The Linux Executive Report from IBM
April 24, 2013
The Linux Executive Report from IBM: April 24, 2013. A monthly summary of important trends and market research, case studies and information about IBM's Linux initiatives of interest to senior management.
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IBM is spearheading the development and adoption of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for financial services firms. On May 2, IBM will launch the KVM Center of Excellence for Wall Street located in New York City with a grand opening event for IBM clients and business partners in the financial services industry. This center will act as the hub for KVM-related trainings, client and partner briefings and thought leadership.
Avnet Technology Solutions, a global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc., has selected IBM SmartCloud as the foundation for Avnet Cloud Solutions, a portfolio of cloud offerings for small and midsize businesses in India.
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux, announced the founding of the OpenDaylight Project, a community-led and industry-supported open source framework that will accelerate adoption, foster new innovation and create a more open and transparent approach to software-defined networking (SDN).
What is driving KVM's momentum in the enterprise? That question is addressed in a new blog by Radhesh Balakrishnan, Global Leader, Virtualization, Red Hat, and Jean Staten Healy, Director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, in which they reflect on KVM's growing strength.
The Xen Project - an open source virtualization platform licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel - is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Commenting on the support for Xen and how that relates to KVM, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin writes in a blog, "The open source model is predicated upon freedom of choice, so supporting a range of open source virtualization platforms and facilitating collaboration across open source communities is a priority for The Linux Foundation."
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Founded in 1793, Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. Bonhams needed a scalable, cost-effective system for remote management and full disaster recovery between its data centers in New York and San Francisco.
A wide-ranging assortment of case studies illustrating how organizations have successfully implemented KVM for business advantage is available.
IBM Edge2013 is the smart and efficient way to catch up on industry directions, trends and the most up-to-date technical content for storage in 4.5 days of intensive training and hands-on labs. The event which will be held June 10-14 in Las Vegas, will provide technical training to IT management and professionals faced with the challenges of storing rapidly growing amounts of information, needing to stay responsive to a changing business environment and controlling costs.
A new video on YouTube spotlights North Carolina State University, one of the largest technical colleges in the Southeast. NCSU uses the PowerLinux platform to manage big data and IBM Content Analytic Studio on the cloud to develop a smarter computing environment that uses the appropriate technologies based on the questions they are trying to answer.
IBM hosts Linux on System z Executive Council meetings in locations across the United States to provide education on Linux on System z. Check back frequently for information about educational opportunities coming to a city near you. Information is also available about Live Virtual Classes for z/VM and Linux.
Computerworld's Open Business Conference (OSBC) will take place April 29-30 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. As part of the conference, the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) will present a panel discussion on how far open virtualization has come since OSBC last year, where KVM solutions are being used today, and what's next for the OVA. The session, "Virtualization Opens Up: KVM, OpenStack and the Virtualization of Everything," is scheduled for Monday, April 29, at 3 pm.
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The Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit - May 14-15 at the New York Stock Exchange - will feature a special track on KVM sponsored by IBM. The Enterprise End User Summit is an exclusive invitation-only event that brings together high performance end users with the highest level Linux community developers. CTOs, architects, senior IT representatives and kernel developers are able to connect directly to advance the features most critical to using Linux in the enterprise.
The Linux Foundation 2013 event and co-located Linux training schedule includes Linux events worldwide and co-located Linux training opportunities, answering the global demand for technical Linux content, knowledge and collaboration. Go here for the complete list of 2013 events and training opportunities.
At Red Hat Summit in June, IBM identified three technologies which would play a major role in the next era of computing - open virtualization, big data and open cloud. Six months later, all three are having a major impact. In this presentation, progress in each of these areas is discussed - how IBM and Red Hat are delivering integrated solutions to solve real-world business problems through smarter computing.
IBM will be the Premier sponsor for Red Hat Summit, and technology from IBM PureSystems, IBM System x, IBM PowerLinux, IBM System z and IBM BladeCenter will be profiled, demonstrating the latest IBM solutions for cloud computing, open virtualization, and big data. The ninth annual Red Hat Summit will be held June 11-14 at the Hynes Center in Boston.
A replay of "The Reality of x86 Virtualization: Hypervisor Diversity," a webcast presented by presented by Red Hat and IBM on October 11, is available for replay now - streaming and in downloadable MP4.
Computerworld's Open Business Conference (OSBC) will take place April 29-30 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. As part of the conference, the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) will present a panel discussion on how far open virtualization has come since OSBC last year, where KVM solutions are being used today, and what's next for the OVA. The session, "Virtualization Opens Up: KVM, OpenStack and the Virtualization of Everything," is scheduled for Monday, April 29, at 3 pm.
The oVirt Community and Intel are hosting an oVirt Workshop in Shanghai on May 8th and 9th at Intel's Shanghai Campus. oVirt is an open and comprehensive data center virtualization management suite.
Registration is open for SUSECon, SUSE's annual global user conference. The event will be held November 12-15, 2013, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
SUSE Studio 1.3 is now available for ISVs and enterprise data centers. SUSE Studio helps customers build software application images in several formats and then deploy them on physical hardware in virtualized environments or cloud environments.
In a new blog on the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) website, Jemmee Yung, Vice President for Business Development at Bloombase, writes about best practices for data security.