The series of open source talks continued at CERN. Last week we were privileged to hear Marc Fleury, the founder and ex-President of JBoss speaking about the “Business of OSS”. In the beginning Marc, who is now being retired, wanted to make clear that he is not presenting any company, but only his personal […]
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Marc Fleury Speaks about Business of OSS at CERN
April 26th, 2007Erasure Coding for Reliable Storage
February 9th, 2007In this article we give a brief introduction to erasure coding, give few relevant pointers to tutorials and current solutions both on commercial and in free open source technologies.
Erasure codes can be used to construct very reliable storage. The coding can be used to provide redundancy to protect from loosing data when storage components become […]
JBossWorld Berlin 2006: Day Three
November 29th, 2006The JBossWorld Party yesterday didn’t affect the program on Wednesday, even people looked tired at the morning. The day was relatively short, the program ended just before the lunch. A couple of storage related presentations were also given. The first speak was given by a RedHat which revealed impressive portfolio of open-source storage products available […]
JBossWorld Berlin 2006: Day Two
November 21st, 2006The Second day started with an early breakfast. Despite the early time and people still being jetlagged, the conference hall was packed full of people eager to see the top executives. After all, this was the first time the JBoss and RedHat were organizing a major event after the corporate fusion. The opening […]
JBossWorld Berlin 2006: Day One
November 20th, 2006JBossWorld conference has started at Berlin. Rooms were already full of people with good energy when first sessions started at 12:00. Laptop workshop sessions provided introduction to new JBoss components through practical hands-on examples. CDs with pre written code examples were given to the audience and the participants made needed changes to the code to […]
JBossWorld Berlin 2006
November 16th, 2006JStorage will provide daily coverage on JBoss World Berlin 2006 organized November 20-22. The conference will bring together the professional open source community around Europe and over seas. In this news forum we will be bringing you the daily coverage about the topical presentations on professional open source topics. You may have a look on […]
Laptops Major Security Risk
October 22nd, 2006Companies and institutes holding customer data on their mobile devices face a significant risk if the data is not secured. A security breach survey made in 2006 shows how laptops were notoriously visible in the records