Latest News from Glenn Rossman

Thunderbird Connector for Open-Xchange Now Available

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Now, the open source Mozilla Thunderbird client software can be used with Open-Xchange collaboration software. The "Community OXtender for Thunderbird" software connector gives users full access to appointments and contacts stored in the Open-Xchange Server and enables them to use Thunderbird as a rich PIM (Personal Information Management) client to access data online and offline. The software packages and documentation are available at www.open-xchange.com/oxpedia#ThunderbirdOXtender.

Likewise to Host Free Webinar “Secrets of Securing Virtual Infrastructure” Featuring Forrester Analyst

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:38:53 EST

Free webinar on December 1 will discusses the challenges and benefits of securely authenticating virtual environments with Active Directory – featuring Andras Cser, senior analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. and Manny Vellon, chief technology officer of Likewise.

Latest Open-Xchange Makes Webmail and Social Network Integration Easy

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:15:00 EST

The newest release of Open-Xchange builds on a consistent theme as its delivers more integration with other webmail programs like Gmail, as well as the ability to incorporate contact information – the latest includes the Yahoo address book. Open-Xchange today announced enhancements that vastly simplify the aggregation of e-mail and contact information - personal and business - giving users access to their data anywhere, anytime and with any device.

Open-Xchange Announces Agreement with Nexen

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST

Latest from Open-Xchange is this announcement about an agreement with Nexen-Alter Way Hosting in France to offer hosted e-mail and collaboration. This on the heels of Dotster, announced last week, and Versatel, NameCheap earlier this year. Now, Open-Xchange is used by more than 15 million people worldwide.

Open-Xchange Announces Agreement with Dotster

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST

Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced today an agreement with Dotster, Inc., a leading full-service provider of essential resources for businesses and individuals to get online and grow online, to deploy Open-Xchange for its e-mail users. Dotster has established itself among the world's largest domain name registrars with more than 3 million domain holdings under management and servicing hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.rs.

Open Source Content Management Software Company New CEO

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:15:00 EST

eZ Systems, the world´s largest open source content management software company, announced today that former IBM and BEA executive Christoph Rau will join the company as CEO, effective immediately.

Likewise Simplifies Upgrade Path for Open Source Authentication Software

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

Likewise announced that it is offering three starter packs that combine its Likewise Enterprise software with support and training services. The starter packs are designed to help customers move from its open source software to Likewise Enterprise. Likewise Enterprise makes it easy for IT managers to authenticate users, control access to applications and data, centrally manage settings with group policies and create reports for regulatory audits. Likewise Enterprise is also the only solution to provide 100 percent native support for Apple’s Workgroup Manager application.

MS Hosted Exchange price cut cranks up the thumbscrews on partners, providers and competitors

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:48:04 EST

Microsoft drops the price of its online versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Now, what does that mean to channel partners, service providers and all the other players in this market?

Data Center Automation Reaches New Levels with Racemi DynaCenter 3.0

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:16:15 EDT

New data center automation software from Racemi has a “scale-to-fit” option that automatically sizes a captured image to the disk of another physical or virtual server, allowing quicker, easier system migrations.

Open-Xchange and SugarCRM Partner to Combine Open Source Collaboration

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Open-Xchange, a provider of open source groupware, and SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced a cooperation to integrate data from SugarCRM and Open-Xchange collaboration software. The integration enables users to gather and aggregate data from their social network profiles (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing), as well as their SugarCRM application, to store it in an Open-Xchange address book as well as share it with others. This information can then be moved to the SugarCRM application. In addition, the SugarCRM data imported into Open-Xchange can be accessed from smartphones, or published to the Internet.

Deutsche Telekom Spin-off Announces Strategy to Virtualize Databases

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:06:28 EDT

Zimory introduces a solution for virtualizing the data management layer that enables companies to treat the database as an elastic, customizable resource – whether in a conventional, virtualized, or cloud environment.

