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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
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
Qlusters serving all virtualization schemes: Qlusters serving all virtualization schemeshmmm.... Abundance, Asia, and automation""What developers need to realize is you can't sit on your laurels. If you just write the same thing you'll be commoditized."TRUE, THE PRESSURES MICROSOFT IS FACING TODAY FROM OSS (EG LINUX, OPEN OFFICE ..)"The goal should be to eliminate...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OSCON, virtualization scheme, Qlusters, virtualization; Discussion threads 2006-07-25
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: Qlusters prepares to attack the systems management establishmentCome onYou inlined yourself? You brought out text in the article that wasn't a quote from an interviewee? Lame. I guess it is your blog, and you can do whatever you want. The highlighted text just makes it seem...; Tags: Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, systems management establishment, Qlusters, systems management, server; Discussion threads 2006-04-18

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

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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
Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky?: Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky?More stuff to go down...when the host server crashes.My ThoughtsWe run about 150 VM's here hosted over a redundant cluster setup. If one machine fails, the others pick up the slack without interuption. But we still have quite a few issues...; Tags: Operating systems, Storage management, Utility computing, virtual machine concept, operating system, virtualization, HP OpenVMS, virtual machine, cluster, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-02-14
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
Zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances: Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace. The Annapolis, Maryland software company released its first set of application, server and network management appliances – one a hardware appliance,...; Tags: Appliance, VMware Inc., Systems Management, Zenoss, Open Source, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2007-10-23
Open source systems management challenging incumbents: The 451 Group has issued a research report maintaining that BMC, HP, IBM and CA are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. " Open source vendors covered in the 60-page report titled "Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management" and written by...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-07-31
WHurley spins BMC into open source: William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip of oilpatch, I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...; Tags: Strategy, management, Enterprise Policy, business models, BSD, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Configuresoft's George Gerchow points out that "You can't manage what you can't see": Configuresoft's Technology Strategist, George Gerchow, and I had a lovely discussion about virtualization, virtual machine software such as VMware and the stresses this technology push on overworked IT professionals. During this discussion, I mentioned that I thought that Configuresof's focus is too narrow, that virtualization is a far broader...; Tags: Managing virtualized environments; Blog posts 2007-07-13
Single System Image Clusters - An Idea Who's Time Has Come and Gone: At one time, applications were constructed as a monolithic mass of code that implemented all of the functions required to implement a complete solution including user interface if it faced users, application processing, data management and storage management. Some of the more sophisticated applications also included tools for application...; Tags: clustering software, virtual processing software, virtualization; Blog posts 2007-05-01
Talend brings open source to enterprise data integration: The enterprise open source software parade continues with Talend, which is bringing its data integration software. Talend Open Studio v2.0 generates data integration processes in Java and offers Extract, Transform and Load ETL functions for data warehousing and analytics, working on scale out, commodity hardware grids. It includes over...; Tags: IT Management, Open Source, General; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Open source battles the mooch-o-meter: Groundwork is trumpeting a Gartner report which describes a growing chorus of grumbles concerning the "big four" of IT management -- HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol.But in discussing the report with ZDNet Tony Barbagallo, vice president of product management and marketing left, acknowledged that the "big bang"...; Tags: General, Development, Strategy, management, Applications; Blog posts 2007-04-19
The true nature of open source: In the beginning...open source was pure and unadulterated. Over time, the idea of community-build software that is free and unfettered by sticky licensing terms and fees caught on with IT buyers, and the disruption of the old order began. Now, open source (Linux, Eclipse, Java, etc.) is mainstream, with many...; Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General; Blog posts 2007-04-09
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 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