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Dawn provides consulting services to help companies engage with online communities and has expertise in strategic planning, management, social media, blogging, rss, community building, and open source. She is the author of the Book, Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy. Dawn regularly blogs on Fast Wonder Blog and GigaOM's WebWorkerDaily. For more information, visit http://fastwonderblog.com Disclaimer: I am not an Intel employee. I do provide consulting services to Intel, and blogging is one part of my consulting engagement; however, these opinions are my own and the statements I make here do not represent Intel's position on any issue. |
Novell’s Virtualization and Hypervisor Strategy
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 8:00 am
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After the recent joint announcement between Novell and Citrix for collaboration on enterprise-class virtualization and cloud computing, Michael Applebaum took some time to discuss Novell’s virtualization and hypervisor strategy on the Novell blogs. For the most part, Novell's virtualization strategy hasn't really changed. According to Michael, "Novell is pursuing a heterogeneous, multi-platform hypervisor and guest [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: Michael Applebaum, novell, Virtualization
Pete Kronowitt on Moblin Transitions at Scale 8x
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on March 3, 2010 at 8:00 am
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If you missed the recent Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), you missed hearing about how Intel killed Moblin in favor of MeeGo from Pete Kronowitt. The Bitsource did a great interview of Pete after his presentation, and here are a few short quotes from the interview with Ryan Compton. "MeeGo is a new platform designed [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: meego, moblin, Open Source, pete kronowitt, scale, scale 8x
The Open Source Way
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 25, 2010 at 8:00 am
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The Open Source Way is a wiki and an emerging book about open source and other communities. It is open for community contributions if you want to add to it's body of knowledge for "how to and how not to engage with community over projects such as software, content, marketing, art, infrastructure, standards, and so [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Community, fail, online communities, Open Source
Reactions to MeeGo
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 18, 2010 at 1:59 pm
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If you missed the recent announcements, Intel and Nokia agreed to merge the Moblin and Maemo projects to create MeeGo, an open source, Linux platform for netbooks/entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones. Like Moblin, MeeGo will fall under the Linux Foundation, which will provide a neutral [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: forrester, Intel, linux foundation, maemo, meego, moblin, nokia, the 451 gr, the linux foundation
Linux Jobs Are Hot
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 18, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Not only are Linux jobs glamorous and fun, since you can impress your geeky friends with all kinds of cool command line wizardry, but Linux professionals are also in high demand, and Linux jobs can pay better than some other IT jobs. If you don't want to take my word for it, here is some [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: career, jobs, linux, linux.com, the linux foundation
LinuxCon Call for Papers
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 17, 2010 at 8:00 am
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about all of the various Linux Foundation conferences coming up in 2010 when they announced their event schedule for the year. Now they have announced the call for papers for LinuxCon, which is probably their most widely attended event, since it combines both business and technical content while being [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: conferences, Events, linux, linuxcon, the linux foundation
Open Source Cloud Matures: Eucalyptus and Terraccota Partnership
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 11, 2010 at 11:05 am
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Open source cloud computing vendor Eucalyptus and Terracotta, which is focused on high availability Java applications, recently announced a partnership to deliver an open source solution for high performance, scalable applications deployed in private clouds. This partnership includes tighter integration between their two products along with sales and marketing activities. According to Amit Pandey, CEO [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, eucalyptus, Open Source, terracotta
Linux and Commercial Software in the Cloud
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 9, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Hurwitz and Associates just published a new white paper (sponsored by IBM) about how Linux and commercial software are being combined for use in the Cloud (PDF link). I've done quite a few posts over the past few months on cloud computing and related topics, like virtualization, and this paper reaffirms much of what we've [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: cloud, ibm, Open Source
Apple iPad and Innovation in Open Source
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 9:25 am
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The recent Apple iPad announcement has been all over the news in the past week, and people are speculating about how certain features will be implemented and speculating about how the competition will respond. In general, "open alternatives will continue to serve as competition and counterbalance to closed technology and strategy," according to Jay Lyman, [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: 451 group, ipad, jay lyman, linux, moblin, novell, Open Source
Accenture's Take on the Benefits of Open Source Software
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Accenture recently released a report about accelerating the benefits of open source software, and here are a few quotes that I found particularly interesting: An Accenture study showed that in 2008, "77 percent of high-performance IT organizations are now piloting or committing to open source, compared to just 37 percent of overall global businesses." "Particularly [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: accenture, open source software
