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rPath today announced enterprise-focused productivity and management enhancements to the rPath release automation platform. The upgrades refine the functionality and user experience of the fully version controlled release automation solution, meeting the needs of each stakeholder in th...
We'll be taking on this topic in depth on Thursday, April 30th, with "Tackling the Last Mile of IT Process Automation," a webinar rPath is hosting with Forrester Research, Novell and BlueLock. You'll learn how this approach to automation can take the cost, risk and delay out of applica...
Red Hat offshoot rPath has named Tim Buckley, once the COO of Red Hat and lately the principal of Buckley Investments, to its board as executive chairman. He’s supposed to help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market with solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of d...
rPath today announced that Tim Buckley, principal of Buckley Investments and former chief operating officer of Red Hat, has joined the rPath board of directors as the executive chairman. From his newly created post, Buckley will help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market...
rPath and WANdisco today 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 see...
Besides SUSE and its own brand of Linux, rPath is now supporting the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of its rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. The move broadens the start-up’s options for deploying and managing applications in traditional, virtualized a...
rPath has announced support for the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. rBuilder is the category-defining build and release management system for creating virtual appliances and application images. The rPath Lifecyc...
rPath has hit the road to promote the graduated adoption of cloud computing technologies. This follows a podcast interview published on Friday during which Billy Marshall, rPath co-founder and chief strategy officer, speaks with a leading industry pundit about the importance of a manag...
The problem with the notion of “Windows for EC2” is that it perpetuates the broken, legacy model of tying your application to the infrastructure upon which it runs. In the legacy model, applications became artificially tied to the physical server upon which they ran, and server utiliza...
Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the me...
Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the me...
When actualized, rPath says “applications are distributed based on cloud capacity, cost, proximity to user and other criteria.” Its Cloud Computing Adoption Model outlines strategic goals, investment requirements, expected returns, risk factors and readiness criteria for advancement. I...
rPath has announced its Cloud Computing Adoption Model, which defines a pragmatic, five-step approach for the graduated adoption of cloud computing. Cloud computing holds real promise for enterprises and SMBs, as well as the ISVs and individual developers serving them. Among other bene...
rPath announced that SOASTA has selected rPath’s rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to build and maintain its CloudTest application images for virtualized and bare metal environments. rPath provides SOASTA with end-to-end technology that simplifies the entire range of...
rPath announced that virtual appliances designed for the VMware Ready Virtual Appliance Program can be developed using rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. In addition, application providers will be able to leverage SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell when buildin...
rPath announced the beta launch of its rBuilder Appliance Creator and rBuilder Catalog features for the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2). When coupled with rPath's technology for release management, lifecycle management, and its comprehensive support capability for Linux techn...
rPath announced that Progress Software has certified rPath's rBuilder for its OpenEdge platform. This allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to use rPath technology to create Software as a Service (SaaS) applications as virtual appliances that include/leverage the Progress OpenEdge...
rPath announced CipherOptics has selected rBuilder and the rPath Appliance Platform to build and maintain its encryption key server application, Key Authority Point. rBuilder is a development platform that simplifies and automates the creation of hardware and virtual appliances. The rP...
Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the me...
The Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance is a self contained software stack of o/s, database, and business intelligence tools. The solution is provided in a single stream install enabling a rapid and easy deployment of a complete BI environment within a VM. The software appliance comes with ...
rPath announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been using rBuilder to deliver virtual appliances to both scientists' desktops and computational clouds. The use of rBuilder in these environments reduces the effort ...
rPath announced that virtual appliances intended for the Citrix Ready designation can be developed using rBuilder and the rPath Appliance Platform. A virtual appliance is an application combined with a streamlined operating system, offered in a format that runs in virtualized environme...
rPath announced a technology partnership enabling application providers to use rPath's rBuilder to create virtual appliances using the rPath Appliance Platform and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. The agreement promises to reduce complexity and costs of application distributio...
rPath is a company that is pioneering the software appliance approach for application distribution and management. rPath was founded with the goal of making software applications easier to create, deploy and manage SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today its first annual Virt...
rPath, whose unique technology creates virtual appliances and simplifies application distribution, has announced that Vice President of Engineering Brett Adam has been selected as a speaker at the Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place at The Grand Hyatt in S...
Openbravo, the company with the open source SME ERP solution, has tied up with rPath to create a software appliance using rPath's rBuilder, Openbravo's first commercial product. An appliance should simplify deploying and maintaining the software in both physical and virtual environment...
Openbravo, the company with the open source SME ERP solution, has tied up with rPath to create a software appliance using rPath's rBuilder, Openbravo's first commercial product. An appliance should simplify deploying and maintaining the software in both physical and virtual environment...
Virtual appliances represent a new opportunity to streamline and simplify software distribution for virtual environments. With a virtual appliance, software vendors can ship thoroughly tested, standard configurations that require minimal installation effort. In this session, Erik will ...
rPath announced the ability to create virtual appliances that run on the Xen 3.0.3 hypervisor using rPath's rBuilder. The rBuilder platform allows software developers to combine software applications with Linux and related open source components to create virtual appliances that can be...
rPath, provider of platform for creating and maintaining Linux software appliances, announced that agámi Systems, pioneer in live file system replication solutions for network attached storage (NAS) has selected rBuilder and rPath Linux to create its next-generation development and pr...
rPath, provider of the first platform for creating and maintaining Linux software appliances, announced today the general availability of rBuilder 2.0. This latest release of rPath's flagship product allows software developers to transform their applications into software appliances.
Looks like Ingres is going to try to build its own stack, starting with a database software appliance. It's integrating the Ingres database with rPath Linux, calling the joint development Project Icebreaker. They're just using those pieces of the operating system necessary to the datab...
rPath announced that Digium, original creator of Asterisk is an rBuilder and rPath Linux partner. Powered by the rPath platform, the Asterisk Business Edition, the professional grade version of Asterisk, now has built-in Linux distribution features Digium's customers are now able to im...
rPath, announced it signed Vindicia,as an rBuilder and rPath Linux customer.Using rBuilder, Vindicia can wrap applications with rPath Linux and related open source components in a tightly integrated, high-performing manner.
One of the most touted benefits of Linux and open source programs is their flexibility. However, as the popularity of Linux has grown, some of the flexibility seems to have been sacrificed. As larger Linux vendors have become more standardized to support certified applications, the fre...
Using rBuilder, a software developer combines an application with a tailored version of rPath Linux and delivers the resulting software appliance to the customer which includes an installer and maintenance mechanism that simplifies deployment and management to literally a few mouse cli...
rPath, provider of the first platform for creating and maintaining Linux software appliances, has announced the addition of Dave Cotten as Vice President of Sales. In his new role, Dave will be responsible for all of rPath's sales activities.Prior to joining rPath, Dave was the regiona...
A start-up specializing in tools that help developers deploy software on Linux-based appliances and virtual machines has received $6.4 million funding. rPath was founded this month by two former Red Hat VPs. Although the principal focus is enterprise software appliances, the company's ...