rock333 wrote: At the IaaS Cloud layer virtualisation is going to be essential to allow the self service attributes, all painful and slow to do with physical hardware. Moving up the stack to PaaS and SaaS the use of virtualisation may, as you say, be less required if you put lots of smarts into your software. A lot of software does not have those smarts and by utalising virtualisation of the layers below can manipulate existing software architectures to have more cloudy attributes through automation (eg run load balancers and deploy more servers automagically).
Over time, as new investment in software at...
Mar. 18, 2010 02:11 AM EDT
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Novell broke its 18-day silence late Saturday morning and rejected the unsolicited $5.75-a-share offer to take the company private that Elliott Associates plunked on the table March 2.
Novell wants more money.
Bearing in mind that Novell currently has close to a billion dollars i...
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) provides a user-friendly interface for single sign-on. IWA uses ‘Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism’ (SPNEGO) to allow the initiators and acceptors to negotiate the underlying protocol to be used for authentication. In this article...
Preternaturally quiet since a hedge fund offered to buy it two weeks ago and take it private, Novell stated on Wednesday that the open source Ingres database is available in the free SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program. Novell and Ingres are supposed to jointly support an...
Cloud Computing Journal caught up with the CEO of a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem - a CEO who has taken an interesting and unusual decision. While signing up as the Platinum Plus Sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Expo, he and his company have decided to rem...
Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, today announced enhancements that give users telephone and fax integrated with e-mail, contacts, calendar and task information.
By combining Open-Xchange (hosted and on-premise editions) with Unified Commun...
Home Energy monitoring products maker People Power has come out with an open source hardware and software application developer kit called SuRF that lets embedded systems developers build energy saving apps for household electronics and devices on top of its Open Source Home Area Netwo...
