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Jamcracker and Eucalyptus Systems say they have integrated their cloud management and cloud creation platforms so users can self-provision and automate the procuring of resources and building scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private and hybrid clouds on the Eucalyptus platform. Jamcracker’s Platform Enterprise Edition lets organizations provision and control both public and private cloud services. And with Eucalyptus users can have their own private clouds and move workloads to and from Amazon.

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AccelOps, the three-year-old start-up that monitors data centers, networks and clouds with software delivered either SaaS or as a virtual appliance, has enticed Belgacom ICT, the old Belgian PTT’s pan-European IT arm, into its fold. Belgacom means to use the stuff for its 200 hosted commercial IT services customers. AccelOps, which baby-sits service, performance, availability, security and change management, reportedly won a run-off against competitors like Nimsoft and Zenoss. Belgacom reportedly liked the idea that the widgetry was agent-free, multi-tenant as well as multi-site and of course scaled.

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Citrix, which claims to be the most widely deployed cloudware around, in part a factor of running both Amazon and Rackspace, is buying six-year-old VMLogix and its LabManager and StageManager products, old hypervisor-agnostic friends that automate virtualization management in private and public clouds. The widgetry will turn up in Citrix’ OpenCloud infrastructure platform, its tarted-up Xen stack, to help it take on VMware management. Terms were not disclosed. Citrix said it would add lifecycle automation so virtual workloads can migrate between production stages with a single mouse click.

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Verizon, which is really into this cloud business – against the day when phones as we know them evaporate into the ether – and so means to have clouds for everybody eventually, has added to its very high-end, mission-critical, totally handheld public cloud of last year. It’s taken VMware’s Datacenter widgetry and built a somewhat lower-end hybrid cloud on its own far-flung global IP network that’s gonna be cheaper than its initial offering and is more for enterprise folks that are already VMware-virtualized internally and can manage the virtual machines themselves, folks who want to export and import images between their private cloud and Verizon’s public cloud less dynamically than with vMotion.

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OpenERP - The Belgium based open source ERP provider recently taking mind of its developments in India has announced for a community involvement which would help them create a low cost solution for the Indian Market. The open source market in India has recently taken a giant leap and the company looks forward to cash-in on this opportunity through localized implementations. The significant growth of the partner network and the requests from various parts of the sub-continental country can be seen as the pre-cursor of this business decision. OpenERP already has its development and support center based in Ahmedabad, India contributing to its revisions over the period of time.

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Cloud Cruiser, Inc, a cloud computing startup, announced that Wavepoint Ventures has led the company's first round of financing. "We are very pleased to have Wavepoint Ventures join with a group of experienced angel investors to fund the Series A financing for Cloud Cruiser," stated Dave Zabrowski, Founder and CEO of Cloud Cruiser. "While our company is currently in stealth mode, we will be making product announcements in the future."

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"To understand the need for the Open vSwitch, you have to realize that while CPU virtualization, including hardware support, has evolved rapidly over the last decade, network virtualization has lagged behind pretty badly." This statement, and many more besides, occurs in a blog published today by Simon Crosby, CTO of the Datacenter and Cloud Division at Citrix. "The dynamism that virtualization enables is the enemy of today's locked down enterprise networks," Crosby adds.

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In a relatively rare headhunting raid, AMD has hired Donald Newell, one of Intel’s own, to run its server chip roadmap and platform design programs as CTO of its server unit. Newell was previously senior principle engineer heading the System-on-Chip (SoC) and datacenter networking architecture groups at Intel Labs. At Intel for 16 years, he holds more than 20 patents.

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I was 25-26 years old when I worked at IBM. Steve was not much older. IBM, like many companies, plots a career path for every new employee it hires. It moves them from job to job grooming them from their first day on the job until their retirement. Whenever I took an elevator with Mills, people would whisper behind his back that he would one day be CEO of IBM. That was the rumor that followed Mills everywhere he went. Well, we heard the same rumor about Mike Armstrong, another big IBM name at 44 South Broadway. Armstrong was Steve's boss then but that next job didn't come through for him after successfully running IBM Europe. So he left and became the CEO of AT&T for a while, but that's a different story.

