Red Hat connat not the crisis grce Linux

Contrary large the majorit of the diteurs of software, and in particular propritaires, the spcialist of Free, Red Hat, records in the first quarter a growth of 11% of its figure D `businesses.
# Red Hat and goes malgr well the crisis. With the occasion of the prsentation of first quarter, the ditor has annonc bnfices in rise of 7,1% 18,5 million dollars.
# the figure D `businesses progresses as him of 11,3% 174,4 million dollars, against 156,6 million Mrs. priode of the Anne prcdente. The spcialist of the free software remains still trs concentr on the march amricain. Amrique of North and the South count for 53% of its figure D `businesses. In zone EMEA, Red Hat has ralis 25% of its sales, and 22% in the Asia-Pacific.
# During the quarter, Red Hat could S `support on a rseau distributors powerful. This rseau reprsente only dsormais to him 61% of the orders record by the ditor during the quarter. Over the last three months of the tax Anne prcdente, the indirect sale reprsentait 56% of the order book of Red Hat.

a RC2 for Firefox 3. 5

Put day – No relles nouveauts in this Release Candidate 2. A thing is sre, the final version approaches great steps.

Less D `one week aprs the setting on line of the RC1 of Firefox 3. 5, the Mozilla Foundation has just diffused the one second grinding of Release Candidate, a version which would owe tre the dernire.

This RC2 N `does not bring new functions but corrects ultimate bugs observs. In order to correct the last problmes, the release of the dfinitive version had T pushes back dbut June.

In addition to the native support of JSON (a format of give), of the beacons
< video&WP; and < audio&WP; and of the out-line applications, Firefox
3. 5 (Shiretoko code name) intgre in particular a mode of navigation deprives and a new engine
Javascript (TraceMonkey).

Two strong points

It intgre also a bar D `addresses “; intelligente”; who allows
to seek a bond only by seizing some letters, it
new manager of tlchargements or the anti-phishing tool
amlior.

On the other hand, the look gnral N `then does not have too volu qu `one
an adaptation to the design of the systme D `exploitation (Vista promised,
XP, Mac, Linux).
# But both vritables strong points of
Firefox 3 are incontestably the rapidit D `posting of the pages, and
especially its low fuel consumption in watered effect lives.

in franais on ZDNet. france.

Olivier Parcollet With the consolidation, consumption dnergie has T divides by four

Opinion D `expert – Stages of the virtualisation of waiters and the work station, impact of lenvironnement virtual on storage, the band-width and ladministration with the daily newspaper: larchitecte systmes and rseaux division its exprience.

Quand do you have commenc you intresser the virtualisation?
We are penchs on the virtualisation there is bientt seven years because D `a problme of prennit of our technical platform. This one, whose cycle of renewal is long, of the 10 15 years order, hbergeait critical applications functioning under Windows NT4.
# Our infrastructure conceals obsolte and it conceals impossible D `to us to plan to carry NT4 on waiters rcents. Rcrire the applications, when C `TAIT allowed, would have taken several months, even annes. The only alternate one thus conceals to find a solution enabling us to free itself from this problmatic matrielle.
# We have virtualis a premire application with VMware Workstation, in dpit of the recommendations of the ditor. We are thus not D `a not very powerful cluster NT4 a stable systme and which bnficiait directly of the power of processors of the new matrielle infrastructure.
# A few months later, we have dcid D `to apply Mrs. receipt, under VMware Server this time, all us waiters within the framework of their renewal. is
# Comment grs the diffrents virtual waiters of Setao?
Aprs the first project of virtualisation, we laid out D `about thirty VMware waiters, but without comprehensive view from what occurred on these machines. An application of total supervision conceals ncessaire.
# We have tudi Virtual Center then. But the cot appeared prohibitory to us since for only a few thousands D `euros moreover we could accder a version suprieure of the application of supervision: VMware ESX. C `is thus this solution which has T retained. The machines virtualises, 63 on the whole, have T import in ESX. The opration S `is made distance in one weekend.
# Of how much physical and virtual waiters is composed dsormais your infrastructure?
70 virtual waiters are currently in production. This total will pass bientt a hundred. As for the physical waiters, they are passs of 30 3. The infrastructure has T double for questions of continuit D `activit. In all, we thus count six rpartis out of two farms of three waiters.
# a farm is active, and the other is place in stand by with rplication on a site of help connect out of fiberoptic, and situ 19 kilomtres of our computer room.
# is the virtualisation concrtement source D `conomies?
the advantage is not done on the level of the cot D `acquisition, almost quivalent that D `a made architecture of physical waiters. A company should not think qu `it will gain there on the price D `purchase. Virtualisation N `is not an investment of short term.
# the vritable asset is at the level of the administration, grce in particular a provisionning of the waiters the request. Provsionner a waiter supplmentaire rclamait before between one and two days. Rcemment, J `have dploy two Linux waiters in approximately 15 minutes.
# is the performance altre by the installation of the virtualisation?
the systme is completely stable and almost indestructible in our configuration. Lorsqu `a physical waiter falls, the virtual machines are automatically semi …

