<b>CIO:</b> "A new open source project, dubbed Opendedup, has appeared with the goal of creating a deduplication-based file system for Linux called SDFS."
HP has become the market leader in bladed computers and plans to continue to push hard as virtualization takes off. It also has plans for 3Com in all of this.
<b>OMG Ubuntu:</b> "In this post I'm going to list 16 things that I think could be improved in Lucid. I'm going to try my best to address the issues in detail and offer solutions. Of course, all of this is also a matter of opinion too. The object of this post is to make you think about ways we could improve each one."
Cathy Malmrose, the CEO of ZaReason, wishes customers would call sooner when they have problems, instead of waiting until they're completely frustrated. Why don't they?
<b>Tech Republic:</b> "A few weeks ago I had the distinct displeasure of waking up to a series of emails indicating that a series of RAID arrays on a remote system had degraded. The remote system was still running, but one of the hard drives was pretty much dead."
<b>Ksplice:</b> "We think that it’s important for developers and system administrators to be more knowledgeable about the attacks that black hats regularly use to take control of systems, and so, today, we’re going to start from where we left off and go all the way to a working exploit for a NULL pointer dereference in a toy kernel module."
<b>Groklaw:</b> "Here's something interesting, a Santa Cruz 8K from October 26, 1998, which consists mostly of two press releases announcing the IBM-SCO joint partnership to do Project Monterey. Guess who would be providing the bulk of the high-end enterprise capabilities and contributing them to UnixWare? Hint: Not SCO"
<b>PACKT Publishing: </b>"Multi Master Replication Manager for MySQL ("MMM") is a set of open source Perl scripts designed to automate the process of creating and automatically managing the "Active / Passive Master" high availability replication."
Oracle talks up plans for MySQL expanding the levels of service it can offer customers, rolls out beta version of MySQL 5.5 and kills Project Falcon, opting for InnoDB for database search.
Oracle talks up plans for MySQL expanding the levels of service it can offer customers, rolls out beta version of MySQL 5.5 and kills Project Falcon, opting for InnoDB for database search.
Linux vendor Red Hat will report its fiscal 2010 numbers today. Virtualization, cloud services, middleware, a big win on the Tokyo Stock Exchange-- is Red Hat's future as rosy as it appears?