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The OpenSolaris governing board fell on its collective sword Monday and resigned en masse after Oracle continued to ignore its ultimatum to appoint a liaison guy to work with it on the future of the open source project. The move was anticlimactic to say the least. Oracle last week leaked an internal e-mail into the wild effectively saying OpenSolaris is dead.

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OTRS came out with a flurry of news, so we asked OTRS General Manager Paul Salazar in Cupertino, CA, what OTRS is all about. Why is the OTRS helpdesk a game changer in customer service? Paul Salazar: OTRS brings ten years of experience to bear in the competitive Help Desk and IT Service Management marketplace. Over the past ten years, the OTRS platform has been deployed in over 80,000 organizations worldwide, and the OTRS Group has developed a range of services that optimize deployments and ensure reliable support. The OTRS platform is very versatile, with over 1000 configuration options, making possible unique configurations that precisely implement necessary processes for each user. OTRS is now available on the iPhone and future innovations will extend the reach of the product in terms of mobility, improved usability and ease-of-deployment.

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Oracle has apparently rolled back Solaris to its pre-open source days. The company hasn’t made an official announcement, and may never, but an internal e-mail ostensibly to its own remaining Solaris engineers outlining its position on OpenSolaris just happened to fall into the hands of OpenSolaris contributor Steven Stallion last Friday. He posted it under the headline “OpenSolaris is Dead.”

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Unable or unwilling to come up with an offer that betters the $2 billion acquisition bid that private equity house Elliott Management Corporation put on the table back in March, Novell cut its fiscal Q3 revenue guidance Monday and attributed the downgrade to “customer uncertainty” associated with its board’s “ongoing review of various alternatives.”

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In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, OpenStack Chief Technologist Jonathan Bryce will provide a detailed overview of the open source cloud platform that has shaken up the industry. He will discuss the technical architecture, use cases, and how developers, service providers and cloud consumers can get involved. The session will also cover the state of open cloud standards, including interoperability, portability and the acceleration of cloud technologies that is already being realized among the OpenStack community.

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Every Software Configuration Management tool is different in terms of functionality; however, they all have common threads of functionality that are consistent with all Software Configuration Management tools. Common activities include checking out, checking in, adding files, deleting files, obsoleting files and loading an initial baseline. The way these tasks are achieved is of course different from tool to tool but many of the SCM tools perform these basic activities. This article will focus on a product called Rational Application Developer and the integration with SCM AllFusion Harvest R12.0.2 using the CA SCM Eclipse plug-in.

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OTRS (www.otrs.com), a provider of open source Help Desk and ITIL-compatible IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, just launched the 3.0 beta of its help desk system, featuring a brand new Ajax-powered interface designed to dispatch help tickets 30 percent faster, under the most demanding usage scenarios. "With the power of our help desk growing by leaps and bounds, we needed to come up with a creative new way to deliver that power to the user, especially in demanding, high usage situations," said Manuel Hecht, Director of Research and Development. "The solution was to create a brand new user-centered design employing the latest Ajax, xHTML, CSS, and other technologies. In designing our new help desk, we brought the user's experiences and workflows front and center to drive our programming, rather than the other way around. The result is up to 30 percent quicker ticket turnaround under demanding high-usage scenarios, on top of enhanced features and accessibility."

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The relevance of Open Source Mentality in software development and applications is reviewed. Applying this mentality to science, technology, agriculture, etc. will speed up development in Africa. Africans and their friends will have to adapt to this type of thinking for growth.

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In case Oracle takes it into its head to abandon or shut down OpenSolaris, a bunch of disgruntled developers led by Nexenta Systems Inc. means to ensure the open source code survives and prospers under a breakaway project independent of Oracle called Illumos, whose rebel flag reads “Hope and Light Spring Anew.”

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Today's IT organizations face a dual challenge of "keeping the lights on" while providing "new services" at unprecedented rates with reduced investment support from the business. At the same time, the very business model of IT is changing – how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are delivered. One of the biggest barriers to business execution and innovation today is managing complexity. This barrier forces the largest IT investment spend to be focused on keeping lights on while containing infrastructure sprawl. IT's inability to focus a majority of its time and investment dollars on innovating and differentiating business through IT leads to missed expectations and disappointment within the business user community.

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