The Linux Executive Report from IBM
September 9, 2009
The Linux Executive Report from IBM: September 9, 2009. 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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Centrify Corporation, a provider of Microsoft Active Directory-based, identity and access management and auditing solutions for non-Microsoft platforms, has announced the availability of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Centrify Suite 2008 for Linux on IBM System z.
In his keynote address at the Red Hat Summit 2009 in Chicago last week, "Linux Everywhere? Matching the Workload to the Computer," Bob Sutor, vice president of Open Source and Linux at IBM focused on the varied use of Linux on a wide range of devices, computers and mainframes, and the benefits of technologies including virtualization, cloud computing, horizontal clusters and grids, and centralized computing.
At the Red Hat Summit 2009 in Chicago last week, Red Hat announced the availability of the fourth update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is the integrated platform foundation of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of solutions and delivers expanded virtualization capabilities with the inclusion of kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology and Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d) and PCI-SIG SR-IOV, allowing multiple virtual machines in an Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series-based platform to directly share I/O devices. The release also features improved I/O throughput and the inclusion of additional tools for developers.
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Worldwide revenue from Linux operating system software grew by 23.4% from 2007 to 2008, and is anticipated to be followed by a 2008-2013 compound annual growth rate of 16.9%, according to a new IDC study.