appliances

ServerWatch: "Out of control document management plagues businesses of every dimension."

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: How do you move from physical appliances to virtual with ease?

Behind the cloud are thousands of servers, switches, appliances both physical and virtual, and any number of complicating bits of machinery and software all just waiting to cause a problem.

Understanding and monitoring that massive infrastructure is the world of LaunchPad finalist Real-Status.

eWeek: "Turnkey Linux Hub 1.0 provides cloud hosting and backup capabilities for the Web application software appliances offered by the Turnkey Linux project."

LG is set to introduce its Thinq technology, which will enable users to remotely manage appliances and other home systems from a smartphone.

Channel Register: "Novell has opened an online gallery for SUSE software appliances. It has been a year since Novell launched its SUSE Appliance Program, which offers a set of online tools, dubbed SUSE Studio, for spinning up software appliances based on its SUSE Linux distro."

Addressing one of the key objectives of cloud computing, Microsoft today said its Windows Azure platform will be available as an appliance that can run on customer and partner premises.

Serverwatch: "IBM is turning to technology from Novell to build Linux OS powered software appliances -- a move that aims to deliver easy-to-deploy software for physical, virtual and cloud-based environments in use at small to midsized businesses."

InternetNews: "What does building and maintaining Linux-based software appliances have to do with datacenter automation? A whole lot, according to appliance vendor rPath."

Put your virtual machine footprint on a diet with appliances.