Tag Archive for Open Source

Adobe embraces open source and developer community with General Availability announcement of Adobe Commerce Cloud

Adobe’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Magento last summer brought with it a large channel, a huge developer ecosystem and a commitment to open source. All are embraced in the new Adobe Commerce Cloud, which is now in General Availability.

Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks

Lenovo is the last major infrastructure vendor to join the roster of Cumulus partners. They will offer three ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support for Cumulus Linux out of the gate, with more coming in 2019.

French ITIM vendor Centreon launches North American operation with Toronto office and 100 per cent channel strategy

Centreon will be selling completely through channel partners in North America, seeing this as a key way to build up their presence in a crowded ITIM space filled with legacy vendors they believe can be toppled.

Scality adds commercial version and new features to Zenko multi-cloud data controller in 1.0 release

The new features include the addition of one-to-many replication capability to the Zenko data workflow engine, something that is valuable to the majority of cloud users who have more than one cloud.

IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth

IGEL will be demonstrating their software-defined endpoint computing solutions around two events this week, at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, and right next to VMworld in Las Vegas, with the latter being something of a guerilla operation.

Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform

At their Google Cloud Next 2018 event, in addition to their new platform, Google announced GKE On-Prem, a version of Google’s Google Kubernetes Engine for container management. They also announced Istio 1.0 is now available for production deployments, and the first service for it.

DataStax makes major enhancements to Apache Cassandra with DataStax Enterprise 6

DataStax, which was the driver in building Apache Cassandra, makes major changes to the platform for the first time in their commercial product, to make it more enterprise-friendly by dramatically upgrading performance and removing manual work.

New Macola 10.7 ERP release stops software from breaking during upgrades

The latest version of the Macola ERP software continues to open up the product, and features changes that they say will end ‘version lock’ including the addition of screen plug-ins and back-end plug ins. There has also been a major extension of open APIs and new capabilities to make it easy to turn off unwanted fields.

Metaswitch inks go-to-market partnership with Dell EMC around their Composable Network Protocols

Metaswitch has entered into vendor reseller agreements that go beyond technical integrations before, but this is their first one in the Composable Network Protocol part of their business.

AWS poised to capitalize on exponential Internet of Things growth with new services

The new AWS services include a service to get started in IoT, one to manage fleets of devices, ones for security and analytics, one for small devices without CPUs, and one to run machine learning at the edge.

Aparavi emerges from stealth with SaaS platform for mid-market long term data retention

The Aparavi leadership team is largely made up of executives from NovaStor, a classic legacy backup player, who got frustrated with the problems created by traditional data protection.

Mesosphere expands HPE relationship with new strategic alliance

Mesosphere is looking for this new deal, which integrates their technology directly into HPE Synergy and HPE OneView, to further expand their reach among enterprises facing digital transformation.

Demand compels container management vendor Rancher to create partner program

The two year-old startup has created a partner program faster than planned, because of requests from channel members driven in turn by requests from their customers.

Canada still a land grab opportunity for the channel: Microsoft

Microsoft Canada channel chief Jason Brommet laid out what the company sees as the new opportunities in Canada and how recent moves, including the Canadian data centres going live, will help partners succeed. He also indicated that channel resources in Canada are being significantly enhanced.

Scality unveils open source Scality S3 Server

This free open source version of Scality’s S3 API allows developers to develop and test applications locally. The company also hopes that it will eventually attract them to the regular version of their software.