Partnering up for a showdown? Red Hat Summit 2008
This post was contributed jointly by SearchEnterpriseLinux editors Lauren S. Horwitz and Caroline Hunter As the VAR Guy noted in a recent blog post on the upcoming Red Hat Summit, Red Hat has some...
View ArticleRed Hat previews virtual management tool
At a mid-morning session during the Red Hat Summit in Boston today, a standing-room only crowd of more than 125 attendees got a preview of oVirt, a “next-generation open source virtualization...
View ArticleCisco router too costly? Vyatta wants to help
Vyatta Inc., the startup with attitude vying to take on the mighty Cisco Systems Inc., is seeking to expand its toehold in the networking market with the introduction of a larger router and security...
View ArticleOpen source to shine despite dim economy
In the final hours of 2008, Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres, shared his predictions about the future of open source. Here are summaries of his predictions: As the economy worsens, adoption...
View ArticleRed Hat’s virtualization suite based on KVM
Red Hat has announced their virtualization strategy for 2009, kicking off another week with a webcast and press releases on some pretty big changes for the market. Red Hat shared that these changes...
View ArticleRed Hat Summit attendee snapshot
This post was contributed by Pam Derringer. Some came to network. Others to learn. And one came to pick up a prize. My very unscientific sampling of conference-goers turned up a mix of reasons that...
View ArticleTop 5 takeaways from the 2011 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
Last week in San Francisco the Linux developer community met to collaborate on and discuss the future of Linux. I attended, and tried to glean the most important developments that will be affecting...
View ArticleRed Hat Summit 2011: Top five takeaways
BOSTON: A couple themes emerged from this week’s Red Hat Summit. 1: Red Hat is pitching itself hard as the “open” cloud player. It’s new CloudForms Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering promises...
View ArticleCloud schmoud: Red Hat fans just want to lose Windows
For all the sales pitches on CloudForm and OpenShift “open” cloud initiatives, Red Hat Summit attendees were far more interested in more prosaic (ie useful) things. First and foremost, they love that...
View ArticleRHEV 3.0 beta publicly available
Red Hat announced the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 in August, and after testing and feedback has been received, an improved version was released for public evaluation....
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