MySpace removes 500 employment in the

Stratgie – Crossing a bad master key, the subsidiary company of News Corp. goes rduire its bill wage of 30%, mainly in the United States. The site is in lose speed, devanc of dabonns number by Facebook.

Rvle by the Wall Street Journal, information has
T confirms by News Corporation, propritaire of MySpace. The site goes
indeed procder of the clear cuts in its manpower by removing 500
of its 1600 employment.

Owen Van Natta, the new director gnral name there is
two months, have justifi this choice by explaining why manpower of MySpace
« taient enfls and slowed down our capacit to become an effective socit
and nimble, working in quipe » . Mr. Van Natta arrives straight from
Facebook, the competitor which makes D `MySpace shade more and more.

With 200
million members, Facebook largely has dpass its year and its 130 million
D `users. According to the last figures livrs by the Nielsen institute,
frquentation of MySpace has baiss of 31% between April 2008 and April 2009 with
The United States. Cr in 2003, MySpace is considr like the pioneer of the social Web. (Eureka Press)

Windows 7 without Internet Explorer: Mozilla awaits prcisions

Technology – For the chairman of the foundation Mozilla, John Lilly, it is too tt to know if the dcision of Microsoft will produce effects on the march navigators. Ditor N `has for the moment contribution any dtail on the withdrawal D `Internet Explorer of Windows 7.

Within the Mozilla foundation, one prfre, for the moment, rserver its opinion on the dcision of Microsoft to withdraw Internet Explorer 8 of Windows 7. In an internal email, the chairman, John Lilly, shows obviously hermtic the effect D `announces firm of Redmond.

« He is impossible D `valuer what this advertisement means as much as Microsoft dcrit not – compltement and in dtails – the whole of the advantages and brakes applicable to the OEM Windows. Without that, it N `is not possible to know if Microsoft does not give D `a hand to begin again of the other. And more still, it is impossible to say if that has an impact with-LED of the only change in the technical process D `installation of the manufacturers, and if that makes more complex for the users to migrate towards » dclare it.

Media Player to retir of Windows in 2004 without effects

Until-L, Microsoft S `is content D `one. If ditor N `will not intgrera Internet Explorer 8 (or only certain parts?) in the code of Windows qu `it will deliver to the manufacturers this T, it N `intends however not to give up making it install. In its dclaration, Microsoft speaks D `thus to assist the manufacturers in the prinstallation D `IE8 before the commercial distribution of the computers.

In 2004, Microsoft had dj T of Windows. This judgment by the Commission europenne had dbouch in Europe on marketing D `a dition spciale, NR, of Windows. , In particular because is sulky by the manufacturers of PC.

