in the data center, with KVM as the fastest growing hypervisor. This webcast featuring Dan Olds of Gabriel Consulting will explore this "hyperversity" trend and the strategic importance of hypervisor diversity to the enterprise. SLTN in the Netherlands will describe their experience using multiple hypervisors to deliver their cloud services. IBM and Red Hat virtualization experts will discuss how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on IBM Systems can help enterprises benefit from and successfully manage hypervisor diversity. This webcast titled, "The Reality of x86 Virtualization: Hypervisor Diversity," will be held Thursday October 11.
Posted September 20, 2012
While conventional wisdom suggests that enterprises are standardizing on a single x86 hypervisor for their IT infrastructures, the reality may well be different. Recent research published by Gabriel Consulting Group shows a widespread use of multiple hypervisors in the data center, with KVM as the fastest growing hypervisor. This webcast featuring Dan Olds of Gabriel Consulting will explore this "hyperversity" trend and the strategic importance of hypervisor diversity to the enterprise. SLTN in the Netherlands will describe their experience using multiple hypervisors to deliver their cloud services. IBM and Red Hat virtualization experts will discuss how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on IBM Systems can help enterprises benefit from and successfully manage hypervisor diversity. This webcast titled, "The Reality of x86 Virtualization: Hypervisor Diversity," will be held Thursday October 11.
Posted September 20, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 has entered into its second beta, including updates based on feedback provided by current Red Hat customers using beta 1, the Red Hat Virtualization Team reports. Current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers are able to get access to the second beta of the platform via Red Hat Network.The series of beta releases are intended to allow current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers to provide feedback to Red Hat on new technologies.
Posted September 20, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 has entered into its second beta, including updates based on feedback provided by current Red Hat customers using beta 1, the Red Hat Virtualization Team reports. Current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers are able to get access to the second beta of the platform via Red Hat Network.The series of beta releases are intended to allow current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers to provide feedback to Red Hat on new technologies.
Posted September 20, 2012
As part of its community's efforts to provide education about oVirt and to bring more contributors into the fold, oVirt is hosting a workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012, which is scheduled for November 5-9 in Barcelona, Spain. Interested parties are invited to attend these workshops free of charge, and all workshop participants are eligible for a $200 discount on their LinuxCon registration courtesy of The Linux Foundation.
Posted September 20, 2012
As part of its community's efforts to provide education about oVirt and to bring more contributors into the fold, oVirt is hosting a workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012, which is scheduled for November 5-9 in Barcelona, Spain. Interested parties are invited to attend these workshops free of charge, and all workshop participants are eligible for a $200 discount on their LinuxCon registration courtesy of The Linux Foundation.
Posted September 20, 2012
SUSE announced the general availability of SUSE Cloud, its first commercially supported private cloud solution. Powered by OpenStack, SUSE Cloud is an automated cloud management platform that enables the rapid deployment and easy ongoing management of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private cloud. SUSE Cloud helps enterprises to improve resource utilization and speed the delivery of services by seamlessly managing and provisioning workloads across a secure, compliant and fully supported cloud environment. SUSE Cloud also integrates with SUSE Studio and SUSE Manager, allowing enterprises to rapidly deploy, adapt and manage applications and workloads across private and public clouds.
Posted September 20, 2012
SUSE announced the general availability of SUSE Cloud, its first commercially supported private cloud solution. Powered by OpenStack, SUSE Cloud is an automated cloud management platform that enables the rapid deployment and easy ongoing management of an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private cloud. SUSE Cloud helps enterprises to improve resource utilization and speed the delivery of services by seamlessly managing and provisioning workloads across a secure, compliant and fully supported cloud environment. SUSE Cloud also integrates with SUSE Studio and SUSE Manager, allowing enterprises to rapidly deploy, adapt and manage applications and workloads across private and public clouds.
Posted September 20, 2012
Red Hat has rolled out a preview release of its OpenStack distribution based on OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds. Red Hat has been working with an early group of customers who have been strong advocates for a commercial release of OpenStack from Red Hat, and who have been instrumental in providing the feedback and testing required to bring this preview release to completion. The company now seeks to work with a wider group of customers to further develop Red Hat's OpenStack distribution and its usage with other Red Hat products. In addition, Red Hat is working closely with key partners such as Rackspace to provide fully managed Red Hat OpenStack-powered clouds in the future.
