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Following 5 years of research and development, Cfengine AS has released an upgrade of the Open Source, self-repairing software cfengine based on its Promise Theory technology. Cfengine is a self-repairing maintenance engine capable of fixing errors and misalignments in the Data Center without human intervention. Systems are compliant and maintained even when humans are unavailable, because they have made all the decisions in advance.

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JumpBox has announced the release of 38 Open Source applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The release enables server application deployment, configuration, and management almost completely independent of any user hardware. JumpBox offers small to mid-sized organizations a library of Open Source applications packaged as pre-built, pre-configured virtual appliances through JumpBox Open, its annual subscription service. Public Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for twelve JumpBox applications, including Ruby on Rails

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Online encyclopedia Wikipedia announced that it had attained its fundraising goal of six million dollars, enough to cover operating expenses for the current fiscal year. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said more than 125,000 people had donated a total of four million dollars since he made an appeal for funds on July 1. "In addition, we've received major gifts and foundation support totaling two million dollars," Wales said in a thank you letter on the website of his non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. "This combined revenue will cover our operating expenses for the current fiscal year, ending June 30, 2009."

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Wipro Infotech has developed an integrated Police Information System, an end-to-end online application software which covers activities related to the day-to-day functioning of police departments, including the back-end administrative processes of general administration, finance and stores. The processes have been automated to ease the tasks of administration and record keeping, thereby bringing in operational efficiency throughout the police department.

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DataCore Software has announced an expanded line of SAN software starter packages priced for small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). The high cost and complexity of traditional SAN storage required to support virtual servers and desktops typically puts it out of reach for many SMBs. DataCore’s new business continuity solutions provide true auto failover/failback high-availability and fault tolerance. These new packages provide automated storage protection to ensure business uptime, while also significantly lowering the cost and complexity barriers of SAN storage for Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, Virtual Iron, Parallels, VMware and other server and desktop virtualization environments. The new software packages, with entry prices starting at under $2,000 per server, include thin provisioning, data migration technology, storage performance caching software

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Much like “Web 2.0″, cloud computing was a collection of related concepts that people recognized, but didn’t really have a good descriptor for, a definition in search of a term, you could say. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt used it in 2006 to describe their own stuff and then Amazon included the word “cloud” in EC2 when it was launched a few weeks later (August 24), the term became mainstream.

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Today's business imperative for IT is to do more with less, and to respond to ever-changing business requirements efficiently and inexpensively. It is vital, therefore, for organizations to get the most possible value out of legacy technology. The movement to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) demands that we reconsider the value of legacy and enhance its continued benefit to the business. Download the White Paper now to learn more. Click here to access the White Paper, “The Mainframe as a First Class SOA Participant.”

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All branches of the U.S. federal government are rapidly adopting XML and XML-based standards to store, exchange and deliver information. This whitepaper outlines several real-world examples of how defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies are using an XML content platform to meet their unique mission goals and deliver useful information hundreds of times faster than with search engines and relational databases. MarkLogic Server includes a unique set of capabilities to store, aggregate, enrich, search, navigate, and dynamically deliver content. Content applications built on Marklogic Server enable organizations to improve knowledge management, information sharing, and collaboration, and to analyze vast amounts of content and support missions with real-time data delivery. Click here to download this White Paper now!

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A global financial services firm deployed DataDirect Shadow and its mainframe Web services technology at the early stages of its service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. The case study discusses how this strategy enabled the company to leverage existing mainframe assets while increasing developer productivity and the ability to deliver new applications to customers. Click here to view the case study.

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If IT security is your top priority, then you can no longer ignore your Web applications. Leaving them unprotected makes them vulnerable to hackers and other threats. While your network security solutions can help defend your internal systems, vulnerabilities in your Web applications can make those internal systems easily accessible to the public. In fact, they may be the first place a hacker will strike. Make sure you know where your weaknesses are. Assess all of your Web applications. Click here to learn more by downloading the White Paper and joining the webcast now.

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