- 1
- 2
- 3
- < previous
- next >
Company name: Optaros
Founded: July 2004
Location: Boston, Switzerland
What does the company offer? Consulting and systems integration services focused on open source software.
Why is it worth watching? Optaros can be the guiding hand for enterprises considering using open source software to solve business problems. It helps customers determine where open source makes the most sense and helps put together open source components to create platforms for business.
How did the company get its start? In 2004, company founders recognized that as enterprise users became increasingly comfortable with Linux, open source would move up the stack into software. The company was founded to provide support for midsize and large companies bringing in open source business applications.
How did the company get its name? The name Optaros comes from the Latin optare, "to choose."
CEO and background: Bob Gett, formerly CEO of Internet consulting firm Viant, as well as CIO of Fidelity and Smith Barney.
Funding: $7 million from Charles River Ventures and General Catalyst in 2005.
Who's using the product? The Christian Science Monitor, Movielink, Kaplan Higher Learning.
Company name: Qlusters
Founded: 2001; contributed its management software to the open source community in January of this year.
Location: Palo Alto
What does the company offer? OpenQRM, an open source systems management platform.
Why is it worth watching? The number of open source systems-management vendors is growing, and while openQRM was made open source in January 2006, it has proved its worth in commercial deployments during the last two years. The open source platform benefits enterprise customers by offering plug-ins that let the platform hook into existing systems, whether open source, proprietary or internally developed.
How did the company get its start? Entrepreneur Ofer Shoshan started the company with the idea of creating mainframe-like manageability for commodity hardware.
How did the company get its name? Founders considered it a unique name that would be easily found through search engine queries.
CEO and background: Shoshan has more than 16 years of experience starting and managing high-tech companies and projects in Israel, and most recently was entrepreneur-in-residence at Israel Seed Partners.
Funding: $23 million in two rounds; investors include Benchmark Capital, Charles River Ventures, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich, and Israel Seed Partners.
Who's using the product? Canada's Loblaw food chain and New York City-based Tradeware Global.
Company name: rPath
Founded: April 2005; launched in January 2006
Location: North Carolina, U.S.
What does the company offer? rBuilder, an open source platform that includes a tailored version of Linux to create preconfigured, pretested application appliances that can be downloaded and deployed by enterprise users in minutes.
Why is it worth watching? Server virtualization is paving the way for simpler application deployments, in which an operating system and application can be packaged and deployed in a virtual machine for flexibility. VMware has begun offering preconfigured, prepackaged application appliances, but rPath provides an open source foundation for independent software vendors (ISV) to use in creating these appliances. Enterprise users should be watching and pushing their ISVs to take this approach, because such application appliances mean the end of complex, multi-component application deployments.
How did the company get its start? After leaving Red Hat in 2003, engineer Erik Troan was looking at ways to make open source more consumable and came up with technology to build application appliances.
How did the company get its name? Rpath is technology used in Unix systems to search for shared libraries. "We were thinking we want to let applications find the software components they need to work, which is analogous to how an operating system finds a library that it needs to work," Troan says.
CEO and background: Billy Marshall, formerly Red Hat's vice president of North America sales, with an earlier stint at IBM Global Services.
Funding: $6.4 million in January from North Bridge Venture Partners and General Catalyst.
Who's using the product? Department of Energy, Digium, Ingres.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- < previous
- next >
Read up on the latest ideas and technologies from companies that sell hardware, software and services. Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Emerging Businesses
Delivering the Power of Choice with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Refresh your AUP: Top tips to ensure your acceptable use policy is fit for purpose
Everything you need to know about email and web security (but were afraid to ask)
Achieving the impossible: Unlimited application scalability
IT Service Management Needs and Adoption Trends: An Analysis of a Global Survey of IT Executives
Taking On Demand CRM Integration to the Next Level
Email Archiving 101—Customer Case Study
- White PaperYour organisation may well have devised and implemented an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) some time ago in order to guard against the risks of inappropriate use of computer systems by your workers, but are you confident that your AUP remains 'fit for purpose'? Read on to discover how you can enhance the effectiveness of your AUP.
- White PaperView this webcast and discover the drivers for changing network design practices, why many organisations are changing their approach to network architecture and how enterprises should be moving forward with open architecture multi-vendor network solutions. Register now and learn how your business can maximize the business value of the enterprise network.
- White PaperDiscover how the integration of disparate technologies in your company can lead to greater user productivity, improved management, lower costs, higher efficiency, and easier risk mitigation.
Discover how SOA can create smarter outcomes for your business.
Attend and learn:
- How SOA is helping leading companies to become more agile
- Where you should be applying SOA processes in your company
- The top SOA implementation mistakes to avoid
Click here for more information.
- +
CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
- +
SOA What? Why You Need SOA Governance Framework 04 December, 2008 08:32:00
Adopting services oriented architecture (SOA) in your enterprise without thinking through IT governance can cause something like the Gold Rush in the 1800s; extreme rates of growth and minimal law and order which produce unexpected outcomes. - +
The Myth of Cloud Computing 04 December, 2008 08:25:00
Why the rapid spread of virtual technology is becoming a security riskWhy the rapid spread of virtual technology is becoming a security risk. - +
Who Pushed Vendors Toward Better Security? 04 December, 2008 09:38:00
Hint: It had something to do with pressure from customers and government agencies, writes Oracle CSO Mary Ann DavidsonHint: It had something to do with pressure from customers and government agencies, writes Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson. - +
CPO & CISO: A Comprehensive Approach to Information 04 December, 2008 08:42:00
GE CPO Nuala O'Connor Kelly advocates greater CPO/CISO cooperation to place the right value on information assets.GE CPO Nuala O'Connor Kelly advocates greater CPO/CISO cooperation to place the right value on information assets. - +
Virtually every Windows PC at risk, says Secunia 04 December, 2008 08:00:00
Almost all PCs scanned by patch tool have an unpatched app; 46% have 11-plus.More than 98% of Windows computers harbor at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, a Danish security company said Wednesday.
F-Secure: Growth In Internet Crime Calls For Growth In Punishment 05 December, 2008 13:00:00
International researchers gather in Sydney to preview the clever web 05 December, 2008 09:48:00
Borderless corporate networks to shift focus to secure content management in Australia in 2009 04 December, 2008 16:06:00
IDC Says Asia/Pacific Excluding Japan IT Market Will Remain The Bright Spot... 04 December, 2008 15:04:00
MySpot SOS "Panic Button" Smartphone Application could save lone worker lives 04 December, 2008 13:34:00
|
||
|
||
|
|
||
|
Email Archiving 101—Customer Case Study
Join Lee Benjamin, a Microsoft Exchange MVP and Ryan Shipkowski, network administrator for Matthews, to discuss the process and ROI of implementing an email archiving solution, with emphasis on a case study from Matthews International.
Buying Guides
Latest Products
Buying Guides