Posted September 20, 2012
Red Hat has rolled out a preview release of its OpenStack distribution based on OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds. Red Hat has been working with an early group of customers who have been strong advocates for a commercial release of OpenStack from Red Hat, and who have been instrumental in providing the feedback and testing required to bring this preview release to completion. The company now seeks to work with a wider group of customers to further develop Red Hat's OpenStack distribution and its usage with other Red Hat products. In addition, Red Hat is working closely with key partners such as Rackspace to provide fully managed Red Hat OpenStack-powered clouds in the future.
Posted September 20, 2012
The tenth annual Ohio LinuxFest will be held on September 28-30 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Featuring authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest is welcome to all free and open source software professionals, enthusiasts, and everyone interested in learning more about free and open source software.
Posted September 20, 2012
The tenth annual Ohio LinuxFest will be held on September 28-30 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Featuring authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest is welcome to all free and open source software professionals, enthusiasts, and everyone interested in learning more about free and open source software.
Posted September 20, 2012
In a new blog post, Kelly Beavers, vice president and business line executive, IBM Systems Software, writes about how to avoid headaches and risk by using IBM Systems Director VMControl and SmartCloud Entry. According to Beavers: When organizations start thinking about embarking on a cloud deployment, they see the advantages of a utility-like model and the appeal of something such as Amazon's EC2 public cloud offering resonates strongly with them. However, according to the analysts, a primary concern about using public clouds is security, since most people have heard the horror stories about outages and data leaks. And so, despite the ease-of-use of the public cloud, the attraction of private cloud is that clients get the same user experience but it is all safely built inside of their own firewall - using their own resources and their own IT infrastructure, thereby eliminating what they perceive as the biggest risks with a public cloud.
Posted August 24, 2012
In a new blog post, Kelly Beavers, vice president and business line executive, IBM Systems Software, writes about how to avoid headaches and risk by using IBM Systems Director VMControl and SmartCloud Entry. According to Beavers: When organizations start thinking about embarking on a cloud deployment, they see the advantages of a utility-like model and the appeal of something such as Amazon's EC2 public cloud offering resonates strongly with them. However, according to the analysts, a primary concern about using public clouds is security, since most people have heard the horror stories about outages and data leaks. And so, despite the ease-of-use of the public cloud, the attraction of private cloud is that clients get the same user experience but it is all safely built inside of their own firewall - using their own resources and their own IT infrastructure, thereby eliminating what they perceive as the biggest risks with a public cloud.
Posted August 24, 2012
Shelter Mutual Insurance Co., an insurance company with a presence in 14 states, was facing out of control server sprawl and difficulties with air flow and rack space, writes Jim Utsler in the August issue of IBM Systems Magazine. To deal with the problem, Shelter opted to move many of its applications to IFL processors running on its mainframe, slowing the growth rate of the existing Intel technology-based boxes. As an added bonus, the company's applications are now running faster on its zEnterprise 114 (z114) platform than they had in the past, notes Utsler.
Posted August 24, 2012
Shelter Mutual Insurance Co., an insurance company with a presence in 14 states, was facing out of control server sprawl and difficulties with air flow and rack space, writes Jim Utsler in the August issue of IBM Systems Magazine. To deal with the problem, Shelter opted to move many of its applications to IFL processors running on its mainframe, slowing the growth rate of the existing Intel technology-based boxes. As an added bonus, the company's applications are now running faster on its zEnterprise 114 (z114) platform than they had in the past, notes Utsler.
Posted August 24, 2012
Mike Day, IBM distinguished engineer & chief virtualization architect, open systems development software architect, examines three notable performance improvements coming in future enterprise Linux releases in his new blog: The performance improvements in upstream KVM development that are likely to make it into the next Linux releases from major distributors will be especially beneficial to enterprise KVM users. IBM's contributions to the KVM hypervisor are consistent with its longstanding commitment to Linux and represent a broad strategy of providing customer choice, in order to bring open technology to key segments of the technology market, and to enable IBM platforms, middleware, and services to have the best hypervisor technology available.
Posted August 24, 2012
Mike Day, IBM distinguished engineer & chief virtualization architect, open systems development software architect, examines three notable performance improvements coming in future enterprise Linux releases in his new blog: The performance improvements in upstream KVM development that are likely to make it into the next Linux releases from major distributors will be especially beneficial to enterprise KVM users. IBM's contributions to the KVM hypervisor are consistent with its longstanding commitment to Linux and represent a broad strategy of providing customer choice, in order to bring open technology to key segments of the technology market, and to enable IBM platforms, middleware, and services to have the best hypervisor technology available.
