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Clerity, HP Team Up On Mainframe Modernization
Clerity Solutions is teaming up with HP to touring the world demonstrating how to migrate mainframe workloads to open systems platforms without impacting SLAs with Clerity’s UniKix mainframe rehosting technology. The latest demo was at the Ciab 2010 Conference in São Paulo, Brazil, in June.
Full Story >ERP Modernization at Spanish Bank Cuts IT OpEx
Banco Pastor, one of Spain’s largest banking groups, expects to cut IT costs by 30% and expand scalability with an ERP modernization project that migrated HR and email apps from SAP and IBM onto Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z.
Full Story >Discount Tire Manages End-to-End with Red Hat
Discount Tire, an independent tire and wheel retailer, is using Red Hat Network Satellite to bring more visibility and performance to Linux systems running mission-critical internal and e-commerce systems. Discount Tire says even their IT staff productivity has also improved.
Full Story >ParaScale Upgrades Cloud Storage Software
ParaScale Inc. is shipping an upgrade to its ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) software, which can cluster hundreds of low-cost Linux servers into a enterprise-class file repository. PCS v1.2 upgrades the company's distributed object file system technologies, and is opening new options for well-integrated, well-managed cloud storage.
Full Story >HP Expands Virtualization, OpenLDAP for Data Centers
HP is expanding open source options for mission-critical data center operations based on Linux, OpenLDAP and popular open virtualization technologies. Features include high-availability clustering, disaster tolerance and data management.
Full Story >Microsoft Eyes Upgrades to Window-to-Unix Tools
Microsoft is beginning to scope out a beta program for its Services for Unix (SFU) product, aimed at providing interoperability -- and even integration -- features between Windows and Unix/Linux platforms. See what may be in store for the future SFU, and how it's already making an impact in mixed Windows/Unix, Linux sites.
Full Story >IDC: "People Costs" Make Linux Costlier Than Windows
In a study released this month, the International Data Corp found that the nominally "free" Linux can be more expensive to own, run and maintain than Windows 2000 servers for many popular applications. The reason? Total hardware/software costs for both Linux and Windows 2000 were less than 10% of the total 5-year cost of ownership. The big-ticket items are people costs for maintaining, integrating and securing those servers.
Full Story >Gartner Warns Linux Can Cost More To Integrate
The Gartner Group has released a report on Linux that will be of special interest to commercial Java, .NET and legacy systems developers. Gartner found that while Linux may save some money in the purchase of stand-alone hardware/software, integrating Linux systems with installed applications may be more expensive than with Unix or Windows because of a lack of support, integration tools and knowledgeable service providers. See how Gartner suggests you deal with the issue.
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