New user group targets Unix users, techies
All Unix users, developers and support people are invited to the first Xinuos FreeBSD User Group, taking place on 26 November. FreeBSD's widespread popularity has spawned a number of user groups around the world. The African arm of the user group is being set up in...
LinuxOne: a game changer for South African IT market
The mobile world requires agile infrastructure, one that has the requisite business intelligence for analysis, reporting and execution that drives immediate value to the firm, writes Maurice Blackwood, systems executive at IBM. Few doubt the value of Linux in the...
Obsidian Systems signs up as Hortonworks Systems Integrator Partner
Obsidian Systems, a leading provider of open source services, in South Africa and Hortonworks(r), the leading provider of Open Enterprise Hadoop, have entered into a partnership to provide South African businesses with an open source platform for the distributed...
Red Hat to acquire IT automation and DevOps leader Ansible
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, a provider of powerful IT automation solutions designed to help enterprises move toward frictionless IT. Ansible's automation capabilities, together...
SUSE and Huawei debut SAP HANA appliance solution
SUSE and Huawei are collaborating to include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the operating environment in Huawei's new SAP HANA Appliance Solution. The combination of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Huawei's SAP HANA appliance will speed up real-time data analysis...
Red Hat Academy Academy debuts in EMEA
Red Hat has announced that Red Hat Academy, an open source education programme that provides hands-on curriculum, labs, performance-based testing, and educator training and support, is available to universities with the required technology and support environments in...
CA joins Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project
CA Technologies has become a founding Platinum member of The Linux Foundation’s new Open Mainframe Project. The project is designed to create a collaborative environment among top industry leaders and academic institutions to drive both improvements and enterprise...
The many trends of middleware
The term "middleware" has been used for many years to broadly categorise the set of behind-the-scenes technologies designed to help enterprises create, connect, and manage the myriad of software applications that run today's businesses. By Mike Piech, vice-president...
SUSE Linux server for SAP supports IBM
SUSE has announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is now available to support IBM Power Systems running the SAP HANA platform. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the first Linux to run on Power Systems and the first to support SAP HANA, will allow...
Obsidian toasts open source with free beer
Open Source software supplier Obsidian Systems invites OS enthusiasts, developers, geeks and friends, to the next Free Beer Session on 27 August 2015. This session, the 17th in the series, will offer delegates fresh insight into the open source industry, challenges...
The beekeeping open source model
By default the open source software business model features principles or ideals that make it an attractive proposition for businesses of all sizes. Experts in the growing field believe that OS’ ‘beekeeper model’ exposes the investor to several fundamentals that...
Red Hat announces CloudForms 3.2
Red Hat has announced Red Hat CloudForms 3.2, the latest version of its award-winning solution for managing private and hybrid clouds. CloudForms 3.2 delivers innovative management features that enable customers to automate the deployment and management of OpenStack...