Linux cluster companies attract new funds
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com November 4, 2004, 6:00 PM PT. Organizations are replacing aging servers with newer more-powerful boxes, often Linux--based, and theyâre also investing in storage.
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Sybase Tuesday launched its strike in the cluster-database market, releasing Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition to compete with the likes of Oracle&#39;s Real Application Clusters.Sybase&#39;s offering is aimed at IT shops that require high availability from their datacenters. It uses shared-disk clustering, where a number of ASE server instances is grouped into a cluster seen as a single system managing the same set of data. This allows application workloads to be balanced among the instances. The software automatically migrates connections if a node fails, according to the company.Noel Yuhanna, a Forrester Research analyst covering database technologies, said Sybase has made a wise move.&quot;They&#39;ve realized they need to innovate to stay competitive and they&#39;re doing that,&quot; he said. &quot;I think it&#39;s a good move and makes them comparable in certain situations with Oracle RAC.&quot;While most companies employ some type of failover technology in their data centers, it may take effect in minutes, not seconds, Yuhanna said. &quot;Companies who want it to happen really fast, that&#39;s when shared-disk clustering can really help,&quot; he said.&quot;It&#39;s only about five to 10 percent of the applications in an organization that would really need that up-to-the second [performance],&quot; Yuhanna added.Sybase hasn&#39;t necessarily surpassed Oracle&#39;s capabilities, according to Yuhanna. Its new product might be more suitable for &quot;smaller environments, or those that are only focused around Linux and Solaris,&quot; he said, adding that word hasn&#39;t yet circled back from customers regarding the product&#39;s performance.David Jonker, senior product marketing manager in the ASE group at Sybase, said the company worked with 12 large companies on a technology preview version of the software. He declined to name them, and said none had agreed to speak to the media.ASE Cluster Edition is compatible with systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86_64); Solaris 9 and 10 on Sparc (64-bit); and SUSE Linux 9 and 10 (x86_64). Sybase did not release pricing information.
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Intel Capital has invested in a startup that offers a scalable storage service.
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SiCortex investment will go toward development and marketing of Linux cluster machines; debut is set for November.
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PARIS - A group of European research institutions and open-source software companies has launched an effort to build new tools that will make it easier to do complex IT projects based on Linux and other open-source software, they said this week.
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New program called Tycoon lets groups jockeying for needed computing power bid for the resources.
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There is something rather antiquated about many of the server clusters used today by engineers, scientists and media fiends. Their high-powered computing machines are often cobbled together over many days
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced an initiative to make Linux applications available across the company's entire hardware line.
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Linux Networx has announced that two Department of Defense centers will be using Linux cluster supercomputers from the company to conduct battlefield simulations. The clusters are part of an initiative to modernize the DOD&#39;s ...
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Move should open the way for the Linux seller to buy other companies.
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Hedge funds are gaining in popularity as they pursue a host of investment strategies.
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A newcomer on the open source scene has received funding to expand operations and develop new product lines.
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ActiveGrid lands multimillion-dollar funding for plan to use open-source tools, low-cost servers for Web applications.
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There's a lot of money to be made in open source, both as a shareholder and for the company.
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New initiatives aim to help businesses create server clusters for high-performance computing tasks.
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Cluster fluster With a bankruptcy behind it, SGI has decided to go ahead and start expanding again by purchasing Linux Networx's "core assets."â¦
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The two second-tier Linux companies will adopt common Linux software and engineering. Alas, this idea doesn't have a great history of success.