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BlueGlue Solves a Sticky Data Recovery Problem With Silverstring and IBM

UK-based specialist recruitment process outsourcing company, BlueGlue focuses on finding personnel for high-tech SME companies and the IT departments of larger corporations. BlueGlue realised that data on laptops was poorly protected against breakage, theft and mistaken deletion. BlueGlue wanted to reduce this business risk by implementing an easy-to-use, cost-effective recovery...

Tags: Data Recovery, IBM Corp., BlueGlue, Smb/Sme, Backups, Outsourcing, Disaster Recovery, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Data Management

Case studies 2006-07-01

BlueGlue is closed source defense for open source shops

BlueGlue is closed source defense for open source shopsI viewed the demos....Looks like a god tool to me. I have never heard of any shop that is 100% OSS, so why not use it if it works?Sounds pretty ridiculous to me...But good on them for bilking $4M out of some...

Tags: BlueGlue, open source shop, open source

Discussion threads 2005-03-17

BlueGlue is closed source defense for open source shops

What you need to deal with your open source management headaches may just be a big hunk of expensive, proprietary, closed source software. Thats what OpenLogic thinks because they released Version 3.1 of a product called BlueGlue. (They also got $4 million in venture capital.) Vice president-marketing Andy Grolnick...

Tags: BlueGlue, open source

Blog posts 2005-03-17

Additional Resources

The OpenLogic that we are all journalists now

I was chatting this morning with Steven Grandchamp, CEO of OpenLogic, whose new version of BlueGlue lets companies certify their entire open source software stacks, not just those 150 projects OpenLogic already supports. He was bragging on the hiring of Stormy Peters from H-P as their new director of product...

Tags: Value at Risk, OpenLogic

Blog posts 2005-12-08

Open source, altruism, and the business model problem

Open source, altruism, and the business model problemAltruism vs. CooperationCooperation isn't always altruistic. As the "gain" of a system increases [1], it takes less and less in the way of reciprocity to justify sharing.For instance, open source is often compared to barn raisings. The problem with the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software movement, open source, altruism, software

Discussion threads 2005-05-09

Who do you trust?

Who do you trust?Simple: ABMAnyonething but Microsoft.I trust nobody but myselfThat's what it boils down to when your a system admin. Either that, or the famous, "Trust, but verify."Whatever system you choose, you must make sure you know how to set up, use, and maintain it well. You...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, UNIX, Operating systems, software, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2005-04-11