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- Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops: Reducing the Time, Cost and Risk of Application Delivery
- Application deployment and maintenance is far too slow and expensive due to a gap that has long existed between application development and production operations. This gap is the result of competing objectives. "Apps" is about delivering value to the Lines Of Business LOB as rapidly as possible through innovative new...
- White papers 2009-03-14
- Interview: rPath's Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use
- The cloud forces the older notion of "write-once, run anywhere" into a new level of "deploy correctly so you can exploit the benefits of cloud choices and save a lot of money." by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Techout Partners With rPath and Amazon to Scale Its Monitoring Solution
- Techout.com, an internet performance engineering firm, helps companies achieve high availability, horizontal scalability and improved response times for mission-critical web-based business transactions and SOAP/REST Web Services. In the past, Techout.com outsourced virtual and physical instances of its Global Virtual Monitoring Appliance to multiple hosting vendors in order to replicate each...
- Case studies 2008-11-07
- Best Practices for Building Virtual Appliances
- The growing acceptance of virtualization technology is revolutionizing the way IT consumers deploy applications. A major part of this shift is being driven by software vendors who provide virtual appliances - an application integrated and packaged with Just enough Operating System JeOS that can be easily installed in a virtual...
- White papers 2008-09-04
- Application Architecture for Cloud Computing
- Cloud computing is a relatively new way of referring to the use of shared computing resources, and it is an alternative to having local servers handle applications. Cloud computing groups together large numbers of compute servers and other resources and typically offers their combined capacity on an on-demand, pay-per-cycle basis....
- White papers 2008-09-04
- rPath to OEM Novell's SUSE Linux to reduce legal worries
- rPath to OEM Novell's SUSE Linux to reduce legal worriesPointy haired CEO?'patent protection' indeed. Hook, line and sinker.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- rPath to OEM Novell's SUSE Linux to reduce legal worries
- rPath has entered a pact with Novell that makes creating a virtual appliance easier for developers â€" and corporate lawyers. As part of the deal, which was announced yesterday, rPath will OEM Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server beginning in August, said Bill Marshall, the company’s CEO,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- SaaS and the packaged software appliance
- Delivering software as an appliance brings many of the same benefits as delivering software as a service, as I've described in my previous posting about Socialtext's experience, Can the appliance put SaaS on-premise? For similar reasons to Socialtext, Zimbra, which provides a messaging platform that competes with Exchange, also likes...
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Partners use Amazon EC2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a service
- Several announcements show that the Amazon infrastructure-as-a-service model is gaining serious traction, helping todays start-ups/ISVs/SaaS providers quickly create consumer and business services without an IT capital spending budget.LignUp and rPath are leveraging Amazons Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) to historically relieve developers of infrastructure worries and...
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Breaking the ice
- Do you ever wish you didn't have to port your application and test it on several different operating systems? Are you intrigued with the simplicity of "hardware appliances" like NetApp filers and the Google Search Appliance but don't want to get in the business of selling hardware? rPath would...
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- A database without an operating system?
- Not really. But as far as customers can tell, maybe.rPath and Ingres have integrated a database and a Linux installation so it looks to the customer like a single install. The result is what rPath calls a "software appliance," and this concept is at the heart of rBuilder 2.0, which...
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
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- Doing the VMware Dance Day 3
- VMware Day 1 Summary The first official day of VMworld found me running from meeting to meeting. I did find a short time to walk the show area. This offered the opportunity to speak with several users of virtualized environments and various vendors who are part of the...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- News to know: Windows 7; Top student laptops; Facebook; Larry Page's commencement speech
- 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. Ed Bott: How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7? Larry Page's fine commencement speech. Andrew...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- rPath offers free management tool for applications aspiring to the cloud
- For IT managers looking at cloud deployment, rPath’s approach is to embrace as many flavors of the cloud as possible to deal with the fact that what is commonly called the cloud is really a bunch of non-standard environments varying from vendor to vendor. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- HP to offer SUSE desktop Linux to business, education customers
- HP to offer SUSE desktop Linux to business, education customersFYI to Folks, Anybodycan set up his/her own virtual FF browser appliance for FREE.See the rPath product [url=http://www.rpath.org/project/browser/]here[/url]Nice to see more support behind SUSE!RE: HP to offer SUSE desktop Linux to business, education customersThis is a solution in search of a...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who’s buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Interview: rPath’s Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use
- Interview: rPath’s Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud useBuzz wordsWhy do they call it the cloud, i've been working with "cloud" technology for about 8 years and will soon be launching what we call an inner web server which according to the current buzz...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Gathering clouds brew up a storm
- With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...
- Blog posts 2008-10-25
- Citrix makes "Kensho" preview available
- Citrix has delivered a technical preview of a toolkit that allows developers to create and deploy OVF-based virtual appliances that run on multiple virtualization hypervisors. The toolkit, which was introduced last July, is code named "Kensho" and provides the ability to create, import and deploy application workloads...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Microsoft Mesh; Microhoo; OLPC; Patents; Linked data
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh Ryan Stewart: Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft Screen shots: Microsoft's Live Mesh right Images: Hands-on with Live Mesh Techmeme ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
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