Posted August 24, 2012
In a new blog post, Adam Jollans, program director, Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy, IBM, comments on a new Gabriel Consulting white paper: As we approach VMware's annual VMworld 2012 Conference in San Francisco at the end of August, conventional wisdom says that customers are standardizing on a single x86 hypervisor for their IT infrastructures. But conventional wisdom may well be wrong. A new report published by Gabriel Consulting Group shows a remarkable diversity in the x86 hypervisors used in practice by IT departments. Nearly half of the 345 IT professionals surveyed were using two or three hypervisors, and a remarkable 18% were using four or more hypervisors. Hypervisor diversity - or "Hyperversity" as Gabriel terms it - is the majority choice.
Posted August 24, 2012
In a new blog post, Adam Jollans, program director, Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy, IBM, comments on a new Gabriel Consulting white paper: As we approach VMware's annual VMworld 2012 Conference in San Francisco at the end of August, conventional wisdom says that customers are standardizing on a single x86 hypervisor for their IT infrastructures. But conventional wisdom may well be wrong. A new report published by Gabriel Consulting Group shows a remarkable diversity in the x86 hypervisors used in practice by IT departments. Nearly half of the 345 IT professionals surveyed were using two or three hypervisors, and a remarkable 18% were using four or more hypervisors. Hypervisor diversity - or "Hyperversity" as Gabriel terms it - is the majority choice.
Posted August 24, 2012
IBM is seeing growing momentum of IBM PureSystems among global clients and business partners, as organizations increasingly look for ways to reduce IT complexity and overcome the worldwide skills shortage. According to industry experts, approximately three-quarters of global employers cite a lack of experience, skills or knowledge as the primary reason for the difficulty filling IT positions. As a result, organizations are searching for new computing models that don't require a significant commitment of resources or employee training to set up and maintain. IBM PureSystems is addressing this issue by providing patterns of expertise - a new technology model that builds on the experience of thousands of IBM clients and streamlines the set-up and management of hardware and software resources.
Posted August 24, 2012
IBM is seeing growing momentum of IBM PureSystems among global clients and business partners, as organizations increasingly look for ways to reduce IT complexity and overcome the worldwide skills shortage. According to industry experts, approximately three-quarters of global employers cite a lack of experience, skills or knowledge as the primary reason for the difficulty filling IT positions. As a result, organizations are searching for new computing models that don't require a significant commitment of resources or employee training to set up and maintain. IBM PureSystems is addressing this issue by providing patterns of expertise - a new technology model that builds on the experience of thousands of IBM clients and streamlines the set-up and management of hardware and software resources.
Posted August 24, 2012
As we enter into the next chapter of x86 virtualization, KVM is poised to redefine the market with superior performance and an impressive ROI via commercial implementations such as Red Hat's RHEV3. The key to the success of RHEV3 lies within its manageability, which includes proper instrumentation and monitoring of the entire infrastructure within dynamic and converged infrastructures. Zenoss and the Open Virtualization Alliance invite you to explore this topic further during a live webinar on Wednesday, August 29, at 2 pm ET.
Posted August 24, 2012
As we enter into the next chapter of x86 virtualization, KVM is poised to redefine the market with superior performance and an impressive ROI via commercial implementations such as Red Hat's RHEV3. The key to the success of RHEV3 lies within its manageability, which includes proper instrumentation and monitoring of the entire infrastructure within dynamic and converged infrastructures. Zenoss and the Open Virtualization Alliance invite you to explore this topic further during a live webinar on Wednesday, August 29, at 2 pm ET.
Posted August 24, 2012
LinuxCon is the leading annual technical conference in North America. Launched in 2009, LinuxCon has become known for offering top speaking talent, a cross-section of the leading players in the Linux community, innovative and timely content, a wide variety of opportunities for attendee collaboration and a place for smaller groups to co-locate for topic-specific mini-summits and workgroups. Co-located with CloudOpen, the Linux Kernel Summit and the Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon North America 2012 will take place August 29-31 at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego.
Posted August 24, 2012
LinuxCon is the leading annual technical conference in North America. Launched in 2009, LinuxCon has become known for offering top speaking talent, a cross-section of the leading players in the Linux community, innovative and timely content, a wide variety of opportunities for attendee collaboration and a place for smaller groups to co-locate for topic-specific mini-summits and workgroups. Co-located with CloudOpen, the Linux Kernel Summit and the Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon North America 2012 will take place August 29-31 at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego.
Posted August 24, 2012
The oVirt Project develops and distributes an open source virtualization management platform that combines the KVM hypervisor with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduling, and more. As part of its community's efforts to provide education about oVirt and to bring more contributors into the fold, oVirt is hosting workshops at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe. Interested parties are invited to attend these workshops free of charge, and all workshop participants are eligible for a $200 discount on their LinuxCon registration courtesy of The Linux Foundation.
