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RHEL 6.4 provides users with improved security enhancements as well as a number of new Microsoft-enabling features. The new RHEL beta update follows RHEL 6.3, which debuted in June and provided users with enhanced virtualization scalability. Microsoft-Enabling Features a Focus in RHEL 6.4 One of the key Microsoft-enabling features in RHEL 6.4 is support for […]

Speaking at the Amazon re:invent conference, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels detailed his commandments for modern IT architecture during a keynote session. For the CTO of Amazon, modern IT architecture is about the cloud and not being constrained by physical hardware. Vogels admitted that he has somewhat of a love/hate relationship with physical hardware servers. He […]

Guido Appenzeller is the CEO of Big Switch and was formerly the leader of the Stanford lab that pioneered the OpenFlow protocol. Most major networking vendors now in some manner have plans to support OpenFlow. As a hot company in growing market, Big Switch as a company might represent a juicy acquisition target from a […]

Meraki builds cloud managed wireless and wired access points as well as providing network acceleration and security capabilities. Meraki’s hardware appliances are based on a hardened Linux operating system and includes a subscription based service for cloud management. Rob Soderbery, senior vice president of Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Group said during a Monday morning conference call […]

OpenFlow alone is not enough to enable SDN. OpenFlow also requires switches and controllers, which is now what Big Switch is offering publicly with the Big Virtual Switch and the Big Network Controller products. Additionally Big Switch is providing SDN visibility with the new Big Tap solution. At the core of Big Network controller is […]

“We don’t see shared hosting or virtual private server (VPS) hosting going away, we see it continuing strong into the future.” Simon Anderson, CEO of Dreamhost talking about the impact of the cloud on his business (Datamation)     “Let me be clear, we would not make one of the seven inch tablets. We don’t […]

Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution isn’t just about the upstream project, though; it’s also about integration with Red Hat’s existing Linux platform tools. “We’re integrating with all our of our provisioning tools,” Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens told Server Watch. Steven noted that even in the regular Linux world, when customers are managing more than 50 […]

The PureData Systems are pre-configured solution bundles of server hardware and software that are designed for specific use cases. IBM first announced the PureSystems approach in April of this year with the PureFlex and PureApplication bundles. The three new bundles are specifically built to deal with data. “The volume and velocity of data is just […]

Polycom this week issued its biggest update ever of new Unified Communications products. At the top of the list is the new RealPresence CloudAXIS suite. The    CloudAXIS suite is an integration platform that is build on top of Polycom’s RealPresence technology. CloudAXIS enables Skype, Facebook and GoogleTalk conversations and users “What is unique is […]

“The Galactic Empire knew what data was important, they monitored,logged and reported on access and they responded to threats.” Kellman Meghu, head of Security Engineering for Check Point Technologies, talking about IT security lessons learned from Star Wars (eSecurity Planet)   “The informed consumer is a missing component in making cloud providers more transparent […]

When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems back in 2010, it began a multi-year process to re-invigorate Java. Ahead of the JavaOne conference next week, Oracle is now taking its next major step with Java by releasing a new embedded mobile suite designed for the new world of machine-to-machine-based communications. Peter Utzschneider, VP Product Management at Oracle, […]

Among the vendors that are benefiting from the speed advance offered by 100G is Ciena, thanks in no small part to technology the company acquired from Nortel. Ciena acquired the Metro Ethernet Networks division of bankrupt telco vendor Nortel in 2010, for $774 million. In 2008, Nortel was the first vendor to demonstrate 100G coherent […]