Bob Sutor, vice president of Open Source and Linux at IBM, will be a featured keynote speaker at the Red Hat Summit 2009. Red Hat's premier annual event will be held September 1-4 in Chicago, providing a unique opportunity to obtain up-to-date information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux products and open source initiatives.
Posted July 29, 2009
An innovative collaboration between IBM, NoMachine and Novell is enabling a California hospital to improve the experience of its patients by delivering secure email and web access in patient rooms, while saving significant information technology maintenance and energy costs.
Posted July 15, 2009
Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 beta with versions for IBM POWER, System z, as well as x86, x86/64, and Itanium. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 beta release includes new features and capabilities, combined with enhancements in virtualization, storage/filesystem, security and developer tools. The release is expected to be generally available before the end of the year, notes Subhendu Ghosh, Red Hat Enterprise Linux product manager.
Posted July 15, 2009
Novell has announced the latest version of PlateSpin Migrate, a workload management product that enables data center managers to move workloads between physical, image, virtual and cloud environments. PlateSpin Migrate provides broad support for operating systems, hypervisors and hardware platforms in the heterogeneous data center. The latest version of PlateSpin Migrate expands the list of platforms supported for physical to virtual migration, by adding support for the recently released SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 from Novell to the existing support for prior versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise.
Posted July 15, 2009
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4 of the PostgreSQL open source database. The new release contains 293 new or improved features, including many enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier.
Posted July 15, 2009
An innovative collaboration between IBM, NoMachine and Novell is enabling a California hospital to improve the experience of its patients by delivering secure email and web access in patient rooms, while saving significant information technology maintenance and energy costs.
Posted July 15, 2009
Red Hat has released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 beta with versions for IBM POWER, System z, as well as x86, x86/64, and Itanium. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 beta release includes new features and capabilities, combined with enhancements in virtualization, storage/filesystem, security and developer tools. The release is expected to be generally available before the end of the year, notes Subhendu Ghosh, Red Hat Enterprise Linux product manager.
Posted July 15, 2009
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4 of the PostgreSQL open source database. The new release contains 293 new or improved features, including many enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier.
Posted July 15, 2009
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4 of the PostgreSQL open source database. The new release contains 293 new or improved features, including many enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier.
Posted July 15, 2009
Continuing to hold its place as leader of the pack, for a record-setting tenth consecutive time, an IBM system has achieved the number-one position in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the "roadrunner project" at Los Alamos National Lab—the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop)—remains the world speed champion.
Posted July 01, 2009
With the newest version of Lotus Symphony, IBM's free of charge productivity software suite, IBM is providing support for Microsoft Office 2007, enabling organizations to now import Microsoft Office 2007 files into Symphony. The new support will enable Microsoft Office customers to save on licensing costs by switching to Symphony while retaining access to, and use of, the contents of their Office files. In addition, Symphony is shipped with every copy of Lotus Notes and Lotus Foundations software.
Posted July 01, 2009
Large enterprises are continuing to increase their investments in Linux on the mainframe as part of their efforts to deliver more value to the business while controlling IT costs, according to a recent study of large enterprises commissioned by CA, which provides a solutions to help manage and secure z/VM and Linux environments on IBM's System z platform. The study was executed in order to understand the factors of use as well as the trends in IBM Mainframe Linux environments.
Posted July 01, 2009
Centrify Corporation, a provider of Microsoft Active Directory-based, identity and access management and auditing solutions for non-Microsoft platforms, has introduced the Centrify Suite 2008 for Linux on IBM System z. The first Linux supported as a guest OS is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z.
Posted July 01, 2009
Continuing to hold its place as leader of the pack, for a record-setting tenth consecutive time, an IBM system has achieved the number-one position in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the "roadrunner project" at Los Alamos National Lab—the first in the world to operate at speeds faster than one quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop)—remains the world speed champion.
Posted July 01, 2009
With the newest version of Lotus Symphony, IBM's free of charge productivity software suite, IBM is providing support for Microsoft Office 2007, enabling organizations to now import Microsoft Office 2007 files into Symphony. The new support will enable Microsoft Office customers to save on licensing costs by switching to Symphony while retaining access to, and use of, the contents of their Office files. In addition, Symphony is shipped with every copy of Lotus Notes and Lotus Foundations software.
Posted July 01, 2009
Large enterprises are continuing to increase their investments in Linux on the mainframe as part of their efforts to deliver more value to the business while controlling IT costs, according to a recent study of large enterprises commissioned by CA, which provides a solutions to help manage and secure z/VM and Linux environments on IBM's System z platform. The study was executed in order to understand the factors of use as well as the trends in IBM Mainframe Linux environments.
Posted July 01, 2009
Centrify Corporation, a provider of Microsoft Active Directory-based, identity and access management and auditing solutions for non-Microsoft platforms, has introduced the Centrify Suite 2008 for Linux on IBM System z. The first Linux supported as a guest OS is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z.
Posted July 01, 2009
Linux is the fastest growing operating system in terms of percentage growth of new unit subscriptions as well as revenue growth, according to "Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads," the IDC white paper authored by Al Gillen, program vice president, system software, IDC. Moreover, Linux is moving to the core of business and is now considered a suitable candidate for deployments of business-critical workloads.