Brussels had lanc a enqute for vrifier that Microsoft N `did not have « returned intressant less commercially or functionally » Windows XP NR by report/ratio the version complte. The ditor estimated to have jou to him the play. The commercial argument however did not weigh in favour of the version without Media Player, which conceals sold to Mrs. price that the version comprising the software.

key manufacturers of the problme, before Microsoft

Gold while withdrawing, Microsoft announces a dition E of Windows 7 (Vista, always commercialis with IE N `is thus not concern). An E which thus points out the version NR of Windows XP. Moreover, taking into account the commercial links troits linking Microsoft and the manufacturers of PC, there will remain certainly complex for the diteurs of competitor navigators D `tre milked with quit.
# the prinstallation D `a software on the computers makes gnralement by a trade agreement with the manufacturers. Difficult for the diteurs, except can-tre Google and Apple, of ngocier of the contracts of several million dollars Microsoft face.
# a solution acceptable for the whole of the navigators would thus pass by a dcision of the Commission europenne. C `is D `elsewhere one of the tracks consider, which would result in the obligation for the manufacturers to propose, at the time of the premire connection Internet, to choose its navigator among a list of software.

Salesforce offers a free accs, limit, Force. COM

The spcialist of SaaS proposes dsormais a accs limit, but completely free, his platform of dveloppement and D `hbergement D `applications Web, Force. Com.
# Launches in 2005, force. COM makes it possible to conceive mtiers applications which S `excutent on line, directly on the waiters of Salesforce. Com. So D `to attract new customers his service factur to start from 50 dollars per month and user, Salesforce. COM proposes.
# This free dition of Force. COM is however. A dveloppor cannot thus dvelopper and excuter qu `only one application (maximum limit 100 users). The free offer galement includes/understands the accs a module of formation on line, an environment of test and software in version D `test.
# According to Salesforce. COM, 110.000 applications have dj T known and are hberges on its Force platform. Com. The ditor insists on the rapidit of dploiement permitted by his Web service, quoting a tude in particular Nucleus cabinet. According to this last, the cration D `an application with Force. COM would be approximately five times faster qu `with a framework Java or. Net.

adjusts its infrastructure of storage the virtualisation

tude of case – to ensure the safeguard and the rplication of give its hundred virtual waiters, consolids on 6 physical, bioMerieux waiters set up a robust infrastructure of storage structures in MetroCluster.

Spcialiste of in vitro diagnosis in the field of the infectious illness, cancer and the cardiovascular urgencies, bioMrieux east prsent in 150 countries and account more than 6.000 collaborators. The company franaise has ralis in 2008 plus D `a billion D `euros figure D `businesses. Its activit, subjected constraints rglementaires, S `supports on an important computer infrastructure.
# In France, bioMrieux laid out thus into 2007 of more than 250 waiters, in major hbergs part on its site central. Moreover, this park of waiters grew D `around fifty D `units each Anne. The data-processing Management of the group begins then S `intresser the virtualisation, for rpondre a need for consolidation, but not only.

100 virtual machines on a cluster of 6 waiters

« We have dbut the day before on this technology in order to find a solution being able to offer amliorations to us on several axes: the scurisation, the consolidation by the rduction of the number of physical platforms, the fall of the nergtic invoice and the space saver in our center of give. The flexibility in the placement of new waiters, the request of the mtiers, galement conceals a central axis of the &amp project; #187; rsume Andr Ferlay, responsible infrastructures systmes & rseaux for bioMrieux.

structures It of virtualisation and its infrastructure of storage associates owe rpondre several requirements, among which the maturit of the solution, the prsence D `options of scurisation like the recovery heat, the fonctionnalit of snapshot on the level of storage and the possibilit D `hberger a great number of virtual machines. bioMrieux a ratio of 1 per 20 aims indeed, C `is–to say a physical waiter for 20 virtual.
# At the end D `a premire tude of the commercial offer, VMware and NetApp are retained. Intgrator APX is slectionn to set up structures it being composed, for the virtualisation, of VMware ESX 3. 02, and of bay FAS 3040A of NetApp for the storage part.
# « A file server of NetApp implment had dj T in 2007 on one of our sites for rpondre the needs of his 800 users. We had been able this occasion to test of them the fonctionnalits rplication, of snaphot and the tools D `administration. The product of NetApp prsentait moreover the advantage of the adaptabilit VMware and offered several modes of connection: Chanel fibre and iSCSI » prcise Sbastien Regnier, architect systmes the bioMrieux one.
# This premire ralisation in matire of virtualisation thus results in the installation of six physical waiters (in cluster) hbergeant 100 virtual machines, and connects in iSCSI the bay of storage (two ttes) D `a volumtrie of 8 To of give. (continuation…)

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the virtualisation: cassette or no-claims bonus for the administrators?

