Maureen O'Gara

Virtualization Magazine Without any broad beta testing to give its plans away, Parallels, the desktop virtualization pioneer, released its Windows 7-supporting Parallels Desktop 5 kit on Wednesday. It claims the widgetry, which lets Mac users run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X, is faster, smarter, easier and more powerful than previous generations. Unlike Apple’s own Boot Camp, which forces people to reboot between operating systems, Parallels users can switch between Mac and Windows seamlessly because of virtualization. They can now run Windows and Mac side-by-side in Windows Mode, have Windows completely cover the Mac user interface in Full Screen mode, or plum disappear Windows into the Mac interface in Parallels’ new Crystal Mode. Using Windows apps is of cou... (more)

Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server Code

Open Source and Cloud Computing Yahoo has open sourced a version of its Traffic Server, a high-performance application server for building cloud services that it got when it acquired Inktomi. It donated the code to the Apache Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator. It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing an... (more)

Likewise Wants To Move the Moochers

SOA and WOA Magazine Likewise, which authenticates Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory, has started offering three starter packs that combine its Enterprise software with support and training services. They are designed to move customers from the company’s open source software to Likewise Enterprise. Likewise Enterprise controls access to applications and data, cent... (more)

Red Hat Virtualization for Servers Goes GA

Virtualization Magazine Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, Red Hat’s preferred way of configuring, provisioning, managing and organizing virtualized Linux and Windows servers and clouds in beta since June, went GA Tuesday. The company says “extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, re... (more)

Big Data Kills 30-Year-Old Market

Data Services Journal If you’ve got simply scads of data – and why wouldn’t you? – it’s doubling every 18 months – and are shuttling it to an application for analysis, you’re doing it wrong. That’s so…so, well, 1980. According to Aster Data, applications need to go to “Big Data,” not the other way around. And to do that the company’s got a massively parallel data-application server tha... (more)