Oracle Buys Nimbula For Enterprise Cloud Initiative
Oracle has acquired Red Hat partner Nimbula as Oracle aims to integrate Nimbula’s enterprise-ready cloud software into its offerings. Details of the deal were not disclosed and the two sides expect to finalize the sale by the end of June, the Triangle Business Journal reported Wednesday. “Nimbula’s product is complementary to Oracle, and is expected [...]
Red Hat has taken on a leadership role to manage a Java open source implementation project, aiming to continue supporting the technology and its users. The company is aiming to help steer the development of the OpenJDK 6 project and Andrew Haley, Red Hat Java technical lead, will stay on as a OpenJDK 6 board [...]
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Red Hat Partnering With Current Hadoop Distributors; Greg Kleiman Comments
February 22, 2013 No Comment
Red Hat‘s big data strategy involves partnerships with existing Hadoop distributors and not developing its own commercial Hadoop distribution, The Register reports. Greg Kleiman, business strategy director for storage, told The Register the company previously considered developing its own Hadoop distribution. Kleiman also said the company will see what happens regarding its partnerships with current [...]
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Red Hat to Acquire Enterprise Cloud Mgmt Firm ManageIQ for $104M; Jim Whitehurst Comments
December 26, 2012 No Comment
Red Hat has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ManageIQ for approximately $104 million in cash, according to a TechWeekEurope U.K. article. “Since October of last year we have completed three acquisitions, and are announcing a fourth today to expand our portfolio of open source solutions and enlarge our addressable market,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and [...]
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Dan Risacher: DoD Has Been Using Open Source Software for More Than a Decade
October 30, 2012 No CommentAccording to a Department of Defense official, the agency has been using open source software for more than a decade, AOL Government reports. Dan Risacher, associate director for information enterprise strategy and policy in the DOD Chief Information Officer‘s office, said that the reach and scope of the open source software used in the agency [...]
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General Dynamics TNE Software Approved for Federal Red Hat Linux Users; Lynne Corddry Comments
October 25, 2012 No CommentThe U.S. government has approved a General Dynamics information sharing software program for use on classified networks through a Red Hat enterprise platform, General Dynamics announced Thursday. Trusted Network Environment version 11 cyber is for sharing sensitive information across security boundaries from a single shared network, using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a one-window [...]
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Carahsoft Adds Platform Diagnostics Software To GSA Schedule; Natalie Gregory Comments
May 23, 2012 No CommentCarahsoft Technology Corp. has partnered with OC Systems to provide government customers with root-cause diagnostics software built for Red Hat platforms, the companies announced Tuesday. Carahsoft will distribute OC Systems’ RootCause Transaction Instrumentation software to agencies for running on Red Hat’s JBoss Operations Network. RTI will be offered as a complementary solution under Carahsoft’s General [...]
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Red Hat-IBM Solution Receives Federally-Recognized Open Source Approval; Paul Smith Comments
May 10, 2012 No CommentA Red Hat’ virtualization solution and an IBM server have achieved a new security clearance level through an internationally-recognized and government standard-based evaluation, the companies announced Wednesday. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, jointly developed with the National Security Agency, runs with IBM’s KVM hypervisor achieved common criteria certification evaluation assurance level 4+. Paul Smith, Red Hat’s public [...]
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Autonomic Resources is now a certified Red Hat partner and cloud solutions provider to the federal market, Autonomic announced Tuesday. Paul Smith, Red Hat’s public sector business vice president and general manager, said the companies have previously partnered to produce solutions such as Enterprise Linux, Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Smith said the addition [...]
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Early December, Quest Software released information following a survey that labeled cost savings, user demand and expectations and managing a mobile workforce as driving forces behind moving to virtual servers. To Quest, the findings solidified the idea that server and desktop virtualization were moving into production instead of just being a concept. This conclusion is not far [...]
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