Open Source Makes an Impact in Haiti
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on February 2, 2010 at 8:00 am
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The devastating earthquake in Haiti has people coming together and offering help in the form of money, supplies, services, and much more. An organization called Crisis Commons is helping groups of geeks do what they do best: build technology solutions to help the relief efforts. CrisisCamp events have been held all over the world, including [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: crisis commons, crisiscamp, haiti, Open Source
Red Hat's State of the Union
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 28, 2010 at 8:20 am
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Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat, wrote a post about the State of the Union at Red Hat modeled after the presidential State of the Union address. Red Hat certainly kept busy in 2009! Here are just a few highlights that I found particularly noteworthy: "Red Hat has grown at double-digit rates in [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: cloud, jboss, linux, middleware, Open Source, red hat
Linux Foundation Announces 2010 Event Schedule
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 28, 2010 at 8:00 am
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The Linux Foundation recently released their event schedule for 2010. These are the events to attend if you are working on Linux and related open source projects. According to Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation: “Linux Foundation’s events provide the only vendor-neutral forums for Linux community members to significantly advance the Linux platform. [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Events, kernel, linux, linux foundation
Linux.com Adds Job Board
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 21, 2010 at 8:00 am
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The Linux Foundation just announced a new job board on Linux.com focused on jobs related to Linux. They already have hundreds of jobs posted in a partnership with the JobThread network. For companies who want to hire technical professionals with Linux expertise, Linux.com has already has a large audience, and it's a great way to [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: jobs, linux, linux foundation, linux.com
Interview: Zhenyu Wang, Intel Graphics Engineer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 20, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Zhenyu Wang joined Intel in 2004 after finishing his MS in computer science from Shanghai JiaoTong University. He first worked on Intel server platforms for Carrier Grade Linux projects like memory ECC detection and Linux iSCSI driver, and now he focuses on Intel graphics driver projects for the Linux desktop. Dawn: What do you like [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: graphics, interview, linux, linux kernel, otc, Zhenyu Wang
Open Source Adoption in Worldwide Governments
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 19, 2010 at 8:00 am
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The Government of Jordan and Ingres announced last week that they plan to work together to increase the use of open source software starting with the university system in Jordan. Students will have an opportunity to learn about and begin working on open source projects as a way to train the next group of up [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: germany, Government, jordan, munich, Open Source, UK, united states, vietnam
Interview: Nanhai Zou, Linux Graphics Engineer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 19, 2010 at 7:53 am
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Nanhai Zou is a Senior Software Engineer at the Intel Open Source Technology Center (OTC). He has been involved with Linux on Itanium architecture since 2004. His primary focus on the Linux kernel is system stability and performance. Nanhai Zou has contributed to Kexec/Kdump support for IA-64 Linux. Nanhai Zou is currently working on Intel [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: graphics, interview, mesa, Nanhai Zou, OpenGL, otc
Help Design a New Firefox Home Tab
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 14, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Mozilla has big plans to move the Firefox home button to a 'home tab' in the upcoming Firefox 4 release, and they want your help designing it! Here's a quick summary: We will keep the existing functionality where you can display a web page of your choice — or disable it altogether — but since [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: firefox, Open Source
The Case of the Hidden Linux
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 13, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Like many great mysteries over the ages, the case of the hidden Linux confounds even the Sherlock Holmes types. We know Linux is there somewhere, but we just can't quite seem to find it. It's hidden deep underneath other layers of software, invisible to the naked eye, but it still exists. OK, maybe hidden Linux [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
Tags: embedded linux, linux, mobile, moblin, Open Source
Interview: Chris Wilson, Open Source Graphics Hacker
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 12, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Chris Wilson worked in a defense research agency learning how to measure children's feet, a most appropriate use of military technology, until he saw the error of his ways. A few years ago, he left to work on open source technology and became one of Keith Packard's minions in Aug '09 joining Intel's Open Source [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: cairo, chris wilson, gem, graphics, kernel, linux, Open Source
AppUp Center: Applications Optimized for Your Netbook
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 8, 2010 at 10:22 am
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In September, I talked about the launch of the Atom Developer Program, which gave developers all of the information and resources to develop Moblin and Windows applications specifically for platforms running on the Atom processor. The Atom Developer Program laid the groundwork for Paul's announcement at CES about the launch of the AppUp Center Beta, [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
