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openQRM goes solo after Qlusters dumps open source strategy

openQRM is looking for a new sponsor following its separation from Qlusters earlier this month. On April 9, on the release of openQRM 3.5, Qlusters announced it decided to donate the open source data center management provisioning and monitoring project to the community on SourceForge. The project, which will continue to be...

Tags: Strategy, openQRM, Qlusters, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-15

How much noise should an enterprise vendor make?

Most enterprise software vendors are quiet. Theyre more William H. Macy than Tom Cruise. Big customers like that, which may be why firms in what I call IBMs posse, like CentricCRM, dont try to make news. Do your job, keep your customers satisfied, and word will get out as far...

Tags: Xen, OpenQRM

Blog posts 2007-03-19

Open source changes journalism's rules

I had a nice talk last week with CEO Ofer Shoshan of Qlusters Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif.. He wanted to talk about their OpenQRM project, a data management system now offered under the Mozilla Public license. "It’s easy to take what you have in the data center –...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2006-01-30

Additional Resources

News to know: Zune VideoX; Intel; AMD; Dell; Apple

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer? Vista SP1 available in more languages There's more than one way to mesh Larry Dignan: Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers;...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Telephony, Channel Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Open source development is parallel processing in action

About 20 years ago engineers around the world began demonstrating what is still the greatest computer innovation of my lifetime, parallel processing. (For more on the concept, visit this course at the Cornell Theory Center, offered by Saleh Elmohamed.) Until then people were limited to computers based...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Qlusters openQRM 3.5

Qlusters is a company that I've tracked for a very long time. It was one of the few companies that could create a highly manageable, highly reliable single-system image cluster using industry standard systems and Linux. As systems became increasingly powerful and other forms of processing virtualization technology improved, the...

Tags: Virtualization, Data centers, Storage management, Dan Kusnetzky, openQRM 3.5, Qlusters

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Automated System and Service Monitoring With openQRM and Nagios

The first step to make sure all systems and services in a data centers are running well is to monitor them. A well-known, proven and widely used monitoring tool is Nagios which is available for openQRM in the flavor of an additional plugin. The second, also essential, step is the...

Tags: Data Center, Monitoring, UKUUG, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-07-25

Michael Rudolph sheds more light on SourceForge Marketplace

Michael Rudolph sheds more light on SourceForge MarketplaceThat's really great!I also think that Sourceforge is in a extremely good position to make a very big services Platform even elance like with a huge and extremely good excellent actually software developer community.Also they could push the community to make more service...

Tags: beta, SourceForge, open source

Discussion threads 2007-04-16

Open source is a sales model

Open source is a sales modelKey point"While most open source firms look at open licenses as lowering their R&D costs,... [Yes, reduced R&D staff costs as a result of the generosity of people willing to replace employees at no cost.]... it's this lower sales cost Soward believes is the real...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales, open source, William Hurley, car company, Sean Hull

Discussion threads 2006-12-11

Sucking the air from the room

One obvious impact of the recent moves by Microsoft, Oracle and Novell has been to put all other open source news in the shade, to literally suck all the air out of the room.A lot has been happening. Just this week Qlusters announced openQRM plug-ins for Dell, Intel and HP...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Middleware, Red Hat Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Qlusters serving all virtualization schemes

I had the honor last week of chatting with William Hurley, CTO of Qlusters, the open source data management outfit. The headline was that its openQRM project would deliver plug-in support for all the major virtualization projects -- Xen, VMWare, QEMU, VServer -- whatever. For enterprises this is...

Tags: virtualization, William Hurley, Qlusters

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Qlusters prepares to attack the systems management establishment

Earlier this year Qlusters crossed the chasm from proprietary to open source software. The small company, backed by blue-chip VCs, took nearly three years of proprietary code development for its sophisticated systems management software and open sourced it under a modified attribution only Mozilla Public License. Now, armed with a...

Tags: Qlusters, open source

Blog posts 2006-04-18