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  • RedHat’s OpenShift PaaS Cozies Up To Microsoft .NET. Huh?

    March 5, 2014

    Business
    Cloud Foundry, linux, Microsoft, OpenShift, Platform as a service, Red Hat, Steve Ballmer, Uhuru
     

    Here’s one for the books. RedHat, the bastion of enterprise Linux has just announced that it will be supporting Microsoft .NET and SQL Server capabilities on its OpenShift PaaS. How times have changed, we all remember a little over…

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  • Red Hat and Docker – Application Portability Meets PaaS Automation

    September 19, 2013

    Business
    Docker, Fedora Project, linux, LXC, OpenShift, Platform as a service, Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     

    One of the products that has really captured attention recently is Docker, an open source project that packs, deploys, moves and runs applications within lightweight containers. While containerization is a well established approach towards application deployment, in a cloudy…

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  • CloudVelocity – Lots of Funding, Lots of Customers

    July 18, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, Application programming interface, AWS, cloud computing, CloudVelocity, Disaster recovery, linux, Pelion
     

    The entire cloud migration space is one fraught with difficulties. On the one hand there are the not insignificant difficulties of actually migrating a production workload in real time – it’s often been said the very notion is a…

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  • CloudVelocity Releases its Cloud Migration Product – Cue the Rainbows of Cloud migration

    July 16, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, CloudVelocity, data center, Infrastructure, linux, Microsoft Windows
     

    Cloudbursting – that oft-told urban myth that sees workloads magically move across infrastructure like wisps of smoke. It’s a provocative image and one that never fails to get the back up of seasoned IT folks who wrangle this stuff…

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  • Cumulus Networks Launches – Aims to Reinvent the Networking World

    June 19, 2013

    Business
    Cumulus Linux, Cumulus Networks, DreamHost, google, linux, Open Compute Project, OpenFlow, Operating system, Rivers
     

    Startup Cumulus Networks is today launching its open source [clarification, Cumulus isn’t completely Open Source. The company described it thusly “overall, our distro is Debian. everything that we change to core Linux, we submit back to open source. our main…

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  • Linux Foundation Launches CloudOpen Event

    April 24, 2012

    Business
    cloud computing, Eucalyptus Systems, IBM, linux, opensource, OpenStack, Red Hat
     

    I’m a firm believer in the value that an open approach towards cloud computing can bring. Aside from any technical benefit (of which there are many) open appeals to my sense of community, of fairness, of democratization. For this…

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  • Here’s one school taking it to Microsoft

    July 13, 2008

    IT, New Zealand
    linux
     

    I was amused to read the story of Warrington School the other day. It seems that the principal, eager to stretch his IT resources further, decided to install Linux on the machines within his school rather than the Windows…

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