Lower Cost Alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint Aimed at Education, Public Sector, SMBs

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:43:05 EDT

Open source groupware provider, Open-Xchange, has teamed with Univention to create a turnkey alternative to Microsoft Exchange – that can be maintained in an open source server infrastructure, while keeping technologies like Microsoft Active Directory. Its function goes beyond the Microsoft Server and Microsoft Exchange stacks at lower cost.

Racemi Announces $2.5 Million Financing, New CEO

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:22:17 EDT

Racemi opens a new chapter in the company’s history with the announcement of $2.5 million financing and a new CEO. This is all linked to the company’s strategic decision to focus completely on serving partners that tap into Racemi’s technology to enhance their own offerings.

Likewise Authentication Software Supports Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Likewise announced today availability of both Likewise Open 5.3 and Likewise Enterprise 5.3 software that supports Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, enabling those systems to be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Open allows computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard to authenticate with an organization's existing Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise builds on the authentication engine of Likewise Open, making it easy for IT managers to authenticate users, control access to applications and data, centrally manage settings with group policies and create reports for regulatory audits. In addition, Likewise Enterprise is the only solution to provide 100 percent native support for Apple's Workgroup Manager application.

Open-Xchange Provides Push E-mail and Over-the-air Synchronization for Blackberry, iPhone and Others

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:14:08 EDT

Open source groupware provider, Open-Xchange, is making available push e-mail and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information available for lots of smart phones.

Open-Xchange Consolidates Webmail and Social Media

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:46:00 EDT

Now, Open-Xchange enables users to add address books from other sources – such as Gmail or even Facebook. Also, now the groupware enables users to consolidate other webmail accounts – such as Google or Yahoo – into an Open-Xchange folder.

Open Source Groupware Partner Summit Approaching

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:00:00 EDT

This is an update on the upcoming (and first ever) Open-Xchange Partner Summit. Open-Xchange offers open source collaboration services as both an on-premise solution and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) using exactly the same source code -- enabling SaaS providers and on-premise channel partners to join forces and leverage their respective strengths. System integrators and resellers can partner with service providers to offer hosted Open-Xchange to their customer base without any upfront investments to set up a complex and secure hosting infrastructure. SaaS providers can benefit from resellers' and system integrators' local and regional customer base and in-depth technical and consulting expertise.

Rumors on Yahoo Trying to Unload Zimbra

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:45:00 EDT

I just read the rumors that Yahoo is trying to unload Zimbra, which it acquired 2 years ago for a whopping $350 million. Why? Maybe because technology matters. "..Yahoo bought the company to goose that business, whose main rival has been Google (GOOG)–along with using Zimbra technology to improve its massive consumer email offering, also under siege from Google. That integration has gone slowly and Yahoo now has less interest in selling email products to others..."

Upgrade from Older Versions of Open-Xchange Available

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:15:00 EDT

NUREMBERG, September 10, 2009 – Open-Xchange, the most popular groupware for Linux with more than 3,500 installations, announces new data migration tools to easily switch to the latest-generation, Open-Xchange Server 6. "The new data migration tools enable migration of users, groups, resources, folders, tasks, calendars, contacts and attachments,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "This ensures a fast and easy switch to the latest product generation without any data loss.“ .

Likewise Releases Open Source Software for File Sharing Among Linux, Mac, Unix and Windows

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:38:00 EDT

Likewise-CIFS is available at www.likewiseopen.org and in Likewise Open 5.3 under GPLv2 licensing terms. Likewise will also license Likewise-CIFS under commercial licensing terms that allow original equipment manufacturers to embed Likewise-CIFS in a variety of network attached storage devices, including network appliances and clustered storage solutions. Likewise-CIFS supports both the SMB1 and SMB2 versions of the Server Message Block protocol. It is designed to be a high-performance, highly-scalable protocol stack. Its modular and extensible driver architecture lets OEMs, such as storage vendors, extend their systems with a scalable solution for sharing files.

