Red Hat Certified Technician Certificate: Red Hat is a company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. The program is flexible and works on a hierarchical model. Choosing the right certification depends on your background, job role and on your goals. The Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) certificate exam is a performance-based test that measures actual competence on live systems. RHCT is the first step in establishing Linux credentials and is an ideal certification for those transitioning from non-UNIX/Linux environments. Advantages of Red Hat Certified Technician Certificate: The Red Hat Certified Technician Certificate is the basic certificate offered by Red Hat and requires no previous experience. It is thus excellent for those who are seeking to transfer from a non Linux environment, and for other start ups. Because the ... (more)

Publishing Synergy: Blog, Twitter and Ulitzer

Government Cloud on Ulitzer Have you ever been given the task of building and executing an aggressive customer outreach program? Well I received my assignment about a year ago and trust me; the budget was not commensurate with the assigned goal. My particular need was to educate prospective Federal government customers on a new information technology trend. Known as cloud computing, this new approach blends service oriented architecture (SOA), virtualization technologies and a "pay-by-the-use" sales approach into a new IT delivery business model. Although this new approach promised the delivery of better constituent service at a reduced cost, risk adverse Federal agency decision makers needed to know much more before they would even consider cloud computing as an option. During a time of economic collapse and fiscal crisis, competing security, governance and procur... (more)

Novell and Red Hat: Taking Linux to the Cloud

Open Source Journal on Ulitzer It is interesting to see how Open source rivals Red Hat and Novell have transferred their Linux warfare to the cloud. As both companies seek to use their open source history to advantage on the web platform by spouting standard mantras about avoiding vendor lock-ins and low cost, they have also taken different approaches on other counts when taking their cloud services to market. Red Hat is full of idealistic enthusiasm about innovation, progress and being open through and through. It has always been a vociferous proponent of open standards and Open content that is hundred percent free from licensing or royalty payments and has been singing along the same tunes on cloud. It has been up in arms with Microsoft on many issues including opposing the approval of Microsoft Office Open XML by the International Organization for Standardizatio... (more)

Covalent Technologies(TM) Adds International Partners

WALNUT CREEK, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/18/06 -- Covalent Technologies(TM), the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions, today announced it has entered into strategic partnerships with a number of technology companies based in England, Germany, India, and the Philippines. These new partnerships bolster Covalent's ability to deliver commercial support and service offerings for popular open source projects out of the Apache Software Foundation on a global basis, namely the Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat Application Server, Apache Axis Web Services Framework, and the Apache Geronimo Application Server, and complement existing Covalent partnerships already in place in Japan, Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Providing a range of services from professional training and support to consulting and integration, the new partners include: ... (more)

Leading Open-Source, Open-Standard DRM Project OpenIPMP Announces New Version, Boasting Cross-Platform OMA, ISMAcryp, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Support

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-source project OpenIPMP today announced the release of OpenIPMP v2, a major upgrade to the leading open-source and open-standards based DRM (Digital Rights Management) system originally released in 2002. The OpenIPMP project aims to provide the development community with interoperable DRM software that can be easily ported to any platform (including Windows, Mac, Linux and embedded platforms). Unlike proprietary DRM solutions, OpenIPMP's interoperable DRM design adheres to a variety of open standards, including OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) v2 DRM specifications, ISMA encryption / DRM signaling specifications for MPEG-4 streaming and local playback (ISMAcryp), and MPEG's IPMP specifications for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The project, which can be downloaded from SourceForge ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmp), includes a J2EE serv... (more)

Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise for 30,000 Desktops and 1,880 Servers

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LinuxWorld Conference & Expo -- The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) in India is rolling out SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880 servers in Tamil Nadu's schools, after ELCOT itself has migrated its entire IT infrastructure from Microsoft* Windows* to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell(R). "The open source software in SUSE Linux Enterprise is superb," said C. Umashankar, managing director of ELCOT. "In addition, we estimate that moving to Linux has reduced our general hardware costs by nearly 25 percent. In the case of high-end servers, the savings could be as much as 80 percent. Even more important are the benefits for Tamil Nadu's students. There is a growing trend towards the corporate adoption of Linux, both in India and elsewhere, so it wil... (more)

