Topic: Red hat linux

15 April 2008

Linux-on-Dell sales "encouraging" says company

By Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld (US)

Almost a year after it started selling laptops and desktop PCs pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux, Dell is to expand its fledgling program to new models and markets. Read more...

02 July 2007

HP blows up data centre

By Chris Mellor

Our movie reviewer writes: HP has turned disaster flic maker and put out a Disaster-proof Data Centre video. This environmentally very unfriendly destruction of a data centre appears to show HM committing double piscecide, with two goldfish, named Smoky and Flame, blown to smithereens. Read more...

14 May 2007

Red Hat client strategy adds virtualisation twist

By By John Fontana, Network World

Red Hat's new desktop strategy includes versions of Linux for emerging markets, enterprise customers and inexpensive laptops, plus virtualisation to support desktop security and management. Read more...

22 June 2007

Will 2008 be the year of the open-source desktop?

By Halamka John, Computerworld

When the open-source desktop becomes a more widely deployed end-user operating system, it becomes a product and not a project. Read more...

24 August 2005

Shooting the breeze with Breece Hill

By Chris Mellor

How does a tape storage component manufacturer view the world? How does its view differ from a an end-user product supplier? This interview with Breece Hill's CEO sheds light on the differences. Read more...

23 March 2007

Adaptive Infrastructure with a Twist

By Scalent Systems

Not many products truly deliver what they promise. Scalent V/OE, (Virtual Operating Environment) 2.0, however, comes as close to keeping its pledge as anything I?ve seen. Scalent is attempting ? and succeeding ? at reaching the pinnacle of data center management: a truly adaptive infrastructure. Read more...

23 August 2007

AirTight SpectraGuard, wireless LAN security

By David Cartwright, Techworld

• List price: $11,000
• Pros: Excellent GUI
  Excellent online help
  Clever way of discovering and categorising APs
  Very clever way of dealing with potential intrusions
• Cons: Needless insistence on JRE 1.4.2 (but you can just ignore that)
  If you’re feeling malicious, you can “secure” your neighbours’ networks as well Read more...

28 December 2005

Network management frameworks

By Barry Nance, Network World

How we tested three lightweight NMS frameworks, and which one came out as the winner. Read more...

24 September 2007

Linux and open source software pay off for PayPal

By Phil Hochmuth, Network World

When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company's data centre surprised him. "Wait a minute," he recalls saying, "they run a payment system on Linux?" Read more...