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IBM’s New SMB Cloud-making Machines

This week IBM released a bunch of new hardware, including 8 new Power Systems, 3 PureSystems models, and new storage technology. This is good news for small and medium businesses, because it means the same powerful hardware that powers Watson (http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/) is now available at prices designed to compete with commodity hardware from other vendors. more>> Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Managing VMs with the Virtual Machine Manager

Explore the use of virt-manager, its capabilities on modest hardware, and how to use it to manage and monitor live VM performance. Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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When CIO Pushes Move to Cloud, Users Push Back

Interesting dynamic here. When a CIO decided to move his company to the cloud, the users pushed back. When he got executive buy-in from the CFO, things went much more smoothly and users grew to like the change eventually. LXer Linux News Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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1toGo Mobile extends its range of Cloud unified communications services using cPanel

1toGo Mobile uses CommuniGate Systems’ opensource cPanel kit to deploy new unified communications services in the Cloud LXer Linux News Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Peppermint OS Three: between the cloud and the desktop

The cloud era is coming. Some people can argue whether this is good or bad. Maybe that’s only the fashion. Maybe not. Although more and more people think of the cloud as if it were the inevitable future. That’s why cloud-oriented operating systems come into play. What are the most widely-known of them? I can [...] Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Xamarin links mobile apps with Microsoft cloud services

Mono-based SDK for iOS and AndroidXamarin, the mobile app dev company founded by the creators of the open source Mono project, have partnered with Microsoft to bring support for Windows Azure Mobile Services to apps that are running on Android and iOS devices.… LXer Linux News Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Ensure a resilient virtual server

IBM PureFlex System comes with the hardware pre-integrated and the management stack pre-loaded for convenience, but there are a few manual steps you need to do before it can be used to host resilient virtual servers. In this article, the authors explain and show how to set up and deploy a resilient virtual server (in this article, Red Hat's KVM hypervisor is used). Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Cloud Music Player `Nuvola` Sees New Stable Release

Nuvola Player is an application that integrates cloud music services like Google Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, 8tracks, Pandora, Rdio and Amazon Cloud Player with your desktop.  Using it, you’ll get desktop notifications, multimedia keys support, Mpris v2 (integration with Ubuntu Sound Menu or GNOME Shell Media Player extension) integration, Unity quicklists and more. Two Nuvola [...] Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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10 Insights from Linux Leaders in the Open Cloud

How do the Linux and open source communities define the open cloud? Our Leaders of the Open Cloud series posed this key question, along with many others, to industry heavyweights in the 10 weeks leading up to the CloudOpen conference in San Diego last month. Here, we’ve distilled their answers into a slideshow to illustrate [...] Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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10 Insights from Linux Leaders in the Open Cloud

How do the Linux and open source communities define the open cloud? Our Leaders of the Open Cloud series posed this key question, along with many others, to industry heavyweights in the 10 weeks leading up to the CloudOpen conference in San Diego last month. Here, we’ve distilled their answers into a slideshow to illustrate [...] Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth bets on Inktank for cloud storage services

Canonical founder throwing weight behind open source exabyte-scale file system. LXer Linux News Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth bets on Inktank for cloud storage services

Canonical founder throwing weight behind open source exabyte-scale file system. LXer Linux News Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Cloud Computing and Linux

In the IT shops have long proliferated intense religious wars between popular technologies. From the programmer’s perspective, debates over Java versus .Net or PHP versus ASP have caused many high profile feuds. Similarly in the system administrator... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Track KVM guests with libvirt and the Linux audit subsystem

Libvirt is an important tool for managing virtualized environments on Linux hosts. An audit trail of events that occur on the host during libvirt's execution is often necessary for monitoring, compliance, forensics, and other purposes. This article describes how to use the Linux audit subsystem on the host to track operations performed by libvirt and how to correlate the events with other host events to provide a consistent and comprehensive view of changes performed through libvirt. Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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Track KVM guests with libvirt and the Linux audit subsystem

Libvirt is an important tool for managing virtualized environments on Linux hosts. An audit trail of events that occur on the host during libvirt's execution is often necessary for monitoring, compliance, forensics, and other purposes. This article describes how to use the Linux audit subsystem on the host to track operations performed by libvirt and how to correlate the events with other host events to provide a consistent and comprehensive view of changes performed through libvirt. Read the full story here. … Read entire article »

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