REDHAT - PG Telco Keeps Rural Customers Connected

FAST FACTSCustomer: Prairie Grove Telephone Company (PG Telco)Red Hat Partner: ZmandaIndustry: Telecommunications (PG Telco); Backup and Archival Software (Zmanda)Geography: Prairie Grove, Arkansas (PG Telco); Sunnyvale, CA (Zmanda)Business Challenge: Regional rural telecom company needed an enterprise-class backup and recovery system to ensure business continuity, and a reliable and scalable operating system that would prevent the servers from crashingSoftware: Amanda Enterprise 3.0 open source backup and recovery solution from Zmanda; Red Hat...

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REDHAT - Accelerating Open Source Middleware Adoption

Last year was an unprecedented period for businesses, governments and individuals. The economic crisis compelled organizations worldwide to examine essential operations and how to most effectively achieve strategic goals. Along the way, many organizations re-evaluated how they have been running their operations and IT functions or building and integrating applications, including their use of traditional proprietary middleware.We believe that this re-evaluation contributed to the continued adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware throughout the enterprise...

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REDHAT - Bilcare research cost-effectively scales for Business

FAST FACTSCustomer: Bilcare ResearchRed Hat Partner: Taashee Linux ServicesIndustry: Pharmaceutical Research and Healthcare IndustryGeography: IndiaBusiness Challenge: To set up a scalable and cost-effective system infrastructure for core business that is easy to deploy and enables ease of management of a heterogeneous IT infrastructure with little impact on existing IT services Solution: Bilcare Research virtualized its entire infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, providing on-demand...

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REDHAT - Where’s Red Hat this February?

We’re well into 2010, and have a full schedule of events at Red Hat. Check out where you can find Red Hat this month- make sure to stop by at these events to learn more about the latest Red Hat and JBoss solutions.Looking for information about Red Hat Summit and JBoss World? Click here. Want easy, up-to-date information about Red Hat events? Follow us on Twitter.GlobalClick here for a full list of Red Hat Webinars. Looking for information about Red Hat Government Solutions? Click here. Click here for a full calendar of Fedora events.North...

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REDHAT - Now showing: opensource.com

Hi. We’re back. Well, not back exactly. We’d just like to take a minute to introduce you to somebody. Somebody that’s important to us.opensource.comWe promised we’d let you know when we had news–and now we do. Opensource.com is our new adventure. It’s still sponsored by Red Hat, and still shining a bright light on the open source stories we’ve always sought out. At opensource.com, we’ll be doing some things a little differently than we used to. We won’t be addressing as many technical topics–but we do hope to address more topics more often....

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LINUX MINT - Linux Mint 8 KDE released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” KDE Community Edition. Quick steps: Download the ISO or the torrent.While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features in Linux Mint 8 KDE CE, read the User Guide and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.After the ISO is downloaded verify the MD5 (as described in the user guide).Burn...

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LINUX MINT - Mint 8 review: Distrocheck

Well.. I was going to answer the last 8 reviews in a single post but I quickly realized it wasn’t such a good idea. The last one, from Distrocheck, is full of constructive criticism and highlights very interesting points. So let’s start by discussing this one and I’ll tackle the other reviews one by one then after. Link to the review: http://distrocheck.wordpress.com/ Comments: Distrocheck: “I must say Linux Mint has a very good reputation in the Linux world, personally I find it astonishing how big this community based distribution has become,...

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LINUX MINT - Monthly Stats – January 2010

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $200 (2nd donation), Alan D S. (USA) $147, Michel H. (Luxembourg) $100, Alfred Johnson aka “adj0159″ (USA) $100, William H. (Canada) $100, Jacob B. (USA) $100, Connie E. (USA) $100, Anonymous (France) $100, Eric V. (USA) $75, Michael B. (Canada) $74, Edwin Vervliet aka “edwin” (Belgium) $70, Henk van C. (Netherlands) $50, Mark G. (USA) $50, Derek M. (Denmark) $50, Pawel B. (Poland) $50, James S. (USA) $50, Robert D B. (USA) $50, Michael H. (USA) $50,...

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