Red Hat News Desk

Unlock the Value of the Cloud

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:00 EST

Red Hat technology powers the world’s largest and most successful clouds. We have seen firsthand how to make cloud work for businesses and government organizations, both large and small. Companies are looking to cloud computing as a way to fundamentally change the economics of information technology and the agility of their enterprise. In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Vijay Sarathy, Director of the Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat, discussed how Red Hat helps transform IT service delivery, build production infrastructure and applications in the cloud where new levels of openness, interoperability and flexibility can be realized.

CiRBA Announces Control Console for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:00:00 EST

CiRBA on Wednesday announced support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 in its latest release of CiRBA Version 7.0. CiRBA’s new Control Console provides IT organizations with control over risk and efficiency in virtual and cloud infrastructure. The console provides a visualization revealing in a single view where attention is required at the VM, host, and cluster level and explicit instructions on what to do in order to eliminate risk and increase efficiency. “CiRBA and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provide a powerful solution for enabling organizations to gain control over virtual infrastructure while significantly reducing its cost,” said Chuck Tatham, SVP, Operations and Business Development at CiRBA. “CiRBA’s analytics help organizations place workloads and allocate resources in order to safely maximize efficiency and VM density. Organizations benefiting from the efficiency gains provided by CiRBA analytics along with the performance and cost advantages of leveraging Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-based infrastructure have opportunities to achieve substantial savings on infrastructure over VMware-based alternatives.”

Typemock Joins Red Hat Innovate in Israel

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:14:36 EST

Typemock, a provider and pioneer of unit testing solutions, has announced it has been selected to participate in Red Hat Innovate, a new initiative launched by Red Hat in Israel. The initiative is designed to assist software development start-up companies based in Israel to leverage the power of open source communities. Red Hat Innovate offers numerous benefits, including joint marketing activities and access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and JBoss Enterprise Middleware for development.

Extend Beyond Virtualization to the Cloud

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST

If your IT organization is like most, you probably have some level of virtualization in place today that you're thinking about moving to the cloud. How should you get started? This webinar discusses the benefits of moving beyond virtualization to gain the full benefits of cloud computing—and how to avoid missteps along the way. We'll explore: How the cloud builds on, but moves beyond, virtualization. The shift to IT-as-a-Service that underpins cloud computing. Organizational, governance, and technology best practices for cloud adoption. Virtualization and cloud computing are sometimes discussed interchangeably. But gaining the full benefits of cloud computing requires approaches and processes that often aren't in place where ad hoc virtualization is the norm. Join us and learn how to make a smooth transition.

Making IT Agile Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:15:00 EST

As you plan your cloud strategy, you need to transition traditional IT functions into a more integrated and cross-functional environment. You need a wide range of key technologies to build clouds, while preserving flexibility and future growth. An open source development model brings to customers more development resources and support than any single vendor can. The operating system along with virtualization does matter as you plan your on-ramp to the cloud. In this webinar, Gordon Haff and Judith Hurwitz discuss: The role of Linux in the cloud. How common certified environments enhance flexibility. How virtualization for multitenancy creates new demands. How a consistent operating environment can provide security, administration, and control.

Becoming Cloud Ready

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:00:00 EST

Cloud computing is a significant evolution. It’s changing the way we think about how we deliver our computational infrastructure to end users. Determining which strategy is right for your organization depends on your key business goals, requirements, and IT capabilities. This webinar discusses key considerations that enterprise and government organizations need to take today to assess readiness for cloud computing, including: Identifying the business drivers behind cloud computing initiatives. Understanding your organizational readiness for cloud computing. Establishing an open standards-based infrastructure. Developing a comprehensive roadmap for making cloud a reality for your enterprise: Building the business and technical case for cloud. Developing a strategy around open source standards, products, and tools that aligns with your business goals. Assessing organizational and infrastructure readiness. Deploying a prototype cloud infrastructure. Developing an actionable roadmap for enterprise implementation.

