CFEngine Pushes Scalability, Adds Enterprise Features
The CFEngine system management tool has been around for more than two decades, and after bringing in a new management lineup last year, the company bearing the same name ...Full Article
Red Hat Buys OpenStack Integrator eNovance
Red Hat is acquiring privately-held eNovance, an open source cloud computing service provider, for about 50 million euros ($67.8 million) in cash along with 20 million euros ($27.1 million) in ...Full Article
Red Hat Ties KVM Virtualization To RHEL 7
Days after releasing the latest version of its flagship open source operating system, Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization suite, its commercial implementation of ...Full Article
New RHEL 7 Linux Stresses Apps, Scaling
Red Hat has unveiled the latest version of its open-source operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, promoting it as the foundation of an "open hybrid cloud" that delivers ...Full Article
In-Memory Boosts Oracle OLTP By 2X, Analytics By 1000X
With the lion's share of the relational database market underpinning the systems of record humming along in datacenters, Oracle cannot afford to let its rivals get too far ahead ...Full Article
Docker Software Containers Go Commercial
The next wave of virtualization, and one that has the potential to displace hypervisor-based virtualization on Linux platforms, is upon us now that Docker, the software container and application ...Full Article
Mesosphere To Bring Google-Style Cluster Management Mainstream
Enterprises that want to run their clusters the way that Google does will soon have that ability now that Mesos, an open source cluster controller, is getting a commercial ...Full Article
Dell, SAP Expand HANA Collaboration
The SAP HANA ecosystem continues to expand with broader collaboration between the German enterprise software specialist and hardware partner Dell that rolls out new services on the SAP HANA ...Full Article
Red Hat Finally Gets A Piece Of The HANA Action
Thousands of companies have dropped their relational databases and moved to SAP's HANA in-memory database and application platform, and SAP's own Business Suite application stack running atop HANA has ...Full Article
Google Runs All Software In Containers
The overhead of full-on server virtualization is too much for a lot of hyperscale datacenter operators as well as their peers (some might say rivals) in the supercomputing arena. ...Full Article
