Archive for November 13th, 2007
On Wednesday, Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is available on Amazon. Red Hat is releasing a beta version of its OS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a Web service that hosts business software applications.The companies described the move as a way to change the economics of computing by allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure 
software services and capacity they actually use. RHEL on EC2 allows customers to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, eliminating the need to overbuy software and hardware to handle spikes in demand.
“This offering will be appealing to developers, customers looking to quickly and cost-effectively deploy Web-scale services, and businesses that require rapidly scaled compute resources,” Donald Fischer, vice president of Online Services at Red Hat, said in a statement. “The marriage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Amazon’s EC2 service makes the promise of professional Web scale computing a reality.”
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November 13th, 2007
Dell is set to acquire EqualLogic for $1.4 billion, but the PC maker is also acquiring several challenges along with the iSCSI firm. Despite what Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell said will help position the company to take part in the iSCSI revolution, the acquisition propels Dell into a new playing field.In terms of enterprise equipment, Dell is known as a server company, not a storage company. The EqualLogic acquisition, then, puts Dell at odds with an ally: EMC.
Still, some analysts are saying that the iSCSI storage area network (SAN) sector is the fastest growing part of the storage business and that Dell’s purchase of EqualLogic will strengthen its virtualization play.
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November 13th, 2007
Google is being sued again, but this time it’s not for copyright infringement. Allegedly, Google has infringed on patented technology it uses to power its online search engine. Boston’s Northeastern University and Jarg, a Waltham, Mass.-based start-up that focuses on distributed search technologies, have filed suit against Google in the Marshall District of Texas.The lawsuit claims Google is using a distributed database technology that Kenneth Baclawski, an associate professor at Northeastern and cofounder of Jarg, developed and patented in 1997. The suit seeks a jury trial and an injunction to stop Google from continuing to infringe on its patent. The suit also seeks royalty payments and damages from the search titan.
“This particular patent has to do with the fundamental database architecture, which they use to serve up every single result they serve to you,” Michael Belanger, president of Jarg, told The Boston Globe. “When a law firm tells us that it’s very likely that the Google architecture is the fundamental architecture on which our company is founded, we have a fiduciary responsibility to our investors to do something.”
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November 13th, 2007
In what marks further consolidation of the business intelligence and performance management sector, IBM on Monday announced plans to acquire Cognos for $4.9 billion in an all-cash deal.IBM said the Cognos acquisition supports its “Information on Demand” strategy, a cross-company initiative it launched in February 2006. The buy represents Big Blue’s 23rd acquisition in support of the strategy. The company also said that adding Cognos to its lineup will enable IBM to deliver new business insights to a broader set of people across an organization.
“Customers are demanding complete solutions, not piece parts, to enable real-time decision-making,” Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software Group, said in a statement. “We chose Cognos because of its industry-leading technology that is based on open standards, which complements IBM’s service-oriented architecture strategy.”
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November 13th, 2007
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