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You may already be heavily invested in the rapidly emerging technology of virtualization. If so, consider some of the ideas below for further exploiting the technology. If not, now is the right time to get started.
Virtualization provides a set of tools for increasing flexibility and lowering costs, things that are important in every enterprise and Information Technology organization. Virtualization solutions are becoming increasingly available and rich in features.
Since virtualization can provide significant benefits to your organization in multiple areas, you should be establishing pilots, developing expertise and putting virtualization technology to work now.
By: Matthew J. Szulik
“The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes awwwwww.” — Jack Kerouac
After almost a decade of leading Red Hat, I have decided to transition my CEO and President role for the personal reasons I have already discussed. It’s my privilege to continue serving this great company in the role of Chairman of the Board. Red Hat will be in the capable hands of a world-class executive team under the leadership of Jim Whitehurst as President and CEO.
My early days at Red Hat were sitting in small office with no door in Durham, NC, across from the free soda machine. People by the hour would stop and punch their selection for Mountain Dew or Coke. My challenge was that I was tasked to go and raise venture money for this free software company. And over the phone, in the middle of my sales pitch, corporate types at Dell, IBM and HP and others would hear the constant banging of soda cans dropping in the soda machine and would ask if there were fights going on outside my office. So, after a while, I told the prospective investors that YES there were fights going on. And yes, these fights happened frequently. It’s how people at Red Hat settled technical issues likes software bugs and features in new releases. Red Hat was a real tough place to work. Dell, HP and IBM became investors because they liked the fighting spirit of Red Hat.
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Mr. HISTalk interviews Laurent Rotival, senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Solutions business at GE Healthcare. Laurent discusses the next-generation product line being built in partnership with Intermountain Healthcare, which is being architected on Linux, open source and commodity hardware to enable the product to scale from community hospitals to large IDNs such as Intermountain. An architecture built on Linux enables both scale-up and scale-down by providing affordable reliability on both ends of the provider spectrum. There is no need to design an “expensive” architecture for large providers and a different “low-cost” architecture for small providers. Linux enables you to support both with the same affordable architecture. Check out the interview.
We’ve recently seen a large amount of information in the press regarding information security and what happens when organizations misstep in implementing security procedures and systems. This problem is not going to be solved in the near term. To date, the volume of reports has not diminished public interest. We can expect to see additional incidents and they will become increasingly visible.
The problem requires attention from both technology people and their business partners.
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The recent public announcement of the broader MRG product suite marks a significant milestone for Red Hat’s realtime development team. This announcement formalized Red Hat’s product commitment to realtime — a significant step toward the upcoming product availability. This is extremely gratifying for the development team — to see the fruits of several years of effort come that much closer to imminently being deployed by demanding customers.
It has been a long road in getting the bulk of the realtime feature set successfully incorporated upstream. This wasn’t easy due to the strict upstream kernel acceptance criteria. A tough crowd to please, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. The high bar for design and code review, while it can appreciably lengthen the process, ultimately yields a superior implementation. It took a lot of patience and community-development skills to pull off the leadership of the realtime initiative. We’d rather have things done right than hastily.
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At the recent Gartner IT ChannelVision: Government Edition event, Red Hat’s government team picked up two prestigious award nominations. One for best technology provider. And one for best federal channel strategy. The Best of IT ChannelVision: Government Edition Awards are voted on by attending system integrators and Red Hat was one of just four nominees in these categories.
Regular readers of our blog will notice that this is the third recognition this year for the government channel team. Red Hat’s director of Government Channel Sales, Mike Byrd, was recognized earlier this year by GovernmentVAR as one of the 25 Public Sector Channel Leaders and Washington Technology awarded Mike its prestigious Channel Leadership Award.
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On December 11, 2007 Red Hat is sponsoring the “Server Virtualization: When, Why and How to Virtualize” conference at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Come visit our exhibit to learn how to implement Red Hat’s virtualization solutions into your IT architecture.
Red Hat is sponsoring IC/DAMA Day on Thursday December 13 in San Francisco. IC/DAMA Day is a joint Integration Consortium and Data Management Association user-group meeting focusing on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Data Management interdependence and best practices. Members of the JBoss team will be on hand to discuss the MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform and JBoss SOA strategy and answer questions.
Other North American events:
December 11, 2007 TASSCC State of the States Conference, Austin, TX
December 11, 2007 Server Virtualization: When, Why and How To Virtualize, Atlanta, GA
December 11-12, 2007 Massachusetts Digital Summit, Boston, MA
December TBD Los Angeles Technology Forum, Los Angeles, CA
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Last week, the National Security Agency (NSA) released security guidance for securely configuring a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 machine.
Red Hat’s Security Standards team worked with the NSA on this effort and we are excited about it because it’s the most thorough and clear security guide to date for any Linux distribution. It should prove useful to admins and tool vendors looking for guidance on how to lock down any Linux system. As the guidance is specifically aimed at the options available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and the version of packages shipped with this operating system, it will be particularly useful for locking down Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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This is my first posting to the Red Hat blogs. I’ve been with Red Hat for a few months as the Vice President of Information Technology and want to share a CIO’s perspective on Red Hat, open source, the software industry and technology in general.
By way of background, I joined Red Hat from Capital One Financial (COF), where I was a divisional CIO. Prior to that, I worked for the Nasdaq Stock Market (NDAQ) on strategic technology initiatives, including a number of ventures outside the United States. I worked for Citicorp (C) as a global technology leader and technical architect. I began my career with IBM (IBM) as an operating system developer and worked for them in a variety of technology and management roles. You can see my profile on Red Hat’s management pages.
I’ll start this series with a review of some events and trends from 2007 and how they impact technology and business professionals. I’ll also identify some of the themes I see emerging in 2008 and how they will affect us both short term and long term.
This blog is open for responses from you, the readers, and I encourage you to challenge my comments, share your points of view, provide additional issues for discussion, or pose new questions.
As a follow-up to last year’s panel, Paul Smith, Red Hat’s vice president for Government Sales Operations, will again participate in an open source panel discussion on Federal News Radio’s monthly Federal Executive Forum, discussing 2007 in review. The “Open Source Computing – One Year in Review” program will discuss benefits, best practices and potential for open source in the federal government.
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