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The Grid Appliance is a self-configuring Virtual Machine appliance that is used to create ad-hoc pools of computer resources both within a local-area and across wide-area networks to execute high-throughput, long-running jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
The goal of the Condor® Project is to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support on large collections of distributively owned computing resources. Guided by both the technological and sociological challenges of such a computing environment, the Condor Team has been building software tools that enable scientists and engineers to increase their computing throughput. Read the rest of this entry »
Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format designed for a wide range of uses, from delivering low-resolution web content to broadcasting HD and beyond, to near-lossless studio editing. Read the rest of this entry »
Zarafa allows you to share mail, calendar and contacts via Outlook or the “Outlook look&feel” webaccess. Zarafa has a native MAPI backend, to have the best Outlook integration. With Zarafa Outlook plugin you can easy set permissions on folders, open shared folders and use the freebusy times. Read the rest of this entry »
This howto explains installing Zivios Master Service version 0.5.0. Zivios is an n-tiered PHP-5 application, providing identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer provisioning, as well as remote management of services. It uses MySQL and OpenLDAP as it’s data store, with OpenLdap being the primary back end for identity management and application integration and MySQL being used for panel specific data. Link
Cloud computing and storage convert physical resources (like processors and storage) into scalable and shareable resources over the Internet (computing and storage “as a service”). Read the rest of this entry »
Designed for analytics, ICE is easy to use, simple to manage and ideal for data volumes from 500GB to 30 TB and more. ICE combines a column-oriented database with a unique Knowledge Grid architecture to eliminate the complexity of data warehousing. Link
From a single click, Simplexo gathers fragmented information from silos across the enterprise, and presents one consolidated list of search results. Not limited to database queries, not restricted to local office content, Simplexo simultaneously searches multiple and diverse information sources on your behalf: unstructured data such as email, word processor documents, images, text files, spreadsheets, etc; and structured data including databases, payroll, HR systems, SAP and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Being connected to the Internet means exposure to what the outside world has to offer — including the undesirable elements. Every time you connect to the Internet, you’re exposed to threats that can compromise your network’s security. Read the rest of this entry »
Red Hat claims it can run five virtual machines (VMs) for every three that VMware’s ESX runs in the same server hardware. Qumranet technology also enables it to run more Windows virtual desktops than VMware, too. Read the rest of this entry »
Hypervisors – bare-metal virtualization solutions that don’t depend on an underlying operating system – used to be the high-priced spread of the virtualization world. You can still pay a pretty penny for hypervisor solutions from some vendors. Read the rest of this entry »
The IEEE working group that is putting the finishing touches on the 802.11n 100Mbps wireless LAN standard is about to launch a new project, for a 1Gbps WLAN standard. That would mean gigabit Wi-Fi. Read the rest of this entry »
Zivios is a web based control panel which brings together vital open source technologies needed by medium and large enterprises. At it’s core, Zivios provides identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer provisioning, as well as remote management of services.
In my job as a systems engineer, I have handled various storage implementations for our enterprise clients. These may be in the form of direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), or Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) systems. Read the rest of this entry »
With the Open Source Conference (OSCon) and IDG’s LinuxWorld show in the rearview mirror of 2008, it is clear that open source is no longer just a trendy conversation. Read the rest of this entry »
