The Linux Executive Report from IBM
June 9, 2010
The Linux Executive Report from IBM: June 9, 2010. 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
In the newest version of the semiannual Top500 list, Linux continues to dominate as the operating system of choice for the world's most advanced supercomputers. According to the latest list, compiled by compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, more than 90% of the Top500 fastest supercomputers run some version of Linux.
ARM, IBM, and four additional vendors have founded a new not-for-profit company, Linaro, committed to providing new resources and industry alignment for open source software developers using Linux on sophisticated semiconductor System-on-Chips (SoCs). Linaro's work will help developers and manufacturers provide consumers with more choice, more responsive devices and more diverse applications on Linux-based systems.
IBM has successfully leveraged its experience managing the world's largest computing environments to offer IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud. This offering, which is now available in the U.S. and Canada, is specifically designed to meet the security and reliability needs of enterprise-class clients. The offering will be available in additional geographies later this year.
Inside Linux at IBM
Did you miss a webcast covering important information about technologies you need to learn more about? IBM offers replays on-demand of webcasts presented by IBM experts and partners.
Inside IBM's Linux Partners
Are mainframes complex, power-hungry, hard to support? Or are they lean, powerful, and invaluable to the modern IT infrastructure? New Aberdeen research reports point to the latter: mainframe users can decrease cost and improve processing power by supporting critical enterprise applications on the mainframe. Three new Aberdeen reports are available for a limited time now.
Are you currently evaluating the business benefits of running virtualization in a distributed versus mainframe environment?
Don't miss Red Hat Summit! The event, June 22-25 in Boston, provides a unique opportunity to learn about open source advancements through technical and business seminars, hands-on labs and demos, customer case studies, networking opportunities, partner displays, visionary keynotes, and direct collaboration with engineers.
This webcast hosted by Novell and IBM discusses the highly scalable, superior IT optimization and workload consolidation that System z delivers to a virtualized environment.
Navigate your business through the economic downturn by lowering your total cost of ownership and embracing enterprise-class solutions using Red Hat Enterprise Linux with IBM Client for Smart Work. Attend this Wednesday, June 23rd webinar to learn how to apply the Liberate-Migrate-Virtualize strategies, which will help you optimize software licensing and prepare your organization to get more value from user-segment driven desktop virtualization, cloud computing, and client access choices.