Posted August 24, 2012
The oVirt Project develops and distributes an open source virtualization management platform that combines the KVM hypervisor with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduling, and more. As part of its community's efforts to provide education about oVirt and to bring more contributors into the fold, oVirt is hosting workshops at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe. Interested parties are invited to attend these workshops free of charge, and all workshop participants are eligible for a $200 discount on their LinuxCon registration courtesy of The Linux Foundation.
Posted August 24, 2012
In a new blog, Ian Robinson, virtualization product line manager, IBM Systems Software, STG, writes about the complexity that comes with the managing physical and virtualized servers, and the increasing need to manage more than one hypervisor. That's where IBM Systems Director with VMControl comes in, he says. "Generally, when we think about new technology we tend to focus on all the advantages it adds. And, in the case of server virtualization - a technology that has been strongly embraced over the past decade as it expanded beyond the mainframe into the realm of x86 servers - the advantages are many. Virtualization is being widely embraced in the enterprise because it enables greater utilization of an existing infrastructure, flexibility in terms of reallocating resources when they are needed and where, and not incidentally, significant cost savings due to a smaller physical footprint, energy efficiency and the ability to avoid or postpone new hardware purchases."
Posted July 30, 2012
In a new blog, Ian Robinson, virtualization product line manager, IBM Systems Software, STG, writes about the complexity that comes with the managing physical and virtualized servers, and the increasing need to manage more than one hypervisor. That's where IBM Systems Director with VMControl comes in, he says. "Generally, when we think about new technology we tend to focus on all the advantages it adds. And, in the case of server virtualization - a technology that has been strongly embraced over the past decade as it expanded beyond the mainframe into the realm of x86 servers - the advantages are many. Virtualization is being widely embraced in the enterprise because it enables greater utilization of an existing infrastructure, flexibility in terms of reallocating resources when they are needed and where, and not incidentally, significant cost savings due to a smaller physical footprint, energy efficiency and the ability to avoid or postpone new hardware purchases."
Posted July 30, 2012
SUSE has announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SAP Applications. Built using the recently updated SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications increases the performance of compute and memory-intensive workloads, including those involving the SAP HANA platform. The operating platform optimized for running SAP solutions also supports the latest hypervisors, helping customers move physical workloads to virtual and cloud environments more quickly and easily.
Posted July 30, 2012
SUSE has announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SAP Applications. Built using the recently updated SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications increases the performance of compute and memory-intensive workloads, including those involving the SAP HANA platform. The operating platform optimized for running SAP solutions also supports the latest hypervisors, helping customers move physical workloads to virtual and cloud environments more quickly and easily.
Posted July 30, 2012
The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) made its presence known at the recent Red Hat Summit. The OVA, a Bronze Sponsor of the event, hosted a networking reception for the 27 participating members, and the Open Virtualization Alliance booth allowed many OVA members to promote their company's success stories around KVM, as well as highlight the benefits of being an OVA member.
Posted July 30, 2012
The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) made its presence known at the recent Red Hat Summit. The OVA, a Bronze Sponsor of the event, hosted a networking reception for the 27 participating members, and the Open Virtualization Alliance booth allowed many OVA members to promote their company's success stories around KVM, as well as highlight the benefits of being an OVA member.
Posted July 30, 2012
During his Red Hat Summit keynote, Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president of IBM Software Group, spoke about the impact of open source technology on business decisions in the past, present and future. IBM was a Premier Sponsor of the Red Hat Summit, and LeBlanc's long experience with Linux, along with his leadership of the original IBM Linux strategy team, enthusiastically engaged the more than 3,000 audience members at the event.
Posted July 30, 2012
During his Red Hat Summit keynote, Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president of IBM Software Group, spoke about the impact of open source technology on business decisions in the past, present and future. IBM was a Premier Sponsor of the Red Hat Summit, and LeBlanc's long experience with Linux, along with his leadership of the original IBM Linux strategy team, enthusiastically engaged the more than 3,000 audience members at the event.
Posted July 30, 2012
LinuxCon is the leading annual technical conference in North America. Launched in 2009, LinuxCon has become known for offering top speaking talent, a cross-section of the leading players in the Linux community, innovative and timely content, a wide variety of opportunities for attendee collaboration and a place for smaller groups to co-locate for topic-specific mini-summits and workgroups. Co-located with CloudOpen, the Linux Kernel Summit and the Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon North America 2012 will take place August 29-31 at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego.
Posted July 30, 2012