The Linux Executive Report from IBM
December 19, 2012
The Linux Executive Report from IBM: December 19, 2012. A monthly summary of important trends and market research, case studies and information about IBM's Linux initiatives of interest to senior management.
Linux News
The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC), the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products, will be held February 20-22 in San Francisco. The conference, now in its ninth year, has the largest collection of sessions dedicated exclusively to embedded Linux and embedded Linux developers. ELC consists of three days of presentations, tutorials and bird-of-a-feather sessions.
In a new blog post, Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, writes about the advantages of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning, a workload optimized cloud that combines infrastructure and platform capabilities and supports multiple hypervisors - including KVM.
IBM has opened its first-ever KVM Center of Excellence focused on open virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) in Beijing, China. With this new KVM Center of Excellence, IBM is leveraging its KVM expertise in China to make it easy for clients and partners to have access to briefings, to enrich their staffs with training, and to conduct proofs of concept of their own solutions. Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, participated in the launch event and writes about the purpose of the new KVM CoE and why China was chosen as its location in a new blog.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team has announced that the next beta release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 - is now available. According to the team, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 has been designed for optimized performance, stability and flexibility to cater to today's diverse workloads running in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
The oVirt Project, developers of an integrated, open source virtualization platform built on the KVM hypervisor, invites all those with an interest in open virtualization to the project's next workshop, taking place at NetApp's Sunnyvale campus on January 22-24.
The call for presentation proposals for the 2013 Red Hat Summit is going on now. The event, which will be held in June 10 - 14, 2013 at the Hynes Center in Boston, brings together thought leaders and executives from across the technology industry to participate in keynotes and sessions on community, innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.1. The 3.1 release brings Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization forward with new features to enhance its scalability, user administration and management interface, networking, storage, and virtual desktop functionality. With this release, Red Hat also brings further flexibility for the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the full Red Hat portfolio, including its Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
SUSE's annual global user conference, SUSECon, will be held November 12-15, 2013, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The event provides the opportunity for SUSE users to learn about and see first-hand the latest open source developments from SUSE, including what's new in enterprise Linux, cloud computing, big data, server management, and integrated systems.
Inside Linux at IBM
In a new blog post, Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, writes about IBM's PureFlex System: Hiding complexity - it has become the mantra of technology providers. As customers' IT resources continue to be stretched, staffs are asked to do more, and budgets remain flat or growing slightly, the demand for systems and interfaces that make operations simpler is increasing. We understand that - and with this customer requirement in mind, IBM created the PureFlex System. However, at IBM we still think that there are certain choices that should not be taken out of customers' hands because it will limit their agility now - and in the future
It is often assumed that KVM does not run Windows workloads, or at least does not run them very well, writes Mike Day, IBM distinguished engineer & chief virtualization architect, open systems development software architect, in a new blog.
Inside IBM's Linux Partners
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.