Maureen O'Gara

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... (more)

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 wit... (more)

Virtualization Magazine Zend Technology, Microsoft’s little open source PHP friend, says it’s making its Zend application server, designed for running and managing business-critical PHP applications in production, available to Oracle’s enterprise customers through Oracle’s Unbre... (more)

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... (more)

CEOs in Technology Cisco CEO John Chambers, who has turned into something of an economic oracle probably because he is more in command of his catbird seat than most big-time CEOs, said Wednesday when Cisco reported its quarterly results that the economy hit a “clear tipping poin... (more)

Microsoft Developer's Journal Microsoft’s browser rivals aren’t satisfied with the tentative “ballot screen” settlement that the company came to with the European Commission, which would offer all its European users a chance to download a rival browser. Google, Mozilla and Oper... (more)

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,... (more)

IBM Journal An SEC lawyer told a federal court yesterday that more people could be charged in the insider trading scandal that has so far brought down senior IBM executive Robert Moffat and former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz and as good as her word 14 more were charged Thursday morning ... (more)

SOA and WOA Magazine on Ulitzer New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel Wednesday charging it with engaging in a "worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct - revealed in e-mails - to maintain its monopoly power and pri... (more)

Oracle Journal on Ulitzer The European Commission is about to object formally to Oracle's multibillion-dollar acquisition of Sun because Oracle is hanging tough and refusing to make any concessions concerning the open source database MySQL, a potential Oracle rival as the EC see... (more)

Open Source and Cloud Computing on Ulitzer 3Leaf Systems, the well-funded start-up, dropped its fig leaf Tuesday and took a running jump into the pools of memory, I/O and cache that it can construct and deconstruct at will based on the application, creating scale-up shared-memor... (more)

Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North Am... (more)

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer Sometime before 4:30 Wednesday afternoon New York time Cisco and EMC, two companies that are already tight and were expected to get tighter, are supposed to announce a joint venture to sell a cloud or cloud products called vBlock. VMware's involved because... (more)

Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, the guy who spun out AMD's plants into a joint venture with the government of Abu Dhabi and then became chairman of that company when it was formed in March, has stepped down after being identified as one of the tips... (more)

Young as it is, RightScale, the cloud manager, is on to its next-generation platform. Its ServerTemplate widgetry will now automatically configure servers on specific clouds, system architectures and operating systems, something it didn’t do before. It should let users take adv... (more)

Ubuntu Linux Journal on Ulitzer Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, code named Karmic Koala, became generally available for free download Thursday. That's the stuff that introduces Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), a k a Eucalyptus Software's open source software, as a fully sup... (more)

Google App Engine Platform on Ulitzer The city of Los Angeles has okayed a $7.2 million deal with CSC to rip out a lot of its existing Novell GroupWise e-mail systems and whatnot and replace it with Google Apps provided CSC agrees to pay a pre-set penalty if there's a security b... (more)

Zeus Technology Journal on Ulitzer Zeus Technology, the Anglo-American concern whose web server ran 3% of the world's web sites back before the dot.com bubble burst, third in the race behind Apache and Microsoft, was asking around among CIOs, IT director and senior IT managers a... (more)

Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer Fusion 3, VMware's upgraded solution for running Windows and PC applications on a Mac, although Apple has its own Bootcamp widgetry, tried wending its way out the other day and hit a nasty snag at its upgrade portal. VMware says it was because ... (more)

Economics for Investors on Ulitzer Third-quarter shipments of graphics processors were up 21.2% sequentially and Q2 was a strong quarter so graphics maven Jon Peddie feels safe in predicting a Merry Christmas for PCs and the industry. AMD showed the biggest jump in quarter-to-qua... (more)