C12G Labs Announces the Release of OpenNebula Pro 3.2

C12G Labs Announces the Release of OpenNebula Pro 3.2:

C12G Labs has just announced an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. OpenNebula 3.2, released two weeks ago, brings important benefits to cloud providers with a new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers, and builders with full support for VMware that now includes live migration, advanced contextualization and image management. The new release additionally included important enhancements in networking and security.

C12G delivers OpenNebulaPro for business, government, or other organizations looking for a hardened, certified, supported cloud platform. OpenNebulaPro combines the rapid innovation of open-source with the stability and long-term production support of commercial software. Compared to OpenNebula, the expert production and integration support of OpenNebulaPro and its higher stability increase IT productivity, speed time to deployment, and reduce business and technical risks.

OpenNebulaPro 3.2 integrates the most recent stable version of OpenNebula 3.2 with the bug, performance, and scalability patches developed by the community and by C12G for its customers and partners. Supported Linux distributions are RedHat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSuse; supported hypervisors are VMware, KVM and Xen; and the supported cloud provider for cloudbursting is Amazon Web Services. OpenNebulaPro 3.2 is provided under open-source license to customers and partners on an annual subscription basis through the OpenNebula.pro Support Portal.

C12G offers a 30-day, no-cost, and no-commitment trial of OpenNebulaPro with the services to assess its suitability and performance in your environment.

5 New Perl 5.10 Features – Say, State, ~~, Defined OR

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XenDesktop or VDI-in-a-Box? How to choose?

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Xen 3.4.4 Update Release

Xen 3.4.4 Update Release:

Xen 3.4.4 release, which is an update of the Xen 3.4.x series. This should be one of the most reliable releases since it is the latest maintenance release in the long term stable 3.4 branch that has had endured years of enterprise usage. The update release contains

• Security enhancements including CVE-2011-1583


• Support for AMD Family 15h (Bulldozer) CPUs


• Various bux fixes and performances improvements


• Performances and stability improvements


• Various bux fixes

Xen 3.4.4 is available for download from here!

FreeBSD 9.0 Press Release

FreeBSD 9.0 Press Release: The Foundation has written a press release for the release of FreeBSD 9.0. From PRWeb:

Release of FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve

Today, the FreeBSD Foundation announced the recent release of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE raises the bar for open source operating systems in terms of file system reliability, IPv6-readiness, networking capabilities, compiler and toolchain technologies, and security. Many of its new features directly benefit system administrators, application developers, and companies that use or base their products on FreeBSD.

"FreeBSD 9.0 represents the culmination of over two years of ground-breaking work in operating system performance, reliability, and security," said Ken Smith, Release Engineer for the FreeBSD Project. "We are proud to dedicate this release to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIXâ„¢ operating system, whose vision and work laid the foundations for FreeBSD."

Filesystem changes in this release provide great benefits to both UFS and ZFS users. When installing with UFS, softupdates journaling (UFS+SUJ) is automatically enabled. UFS+SUJ uses an intent log which safely eliminates the need for a long filesystem check and recovery process, even after an unclean shutdown.

ZFS has been updated to version 28 which supports data deduplication, triple parity RAIDZ3, snapshot holds, log device removal, zfs diff, zpool split, zpool import -F, and read-only zpool import.

FreeBSD 9.0 also introduces the Highly Available STorage (HAST) framework which provides transparent storage of the same data across several systems connected by a TCP/IP network. In combination with other high availability features of FreeBSD like the CARP fail-over protocol, HAST makes it possible to build a highly available storage cluster that is resistant to hardware failures.

Continuing its heritage of innovating in the area of security research, FreeBSD 9.0 introduces Capsicum. Capsicum is a lightweight framework which extends a POSIX UNIX kernel to support new security capabilities and adds a userland sandbox API. Originally developed as a collaboration between the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Google and sponsored by a grant from Google, FreeBSD was the prototype platform and Chromium was the prototype application. FreeBSD 9.0 provides kernel support as an experimental feature for researchers and early adopters. Application support will follow in a later FreeBSD release and there are plans to provide some initial Capsicum-protected applications in FreeBSD 9.1.