Tags: app store, appup center, Atom Developer Program, CES, moblin
OSCON 2010 Call For Participation Deadline on February 1
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 7, 2010 at 8:00 am
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I am excited that the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is coming back Portland, Oregon for July 19 - 23. While it may seem a little early to be thinking about OSCON, you only have until February 1 to submit a proposal if you want to speak at the event. They are looking for a [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: oscon, OSCON2009, oscon2010
Interview: Eric Anholt, Open Source Graphics Engineer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on January 5, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Eric Anholt is an engineer in Intel's Open Source Technology Center. He works mostly on graphics projects like Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) and Mesa. Dawn: What do you like about working in Intel's Open Source Technology Center? Eric: We've got a really strong commitment to open source in our group. I've never felt like I [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: eric anholt, gem, graphics, interview, linux, mesa, otc
Give the Gift of Linux Foundation Memberships to Needy Students
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 29, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Tis the season to be generous to those less fortunate. Think back to when you were a student (maybe waaay back for some) ... when you were scraping together a couple of dollars to buy lunch. With all of your money and time going toward your engineering or computer science degree, there wasn't much time [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: dirk hohndel, linux, linux foundation, membership, Open Source, standards
Brett Branch on Moblin In-Vehicle Infotainment
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 28, 2009 at 8:00 am
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In this video from OSCON, Brett Branch, Intel Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, talks about how Moblin is used for In-Vehicle Infotainment systems. He covers some of the opportunities for Moblin and the benefits of using open source technologies along with the challenges associated with putting more rich features into vehicles. For other open source videos, [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
Tags: brett branch, in-vehicle infotainment, moblin, Open Source, oscon, OSCON2009
Christmas Display: Powered by Open Source for Charity
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 22, 2009 at 8:00 am
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I wanted to share a little bit of open source holiday cheer this week just in case anyone is still around and reading blogs over the holidays! I recently ran across the Komar.org Christmas lights display, and was amazed by the technology behind it. He uses open source software and allows anyone to help control [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: charity, christmas, komar.org, linux, Open Source, red hat, Xeon
Interview: Jesse Barnes, Linux and Open Source Graphics Developer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 21, 2009 at 11:44 am
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Jesse Barnes is a long time Linux and open source developer. He’s worked on projects ranging from porting and scaling the Linux kernel to high end, SGI Itanium based servers, to graphics stack development on Intel chipsets. Jesse currently works at Intel, doing Linux graphics stack development and maintaining the Linux PCI layer. Dawn: What [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: interview, jesse barnes, linux, linux graphics, Open Source, otc
Open Source Trends in Government
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 17, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Open source usage within the government has been a hot topic recently with the announcement about whitehouse.gov moving to Drupal and the memo from the Department of Defense (DoD): Clarifying Guidance on Open Source Software. Input, a research firm focused on government business, announced last week that Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Service Oriented Architecture, Open Source [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Deniece Peterson, Government, input, open data, Open Source
Interview: Ian Romanick, Graphics Programmer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 16, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Ian Romanick is a Software Engineer in Intel's Open Source Technology Center. He is also one of Intel’s representatives to the OpenGL ARB. For the past 8 years he has been working very diligently to make OpenGL on Linux better. He has been doing graphics programming for 18 years, having released his first Amiga demo [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: 3D graphics, graphics, ian romanick, mesa, mesa 3d graphics library, Open Source, OpenGL
Linux Graphics Spotlight
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 15, 2009 at 12:33 pm
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Over the next couple of months, we're going to be focusing on Linux graphics here on the Open Source at Intel website. We've kicked it off with some graphics topics sprinkled throughout the open source website. Here are a few things you might be interested in reading: Enhancing Linux* Graphics: Learn more about how a [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: eric anholt, graphics, jesse barnes, keith packard, linux, Open Source
Interview: Li Xin, Open Source Virtualization Expert
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 10, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Li Xin currently works in Intel's Open Technology Center in PRC. He joined Intel to develop virtualization technology in 2004 and is engaging in the development of VMM based on Intel virtualization technology. He is actively involved in the open source virtualization projects, Xen and KVM. Dawn: What do you like about working in Intel's [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: kvm, li xin, Virtualization, Xen
Open Source Virtualization
