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Kaspersky Lab Secure Operating System: It Ain’t Windows 8

He described a worse-case IT scenario where some countries or individuals launch cyber war attacks against other countries. Kaspersky suggested that multiple power plants and electric grids could go dark during cyber wars, even if the attacker was only
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Fedora Linux, RHEL Evolve with New Release

Lest IT administrators hoping to run Fedora on servers or in the cloud feel left out, however, there’s plenty in Fedora 17 for them as well, including the latest version of OpenStack toolkit for building and configuring cloud infrastructure and the
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Top 50 Open Source Companies: Where Are They Now?

Eucalyptus Systems: The open source cloud company in April 2012 raised $30 million in new funding, but competition from OpenStack and perhaps Citrix CloudStack seems to be intensifying. 16. Fluendo SA: Still focused on multi-media solutions for open
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Citrix Synergy Summit: CloudStack & 4 Other Trends to Watch

CloudStack’s Evolution: Sure, CloudStack is often compared to OpenStack, an increasingly popular open source cloud computing platform. So how will Citrix raise CloudStack’s visibility, especially among cloud services providers (CSPs) and ISVs
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Citrix Synergy Summit: CloudStack & 4 Other Trends to Watch

At the Citrix Synergy 2012 conference this week in San Francisco, The VAR Guy expects updates on Citrix CloudStack, Citrix XenDesktop and XenServer — and plenty more. But Citrix Synergy is more than a customer and partner conference.
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Top Cloud VARs Pick Citrix, Google Apps, Office 365, VMware

35.1 percent of survey participants say they run or deploy Citrix Systems’ CloudStack or Xen for customers. 30.9 percent of participants say they resell Microsoft Office 365 to customers. 28.7 percent say they work with Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) on
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OpenStack, KVM and Xen: Can They Catch VMware?

But roughly 1000 technology experts gathered at an OpenStack technology conference last week, and some of those conference attendees believe OpenStack coupled with KVM (Kernel-based virtual machine) or Xen will trip up VMware within the next couple of
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