VMTurbo Seeks to Put Virtualization on the Fast Track

VMTurbo, a workload management system for virtualized environments, seeks to simplify and streamline. It's first stop -- hooking into VMware vCenter.

Cray Unifies Midrange Supercomputers on XE6, XK6 Architectures

The supercomputing giant has discontinued its lower-priced CX line of midrange supercomputers and replaced them with new entry-level configurations of its high-end supercomputers.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 Released

New release is essentially a security and bug fix release.

Demand Grows for Oracle SPARC T4 Server

Oracle has shipped thousands of mid-range SPARC T4 servers with Oracle Solaris.

Red Hat Extends Linux Support

Going beyond Extended Lifecycle Support, Linux vendor breathes longer life into Enterprise Linux.

NetIQ AppManager 8 Simplifies Application and System Management

New version offers better centralized server management.

Arkeia Network Backup Version 9.1 Review

No matter what size of company you have, Arkeia's Network Backup can work for you. Backup local systems or over a WAN to disk, tape or the cloud.

Red Hat Improves Realtime Linux

MRG platform gets a new release, adding Linux 3.0 and new performance measurement features

ServiceMesh Extends Agility Platform with Fujitsu Global Cloud Support

ServiceMesh customers gain access to Fujitsu’s on-demand cloud computing.

PerspecSys Builds Bridge to the Public Cloud

For some enterprises, regulations rule out using the public cloud. This means some products, notably Salesforce.com, can't be considered. PerspecSys believes it has found the solution for those with this predicament.

Integrating Policy Servers is a Priority for Tier One Mobile Operators

Research report by Heavy Reading suggests operators plan to integrate policy servers with existing systems.

Protegrity Protects HP NonStop Servers With Data Security Tokenization

Tokenization technology gives enterprises protection for highly-sensitive data.

Early Adopters Test New Supermicro Redundant UPS Module for Servers

The PWS-1K03B-1R uninterruptable power supply (UPS) offers redundant battery backup.

Dell Leans on SUSE for OEM Linux Solutions

What's sitting inside your Dell OEM solution? If it's Linux, then it's likely to be SUSE.

VMware Delivers Real Financial Results for Virtualization Business

VMware had a great year in 2011 and has big plans for growing its business in 2012.

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Mozilla Public License 2.0 Released
revealingheart writes "Mozilla has announced the release of the Mozilla Public License 2.0. The new version provides for compatibility with the Apache and GPL licenses, improved patent protections and recent changes in copyright law. The full license text is available online. Mozilla has updated their wiki with plans to upgrade their codebase; Bugzilla has also said that they will update (with an exemption to keep the project MPL only). The MPL was previously incompatible with other copyleft licenses like the GPL. The new version is compatible (unless exempted) and doesn't require multiple licenses (as currently stands with Firefox and Thunderbird). This will allow Mozilla to incorporate Apache-licensed code; but will mean that their software becomes incompatible with GPL2 code."

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Nginx Overtakes Microsoft As No. 2 Web Server
tsamsoniw writes "With financial backing from the likes of Michael Dell and other venture capitalists, open source upstart Nginx has edged out Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) to hold the title of second-most widely used Web server among all active websites. What's more, according to Netcraft's January 2012 Web Server Survey, Nginx over the past month has gained market share among all websites, whereas competitors Apache, Microsoft, and Google each lost share."

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Hadoop 1.0 Released
darthcamaro writes "There has been a tonne of hype about Big Data and specifically Hadoop in recent years. But until today, Hadoop was not a 1.0 release product. Does it matter? Not really, but it's still a big milestone. The new release includes a new web interface for the Hadoop filesystem, security, and Hbase database support. '"At this point we figured that as a community we can support this release and be compatible for the foreseeable future. That makes this release an ideal candidate to be called 1.0," Arun C. Murthy, vice president of Apache Hadoop, said.'"

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ASF Lays Out Its Plan For OpenOffice.org
Thinkcloud writes "In an open letter, the Apache Software Foundation has made its plans for OpenOffice clear, including an Apache-branded OpenOffice suite targeted at developers coming next year." From The H: "The ASF says it does not want to force any vision on the ODF community noting that 'it is impossible to agree upon a single vision for all participants, Apache OpenOffice does not seek to define a single vision, nor does it seek to be the only player' in the large ODF ecosystem. Instead, it wishes to offer a neutral 'collaboration opportunity' and notes that its permissive licensing and development model are 'widely recognised as one of the best ways to ensure open standards, such as ODF, gain traction and adoption.'"

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Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access
angry tapir writes "A yet-to-be-patched flaw discovered in the Apache HTTP server allows attackers to access protected resources on the internal network if some rewrite rules are not defined properly. The vulnerability affects Apache installations that operate in reverse proxy mode, a type of configuration used for load balancing, caching and other operations that involve the distribution of resources over multiple servers."

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Apache Harmony Moves To Apache Attic
think_nix writes "After the resignation of Apache from the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, the time has now come for Harmony to be added to the Apache Attic. Harmony was 'the project to produce an open source cleanroom implementation of Java.' An open vote was taken within the Project Management Committee, which resulted in a 20-2 majority to discontinue development."

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Apache Fixes Range Header Flaw, Again
Trailrunner7 writes "Two weeks after releasing a fix for the range-header denial-of-service flaw that was much-discussed on security forums and mailing lists, the Apache Software Foundation has pushed out another version of its popular Web server that includes a further fix for the same flaw. Apache 2.2.21 has a patch for the CVE-2011-3192 vulnerability that the group previously fixed in late August with the release of version 2.2.20. The vulnerability is an old one that recently resurfaced after a researcher published an advisory on a modified version of the bug and also released a tool capable of exploiting the vulnerability."

