Launches RHEL 5.9. Open source behemoth Red Hat announced the next dot release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9. The firm said the release marks the beginning of Production Phase 2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...
Tags: Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, computer products, software
IDG News Service-U.S.government agencies have long used open-source software.Now,some agencies are embracing the collaborative development model of open-source software development and are releasing code back to the wider community. The ...
IDG News Service-The PaaS(platform as a service)market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year,up from last year's$900 million take,as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize existing ones,according ...
Tags: platform as a service, analyst firm Gartner, sharp growth
Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
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IDG News Service - Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Dell has already said it was testing servers based on ...
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Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Micro, ...
Tags: ARM-based servers, Linux OS, Linaro
With all the computer-generated (CG) imagery that DreamWorks Imagination Studios produces, you'd think their data center infrastructure would be cloud-enabled, virtualized and fat with solid-state storage. You'd be mostly wrong. About 15% ...
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IDG News Service - Infor has certified some of its products for Red Hat's Linux and JBoss middleware and added support for the MySQL and MariaDB databases, as part of a new push into open-source software, the companies announced Wednesday. ...
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Attempting to arrive at a solution to a complicated issue, the Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology. Linux ...
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Expanding beyond the delivery of software for its own cloud platform,VMware is acquiring DynamicOps for its heterogenous cloud management offerings. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.DynamicOps provides software for running virtualized ...
IDG News Service - Infor has teamed up with VMWare to help customers of its Infor LN ERP software run on VMWare's latest virtualization technology, opening a door to cloud deployments and potentially lower infrastructure costs. The ...
Tags: Infor, VMWare Team, Virtualized ERP, LN ERP software
Converged storage and server maker Nutanix has announced upgraded hardware and a new operating system (OS) version with support for Red Hat's KVM hypervisor in addition to existing VMware support. Nutanix debuted in 2011 with its ...
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The global software market grew 4.7% in the first half of this year to $167 billion, with CRM (customer relationship management), virtualization and collaboration coming in as the fastest-growing segments, according to figures released ...
Tags: software market, CRM, virtualization, collaboration
Google's Android mobile software platform, as we know, has caused quite a conflict with Oracle, given Oracle's failed lawsuit that claimed Java-like Android infringed on Java patents and copyrights. But now, might Oracle and Google, or even ...
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IDG News Service - Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ...
Tags: Red Hat, OpenStack, open source software, enterprise grade service