03.Red 04.Hat Introduces New Linux OS for Containers

The world’s largest open source software provider just brought a new operating system on the market. On Thursday, Red Hat, known for its enterprise distributions of the Linux operating system, launched its Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host OS. The new OS is specifically designed to run the latest generation of applications as Linux containers.

Linux containers are virtualization environments that allow organizations to run multiple isolated Linux systems on a single Linux control host. Containers introduce autonomy for applications by packaging apps with the libraries and other binaries on which they depend.

Container-based architectures can provide more development and deployment flexibility, while simplifying maintenance requirements and maintaining the same level of performance, stability andsecurity  as non-virtualized systems.

Enterprise-Grade Linux Containers

The new operating system will provide enterprises with the tools they need to build and run their own Linux containers, according to Red Hat. In addition, the company said its latest OS is built specifically with the needs of enterprise IT departments in mind, with enterprise-grade security, ongoing product upgrades, proactive diagnostics, and access to support.

“Red Hat is committed to offering enterprises a complete and integrated container-based infrastructure solution, combining container-based application packaging with robust, optimized infrastructure that will enable easy movement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux-certified applications across bare metal systems, virtual machines and private and public clouds -- all of this with the product and security lifecycle that enterprise customers require,” Red Hat said.

Source:

http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=011000CDYZ3E

eBook: The Unofficial Oracle Linux 6 Installation and Setup Guide

I am proud to announce the latest release of the Unofficial Oracle Linux 6 Installation and Setup Guide. The Unofficial Oracle Linux 6 Installation and Setup Guide covers how to download, install, setup, patch and prepare Oracle Linux 6 for Oracle technology installations. 

Table of Contents

• Oracle Linux Introduction
• Oracle Linux Installation Options
• How to Download the Oracle Linux Installation Media from the Software Delivery Cloud
• Oracle Linux 6 Installation using the Graphical (GUI) Mode
• Oracle Linux Networking Setup
• 802.1Q Setup
• Disable IPv6
• iptables
• SELinux
• OS Watcher Black Box Setup
• Linux Patch Management using the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network
• Linux Patch Management with Free Updates and Errata from Oracle
• Install the oracle-rdbms-server preinstall RPM
• SSH and X11 Forwarding
• Install VNC Server
• Install the oracle-ebs-server-R12-preinstall RPM
• Install the oracle-em-agent preinstall? RPM
• Yum Command Examples – Repository Listing, Install, Uninstall, & Update RPM Packages
• Yum Repository Listing and Maintenance
• Listing RPM Packages & RPM Groups
• Installing, Removing, Updating and Searching RPM Packages & RPM Groups
• How to Uninstall or Remove Oracle Linux

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10 Important Facts About Apple in the Enterprise

Most Apple products find their way into the enterprise with help from solution providers in the channel. With so many Apple products now in use, a significant opportunity to provide IT management services for Apple devices has emerged. A recent survey of 309 individuals providing support for Apple products in companies with 100 or more employees found that IT support for Apple iPhone and iPad devices is nearly universal. A full 60 percent of those organizations said they are now providing IT support for Apple Macintosh systems, according to the survey, which was conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of JAMF Software, a provider of management software for Apple devices. From a channel perspective, the proliferation of Apple devices creates an opportunity to expand managed services beyond Windows systems. In fact, the report finds that, when it comes to the tools that internal IT organizations use to support Apple devices, there's not all that much satisfaction. Indeed, 40 percent of those surveyed said they plan to increase their Apple IT support budgets. Here are key findings from the study. - 


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DataStax slurps graph database biz Titan's brains

Hopes Facebook-tastic tech will be big data's Next Big Thing™

NoSQL database-start up DataStax is today expected to announce its plans to start developing and selling a graph database for enterprises.

DataStax will announce it has bought Aurelius, whose team is behind the Apache-licensed Titan distributed graph database for Cassandra. Financial terms were not revealed.

DataStax said the Aurelius team would help build something called the DataStax Enterprise Graph – a new graph database built on top of DataStax Enterprise.

This will integrate with Cassandra, the Apache-open-source NoSQL distributed storage system used by DataStax, and with DSE Search and Analytics.

The ASF-Cassandra project was born of the NoSQL distributed storage system of Facebook and is built on Google’s Big Table and Amazon’s Dynamo.






NoSQL databases emerged from web giants such as Facebook and Twitter and were pitched at enterprises. Next to emerge were graph databases: systems that claim to understand the relationships between entities using unique identifiers.

Graph databases differ from relational databases in that they dispense with rows and columns to store and query data, and thereby establish relationships and answer queries. Such databases work by assigning a unique identifier to a node – such as a person – and a set of edges that link nodes to each other, such as love of a certain type of music. Links are expressed as key/value pairs.

Like most things in this world, they are built to compute across massive server clusters – even different data centres – running on commodity hardware.


Full article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/03/datastax_muscles_up_with_titan_db/

Amazon Announces New Enterprise E-Mail Service

Amazon Web Service (AWS) announced the preview of its new enterprise e-mail service called Amazon WorkMail this week.

In a direct challenge to primary cloud services rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, the new product will offer all the usual business e-mail and calendaring functionalities and will even let users work with existing providers, such as Microsoft Outlook, Web-based services or mobile apps running on iOS or Android.






"Today, businesses face a difficult choice when it comes to e-mail," AWS said in a statement. "Hosting e-mail on-premises requires expensive hardware, complex software licensing and ongoing maintenance work. Existing cloud e-mail services may help with some of these problems, but they either don't offer the security features businesses require (like strong encryption key management and full control over data location), don't integrate with existing corporate directories, or don't support popular Microsoft Outlook features like shared calendaring. Now, Amazon WorkMail delivers the simplicity and on-demand access of a managed cloud service that works with popular e-mail clients and also has the security controls enterprises need."


Source:
http://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/01/29/enterprise-email-service.aspx

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Facebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work

Facebook released a public pilot of its long-awaited enterprise social app called Facebook at Worktoday, but will businesses actually want to use it?

Enterprise Social as a category has been with us for almost a decade, with companies like Jive,Yammer (now part of Microsoft) and Socialcast (now part of VMware) trying hard to get organizations  to embrace social tools — often being sold ironically as “Facebook for the enterprise.”

Facebook is jumping feet-first into this existing market with all of its baggage and trying to show it can make the transition to a business product and all that entails. While the Facebook enterprise product has many advantages, there are also many unanswered questions.

Source:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/14/facebook-where-the-enterprise-reacts-to-facebook-at-work/