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3Tera Releases AppLogic 2.0 Grid OS

This week, 3Tera, developer of the AppLogic platform for grid-based utility computing, announced its 2.0 release of the platform. The latest release adds comprehensive application monitoring and support for multiple CPUs per appliance. SaaS and Web 2

JumpBox – Virtual Appliances Made Easy

JumpBox has a simple goal in life, to make the deployment of server based software so easy, anyone can do it. To do that, the company is creating a library of pre-installed, pre-integrated open source web applications that are bundled with the JumpBo

Novell – Microsoft Agreements Revealed

Today, Novell filed redacted versions of each of these three agreements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as part of its long-delayed Form 10-K Annual Report. The agreements now available on the SEC web site are as follows: * Business

Red Hat Dives into the Virtual Appliance Market

Virtual appliances are hot right now! And it doesn't matter what you call them. Red Hat's operating system is certainly no stranger to the virtualization appliance market. But recently, the company announced that it was working with Intel t

Zmanda gets $8M

It's been a long week, causing me to be several days late in wishing Pete and Chander a hearty congratulations for closing $8M in Series B funding from Helion (as well as follow on investments from Blue Run and Canaan). I heard a lot of buzz at

Intel has a gripe with the software industry. Is Moore’s law becoming a software afterthought?

The saying "the more things change, the more things stay the same" was never more evident on Friday when Intel and Sun sponsored a roundtable discussion on hardware and software development for the press in San Francisco . The change was re

IBM crafts carbon-measuring toolset, ‘cold battery’

Big Blue reveals more details of Project Big Green, including CO2-measuring tools and an efficient 'cold-storage system'

Pirates of the Paranormal

Remember spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller? The cutlery-abusing 70's icon got bent out of shape recently after a video clip debunking his paranormal abilities surfaced on YouTube. Geller sent a DMCA take-down notice to YouTube, claiming the clip

Longhorn Reloaded: Nostalgia Run Amok

Nostalgia can be a good thing. Those warm, fuzzy thoughts and feelings about a particular place or time help us to smooth over the harsher realties of our past experiences. It's one of life's more powerful coping mechanisms and the spark fo

SMB Tech News Today; 5/25

Out of the badlands and back to work. * NetSuite goes handheld. The company's ERP, CRM and e-commerce apps are now available via handheld mobile devices via partnerships with Antenna Software, Explore Mobile, and iEnterprises. (Source: NetworkWo

Open source executive moves…Adobe gets Dave McAllister

I'm sooooo slow on this one. Dave McAllister, one of the founders of Cassatt, is now at Adobe driving its open source efforts. I didn't know. But Dave and I bumped into each other at OSBC this week, and I was ecstatic to find out that Adobe

Selling pain…(ZDNet)

John Newton, my colleague at Alfresco, has joined ZDNet as a blogger (Check out Newton's Theory, which tracks the evolution of information management), and is off to a bang with this ditty. (John is particularly credible because he largely inven

A Comedy of Errors

On the day before WinHEC, the marketing VP of one of my smaller clients asked me to fix a problem with one of their applications. The CTO was in a plane on his way to WinHEC; the developer who used to own the project had left for an

Facebook opens up, becomes “OurSpace”

In yet another sign of the seemingly unstoppable tide of openness, Facebook has opened up its API to outside developers, as The Register reports. What does this mean?he news should allow the network's 23 million claimed monthly visitors to integ

Enterprise HPC News Weekly Wrap-up for May 25, 2007

This was a big news week for enterprise HPC. This week's summary includes Oracle 11i performance numbers on IBM's Power6, the first Barcelona results from AMD, clusters based on Windows CCS 2003, Dell's datacenter solution, and a lot m

Steps to Help SOA Succeed

Kurt Mackie, at ADTMag.com, was evidentially sitting in the audience during my talk at the Enterprise Architecture Summit held earlier this week in Palm Springs CA. He did a better job in summarizing my presentation than I could. "Service-orient

Don’t turn that machine off!

Tropical locales can be exciting. But not when they're in the server room. In the late 90s I worked as a tester and developer in a regional office of a larger corporation. After a couple rounds of corporate "right-sizing," I was tasked

Raising the storage bar

New solutions from NEC and Stratus challenge the storage status quo

Password-cracking challenge update: second password revealed

Ten months after the original contest posted, an anonymous researcher breaks the middle-difficulty hash

Veeam Software Updates Its VI3 Reporting Tool

Veeam Software announced that they have released an update to their virtualization reporting tool – Veeam Reporter 2.0 for VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). If you aren't familiar with the product, Reporter 2.0 collects information about a VI3 envi

Upset about Delayed Viridian Features? SWsoft Says Try Virtuozzo

If you are upset about Microsoft postponing certain features from its Viridian hypervisor, SWsoft suggests you stick with the Windows host platform but that you take a look at Virtuozzo. Concerned about support? SWsoft said they are a Gold certified

Via packs PC power into minute, efficient motherboard

Company claims VIA EPIA PX, "world's smallest full-featured x86 mainboard," can run standard apps at under 13W

Open source key to anti-terrorism efforts

I wish I would have been at this conference. But all I get to read is this report. Sounds like the Defense community is quickly learning that open source breeds more security, not less:When someone brings up the current state of national intelligence

The power of “thanks” (OSBC)

Sometimes I don't make any friends with the things I write, but it's nice to see that bribery still works just fine (at least with 11-year olds): Caleb is the son of a great friend of mine. His note, completely unexpected, made my day. But

Enterprise wireless: In search of shootout suggestions

As a ten-year veteran of the Interop NOC team, I've noticed a change in the enterprise wireless market. We used to say that we sure had to run a lot of wire for the wireless system just so that we could separate the Wi-Fi network from our produc

Apple’s bad vibes

Apple Inc.'s legal beagles have their BVDs in a bind over the iGasm, a personal pleasure accessory that plugs into an iPod and vibrates in response to the music. (Sotto voce disclaimer: This device should not be used while driving or listening t

Test Center Daily: An exclusive look at an evolutionary CMS

On-demand Astoria leverages the DITA standard: InfoWorld contributor Mike Heck got an exclusive look at Astoria's SaaS (software as a software) content management solution, built around OASIS's DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture).

