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EMIC extends open source clustering to Tomcat, JBOSS, and JOnAS

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Tags: Middleware, Application servers, Java development tools, Development tools, open source clustering, Emic, JOnAS, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, MKV, open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Dell contributing code to open source clustering techs [LinuxWorld Podcast]

Dell contributing code to open source clustering techs [LinuxWorld Podcast]Hmm, is that very smart?Scaling out doesn't work for all apps. The timing slowdown inherent in using a network for message passing is NOT optimal for all uses. The cost of keeping hundreds of "boxes" in a cluster is also non-trivial....

Tags: Server virtualization, Podcasts, Virtualization, Processors, VMware Inc., Dell Computer Corp., open source clustering, CPU, podcast, IBM Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2005-02-21

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Terracotta buys Quartz

Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz. The integration of Quartz into Terracotta's platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company said. Quartz is currently integrated into...

Tags: Job, Clustering, Terracotta, Quartz, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

R for Mac OS X 2.10.0 (Mac)

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Language, Graphics, R, S Language, R. R, Team Management, UNIX, Apple Mac OS X, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Will all the good open source companies be acquired?

Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let's consider the growing list: IBM's purchase of Gluecode, Novell's purchase of SUSE, Citrix's XenSource deal, Nokia's Trolltech buy,...

Tags: VMware Inc., SpringSource, OpenBravo, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Microsoft Office still owns the desktop, future of StarOffice unclear

Microsoft Office still owns the desktop, future of StarOffice unclearMakes you wonderStarOffice/OpenOffice is so far behind MS Office that it isn't even funny. They are lagging in performance, usability, innovation, features, programmability. It looks like Office 97. featurewise and quite literally.It is the cheapo free/cheap alternative you only accept because...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, desktop, StarOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

Debellor: Open Source Modular Platform for Scalable Data Mining

This paper introduces Debellor (www.debellor.org) - an open source extensible data mining platform with stream-oriented architecture, where all data transfers between elementary algorithms take the form of a stream of samples. Data streaming enables implementation of scalable algorithms, which can efficiently process large volumes of data, exceeding available memory. This...

Tags: Open Source, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-05-25

Ubuntu 9.04 to be available for download Thursday

  Canonical will make its much anticipated Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade available for download on Thursday. The platform --which includes a desktop, server and netbook edition -- offers faster bootups (as fast as 25 seconds, its developers say), cloud support, OpenOffice 3.0, support for Skype...

Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition, Linux, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, OpenOffice, Open Source, E-mail Servers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Oracle to Buy Sun - View from the Virtual World

If Oracle's acquisition of Sun actually becomes a market reality, it will most certainly change the dynamics of the market for servers, operating systems, development tools, database management systems, applications and, of course, virtualization technology. Let's take a dark view of the possibilities in each area. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtual World, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Productivity, Virtualization, Storage, Databases, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor

Symantec, a long time player in the virtualiation technology market, has just launched the Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor. It is designed to help organizations evaluate their disaster recovery plans by scanning the organization's IT infrastructure and comparing what it sees to a very large knowledgebase of potential problems. ...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Center, Knowledgebase, VERITAS Software Corp., Advisor, Tool, Disaster Recovery Advisor, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Alfresco 3.1 offers parity with enterprise rivals

Alfresco's open source enterprise content management system is now fully enterprise ready, and the timing couldn't be better, exes say. Alfresco 3.1, which was released today, has reached parity with and in some ways exceeds leading document management platforms such as Documentum and Filenet and leading web...

Tags: Monitoring, Alfresco, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-31

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Hacking, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-03-04

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked openwhat customers wantCustomers should want open standards and non-proprietary flexibility. They should always have the option of switching vendors with as little stress as possible. Why would any company want to lock itself in? It takes away any incentive for the vendors to...

Tags: clustering, VMware Inc., filesystem clustering, VMFS, file system

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on the community Google Code site their clean room implementation of VMFS, the clustered locking file system used by VMWare's ESX Server hypervisor...

Tags: Hypervisor, Clustering, File System, VMware Inc., VMFS, Virtualization, Ip storage, Open Source, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-03

I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.

In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...

Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Are thin clients still for me?

Are thin clients still for me?I'm sure Paul Murphy can helpHe advocates SunRays as the thin client de jour. You are right about the SPOF single point of failure problem - but the MTBF rate may be insignificantly small. Wireless networks are hard for kids to mess with, as are...

Tags: Thin clients, thin client, server, multimedia

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

A Data Mining Approach to Reveal Representative Collaboration Indicators in Open Collaboration Frameworks

Data mining methods are successful in educational environments to discover new knowledge or learner skills or features. Unfortunately, they have not been used in depth with collaboration. The paper has developed a scalable data mining method, whose objective is to infer information on the collaboration during the collaboration process in...

Tags: Frameworks Inc., Data Mining Method, Data Mining, Collaboration, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Microsoft confirms critical SQL Server vulnerability

Microsoft confirms critical SQL Server vulnerabilityWrong logo?That logo at the start of the article is for Sql Server 2008 while it's not on the list affected by the vulnerability.The correct logo should be a sieve. :p2009 New Year's resolution:getting off the bug-ridden gravy trainI wouldn't give up on OSS yet.OSS...

Tags: Databases, OPEN SOURCE, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, environment, server, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-22