Posted June 18, 2009
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc.-sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system.
Posted June 18, 2009
Virtual Bridges' partner ecosystem has increased dramatically since the company formed a partnership with IBM and Canonical, the company reports. In December 2008, IBM and Canonical announced they were teaming with Virtual Bridges to provide the company's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology as part of a Microsoft-alternative desktop offering, and since then the partner network for Virtual Bridges offerings has more than doubled.
Posted June 18, 2009
Linux is the fastest growing operating system in terms of percentage growth of new unit subscriptions as well as revenue growth, according to "Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads," the IDC white paper authored by Al Gillen, program vice president, system software, IDC. Moreover, Linux is moving to the core of business and is now considered a suitable candidate for deployments of business-critical workloads.
Posted June 18, 2009
Virtual Bridges' partner ecosystem has increased dramatically since the company formed a partnership with IBM and Canonical, the company reports. In December 2008, IBM and Canonical announced they were teaming with Virtual Bridges to provide the company's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology as part of a Microsoft-alternative desktop offering, and since then the partner network for Virtual Bridges offerings has more than doubled.
Posted June 18, 2009
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc.-sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system.
Posted June 18, 2009
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc.-sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. The Fedora Project, which now has almost 29,000 project members, aims to release a new complete, general-purpose, no-cost operating system approximately every six months.
Posted June 18, 2009
Gruppo Amadori, a wholesale distributor of quality food products in Italy, is rolling out Linux-based desktops running IBM email, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software to select employees.
Posted June 03, 2009
Linux is moving to the core of business and is now considered a suitable candidate for deployments of business-critical workloads, according to a new IDC white paper authored by Al Gillen, program vice president, system software, IDC. Linux is the fastest growing operating system in terms of percentage growth of new unit subscriptions as well as revenue growth, making it evident that customers see its business value.
Posted June 03, 2009
IBM has introduced new services and programs to help more companies migrate from Sun and HP servers to IBM's System z, particularly on the Linux platform. The goal of the new Server Consolidation and Migration Services offering is to help customers "lower their costs and get on to a world-class consolidation platform," Karl Freund, vice president of System z strategy in IBM's Systems and Technology group, tells 5 Minute Briefing.
Posted June 03, 2009
Gruppo Amadori, a wholesale distributor of quality food products in Italy, is rolling out Linux-based desktops running IBM email, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software to select employees.
Posted June 03, 2009
Linux is moving to the core of business and is now considered a suitable candidate for deployments of business-critical workloads, according to a new IDC white paper authored by Al Gillen, program vice president, system software, IDC. Linux is the fastest growing operating system in terms of percentage growth of new unit subscriptions as well as revenue growth, making it evident that customers see its business value.
Posted June 03, 2009
EnterpriseDB, an open source database vendor, announced that IBM has licensed its technology to make it easier to deploy applications on DB2 9.7, the upcoming release of IBM's enterprise relational database. The solution is intended to make it easier to migrate applications from Oracle environments into open source or DB2 environments. The technology is among a set of capabilities in EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server. These capabilities enable customers to run applications written for Oracle Database.
Posted May 20, 2009
While the Microsoft Windows-based desktop has long been accepted as a fact of life in the mainstream business environment, some organizations have been actively exploring as well as successfully deploying alternatives, and the Linux-based desktop is one of these, according to a new research report. The report is based on research sponsored by IBM, but was designed, executed and analyzed on an independent basis by Freeform Dynamics under its Community Research Programme.
Posted May 20, 2009
It's been 10 years since IBM's initial public commitment to the Linux operating system. Supporting its pledge to Linux and open source solutions, and in response to feedback and requests among its user community, IBM is re-launching the IBM LinuxLine, a newsletter delivering a concise report of Linux and open source news relevant for the enterprise. The IBM LinuxLine will be published every other week and is geared toward IT managers and the hands-on Linux community.
Posted May 20, 2009
EnterpriseDB, an open source database vendor, announced that IBM has licensed its technology to make it easier to deploy applications on DB2 9.7, the upcoming release of IBM's enterprise relational database. The solution is intended to make it easier to migrate applications from Oracle environments into open source or DB2 environments. The technology is among a set of capabilities in EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server. These capabilities enable customers to run applications written for Oracle Database.
Posted May 20, 2009
While the Microsoft Windows-based desktop has long been accepted as a fact of life in the mainstream business environment, some organizations have been actively exploring as well as successfully deploying alternatives, and the Linux-based desktop is one of these, according to a new research report. The report is based on research sponsored by IBM, but was designed, executed and analyzed on an independent basis by Freeform Dynamics under its Community Research Programme.
Posted May 20, 2009
It has been 10 years since IBM's initial public commitment to the Linux operating system. Supporting its pledge to Linux and open source solutions, and in response to feedback and requests among its user community, IBM is re-launching the Linux Executive Report from IBM, a newsletter delivering a concise report of Linux and open source news relevant for the enterprise. The Linux Executive Report from IBM will be published every other week and is geared toward the interests of senior management.
Posted May 20, 2009