VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Red Hat has announced Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications, an accelerated way to develop, deploy, and manage applications at scale using open-source technologies. Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications integrates Red Hat’s PaaS, IaaS and hybrid cloud management offerings – OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat CloudForms, respectively. With seamless management of both OpenShift and OpenStack with Red Hat CloudForms, an enterprise management solution that enables open hybrid clouds by providing consistent visibility across virtual infrastructure and public cloud platforms, operators can more effectively manage both PaaS and IaaS from a single console. Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, said, “Combining these powerful cloud offerings addresses a significant customer need to reduce silos and enable more efficient OpenStack cloud deployments. While other companies can provide one or two of the building blocks for a cl...

SanDisk has announced availability of the newest version of its FlashSoft server-side, solid- state caching software, which provides several notable performance, usability and compatibility improvements for Windows, Linux and VMware environments. SanDisk has also revealed that its FlashSoft caching software will be available in new bundled offerings that package the software with SanDisk’s array of enterprise flash hardware solutions, including the Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators, the Optimus Ascend SAS solid-state drive (SSD), and the CloudSpeed Ascend SATA SSD. These new offerings provide an easy-to-implement solution that empowers customers to select the flash storage capacity and performance that best meet their data center needs. “We are excited to be able to offer customers a complete solution that provides the performance and cost benefits of flash technology, while at the same time making it easier for our channel partners to support their customers,” said Ra...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE By Jagdish Mahapatra, MD- India and SAARC, McAfee   Following are the mega trends that will dominate 2015’s security industry in India- 1.       Increased use of cyber warfare and espionage tactics. Cyber espionage attacks will continue to increase in frequency as long-term players will become stealthier information gatherers, while newcomers to cyber-attack capabilities will look for ways to steal sensitive information and disrupt their adversaries.       •         Established nation-state actors will work to enhance their ability to remain hidden on victim systems and networks.       •        Cybercriminals will continue to act more like nation-state cyber espionage actors, focusing on monitoring systems                    and      gathering high-value inte...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Red Hat has announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the SAP HANA platform is now available for customers to deploy across the open hybrid cloud, including via public cloud providers certified by Red Hat. The additions of new cloud provider partners through the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program, as well as new SAP-certified hardware available from provider Hitachi Data Systems, provides customers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA with an extensive choice of deployment options for big data applications, from new hardware configurations to the ability to leverage public, private and hybrid cloud services. In June 2014, as the foundation of an enhanced collaboration between Red Hat and SAP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA offers an open, scalable, integrated and highly available platform featuring the industry-leading reliability, quality and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Ent...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   For the developers and designers to easily deploy Linux workloads on demand in Windows Azure ,  SUSE  has announced the worldwide general availability of Basic Support and Priority Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Windows Azure. In addition, openSUSE 12.3 is also being offered on Windows Azure.  These offerings will expand the strategic relationship between SUSE and Microsoft by enabling developers and organizations to benefit from the Linux distribution on Windows Azure. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft customers can run a wide range of certified applications while receiving streamlined support from Microsoft and SUSE. Michael Croney, Open Solutions Group lead, Microsoft , said, “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Windows Azure represents the latest development in the pioneering collaboration between Microsoft and SUSE. Customers will be able to access enterprise-class support services for bo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Today fortune 500 companies are overwhelmingly modernising their server infrastructure from legacy UNIX/RISC to Intel Xeon processor-based servers running Linux. Organisations are realising benefits such as lower cost of maintaining and upgrading their mission critical environments and technological and security advancements. Data from industry analysts shows a distinct trend emerging as organisations migrate their expensive legacy UNIX/RISC infrastructures to the lower cost commodity Intel Xeon based servers. IDC data from 2002 and 2010 shows a decline in server revenue for RISC mainframes from US$30 billion in 2002 to US$15 billion in 2010 and a corresponding increase in Intel x86 sever revenue from US$19.2 billion in 2002 to US$30.5 billion in 2010.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Kaspersky Linux Mail Security  has produced commendable results in the latest VBSpam comparative test conducted by the reputable Virus Bulletin magazine. The new Kaspersky Lab product came out on the top among 20 anti-spam solutions with a detection rate of 99.93%, earning it a VBSpam award. This was the best result among client-based anti-spam products, and the second highest in the overall rating. Kaspersky Lab’s security solution for Linux-based mail servers also improved on its 99.75% result recorded in the previous VBSpam test.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SUSE has announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE can now be run in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Additionally, through SUSE Studio, customers can rapidly develop cloud-ready applications and automatically launch them on Windows Azure.     "As enterprise adoption of Windows Azure and cloud computing grows, the importance of coming together to solve interoperability issues is only growing.  We, at Microsoft, want to work with the ecosystem of vendors and communities to deliver cloud solutions to customers based on their specific needs and scenarios. Through our continued engagement on technical interoperability with SUSE, we look forward to delivering core value to those running mission-critical, mixed-source IT environments from the data center and into the cloud," Sandy Gupta, General Manager, Open Solutions Group, Microsoft. "By delivering SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the cloud, SUSE h...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Red Hat has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has transformed the deployment of business-critical applications for IT organizations around the globe.  Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat said, "Red Hat is thankful to the worldwide Linux community and all our partners, and is proud to recognize the achievements we’ve made with Red Hat Enterprise Linux." "Intel and Red Hat have collaborated for years on Linux and open virtualization, bringing innovative datacenter technologies to market. Intel congratulates Red Hat on the tenth anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We look forward to our continuing collaboration and innovation in key areas such as open, trusted, and federated clouds, as well as mission-critical platforms based on open source software and Intel Architecture," said Doug Fisher, VP, Systems Software Division, I...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SUSE has announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This latest update offers improved performance, reliability and efficiency, while maintaining enterprise quality and application compatibility. Customers can use SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 to deliver mission-critical IT services faster, more reliably, and more cost effectively. "In order to stay ahead of our competitors, we need to exploit every possible advantage - including IT advantages. During internal tests, we've been impressed with the overall performance, reliability and quality and are looking forward to moving our production workloads onto SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2," said Urs Frey, Services Informations technologie, Die Schweizerische Post. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is believed to be the first Linux distribution available for Dell's new VMware software-based cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. SUSE Linux Enterprise offers the broadest application portfolio, as well as optimization with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite. Now, Dell customers are supposed to efficiently run a wide range of ISV applications, on demand with maximum performance, while receiving streamlined support from Dell and SUSE across the Dell public and private cloud offerings. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is said to deliver the reliability, interoperability and performance customers need in order to easily leverage the benefits of cloud. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has claimed to be the broadest ISV support among enterprise Linux operating systems, with nearly 8,500 application certifications, expanding customer choice in cloud environments. SUSE Linux Enterprise Serve...