Adaptec Releases Updates to Performance-Leading Series 1 Unified Serial(R) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Family

MILPITAS, California, February 18 /PRNewswire/ -- WHO: Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT) WHAT: Adaptec, the global leader in I/O innovation, today announced updates to its Series 1 Unified Serial Host Bus Adapter (HBA) family. The family's two low-profile cards (Adaptec 1405 with four internal ports and Adaptec 1045 with four external ports) now include open source Linux drivers for kernels starting at 2.6.24 and in-the-box Linux kernel support starting at kernel 2.6.33. They also feature fully WHQL-certified drivers with support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2. In addition, Adaptec has added quick boot bios to reduce the time the controller needs to scan for devices and initialize. Adaptec Series 1 HBAs deliver efficient, economical I/O with hard disk, tape and solid state drives. Designed to maximize scalability and provide system integrators, system builders... (more)

Gemalto Amplia Variedade de Terminais de Pagamento Linux Seguro

A Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), líder mundial em segurança digital, anunciou hoje que está ampliando a sua variedade de terminais de Ponto de Venda (PDV) MagIC3 . O novo produto MagIC3 é uma solução para pagamento sem fio econômica, que não requer assinatura suplementar nem taxas de comunicação adicionais. Extremamente leve e compacto, com autonomia incomparável, o MagIC3 W-1 oferece maior comodidade em restaurantes e pontos de venda no varejo ao ar livre. Muitas instituições financeiras importantes estão atualmente liderando a implantação do terminal de pagamento novo, na Europa e na Ásia. O MagIC3 W-1 faz parte da família de produtos MagIC3 da Gemalto, que incorpora a tecnologia Open&Sec; executada em LinuxTM. A linha de produtos MagIC3 alavanca a tecnologia Internet Protocol(IP) e garante segurança de alto nível em ambientes abertos. Apresenta conexões Uni... (more)

Global 3D Rendering and Virtualization Software Market 2011-2015

NEW YORK, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global 3D Rendering and Virtualization Software Market 2011–2015 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0841069/Global-3D-Rendering-and-Virtualization-Software-Market-2011–2015.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=Software TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global 3D Rendering and Virtualization Software market to grow at a CAGR of 21.4 percent over the period 2011–2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing demand from the global Entertainment industry. The Global 3D Rendering and Virtualization Software market has also been witnessing an increasing focus on virtualization software. However, increasing popularity of open source communities could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. T... (more)

Global Printed Circuit Board Design Software Market 2011-2015

NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:   Global Printed Circuit Board Design Software Market 2011-2015 http://www.reportlinker.com/p01021162/Global-Printed-Circuit-Board-Design-Software-Market-2011-2015.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=Electronic_Manufacturing   TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global PCB Design Software market to grow at a CAGR of 5.3 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the need to reduce the time to market. The Global PCB Design Software market has also been witnessing the increasing availability of cloud-based PCB design software. However, the availability of open-source PCB design software could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.   TechNavio's report, the Glob... (more)

Jaspersoft Partners with Elastic Intelligence to Provide Real-Time Access to SaaS Data via The Connection Cloud

Elastic Intelligence, the developer and marketer of the Connection Cloud, a revolutionary PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) platform, today announced a partnership with Jaspersoft, the intelligence inside apps and business processes, to provide Jaspersoft users with a real-time connection service to access their SaaS application data. Through the partnership, Jaspersoft clients can use the Connection Cloud to access their data quickly from SaaS applications like Salesforce, Netsuite, Intacct, Zuora, Zendesk and Eloqua for their reporting and analysis purposes, without having to do any engineering or development work. “Jaspersoft is pleased to partner with Elastic Intelligence to provide our users a means of accessing data that was previously difficult to retrieve due to the varying APIs and query language that exists in the SaaS universe,” said Joseph Rozenfeld, CTO, Jas... (more)