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 8, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Over the past couple of months, we've been focusing on cloud computing and virtualization for the Open Source at Intel website. As we near the end of this focus topic, I wanted to quickly review some of the highlights and talk more about virtualization trends. We've done a number of interviews with Intel employees who [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: doug fisher, kvm, Virtualization, Xen
How Linux is Built with Greg Kroah-Hartman
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 7, 2009 at 10:31 am
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel developer / maintainer in the SUSE Labs division at Novell, was recently interviewed by Scott Swigart for the How Software is Built website, and I wanted to highlight a few snippets from his interview. Linux is scalable "New hardware accounts for the majority of our changes. We get more processors with [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux, linux foundation, linux kernel
The Linux Foundation, Intel and Open Source Standards
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 2, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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Standards are becoming an increasingly important issue for Linux and other open source projects, and there are a number of organizations focused on open source standards. The best way to illustrate the value of The Linux Foundation and other open source standards organizations is to look at some examples of successful standards that have emerged [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: carrier grade linux, CGL 4.0, dirk hohndel, linux foundation, Open Source, standards
Interview: Susie Li, Open Source Virtualization Engineering Manager
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on December 1, 2009 at 8:07 am
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Shaofan (Susie) Li is an engineering manager in the Open Source Technology Center in Shanghai, PRC. She joined Intel in 1999 and had been involved in IPMI, EFI, and several virtualization projects. She currently manages the virtualization development team of PRC in the Intel Open Source Technology Center. Her team is focusing on enabling Intel [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: china, interview, kvm, susie li, Virtualization, Xen
Alan Cox Elected to Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 30, 2009 at 8:07 am
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The Linux Foundation recently announced the results of the 2009 election for the Technical Advisory Board (TAB). According to the Linux Foundation, "The TAB consists of ten members of the Linux kernel community who are annually elected by their peers to serve staggered, two-year terms. The TAB collaborates with the Linux Foundation on programs and [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: alan cox, Kristen Accardi, linux, linux foundation, linux kernel, Open Source, technical advisory board
Interview: Allen Kay, Software Engineer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 25, 2009 at 8:06 am
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Allen Kay has been involved with the Xen virtualization project since 2006. His main area of focus is on VT-d PCI passthrough for unmodified guest domains. His prior operating systems work include enabling of 64-bit Windows OS on Intel Itanium processor and Unix SVR4 on Intel i860 processor. He has also worked on Intel's VTune [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: allen kay, Intel VT-d, kvm, SR-IOV, Virtualization, Xen
Open Source Cloud Predictions for 2010
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 24, 2009 at 8:06 am
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As we move into the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, people start thinking about wrapping up the current year and looking forward to what next year might have in store for us. A few of the open source industry analysts and other industry experts have started to post their predictions for 2010, and [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: 2010, cloud, Cloud Computing, gartner, Open Source, predictions, red monk, the 451 group
Interview: Daniel Valfré, Open Source in Latin America
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 23, 2009 at 11:06 am
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Daniel Valfré has been involved with open source since 1997, actively participating in the local Linux User Group in Córdoba, Argentina from its creation in 1999, working on a local NGO on different projects involving philosophy and technical promotion of open source, and also teaching courses about operating systems and programming, all with a strong [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
Tags: argentina, latin america, moblin, Open Source
Video: Paul Cooper on the Moblin User Experience
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 19, 2009 at 8:06 am
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According to Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI Research, Linux-based netbooks will be close to one-third of the 35 million netbooks shipped this year or 11 million Linux netbooks, and Intel has been working with the Moblin community and other projects to make sure that these Linux netbooks run well on Intel architecture. In this [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
Tags: moblin, oscon, OSCON2009, paul cooper, UI, user experience
How Do You Define Cloud Computing?
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 16, 2009 at 11:06 am
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I've been blogging about cloud computing fairly often lately, and it is part of our focused topic for October and November on the Open Source at Intel website; however, I haven't really spent much time talking about the various definitions of cloud computing. Jim Kaskade recently compiled a large list of cloud computing definitions from [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: burton group, cloud, Cloud Computing, define, definitions, forrester, idc, Jim Kaskade, the 451 group
Simon Crosby from Citrix Systems on Cloud Computing
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 12, 2009 at 8:00 am
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In this video from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization at Citrix Systems, talks about XenServer, private vs. public cloud solutions, optimization for Intel architectures, benefits of virtualization for IT, and other virtualization technologies. You can watch more of our videos by visiting the open source multimedia page.
