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Hands-on with Canonical’s Orange Box and a peek into cloud nirvana

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 17th of June 2014 06:10:48 PM Filed under
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Ubuntu

First off, Canonical emphasized to Ars multiple times that it is not getting into the hardware business. If you really want to buy one of these things, you can have Tranquil PC build one for you (for £7,575, or about $12,700), but Canonical won’t sell you an Orange Box for your lab—there are too many partner relationships it could jeopardize by wading into the hardware game. But what Canonical does want to do is let you fiddle with an Orange Box. It makes for an amazing demo platform—a cloud-in-a-box that Canonical can use to show off the fancy services and tools it offers.
Inside the custom orange chassis are ten stripped Intel Ivy Bridge D53427RKE NUCs. Each comes with 16GB of RAM and a 120GB SSD, and they’re all connected to a gigabit Ethernet switch. One of the NUCs is the control node; its USB and HDMI ports are wired to the Orange Box’s rear panel, and that particular node also runs Canonical’s MAAS software. Its single unified internal 320W power supply runs on a single 110v outlet—even when all ten nodes are going flat-out, it doesn't require a second power plug.

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Red Hat looks to the OpenStack cloud with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 16th of June 2014 04:26:15 PM Filed under
Red Hat
Server

In this latest RHEV release, Red Hat states that it brings new "enhancements for traditional virtualization infrastructure, guest support for the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, as well as advanced OpenStack [cloud] support across compute, storage and networking."

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Red Hat: Governments should invest in open source cloud to keep up with technology

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 16th of June 2014 10:40:48 AM Filed under
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Server
Interviews

Governments should invest in open source cloud to avoid getting trapped with a vendor and their offerings when they need to meet policy requirements or the time comes to update to new technology, Red Hat says.

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How Does IBM's Power8 Stack Up Against Competition?

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 13th of June 2014 08:06:23 AM Filed under
GNU
Linux
Server

Should Intel Relevant Products/Services Xeon-based system manufacturers be worried? IBM just started shipping the next generation of Power Systems services with its Power8 processor Relevant Products/Services. The processor can be licensed and is open for development through the OpenPower Foundation -- and Big Blue is making some big claims.

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"Shatter" Might Finally Materialize For The X.Org Server

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 13th of June 2014 06:59:50 AM Filed under
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A new African student developer from Cameroon, Nyah Check, has proposed working on Shatter with financing provided by the Endless Vacation of Code. Here's the synopsis for what he hopes to accomplish, "This project seeks to support shatter rendering in a multi-head Xephyr by dividing rendering between multiple Xephyr GPUs screens by using the impedance layer to the X server. This will comprise of polishing the current implementation of the impedance layer and testing for shatter rendering on two Xephyr GPU screens. This would be the scope of this summer's project which will eventually continue to completely add shatter and replace Xinerama by splitting the protocol objects from the driver objects modularizing the acceleration architectures and framebuffer layers under the driver rending layer and the damage, protocol decode layers under the protocol layer interface, communicating through the impedance layer interface. This removes duplicate protocol processing and storage of information lowering Xinerama multiplexing to the impedance layer boundary. This would enable multiplexing below the protocol screen."

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OpenStack Designate Brings DNS as a Service Into Incubation

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 12th of June 2014 07:27:52 PM Filed under
Server
OSS

I've been following the Designate project, which provide OpenStack DesignateDNS-as-a-Service for OpenStack for some time. It's a project that seems painfully obvious to me, enabling DNS features within an OpenStack cloud deployment.

DNS is a critical network service and without it, I really don't understand how OpenStack service providers could possibly properly scale a business. If DNS isn't inside OpenStack it's outside of it, with a more manual and more painful, less 'cloudy' approach.

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Mesosphere Raises $10.5 Million to Create Massive Linux Clusters

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 12th of June 2014 01:14:04 PM Filed under
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Linux
Server

Thanks to the advent of multicore processors, the average data center these days has access to a massive amount of compute capacity. Tapping into it efficiently, though, is another thing altogether.

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The Companies That Support Linux: Rackspace

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 12th of June 2014 12:48:35 PM Filed under
GNU
Linux
Server
Interviews

Rackspace has lately been in the news for its stock market gains and a potential acquisition. But over the past 16 years the company has become well known, first as a web hosting provider built on Linux and open source, and later as a pioneer of the open source cloud and founder of the OpenStack cloud platform.

In May, Rackspace became a Xen Project member and was one of three companies to join the Linux Foundation as a corporate member, along with CoreOS and Cumulus Networks.

“Many of the applications and infrastructure that we need to run for internal use or for customers run best on Linux,” said Paul Voccio, Senior Director of Software Development at Rackspace, via email. “This includes all the popular language frameworks and open virtualization platforms such as Xen, LXC, KVM, Docker, etc.”

In this Q&A, Voccio discusses the role of Rackspace in the cloud, how the company uses Linux, why they joined the Linux Foundation, as well as current trends and future technologies in the data center.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Announcement Likely Tomorrow

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 10th of June 2014 06:43:27 AM Filed under
GNU
Linux
Red Hat
Server

Red Hat was just sending out press invites this afternoon for a virtual event tomorrow regarding "an exciting product" that will be announced.

Registration for the online event happening tomorrow (10 June) at 11AM EST can be found at RedHat.com. The site says it's about, "redefining the enterprise OS."

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Calxeda co-founder unleashs 48-core ARM SoC

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 5th of June 2014 11:45:56 AM Filed under
GNU
Linux
Server

The devices support a variety of Linux distros, with KVM and Xen virtualisation support, Java and GCC development support.

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