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Open Data Centre Alliance: Virtual machines inching to portability
While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).
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Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution
Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program.
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Oracle ports DTrace to Oracle Linux
Oracle has ported one of its most coveted Solaris tools to the Linux platform, a real-time debugging tool called DTrace, though the company has made it officially available only for its own Oracle Linux distribution.
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Red Hat contributes Hadoop plug-in for cloud Big Data projects
Red Hat is contributing its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the Apache Hadoop open community to help transform Red Hat Storage into a fully-supported, Hadoop-compatible file system for Big Data environments.
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Fedora, openSUSE ditch MySQL, in a major database shake-up
Two major open-source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead.
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Red Hat folds ManageIQ software into cloud control stack
Red Hat plans to fold the software it acquired last month in the ManageIQ purchase into its own CloudForms software as the company bulks up on tools for managing hybrid clouds.
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Red Hat RHEV gets storage savvy
Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEL) package, Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities.
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Red Hat now offering private PaaS with OpenShift
Red Hat is officially jumping into the cloud platform as a service (PaaS) market today.
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Fedora 18 finally reaches beta phase following delays
Fedora 18 has been released in beta after a number of delays for the Linux-based distribution.
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Red Hat to release enterprise-ready OpenStack package in early 2013
Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ahead of its full commercial release, expected in early 2013.