Opinion D `expert – the migration towards virtual architectures strongly influences the mission of the administrators systmes and entrane a change of their comptences. The formation by lexprience remains the standard for these spcialists.

ZDNet. france Which impacts had on the administrators the introduction of the virtualisation?
Nicolaas Laarman (Atari). « On this would be only the management of the patchs and of the safeguards, the virtualisation has much chang the life of the administrators systmes. Front, lorsqu `it was necessary to apply a corrective measure, the opration owed tre led on many waiters, with times D `indisponibilit of the machines. Dsormais, this tche can tre made in quasi time rel and without cut of the service. C `is the one of the advantages D `an architecture in cluster.
# the virtualisation has simplifi the life of the administrators and motivs has galement them by dveloppant their comptences. They could learn grer D `another manire from the services. »
# Andr Ferlay (bioMerieux). « The virtualisation has contribution with the administrators larger flexibilit and their librer allowed time, and this Mrs. if the ratio waiters/man has strongly augment.
# Our quipes, whose profiles are rather technical, taient trs justify by the virtualisation. Lorsqu `a project allows D `to succeed a stable platform, the administrators are gnralement plutt positive. »
# Olivier Parcollet (Setao). My rseaux quipes has chang comptences. They are not exclusively any more devoted to make rbarbatives tches like masterisation. Dsormais, they conoivent packages D `applications, they fund images… They became responsible for pool of virtual machines.
# the virtualisation has shooting to the top the quipes. C `is why, is needed that the DSI thinks dsormais rorganiser their collaborators, this what they are not always prpars. The technicians must as them as be aware as their mtier will change.
# ZDNet. france How the technical quipes have do T forms the administration of the virtual environments?
Nicolaas Laarman (Atari). « The training of our administrators S `is made grce with the transfer of comptences by experts of Dell during our project of virtualisation. This mode D `training their allowed D `to tackle a large project, on the basis of nothing, and term D `tre fully oprationnels on management D `a virtual environment.
# I am not certain that certification has direction. That can bring one more on its CV, in particular lorsqu `one works in a software firm. Nanmoins, J `estimates that the exprience of the ground is infinitely more important than D `to have assist thoric courses. »
# Sbastien Regnier (bioMerieux). At the time of the intgration of the virtual waiters, ten people has T forms by intgrator APX in order to matriser the bases of the virtualisation. Four salaris galement followed a formation at VMware and NetApp. They will have then responsibility of train the other members of the technical quipe.
# < …

Atari simplifies its data processing and rduit its cots

Technology – Within the framework dun project of simplification of sound systme dinformation, the socit of play vido Atari has consolid its waiters with the virtualisation, aprs however a tude dligibilit. Profit: an operating burnup in fall of 50 70%.

Subsidiary of the group Infogrames, produced Atari, said and distributes plays in more than 60 countries. Jusqu `in 2007, this pioneer of the play vido S `supports on two autonomous data-processing directions having four datacenters: two in the United States and two in France.
# This mode of governorship S `relatively coteux avre and results in the volont D `to standardize the systmes D `information. Objective of the project: to simplify it data-processing of the company and thus rduire its dpenses of operation.
# « The key question of this project of simplification conceals: which solution for rduire cots, amliorer the robustness, in particular on the part recovery plan D `activit, and accrotre the flexibilit of the systme D `information? We had dj effectu regroupings of fonctionnalits on waiters » explain the Defect Prsident Management Information Systems D `Atari, Nicolaas Laarman.