Extending IT Governance

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:00:00 EST

Public cloud resources can augment in-house IT in many useful ways. In fact, they can be so useful and easy to consume that we see public clouds widely used in organizations without going through the usual IT processes and procedures – indeed, that’s often sort of the point. Ad hoc cloud adoption can make sense. However, when production applications or critical data is involved, it’s important to extend on-premise s governance to these public or hybrid resources. IT shouldn’t try to stop public clouds – not that they likely could even if they wanted to. But by working with their users, IT can make an organization’s use of public and hybrid clouds a useful complement to in-house IT rather than a renegade operation that increases an organization’s risks and costs.

From Virtualization to Private Cloud: Cut Through the Cloud Clutter

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST

With so many cloud options available, it’s difficult to determine what strategy, architecture, and specific solutions are best for your enterprise. This white paper, the first in a series of four, offers practical advice for cutting through the clutter and getting started with a private or hybrid cloud strategy that successfully builds on your current data center. Part of the work involves planning. The remaining effort is hands-on. Key activities highlighted in this first paper include: Setting cloud goals based on business objectives. Adopting a portfolio view of your infrastructure. Targeting workloads for private or hybrid cloud. Evaluating cloud computing models. Deploying a proof of concept (POC) based on a standard architecture.

Why Build a Private Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud?

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST

Cloud computing is the convergence of a variety of trends, including network-centric application access, the consumerization of IT, greatly increased scale and complexity, open source, and virtualization. Many organizations are adopting private clouds because they want to gain the operational benefits of cloud computing while retaining maximum control over their IT infrastructure. Virtualization is typically the foundation for and the path to cloud, but by itself can result in virtual machine sprawl and new silos. An infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, such as Red Hat CloudForms, can be used to operationalize governance and automation of an IT infrastructure, but it’s important to establish the associated policies and processes up-front.

Give Your App the Speed It Needs in the Cloud at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:00:00 EDT

Whether you have one or a million visitors accessing your web app, they are all going to demand a great user experience regardless of what it takes for you to deliver it. This invariably means quick page loads and fast response times every single time. When things go south, you just throw more hardware at the problem and increase your caches and buffers, right? Wrong. Toss in an infrastructure that resides on the cloud and now you’ve got a really interesting problem on your hands. In their session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, David Blado, a PaaS Evangelist on the OpenShift team at Red Hat, and Omri Iluz, Director of Strategic Technology Alliances at Cotendo, will leave the marketecure slides at the door. This is a hands-on technical session in which they’ll deploy an application to the cloud, turn up the heat and, by leveraging the right mix of elasticity and site acceleration, show you how to deliver the experience your users have come to expect.

Desktop Virtualization: Desktop as a Service: VMware vs Redhat

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:45:00 EDT

I always get excited about desktop virtualization as this innovation has really transformed a normal desktop way of management to a fully virtualized way of management. With desktop virtualization, you can solve multiple issues related to manageability of current decentralized environment by virtualizing desktop operating systems, applications and user data, decoupling these components from their underlying hardware. IT administrators can then centrally manage and provision these desktop components from the datacenter creating a rapidly deployable private "desktop cloud" infrastructure.

Red Hat Tackles Big Data by Acquiring Open Source Storage Provider

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Red Hat, Inc. has announced that it will be acquiring Gluster, Inc., a provider of open source storage solutions aimed at unstructured data management for approximately $136 million. With the acquired scale out storage technology, Red Hat seeks to harness the onslaught of big data that is deployed in both private and public cloud environments. Sunnyvale, California based Gluster has developed GlusterFS, a software-only, scale-out storage system that allows enterprises to combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally-managed storage pool. The company which was founded in 2005 already has clients such as Pandora, Box.net and Samsung who are using its storage solutions for managing large volumes of data. Red Hat has said that it plans on incorporating Gluster's products into its own and offering them using a subscription model and that it is committed to the Gluster community's ongoing open development.