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: Citrix, idf, IDF 2009, Virtualization, Xen
Interview: Donald Dugger, Kernel Maven
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 10, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Donald Dugger has been working on Unix/Linux for many more years than he would care to admit (started on Unix Version 6 back when he worked at Bell Labs). He has been involved in kernel internals for years, porting Unix to the microVax, being instrumental in the implementing Mach on the i386 architecture, porting Mach [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: donald dugger, linux, Open Source, UNIX, Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization Platform for Servers and Clouds
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 9, 2009 at 9:55 am
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Last week, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers with comprehensive management tools that can be used for everything from servers in small businesses to large cloud computing deployments. This release has two major components: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: A high performance hypervisor using KVM technology designed for Linux and Microsoft Windows [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, red hat, Virtualization
Interview: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong, Open Source Virtualization Expert
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Yaozu (Eddie) Dong is a technical lead in the Open Source Technology Center in Shanghai, PRC. He joined Intel in 1998 and had been involved in various embedded system projects from PalmOS to Windows CE to Linux, and several virtualization projects. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: kvm, Open Source, Virtualization, Xen, Yaozu (Eddie) Dong
Cloud Computing on Ubuntu
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 3, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Last week, I talked about Red Hat's and Novell's cloud computing strategies, and now Ubuntu's latest server release is focused on cloud computing. Canonical announced the availability of Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, which includes Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) powered by software from Eucalyptus Systems. What makes this particularly interesting is that the technology is based [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: canonical, cloud, Cloud Computing, eucalyptus, Ubuntu
Open Source and Government
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on November 2, 2009 at 9:58 am
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Over the past week or two, there have been several announcements about open source use within the United States Government. The one getting the most attention is the announcement about whitehouse.gov moving to Drupal; however, I think that the memo from the Department of Defense (DoD): Clarifying Guidance on Open Source Software is a much [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: David M. Wennergren, department of defense, drupal, goscon, Government, Open Source, whitehouse.gov
Chris Lord Talking about the Moblin Web Browser
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 29, 2009 at 8:37 am
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In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Chris Lord, Intel Engineer for Moblin, talks about the Moblin web browser and some of the decisions and steps required to get the technologies used in Moblin (Clutter, etc.) to work with Mozilla browser technologies and applications for Moblin. You may have already watched some of [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: chris lord, Clutter, moblin, oscon, OSCON2009
Interview: Paul Cooper, Moblin Apps and UI Engineering Manager
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 27, 2009 at 8:37 am
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Paul Cooper has worked as a developer and advocate for open source software for over 10 years. Currently he manages the Moblin Netbook UX Engineering team, part of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. Prior to their acquisition by Intel, Paul was the Business Development Manager at OpenedHand. In 2003 Paul and former colleague [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Clutter, moblin, Open Source, otc, paul cooper
Cloud Computing at Red Hat and Novell
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 26, 2009 at 8:37 am
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I just ran across a blog post from Red Hat outlining some of the recent cloud computing developments at Red Hat, and it reminded me that Jeff Jaffe, Novell's CTO, had written a series of blog posts over the past couple of months about Novell's approach to cloud computing. I thought it might be interesting [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: Cloud Computing, novell, red hat, Virtualization
Robert Kasten on OpenSolaris Collaboration
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 22, 2009 at 8:00 am
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In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Robert Kasten, Senior Engineering Manager at Intel, talks about the collaboration between Intel and Sun in the OpenSolaris community to improve system performance, energy efficiency, driver support for desktops and mobile platforms used primarily by developers, virtualization capabilities, reliability, and more. If you want to learn [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: open solaris, Open Source, OpenSolaris, oscon, OSCON2009, robert kasten
Interview: H. Peter Anvin, Linux and Microprocessor Architecture Geek
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 20, 2009 at 8:00 am
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H. Peter Anvin has been working on Linux since 1992, specializing in low level hardware. He is currently co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree. Peter has contributed to numerous Linux kernel subsystems, and is the author and/or maintainer of several Open Source projects, including the Syslinux boot loader suite, the Netwide Assembler (NASM), [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: h peter anvin, interview, kernel, linux, Open Source, otc
Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Open Source on Intel
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 19, 2009 at 8:16 am
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In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Open Source at Intel website was going to have several focused topics about the intersection of Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Open Source. I wanted to highlight a few of those new topics here in this blog post. Cloud Computing Spotlight: Virtualization's Next Frontier "Because of its strengths [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: billy cox, Cloud Computing, jun nakajima, kvm, Open Source, Virtualization, Xen, Xeon
David Stewart talking about Moblin
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 15, 2009 at 8:00 am
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We have been releasing several videos that were recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON, so if you are just catching up, you can still watch all of the earlier videos: Ken Drachnik from Canonical on Landscape for Ubuntu Systems Management Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications Joseph Hill from [...]
Category: Open Source
Tags: david stewart, moblin, Open Source, oscon, OSCON2009
Interview: Wilfred Yu, Open Source Virtualization Engineering Manager
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Wilfred Yu is an engineering manager in the Intel Open Source Technology Center in Santa Clara, California. He joined Intel in 1983 and had been involved in a series of operating system projects for Intel® processors. He currently manages the team that is adding Intel Virtualization Technology to Open source VMMs. He received his Bachelors [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: interview, kvm, Open Source, otc, Virtualization, wilfred yu, Xen
Red Hat and Microsoft Partner on Virtualization
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 13, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Red Hat recently announced that customers can deploy supported server virtualization environments that combine Microsoft and Red Hat server operating systems. This partnership has been in the works since February when they announced their agreement to collaborate on virtualization solutions for customers using both Microsoft and Red Hat operating systems. This virtualization partnership announcement came [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: microsoft, Open Source, red hat, Virtualization
Hadoop and Cloudera: Open Source for the Cloud
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 12, 2009 at 8:10 am
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With the recent Hadoop World event hosted by Cloudera on October 2, 2009, Cloudera and Hadoop have been getting quite a bit of attention from the media, and the visibility for open source software in the cloud has increased along with them. I didn't attend the Hadoop World event, but I heard that it was [...]
