HP Joins The Cloud, OpenStack Gains Strength Everyone is jumping on the cloud computing wagon now, and smartly so. Lucky us. Choice is always a great things for consumers. So who else is in the market who we should probably take notice of? Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard has always been a big fish in it’s industry. Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman has taken over from former CEO Mark Hurd and is moving Hewlett-Packard closer to the cloud. Hewlett-Packard has not been having a good time of it lately. Whitman has let 27,000 people go and their shares are down by 25 per
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5 Ways Cloud Computing Is Like Open Source This Looks Familiar When cloud computing was in its very early stages there were very mixed views as to what it would bring to the future of the IT industry. The industry was divided between the proponents of the positive and negative outcomes of cloud computing. This reaction was very much the same when open source was first introduced. During the early 2000’s, during the great open source debate, many IT professionals put down open source in favor of proprietary software saying that something which does not undergo the rigorous testing and
Cloud Computing Turns Your Projects Into Open Source Experiments If you look around the world of software and computer platforms these days, you will notice that many of the most successful computer applications were actually built by a large number of people. Anyone who wants to bring this kind of success to their own business should look into the world of cloud computing. By helping everyone communicate in the cloud, you actually make it easier to make quick changes to projects and improve on some ideas that are already being kicked around. Although the open-source philosophy is already popular around
Red Hat to Present Middleware Virtual Event and Press Conference on June 20 RALEIGH, N.C. June 13, 2012 Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world¹s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that executives from the company’s middleware business unit will host a virtual event and press conference webcast at 11 a.m. ET on June 20, 2012. For attendees located in Europe, the Middle East, Africa or Asia, a second virtual event and live press conference will be held at 10:00 a.m. CEST on Thursday, June 21, 2012. To join the virtual event and press conference webcast, or to watch the replay, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/virtual/. Questions can be submitted directly via the webcast platform, sent to press@redhat.com or submitted
The Linux Foundation Announces 2012 Linux Training Scholarship Program With Demand for Linux Skills Reaching an All-Time High, Linux Foundation Invests in Today’s Most Promising Talent and Adds Enterprise-Specific Training Courses SAN FRANCISCO, CA– The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its 2012 Linux Training Scholarship Program. It is also today announcing a new Enterprise Linux Training program aimed at preparing the next generation of enterprise architects. Dice.com reported this year that Linux job postings on the site have reached an all-time high, further illustrating the soaring demand for Linux-related talent. The 2012 Linux Jobs
Cloudy Apps: New Challenges And Complexities New technologies often simplify some aspect of life, an aspect which was previously painful. But then, as soon as it is adopted, a technology presents new challenges and new complexities. With cloud computing, you can get a new machine in minutes—less than a minute, in fact, with some of the leading systems. Alternatively, you can provision a new virtual datacenter with secure VLAN and as much storage and “core-age” as you need. Once this is done, the problem of manually sourcing an environment for your application goes away, as it becomes increasingly easy to