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Get the Code in the Cloud & Your PaaS Over Here

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:42:00 EDT

Whether you're a seasoned Java developer looking to start hacking on EE6 or you just wrote your first line of Ruby yesterday, the cloud is turning out to be the perfect environment for developing applications in just about any modern language or framework. There are plenty of clouds and platform- as-a-services to choose from, but where to start? In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, David Blado, PaaS Evangelist on the OpenShift team at Red Hat, will show you how to deploy an application written in the language of your choice – Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with the framework of your choice – EE6, CDI, Seam, Spring, Zend, Cake, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes. And without having to rewrite your app to get it to work the way the cloud provider thinks your app should work.

Unlock the Value of the Cloud at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Red Hat technology powers the world’s largest and most successful clouds. We have seen firsthand how to make cloud work for businesses and government organizations, both large and small. Companies are looking to cloud computing as a way to fundamentally change the economics of information technology and the agility of their enterprise. In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Vijay Sarathy, Director of Product Management for the Red Hat Cloud, will discuss how Red Hat helps transform IT service delivery and builds production infrastructure and applications in the cloud where new levels of openness, interoperability and flexibility can be realized.

Red Hat’s Buying Gluster & Moving into Storage

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:45:00 EDT

Red Hat is buying Gluster. It’s spending $136 million cash money to get the six-year-old open source start-up’s GlusterFS, a software-only, scale-out storage system that will give Red Hat entry into the world of Big Data in the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid. Red Hat claims the acquisition, which should close this month, will let it “define a new baseline” for how enterprise IT manages the explosion of unstructured data and the total addressable Big Data market is currently supposed to be worth $4 billion. GlusterFS lets enterprises combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally managed, globally accessible storage pool.

KVM Consortium Apparently Thriving

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:00:00 EDT

More than 200 technology companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), the consortium committed to fostering the adoption of Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), in the three months since it was launched. Red Hat says more than 50% of them are focused on cloud computing, and virtualization is a key component of every cloud. OVA membership is also growing significantly among companies in new global regions, including Asia-Pacific and Latin America, reportedly for the minimum investment involved. At its launch in May OVA had seven founders: BMC, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and SUSE. The consortium was at 65 members in June and now it’s got another 134 new members for a total of 206.

Red Hat Beats Its Own Forecast

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Despite a rotten economy, Red Hat delivered a healthy 28% revenue hike when in reported its second fiscal quarter Wednesday and an even better 53% boost in earnings. Total revenues came in at $281.3 million against a consensus of $271.2 million and its own predictions of seeing $270 million-$272 million. It put 29 cents a share on the table when the Street was figuring 25 cents. That kinda income translates into $40 million compared to $23.7 million a year ago. The company said deferred revenue stood at $813 million, up 25% year-over-year. Subscription revenue in the quarter was worth $238.3 million, up 28%. The company attributed its above-guidance performance to execution and demand and pointed out that revenue growth has been accelerating for the last four quarters. It figures it’ll close its fiscal year at the end of February as the “first billion-dollar open source software vendor.” Guess it’s ignoring MySQL. Red Hat’s got a comfortable $1.3 billion in the bank.

Red Hat Pushes into All-Cloud Management

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:30:00 EDT

Red Hat is building a policy-based cloud manager meant to spin up, deploy and, well, manage multiple Linux and Windows virtual images, their applications and their necessaries across clouds. It’s called Aeolus presumably after the Greek ruler of the winds. It’s advertised as “freeing users from cloud lock-in by making the choice of cloud provider – private, public, or hybrid – a simple launch-time option.” It’s theoretically supposed to pick the best solution, but it’s also part of Red Hat’s beta IaaS widgetry, CloudForms. Red Hat says it wants Aeolus to be an open source project, but you know how those things go, the butcher never quite gets his thumb off the scale.

Red Hat Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2011 Silicon Valley

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7–10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

Build a Private PaaS with Red Hat CloudForms & JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:00:00 EDT

Want to empower your developers, testers, and administrators for self-serve but struggle with how to retain centralized management control of your organizations applications? Learn how your organization can deliver self-service application provisioning, flexible and standardized application deployments, and integrated management, without losing control or radically change existing management and development processes.

