IBM Linux Line
December 2, 2009
A concise monthly report of news and insight of interest to IT managers responsible for Linux deployments and the hands-on Linux community.
Linux News
IBM supercomputers are the most energy-efficient in the world, according to the latest Supercomputing "Green500 List" announced earlier this month by Green500.org. The Green500 list is published by Green500.org. It provides a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world and serves as a complementary view to the TOP500 list of worldwide supercomputers by Top500.org.
In the recent IBM Global CIO Study of more than 2,500 CIOs around the world, 83% of respondents identified business intelligence (BI) and analytics as the top way they will enhance their organizations' competitiveness and ability to meet client needs. Moving to address this need for its own employees and for its customers, IBM has announced the world's largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics for use by IBM employees, and has also announced a new solution, the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud, to enable clients to build their own private cloud environments based on the same cloud infrastructure that IBM is using internally.
IBM, VMware and Keepod products family manufacturer NSEC are partnering to offer IBM's Lotus Symphony productivity software suite on Keepod devices for the first time.
The openSUSE Project, a worldwide project sponsored by Novell, has announced that openSUSE 11.2, a Linux-based operating system that includes everything needed to get started with Linux on the desktop or server, is now available for download. The openSUSE distribution provides the foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell. "Different Linux distributions have a different focus," explains Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager, noting that openSUSE is very suitable for small and home office users as well as for professionals who do development. While SUSE Linux Enterprise is designed to be on a system for 5-7 years, in contrast, says Brockmeier, openSUSE is intended to have a shorter lifecycle. "We keep up with the latest and greatest in open source software," he emphasizes, "but we still have a very firm commitment to quality, so it is not as if we are not pushing the very bleeding edge into the releases. We are trying to make sure that they still very well polished."
Inside Linux at IBM
Looking for an easier way to develop and test applications? Join IBM on Thursday, December 17, 2009, at 12pm ET to hear how Linux and IBM software can expedite the development and test of applications in the cloud More than just a presentation, this webcast will take you from the theory of cloud computing to practice in a few simple steps and give you the confidence to explore cloud computing further with the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud.
Join Red Hat on December 9 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, an event focused on Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions, and learn how you can scale to new demands, drive innovation, and build mission-critical applications, without sacrificing performance, security, or functionality.