"Google is excited to see the award-winning Capsicum work incorporated in FreeBSD 9.0, bringing native capability security to mainstream UNIX for the first time," said Ulfar Erlingsson, Manager, Security Research at Google.

FreeBSD has been been an early adopter and active participant in the IPv6 community since FreeBSD 4.0 was released in 2000 with the KAME reference implementation of IPv4/IPv6 networking support. In addition, the FreeBSD Project has been serving releases from IPv6-enabled servers for more than 8 years and FreeBSD’s website, mailing lists, and developer infrastructure have been IPv6-enabled since 2007. FreeBSD 9.0 introduces IPv6-only snapshots which completely remove IPv4 from the operating system.

2012 has been called the 'year of IPv6' and "the FreeBSD project is well positioned to be one of the leaders in IPv6-Only validation work," stated Bjoern Zeeb, member of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team and recipient of the 2010 Itojun Service Award for his significant improvements in open source implementations of IPv6. "The growing usage of FreeBSD's IPv6 networking stack by appliance builders, integration of a more flexible interface configuration, and the implementation of new standards such as Secure Neighbor Discovery, DNS Options for Router Advertisements, and CPE Requirements, makes FreeBSD 9.0 the perfect open source operating system to build your IPv6 deployments and products on."

Other new features include:

• userland DTrace has been added to supplement kernel-level DTrace
• the FreeBSD world and kernel can now be compiled using the BSD-licensed LLVM toolchain
• resource limit actions can be applied to processes, users, login classes, and jails
• the addition of a pluggable congestion framework and five new TCP congestion control algorithms
• HPN-SSH is enabled by default and increases transfer speeds on long, high bandwidth network links
• NFSv4 support added
• flattened device trees (FDT) allows for hardware resource enumeration and simplifies configuration on embedded platforms

A complete list of the features in this release is available on the web at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/relnotes.html. FreeBSD 9.0 can be downloaded for free from the FreeBSD website or purchased from FreeBSDMall.com.

About the FreeBSD Foundation

The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project and community. The Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund and manage projects, sponsor FreeBSD events, Developer Summits and provide travel grants to FreeBSD developers. In addition, the Foundation represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity. The FreeBSD Foundation is entirely supported by donations. More information about The FreeBSD Foundation is available on the web.

About The FreeBSD Project

The FreeBSD Project provides an up-to-date and scalable modern operating system that offers high-performance, security, and advanced networking for personal workstations, Internet servers, routers, and firewalls. The FreeBSD packages collection includes popular software like the Apache web server, GNOME, KDE, X.org, Python, Firefox, and over 23,000 software suites. FreeBSD can be found on the Internet.

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Piston ships new cloud OS based on OpenStack

Piston ships new cloud OS based on OpenStack:

Piston has released an OpenStack based cloud OS that allows enterprises to build and manage secure private cloud infrastructures.

Piston Enterprise OS, or (pentOS) is a hardware agnostic OpenStack Linux distribution that utilizes the company’s Null-Tier architecture, combining storage, compute and networking on individual nodes to deliver high scalability at lower cost. This allows customers to “scale a high availability private cloud one server at a time,” the company announced Wednesday.

Piston’s CloudKey feature enables automated and hands-free installation and can be installed in less than 10 minutes, the company claims.

The OS also supports CloudAudit, an open security standard for cloud and virtualized environments.

OpenStack is a top open source project backed by Rackspace, NASA, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, AT&T, Microsoft, Dell and Arista. Red Hat’s Gluster is also a big OpenStack supporter. pentOS is designed to run with any OpenStack product including platforms from Dell and Arista and is interoperable with any OpenStack public cloud environment including Rackspace, Dell, Amazon, InterNap and AT&T.

Piston was founded last year by several creators of OpenStack, including former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, former Rackspace guru Christopher MacGown and NASA Communications Director Gretchen Curtis.

The company’s cloud OS was originally expected to debut in late November, but is about six weeks late. No big deal. Most enterprises are still in the cloud planning process.