an operating burnup rduit of 50 70%

the rponse then considers: the virtualisation. A premire tude in-house ralise allows the data-processing direction to determine the contributions of this technology. This slap pralable dbouche on a tude D `ligibilit intends to identify the physical waiters being able tre virtualiss, with like critre central the rate D `use.
# Atari chooses the platform of virtualisation of VMware and PlateSpin for the aspiration of the configurations of the waiters. « Through diffrents tests and return D `users of VMware, the solution appeared to us in June 2008 like more robust than the other solutions of the march. The simplicit D `administration, the compatibilit with diffrents OS, the management of the clusters and the price galement have motiv this &amp choice; #187; dtaille Nicolaas Laarman.
# the intgrator Dell must raise a dfi: to buckle the installation of the new architecture in three months. Indeed, about thirty waiters D `Atari arrives at the end of the lifetime or at the end of their leasing agreement. The company thus wishes to consolidate these physical machines and thus to post a return on investment quickly.
# Atari waits moreover of Dell qu `it ensures the transfer of comptences so that its quipes data-processing can manage they-Mrs. the virtual infrastructure at the end of the three months. Four top-of-the-range physical waiters in cluster thus will accomodate more D `about thirty virtual waiters with like bnfice of gnrer a rduction the operating burnup (cot total of possession) 50 70%.

Still few visibilit on the virtualisation certain applications

Atari can moreover consider dsormais rduire the number of its centers of give of four two. A consolidation which will result in a fall of its dpenses into hbergement and in lectric consumption.
# But the virtualisation ncessite however to take certain prcautions. « It is necessary to be shown to be attentive with the needs for its waiters in terms of performances, of disponibilit in CPU and D `enter-exits on the hard drives. A tool of business intelligence for example needs resources. The console D `administration of VMware allows you dpla …

Guillaume Tyrant (Citrix) the virtualisation nest not a technology miracle

Opinion D `expert – Source of profits in matire dadministration, continuit dactivit and rduction of the cots dinfrastructure, the virtualisation nest however not an investment short term prvient Guillaume Tyrant de Citrix.

the virtualisation gnre it rellement a profit conomic? If so, how do you valuez it?
the first profit S `obtains by the consolidation of the waiters. Naturally, this conomy dpend of the number of machines consolidate. The concentration on a number of physical waiters more rduit will have an impact on the dpenses in hbergement – hiring D `space in a datacenter -, on the purchases of waiters and consumption D `nergie.
# In addition to these bnfices direct, there exist secondary profits or cachs which dcoulent not of the consolidation, but of the use of the virtualisation. Dploiement D `a waiter is thus acclr and simplifi in terms D `administration.
# In matire of safeguard and restoration, the virtualisation opens the door. Crous de Crteil has adopt thus the virtualisation for rduire its park of waiters. But grce this technology, it also lays out dsormais D `a solution for the recovery D `activit.
# Which conditions do you put the accs these bnfices?
I see three limitations. The premire relates to the infrastructure of which owes tre of good invoice. If undertaken it N `does not have which it, it will need the crer. The manufacturers of storage solutions made voluer their products for intgrer the virtualisation.
# the deuxime not relates to the matrielle platform associates with the virtual machines, and in particular the type of processor. A virtual machine east compiles for a type of processor. Lorsqu `it will be dplace, it is ncessaire that the processor either quivalent.
# Jusqu `yesterday, the virtualisation ncessitait an infrastructure waiter homogne to allow dplacement D `a physical machine another. The founders since set up solutions for grer them. On the other hand, I do not know if a migration D `an Intel processor towards another D `AMD is possible.
# Another point relates to the rseaux charts of which the number owes tre sufficiently important. Moreover, if a virtual machine has two physical rseaux charts, one needs qu `it finds at least an identical number of it if it east migrates towards another waiter.
# Except this questioning on the infrastructure, which good practices is necessary it to conform in the use of the virtualisation?
What begins apparatre, C `is the ncessit D `to tablir rgles of qualit of service. Formerly, the computer rooms were caractrisaient by the prolifration of the pizza pie-boxes, of the waiters 1U empils. Dsormais, the companies pile up virtual machines.
# the multiplication of these virtual machines must S `accompany D `a rflexion on the qualit by service by the virtual environments. That will pass in particular by the respect of rgles in terms of resource sharing, of dplacement automatic of the virtual authorities and rservation in order to guarantee a contrle on the infrastructure.
# So in prproduction, this concern is less, in production the mentalits owe voluer for rpondre this proccupation.
# waitings the gard of are the virtualisation sometimes phantasms?
the companies are confront the ncessit rduire the number of their waiters. Nanmoins, virtualisation N `is not a technology miracle. One needs in apprhender the spc …