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rPath Session at Cloud Expo Cloud Computing Expo - rPath announced “Eight IT Predictions for 2010,” an animated short video that offers a lighthearted view of what the future holds for enterprise IT. The video is available now at http://bit.ly/6lCjug. “For many organizations, 2009 was a painful year,” said Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for rPath. “But in IT, pain usually precedes progress, and that’s what we’re forecasting for 2010 — progress borne of necessity and informed by the struggles of 2009. For 2010, we’ll see many of the lessons of a down economy play out in the form of fundamentally leaner approaches to enterprise IT.”   Despite its comic tone and tongue-in-cheek depiction of IT personnel and chickens, “Eight IT Predictions for 2010” has a more ... (more)

Implications of Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer OS groups are under pressure to provision and maintain multiple versions and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other OS platforms — but, today that achieves flexibility at the expense of control. Application, middleware, security and other specialized requirements spawn new platform variants that create “complexity hell,” making ongoing management a major cha... (more)

rPath Expands Operating System Coverage with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced a management solution for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux® operating system. The move expands the rPath release automation platform beyond operating systems such as Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This provides Red Hat customers a solution for low-ov... (more)

rPath and WANdisco to Create Cloud-Ready Software

rPath and WANdisco have announced that WANdisco has selected the rPath rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to build and maintain its Subversion MultiSite solution as a manageable set of application images for delivery in virtualized and cloud-based environments. rPath seeks to reduce the cost and complexity of application delivery, and WANdisco is a provider of distributed s... (more)

rPath Simplifies Certification of Virtualization Appliances for Citrix Xenserver

rPath announced that virtual appliances intended for the Citrix Ready designation can be developed using rBuilder and the rPath Appliance Platform. “Both rPath and Citrix are committed to creating new revenue sources for application providers,” said Barry Davis, vice president, Business Development at Citrix Systems. “Virtual appliances built using rBuilder and verified ... (more)