Red Hat CloudForms IaaS: Build Clouds Without Limits

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:00:00 EDT

Is your IT operation looking to move your infrastructure beyond virtualization to the cloud? You need a secure IaaS solution that delivers full resource management and self-service consumption of applications. Red Hat CloudForms is IaaS that breaks down silos of capacity to eliminate complexity with high-performance scheduling and messaging, a robust security framework, and much more. Learn how CloudForms fully delivers on your requirements to increase business agility, efficiency, innovation, and simplified IT management.

Extending IT Governance

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:30:00 EDT

When people talk about security or risks in the cloud, they are usually talking about governance. But cloud governance extends beyond security and into legal and regulatory procedures, transparency, service levels, indemnification and other issues. Do you have an effective cloud governance plan? This whitepaper guides you through best practices for ensuring your applications and data can safely move between clouds – whether they are private, public or hybrid.

Cloud Computing: The Need for Portability and Interoperability

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EDT

IT has never completely solved the portability problem within the four walls of the enterprise datacenter. And now that cloud computing has arrived as a new option for IT, the evolving cloud computing ecosystem of ISVs, cloud providers, and customers must think about how improved portability can and will be supported in this new era. The open source model, which supports collaborative development, provides a mechanism for improving the portability and interoperability aspects of cloud computing. An IDC executive report examines the future of cloud computing, focusing on design goals that support portability of applications and data, which will certainly avoid expensive and time-consuming fixes.

Cloud Governance: Private to Hybrid Clouds with Consistency & Portability

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:45:00 EDT

How can your organization use public clouds so they're a useful complement to in-house IT rather than a renegade operation increasing risks and costs? Organizations around the world are benefiting from public clouds. But, when production applications or critical data is involved, it's important to extend on-premise governance to your public or hybrid cloud resources. Effective cloud governance is possible. Join us for this webinar and learn: Key governance risks affecting both private and public clouds such as data leakage/breaches/loss, legal and regulatory, service delivery or failure, transparency and visibility, and the ability to move applications and data in-house or to a different external provider. Ways to mitigate these risks Governance best practices that are part of a savvy cloud strategy Approaches Red Hat is taking to help customers implement effective cloud governance

Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS Supports JEE6

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:00:00 EDT

Red Hat said Wednesday that its three-month-old OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), currently a free developer preview that runs on Amazon EC2, now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6, because it’s been integrated with Red Hat’s open source JBoss Application Server 7. That makes OpenShift, akin to Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and VMware Cloud Foundry, the first PaaS to deliver JEE 6, a particular Red Hat pet it touts as one of the biggest advances in Java in over 10 years. The widgetry should simplify how application developers build and deploy Java in the cloud. While they code, OpenShift is supposed to fuss with the stack setup, maintenance and operational concerns.

Red Hat Wheels Out MRG 2.0

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:00:00 EDT

Red Hat Thursday delivered Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0, an upgrade of its Messaging, Realtime and Grid widgetry, which is supposed to include advances in performance, scalability and management, and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Red Hat says it delivers high-speed/low latency, open standard application messaging; a deterministic low-latency real-time kernel; and a high-performance computing grid scheduler for distributed workloads and cloud computing. MRG is supposed to be important to Red Hat’s cloud strategy and its month-old OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

KVM-Pumping Alliance Formed

Mon, 23 May 2011 08:45:00 EDT

There is now such a thing as the Open Virtualization Alliance, formed by Red Hat, IBM, Intel, HP, SUSE, Eucalyptus and BMC, to push the adoption of KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine embedded in the Linux kernel that Red Hat’s basing its virtualization on. The consortium is supposed to fan interoperability, accelerate the expansion of an ecosystem of third-party solutions around KVM and retell happy end-user stories. It’s also supposed to provide education, best practices and technical advice.

