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LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 also incorporates enhanced security and media management, an online knowledge base and provisioning support for Windows 7 and all new major versions of Linux®
LinMin, maker of award-winning IT automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning™, today unveiled Linux-based LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and corporate data center [...]

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Edition from Convirture brings automation, high-availability and private cloud management to open source virtualization.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2010 – Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp.
The open source version of ConVirt has been available for [...]

Title: Open Source Zenoss 3.0 Simplifies IT Infrastructure Monitoring, Adds Automation and Virtualization Management Capabilities
With 1.5 million downloads and driven by the community, Zenoss Core 3.0 includes new features and functionality to give holistic view of physical and virtual IT assets

Title: BoardSuite Corp. entrusts Tenzing for mission critical SaaS hosting in the Cloud
July 12 , 2010 – TORONTO – BoardSuite® Corp., the freemium on-demand board portal, has chosen Tenzing as its hosted Cloud environment to provide the most secure, scalable and redundant solution for its mission critical portal application for boards of directors.
In partnership with [...]

TransferBigFiles.com a free service that allows anyone to send large files without using e-mail attachments or FTP sites, announced today that it has expanded services to allow for larger file transfers, file receiving, tracking and storage.
TransferBigFiles.com will now offer a premium service for only $5 per month that allows users to send files up to [...]

Dealing with suppliers can be a real pain. It’s not their fault (necessarily); it’s just that there are so many suppliers presenting so many data management challenges and labor-intensive tracking tasks.
Oracle has stepped into the breach, the vendor announced yesterday, by delivering new Oracle Supplier Hub and Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management applications that work in [...]

Title: Zenoss Releases Free Cloud Computing Management Software
Open Source Community Develops Monitoring Applications for Virtualization, Google App Engine, Puppet Configuration Management and More

Title: Zenoss to Demo Cloud and Infrastructure Monitoring at Premier Open Source Conference
Zenoss Inc., corporate sponsor of the award winning open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, will be demonstrating how to monitor IT infrastructure with the company’s free and open source tools at the 11th Annual Linux and Grassroots Open Source Festival, [...]

Telx®, the leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has been selected as a connectivity partner by SoftLayer, a global provider of on-demand data center, hosting, and cloud services. SoftLayer has established a Point-of-Presence (POP) within Telx’s secure, connection-rich colocation facilities in Atlanta and New York City, enabling [...]

Synygy  Inc., the largest and most experienced provider of sales performance management (SPM) solutions, today announced a new release of its software featuring enhancements that add flexibility, ease of use, and speed to the sales communications and sales process automation functionality.
The latest release enhances the software’s ability to resolve several common problems associated with the [...]

AUSTIN, TX – March 4, 2010 – Zenoss Inc., corporate sponsor of the award winning open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, today announced the general availability of Zenoss Core version 2.5.2 under the GNU General Public License (V2). As part of this release, Zenoss Core now offers new monitoring capabilities for [...]

Watch out Photovoltaic Cell/Module companies!! Google is entering your field now.
Google has developed a prototype for a new mirror technology that could cut by half the cost of building a solar thermal plant, the company’s green energy czar said on Friday.
Bill Weihl said that if development and testing go well, he could see the product [...]

SAP has launched a new business intelligence (BI) offering for casual users that it claims will tie together all of its software-as-a-service BI products into one offering.
Business Objects BI On-Demand, will allow customers to create BI charts that include data, reports and analysis from SAP’s full client design tools, such as Business Objects Edge and [...]

The recent Toyota brake pedal disaster is an example of a massive failure in product design magnified by supply chain lead time. Current cost estimates total at least two billion dollars, not including future lost sales from the damage to consumer confidence.
When quality problems like this occur, supply chain lead time often determines the time [...]

Major UK companies have a poor understanding of supply chain risks they have acquired during the recession, a study by research company Mactavish has found.
Interviews with senior figures at more than 250 firms found supply chain risk and other dangers have risen sharply during the downturn as businesses have made unprecedented changes to operations.
The report [...]

Some of the biggest companies in the US are failing to take supply chain risks seriously, according to research.
A poll of buyers and other executives at more than 200 companies in the Fortune 1,000 uncovered poor standards on supplier risk management.
More than half of those surveyed kept less than 20 per cent of their supply [...]