Demand for Linux Professionals is Growing

Career website Dice.com is out with its annual Linux Jobs market report and once again demand is growing. The report is sponsored by the Linux Foundation, which does of course have its own particular bias when it comes to Linux, though there are still a few surprises in it. “Based on our work with the…

HP Converged Cloud Services Fans OpenStack’s Spark

In a big vote of confidence for OpenStack, HP today announced HP Converged Cloud, a suite of public and hybrid cloud services that incorporate the open source cloud platform. Amid growing industry support OpenStack, Citrix raised eyebrows recently when it announced that it was ditching its OpenStack-based Project Olympus project for its own open source…

Red Hat Commercializes deltaCloud, Eyes a More Open Cloud

Open source vendor Red Hat is betting on a year-old open source effort that it hopes will further open up the Cloud. Red Hat’s deltaCloud project http://deltacloud.org/ started last year as a way of enabling and managing a heterogeneous Cloud virtualized infrastructure. Now, deltaCloud is on a path to commercialization as part of a set…

You Can’t Control Linux

10 years ago, IBM had a single mission for Linux: Make it better. Now in 2010, IBM (NYSE:IBM) has a decade of experience in working to do just that, and is sharing its knowledge about how companies and developers can better participate in the Linux community. Speaking in a keynote session at the Linux Foundation’s…

Working with Open Source Software Vendors

IBM executive Bob Sutor had a message for attendees at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco last week: “Ask the hard questions.” Sutor, despite himself being an open source software enthusiast (his full title is vice president of Open Source and Linux in IBM’s Software group) said, compared to traditional software vendors,…

Open Source Cloud Storage Billows

To get seven copies of a particular piece of content distributed online, typically it has required a network to have seven physical copies of the data. But what if you could have seven copies available while having less than two copies’ worth of data on the network? That’s been the promise of open source storage…

How to Avoid Common SOA Pitfalls

In a perfect world, the implementation of a service oriented architecture (SOA) in your organization will help better align IT services with those day-to-day business processes in which your colleagues, customers, and partners engage. Yet, in order to reap the promise of SOA, the prudent CIO must wrangle both organizational and technology oriented challenges—keeping an…

Staples Adds IT Services for SMBs

Staples, the world’s biggest office products supplier, is jumping into the IT sourcing market offering up security, on-site tech and data back-up services for small-to medium-sized (SMB) businesses. The move puts the $27 billion retailer shoulder to shoulderwith tech titans EMC (NYSE: EMC), HP and IBM that are battling to increase SMB market share given…

5 Great Ways To Make Sure Your Staff Hates Your Meeting

Meetingitis: Having so many meetings that you can’t get your work done. –The Urban dictionary It’s no secret, the information age is about meetings. Meetings to plan next week’s activities, meetings to review last week’s activities, meetings to review the previous meeting and plan the next one. It is unending! Meetings have a real cost,…

Choosing a Linux Distribution for Your Business

If you’re confused about the different flavors of Vista in the store, then the varieties of Linux available will leave you gasping like a fish on a dock. Distrowatch, a site which tracks Linux’s different versions (or distributions, as they are called in the community), has well over four hundred listings. Faced with so many…