SUSE supports the notion that cloud computing and open source software are perfect companions for organizations that look to the use of cloud computing to lower their overall costs of IT infrastructure, offer freedom to deploy its workloads wherever appropriate, and avoid being locked into a single vendors hardware or software products.
Vendors and research firms often collaborate to survey the vendors' customers in the hopes of learning more about their requirements and purchasing behavior. Although the result is often based upon a biased or limited sample, the resulting study findings are trumpeted to the world as if they were broadly applicable.
Open-Xchange and DIGITEC team up to help SugarCRM users to synchronize Open-Xchange and SugarCRM solutions.
Faces API makes it possible for IT to delegate management of local resources to nearby staff members. Why did they change from GPL V2 to Apache 2.0?
Identity Management tool that targets the needs of medium size organizations.
Novell hopes its ZENworks Application Virtualization 9 will make it easier for organizations to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7 as well as install, deliver and update applications. The company faces strong challenges from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Intel and AppZero, however.
Enterprises create and store a massive amount of structured and unstructured data. The problem is that they often have no idea what they have or how to find it. Lucid Imagination believes Apache Lucerne and Apache Solr contain the answer.
Novell promotes management as usual in a new, unusual environment
Workloads are increasingly architected as highly distributed components that may be executing on physical, virtual or cloud environments. Discovering and fixing performance issue can become an almost insurmountable task because the environment has become so complex.
An interesting challenge for organizations considering a cloud-based implementation of one or more workloads is where to put the structured data (read database-based data). It would seem logical to place that data somewhere in the cloud as well.