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Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2 license. Our goal is to build a production quality switch for VM environments that supports standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and is open to programmatic extension and control. In addition, it is designed to support distribution across multiple physical servers similar to VMWare’s distributed vswitch or Cisco’s Nexus 1000v.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) may have abandoned the InfiniBand market in favor of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and 10GbE, but the rest of the InfiniBand market appears to be carrying on just fine without the networking giant, according to industry analysts and other vendors.
This howtos describes how an Ubuntu 9.04 Samba server is integrated with Active Directory, and how to use Winbind; the Linux server sees the domain users and groups transparently. I assume that your Ubuntu server is installed and ready to be configured with Samba.
Recently I had a customer’s hard drive on a dedicated server corrupt so badly that we couldn’t access the information on it at all. Any attempt to fsck the drive or even just mount it produced weird errors and strange notifications (like trying to mount it would say “not found” and other really vague answers).
On July 7, internet search giant Google not only announced its operating system Google Chrome OS with much fanfare, it also quietly released Neatx, an open source NX server. According to the announcement, Google has been looking at remote desktop technologies for quite a while. While the X Window System has issues with network latency and bandwidth, the NX protocol compresses X requests and reduces round-trips, resulting in much better performance — to the point that it can be used over network connections with low bandwidth.
Thincrust is a set of tools and metadata which make it easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, OEMS, etc) to create and deploy appliances. These appliances can be virtual or traditional “bare metal” appliances. The thincrust tools extend and utilize existing fedora tools, which are focused around best practices for appliance development and delivery. With these tools anyone with basic scripting experience can build appliances.
MRG Grid provides High Throughput and High Performance Computing. And, it enables enterprises to move to a utility model of computing to help enterprises achieve both higher peak computing capacity and higher IT utilization by leveraging their existing infrastructure to build high performance grids.
OpenSCAP is a set of open source libraries providing an easier path for integration of the SCAP line of standards. SCAP is a line of standards managed by NIST with the goal of providing a standard language for the expression of Computer Network Defense related information.
More information about SCAP can be found at nvd.nist.gov.
