IBM Linux Line
November 9, 2011
A concise monthly report of news and insight of interest to IT managers responsible for Linux deployments and the hands-on Linux community.
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In this webinar, attendees will learn more about KVM as an enterprise-grade solution from industry leaders IBM, Red Hat and thought leader, Gary Chen, IDC analyst.
IBM's Watson, which bested Jeopardy!'s two most successful contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, continued its winning streak during a recent exhibition game played against teams of students from Harvard Business School (HBS) and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
In what it is described as the largest update to its systems portfolio this year, IBM introduced 55 new and updated server and storage technologies that can help clients gain actionable insights from data, increase IT capacity and deliver new services faster to create profitable business opportunities. The new offerings include affordable business analytics systems, automated tools for implementing security and compliance standards, and starter kits for establishing private clouds.
At the first-ever LinuxCon Europe held in Prague, Czech Republic (co-located with the Linux Kernel Summit and GStreamer Conference), the 3.1 Linux kernel was launched.
Choosing the right virtualization foundation is critical whether you are virtualizing for the first time or transitioning to a Cloud computing model.IBM System x enterprise servers represent the best of IBM X-Architecture technology, leveraging decades of mainframe server design to deliver an open and affordable, industry-standard server platform that can help tackle virtualizing your most demanding workloads. The combination of KVM, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and IBM System x systems provide performance, scalability, low cost, and - most importantly - choice for both Windows and Linux operating environments.
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