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Tags: apache, cloud, Cloud Computing, cloudera, hadoop, hadoop world
Open Source, Cloud Computing and Virtualization Come Together
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 9, 2009 at 8:00 am
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The intersection of cloud computing, virtualization, and open source has been such a hot topic in the industry and here on this blog that we've decided to spend some extra time focusing on it in October and November. We will have plenty of extra content about open source cloud and virtualization solutions on the Open [...]
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Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, jay lyman, Open Source, the 451 group, Virtualization
Dr. John Busch from Schooner Information Technology
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 8, 2009 at 8:00 am
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You may have already watched some of the videos that were recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON, but if not, you can still catch up on the earlier videos: Ken Drachnik from Canonical on Landscape for Ubuntu Systems Management Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications Joseph Hill from Novell [...]
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Tags: Dr. John Busch, Open Source, oscon, OSCON2009, schooner information technology
Interview: David Woodhouse, Linux Kernel Engineer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 6, 2009 at 8:00 am
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David Woodhouse is one of the two first official 'embedded maintainers' for the mainline Linux kernel. David got involved in Linux while at the University of Cambridge. His first encounter with solid state storage was a summer vacation job on networking over power line, using Linux boxes for routing. It was part of the basis [...]
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Tags: david woodhouse, interview, linux, linux kernel, Open Source, otc
Linux Kernel Roundtable Video
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on October 5, 2009 at 9:53 am
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One of the highlights of the recent LinuxCon event for me was the Linux Kernel Roundtable with Linus Torvalds, J.E.J. Bottomley, Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Ted T'so, and Chris Wright. If you want to learn a little more about the Linux kernel from some of the key people along with a healthy dose of humor, [...]
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Tags: Chris Wright., Greg Kroah-Hartman, J.E.J. Bottomley, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds, linux kernel, linux kernel roundtable, linuxcon, Ted T'so
Glynn Foster from Sun Discussing OpenSolaris
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 30, 2009 at 8:00 am
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You may have already watched some of the videos that were recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON, but if not, you can still catch up on the earlier videos: Ken Drachnik from Canonical on Landscape for Ubuntu Systems Management Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications Joseph Hill from Novell [...]
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Tags: glynn foster, Open Source, OpenSolaris, Sun, Sun Microsystems
How to Shine in a Crowded Field: LinuxCon Keynote by Dirk Hohndel
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 28, 2009 at 7:58 am
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At the Linux Foundation LinuxCon event, Dirk Hohndel gave a keynote to a packed room about what it takes for open source companies to shine in the crowded market for technology products. Dirk says that it takes four things to succeed in this crowded market of software and the devices that run the software, and [...]
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Tags: linux, linux foundation, linuxcon, Open Source
Ubuntu, Moblin and Dell Unite to Deliver a Moblin Netbook
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 24, 2009 at 1:16 pm
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With the convergence of the Intel Developer Forum and the LinuxCon event in the same week, there were no shortages of announcements and discussions about open source, Linux and Intel. One of the big announcements that crossed both of these events is the news that you can now purchase a Dell Netbook running the Ubuntu [...]
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Open Source
Tags: Atom N270, dell, Intel® Atom™, mini 10v, moblin, Open Source, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition
Joseph Hill from Novell talking about Mono
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 24, 2009 at 8:00 am
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You may have noticed that we have started releasing a few videos that were recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON. The first 2 videos were Ken Drachnik from Canonical on Landscape for Ubuntu Systems Management and Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications. We still have a few more videos [...]
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Tags: .net, joseph hill, mono, novell, Open Source, oscon
Microsoft Forms the CodePlex Foundation for Open Source Contributions
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 22, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Microsoft recently announced the creation of a non profit foundation, CodePlex, designed to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities." Microsoft contributed $1 million to help get the organization started, and right now the board of directors has several Microsoft employees, but the CodePlex Foundation is an independent [...]
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Don't Miss LinuxCon and Linux Plumbers This Week in Portland
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 21, 2009 at 9:28 am
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If you are in Portland, Oregon this week, we have ... not one, but two great events happening this week! Both events have several people from Intel speaking alongside many other industry experts. LinuxCon September 21 - 23 LinuxCon is a general purpose Linux conference running Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to cover all things Linux. [...]