One-Stop Communications Center: Combined Groupware & Telephony

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:36:00 EDT

Open-Xchange and Rack-Soft are getting together to integrate and cross-sell their collaboration and telephony software for on-premise installation or as SaaS – via hosting providers. Both companies are partners with SaaS platform software provider, Parallels, and have all worked together to simplify SaaS deployments.

Distributed Desktop Virtualization to Transform Enterprise Desktops

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:45:00 EDT

Wanova, Inc. today announced Distributed Desktop Virtualization (DDV) - an entirely new architecture that transforms how companies manage, support and protect desktops and laptops, particularly remote and mobile endpoints.

Virtualization Start-up Wanova Launches with $13M A Round

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:15:00 EDT

Wanova, Inc. has exited stealth mode and launched a new era in desktop virtualization with $13 million in A-round funding from Greylock Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Opus Capital. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs, the company has launched an entirely new architecture called Distributed Desktop Virtualization (DDV), which addresses the need for enterprises to improve the management, support and protection of distributed endpoints.

Open Source Groupware Provider Open-Xchange Announces Partner Summit

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:26:00 EDT

Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced the first Open-Xchange Partner Summit taking place October 8 at the RheinEnergie Stadion in Cologne, Germany. The Summit provides the partner community with a unique forum to learn how to advance their business with e-mail and collaboration services.

Open-Xchange Brings Sociability to Collaboration

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EDT

With its latest software update, open source groupware innovator Open-Xchange is previewing the ability to integrate social network information. For example, adding LinkedIn contacts into the Open-Xchange address book.

Leading Integrator of Mixed Networks Sets Sights on Cross-Platform File Sharing

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:45:00 EDT

Open source software provider, Likewise, is taking another step in advancing connectivity with Microsoft networks. The new Likewise-CIFS software will enable sharing files among Linux, Mac, and Windows computers by using Server Message Block – the popular networking protocol for file and print services, known as SMB and CIFS.

Likewise Software Named Among Top Finalists

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:30:00 EDT

That makes six awards over the past two years, on the heels of the company’s best financial quarter in its history.

Zimory Enhances Cloud Computing Administration and Automation

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:56:00 EDT

Zimory, a provider of enterprise-class cloud computing and supplier of the world’s only “marketplace” for buying and selling cloud computing resources, has simplified pricing and enhanced automation and booking of its cloud service.

IBM to Business – Yes Virginia, There Is a Cloud

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Sitting in the audience at PCExpo in 2000, and hearing now head of IBM’s Software Group Steve Mills pronounce Linux real, was sort of anti-climatic for me personally. I’d been working with Steve and Irving Wladawsky-Berger and John Patrick for several months at that point and knew of open source’s ability to disrupt the technology landscape (something I had even more fun with running communications at SUSE several years later)The concept of cloud computing isn’t new – IBM, Sun and others have been talking about and dabbling in it for years.

How To Avoid Lightning Strikes on the Cloud

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:30:00 EDT

It has been reported that most of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Service in North America was unavailable due to damage from a lightning storm. Running a real multi-site cloud is the answer.

First Wave of Cloud Applications: E-Mail, Collaboration

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:15:00 EDT

At a recent conference, Microsoft's chief software architect said to build confidence in cloud computing, the best way would be to take some applications that are "more cloud-friendly" -- such as e-mail and employee collaboration -- to the cloud.

Zimory Enterprise Cloud Overview

Wed, 27 May 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Zimory Enterprise Cloud addresses the fundamental dilemma of the IT manager: Delivering greater agility and better quality while still increasing efficiency.

Likewise Software Ships with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:16:00 EDT

Now, it will be easier than ever to integrate SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell into Microsoft networks using Active Directory. Under the terms of an agreement between Likewise Software and Novell, all Novell customers who buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 will get Likewise Enterprise software, and it will be part of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop software repositories.

Open-Xchange Groupware Available via Macs and iPhone

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:46:19 EDT

Now, data and groupware information stored on Open-Xchange can be accessed on Macs, or via the AJAX-based web interface, or by using Microsoft Outlook on PCs, or virtually any smartphone. Open-Xchange is making available two new extensions OXtender for MacOS X and OXtender for Mobile Web.