Red Hat Puts Fedoras on IaaS & PaaS

Mon, 09 May 2011 08:00:00 EDT

Red Hat took a flying leap Wednesday and landed with both feet on the cloud where it hopes to knock VMware, which it perceives as its biggest enemy, for a loop. It announced that it’s going into both the Infrastructure-as-a-Service and the Platform-as-a-Service business, pushing past its year-old first-generation Cloud Foundations widgetry. It calls the beta IaaS effort CloudForms and the not-yet-ready-for-prime-time PaaS solution OpenShift. CloudForms is described as a collection of upwards of 60 open source projects that can be used to automate the creation of private and hybrid clouds and – thanks to built-in ALM – manage multi-tier applications across multiple clouds, virtualization platforms and heterogeneous physical servers because the widgetry exploits Red Hat’s Deltacloud APIs. It supports Amazon, IBM and NTT Communications clouds along with Red Hat and VMware virtualization.

Red Hat Traffics with Troll – Again

Mon, 09 May 2011 07:00:00 EDT

Acacia Research, possibly one of the Top 10 trolls, or at least a Top 10 wannabe, said Friday that Red Hat had settled up with its Site Update Solutions LLC subsidiary and resolved the patent infringement litigation Site Update started in the federal court down in the Eastern District of Texas. The settlement is “confidential.” Patent watcher Florian Mueller is pretty confident Red Hat paid Acacia off. If true, it’s the second time in six months Red Hat has written Acacia a check, moving Mueller to crack that Acacia should start a “frequent licensee” program, “pay for 10 patents get a license to the 11th for free.” The patent at issue wasn’t Linux-related and described a “process for maintaining ongoing registration for pages on a given search engine.”

Red Hat Offers Early Access to Its PaaS Runtime Engine

Mon, 09 May 2011 06:45:00 EDT

Red Hat is opening early access to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, which won’t be generally available until the beginning of next year. The application server is the runtime engine for the company’s Platform-as-a-Service widgetry. It’s also supposed to tickle the adoption of Java EE 6, which Red Hat suggests is now lighter weight, modular and productive than Java used to be. Red Hat’s middleware boss Craig Muzilla called Application Platform 6 a reflection of “our vision of the future of Java application platforms for both traditional and cloud-based environments.”

Red Hat Changes the Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing Market

Thu, 05 May 2011 21:00:00 EDT

Red Hat on Thursday introduced Red Hat CloudForms, a product for creating and managing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private and hybrid clouds. CloudForms redefines the IaaS cloud market by incorporating both comprehensive application lifecycle management and the ability to create integrated clouds from a broad range of computing resources with unique portability across physical, virtual and cloud computing resources. CloudForms leverages Red Hat’s technology and expertise of more than a decade powering the mission-critical infrastructure and applications for some of the world’s most demanding organizations.

Red Hat and IBM Spearhead Open Source Virtualization for the Enterprise

Thu, 05 May 2011 11:45:00 EDT

Red Hat, Inc. and IBM have announced that they have joined hands to expand the open source KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) ecosystem through joint solutions targeting the enterprise. They plan on pooling their resources together to develop cloud management interfaces and virtualization management APIs which will address cloud, datacenter automation, virtual storage and networking, virtualization security and virtual appliance management. They also intend to cultivate a community of users among third party virtualization vendors. The APIs will be used in their respective management products, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, IBM Director and Tivoli software.

Would-Be Novell Patent Buyers Refile with Regulators

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:15:00 EDT

The CPTN quartet – Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC – may have made some progress persuading American trustbusters to let them buy that flock of Novell patents – that Red Hat and the open source contingent don’t want them to get – because CPTN refiled Wednesday with the Bundeskartellamt seeking the German authority’s go-ahead with its $450 million patent purchase and, as we discovered earlier, one approval kinda depends on the other. But last we heard the Justice Department had until April 12 to make up its mind whether to sanction the sale or not.

