To enable a broad spectrum of software environments and programs to run best on Intel® processors and platforms, Intel offers deep technical expertise, makes significant contributions, and actively participates in standards bodies. Intel works with Open Source software developers who can adopt, change and redistribute the underlying code, helping drive rapid technological innovation.

Intel® Cloud Builder Program Announced
Developed jointly between Intel and makers of cloud software, the Intel® Cloud Builder program validates and documents reference architectures and best practices for cloud service providers.

Intel VP Doug Fisher’s VMworld Keynote: Intel Accelerates Virtualization (free registration required)
Technologies supporting high availability, disaster recovery, and near-native performance help IT professionals deploy next generation capabilities with confidence, according to Fisher’s keynote.

Interview: Wilfred Yu, Open Source Virtualization Engineering Manager
Wilfred Yu, an engineering manager in the Intel Open Source Technology Center, tells about Intel’s mission in Open Source and how it helps to enable Cloud Computing.

Hadoop and Cloudera: Open Source for the Cloud
With the recent Hadoop World event hosted by Cloudera, this platform based on an Apache Foundation project has been getting quite a bit of attention.

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Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem [PDF 3.2 MB]

The Solaris* OS and Intel® Nehalem-EX [PDF 870 KB]

Accelerating Performance for Server-
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Interview: Allen Kay, Software Engineer
Posted Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:06:38 +0000 by Dawn M. Foster
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 ...

Open Source Cloud Predictions for 2010
Posted Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:06:17 +0000 by Dawn M. Foster
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 ...

Interview: Daniel Valfré, Open Source in Latin America
Posted Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:06:06 +0000 by Dawn M. Foster
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 a...