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Tags: linux, linux foundation, linux plumbers conference, linuxcon, portland
Interview: Ashok Raj, Senior Staff Software Engineer for OpenSolaris
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 17, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Ashok Raj is a Senior Staff Software engineer at Intel Corporation in the Open Source Technology Center focused on making Xeon the platform of choice for OpenSolaris. His recent work includes adding Nehalem Support, implementing IOMMU, and interrupt remapping support for OpenSolaris. He played a crucial role in adding RAS features such as CPU hotplug [...]
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Tags: ashok raj, OpenSolaris, Xeon
Ken Drachnik from Canonical on Landscape for Ubuntu Systems Management
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 16, 2009 at 8:00 am
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We just uploaded a new open source video that was recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON. In this video, Ken Drachnik, Landscape Manager at Canonical, gives a quick overview of Ubuntu with some information about adoption on the desktop before diving into more details about Canonical's Landscape product. He talks about how people use [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: canonical, landscape, Manageability, Open Source, oscon, OSCON2009, systems management, Ubuntu
Eucalyptus Releases an Enterprise Edition with Support for VMware Virtualization Technologies
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 14, 2009 at 10:33 am
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The intersection of open source and cloud computing has been a very hot topic lately. I've probably talked about cloud computing technologies more than any other single topic here on this blog with recent posts about the new Xen cloud initiative, data and analyst thoughts on open source in the cloud, and more cloud discussions [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, eucalyptus, Virtualization, vmware
Interview: Andi Kleen, Long Term Linux Kernel Contributor
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 10, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Andi Kleen is a long term Linux kernel contributor. He worked on many different kernel areas, including network, file systems, scalability and low level architecture code. He served as the x86-64 and later also the i386 architecture kernel maintainer until 2007. His employment history includes support for media art, working on the Linux kernel in [...]
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Tags: andi kleen, interview, linux, linux kernel, otc
Xen Cloud Platform Initiative
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 9, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Xen.org recently announced the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) initiative, a community effort that provides an open source platform for federated cloud services. According to their press release, "The Xen Cloud Platform will accelerate the use of cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers by providing open source virtual infrastructure technology that makes it easy for service providers [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: Citrix, cloud, Open Source, Virtualization, vmware, Xen, xen.org
Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 8, 2009 at 8:00 am
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I wanted to point out that we just uploaded a new open source video that was recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON. In this video, Sven Dummer from Wind River talks about developing open source mobile applications. He covers some interesting intellectual property issues that open source developers should be thinking about when developing [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
Tags: mobile, Open Source, sven dummer, wind river
My Experiences with the Greatest Open Source Software of All Time
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 3, 2009 at 8:00 am
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InfoWorld recently recognized the top 36 most important open source software projects that have withstood the test of time. These are the projects that have shaped the way that we use many technologies today. I've mentioned before that I was a Unix sys admin in the mid-1990s, so this article brought back a lot of [...]
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Tags: bind, linux, sendmail, UNIX, vi
Interview: Alan Cox, Open Source Technologist
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on September 2, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Alan Cox is an Open Source Technologist in Intel's Open Source Technology Center working on Linux kernel development. He has been heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days in 1991, and he spent about 10 years working at Red Hat prior to joining Intel. Alan maintained the 2.2 branch [...]
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Tags: alan cox, interview, linux, linux kernel
Interview: Kristen Accardi, Linux kernel developer
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 31, 2009 at 11:48 am
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Kristen Accardi is a Linux kernel developer working at Intel's Open Source Technology Center (OTC). She has been a Linux developer since 2000. Recently she has been contributing to the Linux kernel in the serial ATA subsystem, as well as the PCI hotplug, and ACPI subsystem. She was formerly the PCI hotplug subsystem maintainer. Dawn: [...]
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Tags: interview, Kristen Accardi, linux kernel, linux plumbers conference, otc
Interview: Keith Packard, Graphics Hacker
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 26, 2009 at 7:30 am
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Keith Packard has been developing open source software since 1986, focusing on the X Window System since 1987, designing and implementing large parts of the current implementation. He is currently a Principal Engineer with Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Keith received a Usenix Lifetime Achievement award in 1999 and sits on the X.org foundation board. [...]
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Tags: graphics, interview, keith packard, linux, open technology center, otc, rockets, xwindows
Who Works on the Linux Kernel?
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 24, 2009 at 7:30 am
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I was excited to see that the Linux Foundation just released an update to their Linux kernel study. This study has some interesting insights into the work that goes into each revision of the kernel along with some information about the people and companies supporting this work. For example, there are 4-5 kernel releases per [...]