Patent Board Says Red Hat’s Portfolio Is Valuable

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EDT

Who knew? Turns out that Red Hat, which loathes patents – since they’re inconvenient to its business model – and would love to stop Microsoft from getting its hands on Novell’s patents, has the 50th strongest patent portfolio in the IT industry. At least the Patent Board, which tracks the US and European portfolios of the top 2,700 high-tech firms and regularly publishes a Patent Scorecard, thinks so. Red Hat, which now has 137 US patents, describes its interests as purely defensive “to deter those not interested in the success of open source software from using their patents to attack Red Hat and the open source community.”

Acronis and Red Hat Expand Partnership

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:00:00 EDT

Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, and Acronis, a provider of backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, on Monday announced that Acronis' flagship virtualization product has been certified on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. With their expanded partnership, Acronis, has certified its Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This certification enables organizations to simplify their physical-to-virtual server consolidation efforts to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. In addition, the solution, which is based on Acronis' advanced disk imaging technology, allows users to back up multiple virtual machines on one server host and supports migrations (P2V, V2V and V2P) that can be performed on demand or on a scheduled basis.

Red Hat Introduces JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:00:00 EST

We're beginning to see a real marketplace for open source-based integration and middleware, and in many ways the open source versions are advancing the value and variety of these services beyond where the commercial products can quickly tread. What's more, as cloud and SaaS services become more common, ways of integrating data and applications assets -- regardless or origins -- will need to keep pace. Standardization and inclusiveness of integration points and types may be much better served by a community approach, and open source licenses, than waiting for a commercial product upgrade, or costly custom integrations.

DOJ Could Scotch Novell Patent Sale: NY Post

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:15:00 EST

The New York Post claimed Wednesday to have a disinterested source “close to the situation” telling it that the Justice Department could scotch the $450 million sale of Novell’s patents to the Microsoft-led consortium that includes Apple, Oracle and EMC, a sale that’s integral to Novell’s $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate. Of course it’s hard to imagine anybody “close to the situation” who doesn’t have a dog in the race – and the paper is still saying it’s 882 patents when Novell has already corrected that initial number downward to 861 in an SEC filing – but let’s give the devil his due. Anytime the DOJ asks for seconds on information, it can spell trouble.

VMware Pushes Zimbra 7 Out

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:15:00 EST

VMware has launched the Zimbra 7 rev of its bought-off-Yahoo e-mail and collaboration platform, whose off-line Desktop and Appliance pieces are still in beta. Zimbra’s former Collaboration Suite is now the Zimbra Collaboration Server 7. There are supposed to be new data-sharing capabilities, expanded calendaring and search functionality, and upgraded management features. It claims 66 million paid mailboxes and 200,000 companies using it either internally or as a service. The stuff works on Ubuntu, Red Hat and SUSE as well as Mac and Windows and is positioned against Google Apps and Lotus Live as well as Exchange, Notes and Groupwise.

Red Hat Partners with Fujitsu Extending to the Cloud

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:30:00 EST

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, on Wednesday announced an expanded partnership with Fujitsu that extends the technology leaders' collaboration to the cloud. Building on the companies' long-term partnership, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available as a guest operating system on Fujitsu's "On-Demand Virtual System Service" public cloud. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an effective platform for running applications in the cloud with its broad base of developers and extensive ecosystem of certified applications that allow for flexibility, portability and scalability. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fujitsu's enterprise-ready "On-Demand Virtual System Service" offers customers a powerful infrastructure for the cloud with proven Red Hat technologies and enterprise-class support from Fujitsu, backed by Red Hat.

DOJ Look at Patent Deal Holds Up Novell Acquisition

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:00:00 EST

Evidently the appeal by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to the Justice Department to look closer at Novell’s deal to sell its patents to the CPTN brotherhood of Microsoft-Apple-Oracle-EMC as part of its $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate has worked. Both Novell and CPTN Holdings got a second request for information from the DOJ on Wednesday just as its Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) waiting period was about to expire, according to a new SEC filing. The requests push the HSR antitrust review out 30 days past their coughing up whatever information the regulators are looking for unless they get an early dispensation. That explains why Novell stock, which is supposed to go to Attachmate for $6.10-a-share cash, was closed at $5.97 on Thursday after dipping down to $5.92.