Likewise Open Now Integrated in Citrix XenServer

Wed, 13 May 2009 05:15:00 EDT

The integration of Likewise Open with Citrix XenServer now enables IT administrators to protect information and data from unauthorized access - and ensures that virtual servers have the same levels of security as physical servers. Likewise provides identity management solutions that improve security and operational efficiencies by integrating Linux, Unix and Mac systems with Microsoft Active Directory.

Zimory Public Cloud

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:11:40 EDT

Zimory Public Cloud delivers server capacity for short-term computing power needs. Via the Zimory Internet platform you choose from a variety of data centers around the world offering the resources that you need. You define the quantity and quality of performance (including security), and set the desired usage period. After completion of the online order (usually less than 5 minutes), you have access to your resources.

Likewise Closes $10 Million Funding Round

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:45:00 EDT

Coming off its record year, Likewise Software is announcing a $10 million funding round. Earlier this year, the company reported 20,000 organizations using its open source software and revenues increasing by 500 percent year-over-year. As corporate networks became more diverse with increasing numbers of Mac and Linux users, Likewise Software ensures that Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac computers can be integrated securely into a company’s IT infrastructure.

Opalis Delivers Orchestration and Intelligent Automation for Microsoft System Center

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:28:28 EDT

Opalis and Microsoft are announcing that users of Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager will be able to manage and automate virtual and physical machines for complete virtual lifecycle management. Te two companies are delivering software that provides interoperability between Microsoft System Center and private and public clouds.

Versatel Offers Webmail Solution from Open-Xchange

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:41:00 EDT

The Open-Xchange free webmail promotion – announced two months ago – is fueling new deals. First, NameCheap – with 1 million domains – and now Versatel – Germany’s third-largest telecommunications provider with 1.3 million e-mail accounts – have signed on with Open-Xchange.

Image-Based Provisioning Provider Named “Cool Vendor in IT Operations”

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:08:06 EDT

Racemi – which provides image-based provisioning software for data center consolidation and disaster recovery projects – has been named a 2009 “Cool Vendor in IT Operations” by Gartner.

Likewise Software Named Founding Member of Open Source Channel Alliance

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:07:00 EDT

Likewise Software, a leader in open source authentication software, is among the founding members of the Open Source Channel Alliance. Now, Likewise software is available through SYNNEX' more than 15,000 resellers. Red Hat has identified this group of companies as providers of enterprise-ready, open source applications and solutions.

Open-Xchange Joins with NameCheap to Offer Free Webmail

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Open-Xchange has announced that NameCheap is the first to take advantage of the Open-Xchange free webmail promotion – providing a modern webmail, plus optional collaboration software upgrades. Open-Xchange software integrates e-mail, calendaring, contacts and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Productivity is enhanced through teamwork features, like team view, single-password document sharing, and shared calendars, contacts, tasks and documents.

SOPERA Introduces Next-Generation Application Development

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:00:00 EDT

SOPERA makes open source SOA software for the cloud. Designed from a customer perspective – SOPERA was spawned from Deutsche Post – its SOA software is the open source equivalent to suites from the likes of IBM, BEA, Oracle, Software AG. Deutsche Post spin-off, SOPERA GmbH, has announced an initiative that will change how businesses build and use software applications – especially those suited for cloud computing.

Software Leverages Virtualization for Disaster Recovery and Data Center Consolidation

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:30:00 EST

Racemi announced new versions of its DynaCenter data center automation software specifically built for rapid server recovery, disaster recovery and server consolidation implementations. "There is a revolution coming in data center operations where virtualization technology is used for automated server provisioning and reallocation of resources," said Lawrence Guillory, vice president of sales and marketing, Racemi. "Our patented technology automates data center operations and helps customers efficiently manage ever-increasing numbers of servers that are both physical and virtual."