Dispatch from Interop: Voice-data combos creating the buzz du jour

Lots of talk at Interop 2007 about voice, data, and combining the two. The phrase "unified communications" is being tossed about more often than acrobats in a Cirque du Soleil show. Avaya announced their new Avaya Distributed Office system,

Microsoft poised to unfurl DPM 2007 Beta 2

Microsoft's forthcoming Data Protection Manager yields encryption, more snapshots, and support for Linux VMs Microsoft is set to release beta 2 of DPM 2007 at the end of the month. An ambitious replacement for traditional tape-based backups, DPM

Update: 64-bits of Smooth Sailing

As I noted in my previous entry, I finally made the jump to 64-bit Windows Vista as my full-time operating and development environment. Since the move coincided with the transition to a new notebook PC I was able to test the waters without any real r

M/S Patent Redux

SMB Tech News Today; INTEROP Day 4

I'm out of here in a few hours, and I'm one of the few press nerds who stayed this long. As a result, they're aren't many brand-spanking-new today press announcements this late in the show. So here are a few more SMB news bits fro

So, How Do You Test an SOA?

So, does testing change with SOA? You bet it does. Unless you're willing to act now, you may find yourself behind the curve as SOA becomes systemic to all that is enterprise architecture, and we add more complexity to get to an agile and reusabl

Thinking green? Think thin

Less power-hungry than their PC peers, thin clients are garnering greater attention for their green advantages

Cyberpunks: Pick on someone your own size!

Some lessons from the tiny country of Estonia, which has ground to a halt under a brutal DoS attack

Do We Need a Computer Lemon Law?

<P>It seems to me I'm hearing more computer support horror stories of the type I reported <a href="http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/5/22/02346/8315">last time</A> than ever. No doubt there are many factors cau

Novell gets something right on patents

Novell has done one amazingly thoughtless, short-sighted thing related to patents. Now it's apparently trying to rectify some of the damage it has done to open source. And it's doing it with a group that has an impeccable record on patent r

Gartner: Open source’s CAGR is quadruple that of proprietary software

In a February 2007 report, Gartner Dataquest found that the compound annual growth rate of open-source software (43%) between 2006 and 2011 will more than quintuple that of proprietary software (8%). The firm projects open-source software sales to re

A tale of two companies (is one lying?)

Mike Dutton, a good friend and co-founder of OSBC, was reading one of my blog entries and found this hilarious discrepancy: So, on the left you have E*Trade declaring that Linux has driven huge value for it. On the right, in an advertisement, you hav

A double standard for Google?

Mary Jo asks the question whether some of Google's recent actions would pass the Microsoft sniff test. If you want to evaluate the “evil” quotient of any company’s strategy/behavior, consider how you’d feel about it if it

Google owning spectrum is a bad idea

Owning the premier search site or becoming the single biggest media player in the still-emerging online advertising industry is one thing; becoming a telecommunications provider, aka, a phone company, is another. If Google enters the bidding for the

Non-Interop Review: Netgear ProSafe SSL VPN Concentrator 25

By Paul Venezia (with much more important editing done by Oliver Rist, who is better looking anyway) Is it possible that a sub-$500 SSL VPN concentrator is worth the price? NetGear's ProSafe SSL VPN Concentrator 25 (code named, the SSL312) cert

There will be winners and losers. Sometimes.

<p>Here's mom-and-apple-pie post, but hey, just because your mom said it doesn't mean it's not worth thinking about. When resolving a difference or conflict between one or more people we are taught, from a very early stage, to lo

Valuing open source companies (OSBC session)

Interesting session on how to price the exit of open source companies. Alfresco is a few years from having to worry about this, but it was interesting to get into the minds of the investment bankers and VCs to see how they value open source vendors.

OSBC Session: How Big is the Exit?

John Prendergast with Jeffries introduced the panel with some statistics and thoughts on what the market looks like and what potential exits could be. So far there has been $1.3-1.9 Billion dollars of investment into open source companies. Exits only

Lee Thompson’s OSBC Keynote: “The Bazaar Cathedral: A Look at Open Source at E*TRADE FINANCIAL”

Lee Thompson gave a strong keynote this morning [Slides here]. It was particularly impressive given the scale at which E*Trade runs open source software. In fact, Lee argued that this scale far outpaces what proprietary software – as a model – can ac

Marten Mickos’s OSBC keynote: Why Freedom Makes a Better Business Model

Marten is such a fantastic person and speaker. He's in the middle of his keynote ("Why Freedom Makes a Better Business Model"). [Slides here.] Marten is taking an interesting spin on open source, suggesting that freedom is the best bus

Rob Curley’s OSBC keynote: Hacking the Newspaper: How an Open-Source Nerd from Kansas is Revitalizing Journalism

Rob Curley is in the middle of an entertaining and informative session on how to shake up enterprise IT with open source. ("Hacking the Newspaper: How an Open-Source Nerd from Kansas is Revitalizing Journalism") Rob is a highly engaging spe

Be the first on your block to be sued by Microsoft

It's like the movie The 300, only instead of Spartan warriors and whizzy effects, we get open source geeks and wiki threads. At the Tipping Point wiki, more than 600 700 1000 ticked-off Linux Lovers have added their names to the "Sue Me Fir

Audio and Presentation from the “Full Contact SOA” Keynote

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