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NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project
An anonymous reader writes "The National Security Agency has submitted a new database, Accumulo, to the Apache Foundation for incubation. Accumulo is based on the original BigTable paper with some extensions such as the ability to provide cell-level security. It appears there are some hurdles that must be cleared concerning copyright before the project could be accepted."

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"Apache Killer" Web Server Hole Plugged
CWmike writes "The Apache open-source project has patched its Web server software to quash a bug that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool has been exploiting. Apache 2.2.20, released Tuesday, plugs the hole used by an 'Apache Killer' attack tool. On Aug. 24, project developers had promised a fix within 48 hours, then revised the timetable two days later to 24 hours. The security advisory did not explain the delay."

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Fix For Apache DoS Bug In the Pipes
Trailrunner7 writes with the report that "The Apache Software Foundation plans to have a fix available in the next day or so [Note: that means today, now. --Ed.] for the denial-of-service problem in Apache that was publicized late last week. The bug, which in some forms has been under discussion for more than four years, involves the way that the Web server handles certain overlapping range headers. The vulnerability is a denial-of-service bug, but it is considered serious because a remote attacker can essentially take a targeted server offline with little effort and resources. The Apache Software Foundation, which maintains the popular open-source Web server, updated its advisory on the vulnerability, saying that it expects to have a full fix available for the vulnerability within the next 24 hours."

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Apache Warns Web Server Admins of DoS Attack Tool
CWmike writes "Developers of the Apache open-source project warned users of the Web server software on Wednesday that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool is circulating that exploits a bug in the program. 'Apache Killer' showed up last Friday in a post to the 'Full Disclosure' security mailing list. The Apache project said it would release a fix for Apache 2.0 and 2.2 in the next 48 hours. All versions in the 1.3 and 2.0 lines are said to be vulnerable to attack. The group no longer supports the older Apache 1.3. 'The attack can be done remotely and with a modest number of requests can cause very significant memory and CPU usage on the server,' Apache said in an advisory. The bug is not new. Michal Zalewski, a security engineer who works for Google, pointed out that he had brought up the DoS exploitability of Apache more than four-and-a-half years ago. In lieu of a fix, Apache offered steps administrators can take to defend their Web servers until a patch is available."

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Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community
snydeq writes "Neil McAllister sees Oracle's buggy Java SE 7 release as only the latest misstep in a mounting litany of bad behavior. 'Who was the first to alert the Java community? The Apache Foundation. Oh, the irony. This is the same Apache Foundation that resigned from the Java Community Process executive committee in protest after Oracle repeatedly refused to give it access to the Java Technology Compatibility Kit,' McAllister writes. 'It seems as if Oracle would like nothing better than to stomp Apache and its open source Java efforts clean out of existence.'"

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Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug
Lisandro writes "Lucid Imagination just posted an announcement about a severe bug in the recently released Java 7. Apparently some loops are mis-compiled due to errors in the HotSpot compiler optimizations, which causes programs to fail. This bug affects several Apache projects directly — Apache Lucene Core and Apache Solr have already raised a warning, noting that the bug might be present in Java 6 as well."

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IBM Donates Symphony Code To Apache Software Foundation
CWmike writes "Hoping to further sharpen OpenOffice's competitive viability against Microsoft Office, IBM is donating the code of its Symphony open source office suite to the nonprofit Apache Software Foundation. Apache could fold this code into its own open source office suite OpenOffice, on which Symphony was based. In June, Oracle donated the OpenOffice suite to Apache. 'Prior to Apache's entry, there really hasn't been enough innovation in this area over the past 10 years,' said Kevin Cavanaugh, an IBM vice president. 'It's been constrained because we haven't had a true open source community with a mature governance model.'"

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History of Software Forks Favors LibreOffice
jfruhlinger writes "The forking of LibreOffice from the OpenOffice.org project, followed by Oracle's donation of OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, has been something of a bumpy road. But if history is any guide, it's the fork, LibreOffice, that might have the brighter future."

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Jim Jagielski: Why Open Source Needs Non Profits - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Isabel Drost: Dorkbot Berlin - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Sergey Beryozkin: OAuth without the end user explained - from our friends at Planet Apache
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David Reid: Goodbye Ubuntu - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Edward J. Yoon: Mother Nature is harsh - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Yoav Shapira: Restaurant review: Coppa (again) - from our friends at Planet Apache
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James Duncan: Trees and Clouds at Sunset - from our friends at Planet Apache
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James Duncan: Inside the conveyor system at B&H Photo - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Henning Schmiedehausen: Does your IDE choice influence the way you organize your code base? - from our friends at Planet Apache
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James Duncan: Stuart Sipahigil on perspective - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Bryan Pendleton: DERBY-5584 - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Matt Raible: Refreshing Taleo's UI with Twitter Bootstrap and CSS 3 - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Christian Grobmeier: Time & Bill has got a Quick Add feature – Express Zeiterfassung - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Tim Bish: Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ v1.5.3 released. - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Mukul Gandhi: Using XSD 1.1 assertions on complexType mixed contents - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Bryan Pendleton: It's not just a game, it's an obsession - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Andrew Savory: Backlight - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Bryan Pendleton: Advances in weather instrumentation - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Steve Loughran: British Airways: Airline of the 1% - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Matt Raible: Installing OpenJDK 7 on OS X - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: LinkedIn Etiquette - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Nandana Mihindukulasooriya: Call for Participation - 2nd International Evaluation Campaign for Semantic Technologies 2012 - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Andrew Savory: Juice - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Claus Ibsen: Unit testing OSGi Blueprint with Apache Camel made easier - from our friends at Planet Apache
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Apache Wicket Community News: Built with Wicket: Small Improvements - from our friends at Planet Apache
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