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Tags: linux, linux foundation, linux kernel, Open Source
Good Timing for Open Source Management Apps
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 20, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Open source management applications have been getting a fair amount of attention over the past few months, and it isn't just the startups and smaller businesses using them. Even large enterprises are using open source management applications. Just last week, I blogged about Canonical's plans for their Landscape Dedicated Server designed to make it easier [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, forrester, hyperic, network management, Open Source, springsource, system management, Virtualization, vmware, zenoss
SpringSource Strengthens VMware's Cloud Play
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 18, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Last week, VMware announced that it was acquiring open source company SpringSource, the driving force behind Spring and Hyperic along with employing key contributors and leaders for other open source projects (Apache Tomcat, Groovy and Grails). This acquisition helps VMware move beyond their current virtualization focus and into enterprise software in the cloud with a [...]
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Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, opensource, springsource, Virtualization, vmware
System Management for Ubuntu
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 13, 2009 at 8:00 am
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I started my professional career as UNIX system administrator back in the mid-1990's, so I know first hand what a headache it can be to keep a bunch of operating systems and other critical software up to date across the entire IT environment. Canonical has plans to make this a little easier for people running [...]
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Tags: canonical, Manageability, system management, Ubuntu
Open Source in Data Warehousing
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 10, 2009 at 1:53 pm
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With the recent announcement about the Ingres VectorWise project, open source solutions for data warehousing has been getting some additional attention. Ingres VectorWise is designed to take better advantage of new processors and storage hardware to provide increased performance and scale database workloads at a reduced cost to companies. While the product hasn't been released [...]
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Tags: data warehouse, database, ingres
Open Source Cloud Computing Frenzy
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 4, 2009 at 8:23 am
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I recently wrote a post about open source software and cloud computing, but in the past week, there has been a frenzy of activity and conversations about open source in the cloud. Red Hat's Cloud Computing Forum on July 22nd seems to have kick started a wave of new conversations about the role of open [...]
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Tags: 451group, cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, red hat, redmonk
IDC Reports an Increase in Open Source Growth
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 4, 2009 at 8:22 am
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IDC released a report last week with an optimistic outlook for open source software. Here's what IDC had to say: "Worldwide revenue from open source software (OSS) will grow at a 22.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $8.1 billion by 2013. This forecast is considerably higher than 2008 for three reasons: (1) the [...]
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Tags: economy, idc, research
Virtualization Trends and Open Source
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on August 3, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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With Gartner putting virtualization in the number 1 spot of their Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009, virtualization has been getting quite a bit of attention. I tend to think about server virtualization, which is where most of the buzz has been, but part of Gartner's reason for putting it at the top of the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: kvm, microsoft, Open Source, red hat, Sun, Virtualization, vmware, Xen
Open Source in Space
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on July 31, 2009 at 8:00 am
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With the recent celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first human being to walk on the moon, I've been spending more time than normal thinking about NASA and the space program. To celebrate this anniversary, the code for the Apollo guidance computers has been released as open source. This release led Matthew Aslett to [...]
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Interview: Sarah Sharp, Linux Kernel Hacker
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on July 29, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Sarah Sharp is a Linux Kernel hacker at Intel's Open Source Technology Center. In her spare time, she volunteers for the Portland State Aerospace Society, an open source/open hardware group that builds amateur rockets. Sarah is also a member of Portland's Code 'N Splode group. Dawn: I recently read on Engadget that you developed a [...]
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Tags: aerospace, linux, open source technology center, portland state aerospace society, usb
Open Source in the Fast-Growing Smartphone and Netbook Markets
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on July 27, 2009 at 9:00 am
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Smartphones, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and netbooks sit in that interesting space somewhere above what we historically thought of as a "phone", but slightly below a full-sized laptop / notebook computer. With a smartphone that can do most of what I need, I find myself lugging the laptop to fewer places around town. I haven't [...]
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Tags: MID, moblin, netbook, smartphone
Open Source Software and Cloud Computing
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on July 24, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Cloud computing is a hot topic right now with more and more services moving into the cloud every day. Open source has already been playing a role in cloud computing, but there is quite a bit of speculation about the role that open source will play in the future as the cloud computing industry matures. [...]
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Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source
Interview: Matthew Allum, Open Source Hacker
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on July 23, 2009 at 9:02 am
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Matthew Allum is an Open Source hacker and ex OpenedHand boss man cat herder currently working at Intel. Beyond making Linux better on devices, his interests include design, mid century modern furniture and architecture, comics and an ever changing cycle of obsessions (currently amassing sofubi & kaijus). He lives just outside London in the UK [...]
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Tags: matthew allum, moblin, Open Source, openedhand
Is the current economy good for open source software?
By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on July 16, 2009 at 9:08 am
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With the economy in a downward spiral, many companies and individuals are changing how they spend money as budgets tighten. I've been an open source software fan since college in the early to mid 1990s. For me, there are many benefits of using open source. Cost is just one of those many benefits, but with [...]