At the OpenStack Summit, co-founder Rackspace announced that it has in preview testing storage and networking products based on two core components of OpenStack, even as it works to provide interoperability between its "Alamo" private cloud and its public cloud plaforms
Noting that Cisco and HP are running CloudStack-enabled Ubuntu Linux on their cloud platforms, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said today at OpenStack Summit that Ubuntu 12.10 with the latest incarnation of OpenStack called 'Folsom" is now available and that the "'Folsom" upgrade path for Ubuntu 12.04 is also ready
Rackspace is best known for co-founding OpenStack with NASA. As the open source cloud stack moves under the control of an independent foundation, and the OpenStack Summit gets underway, the public/private cloud provider has released two new PHP and Java SDKs targeting developers
Despite Novell's seeming inability to grow SUSE substantially, the Linux distributor, now an independent unit of Attachmate and a big backer of OpenStack, has grown its revenues to $225 million and is strengthening it No. 2 position in the Linux market, its president says
Joomla, a popular open source content management system, was recently upgraded to a 3.0 release with enhanced database integration, administrative tools and optimization for mobile devices. A 3.01 security fix went out Tuesday.
Citrix this week unveiled XenServer 6.1 upgrade that is tightly integrated with (its formerly owned) CloudStack open source cloud platform as it sets it sights on a new architecture known as "Windsor" that will merge XenServer and CloudForms into one IaaS.
As part of its first ever MySQL Connect, Oracle this weekend debuted the first release candidate of MySQL 5.6.
Apache OpenOffice is expecting to release its 3.5 version in the first quarter of 2013 with improved Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013 interoperability and later a 4.0 with next gen features. Meanwhile, tablet and cloud versions of LibreOffice are also underway.
The much anticipated 'Folsom" version of OpenStack debuted today with new networking and storage features and Hyper-V support; the next version, Grizzly, is due in March of 2013
Bromium, a recently launched virtualization-based security company founded by the developers of Xen, started shipping today its highly touted micro-visor solution called vSentry that is said to end Windows desktop security problems once and for all.