SUSE Working On One-Click Enterprise Deployment On OpenStack

Reportedly SUSE is in works with OpenStack members from B1 Systems, Dell and Mirantis in order to make the platform simple and easy to deploy for enterprise customers. The company released a beta version of its OpenStack-based private cloud and now has plans to make the first release of its enterprise-ready, private cloud solution this summer, according to Alan Clark, director of industry initiatives, emerging standards and open source at SUSE. Clark is also a member of The Linux Foundation’s board of directors.

Clark also put light on the fact that the main challenge of a private cloud lies in getting servers into a service-oriented state, which improves agility and responsiveness to business needs. “The open source cloud helps achieve a service-oriented approach because it delivers a flexible infrastructure, quick and easy deployment, service management and complete life cycle management,” he said.
He also mentioned that as OpenStack contributors, “we’re working with partners -- many are open source projects -- to build this together. It’s a collaboration of ideas as well as code. It accelerates bringing a solution to market that works across all the different partners.” The uniqueness of the SUSE is the company’s ability to use its existing data center infrastructure, which already incorporates a wide variety of vendors and technologies. “Take virtualization, for example. We’re not just built on KVM or Xen. We work with all the virtualization technologies. We are working with several partners including VMware and Microsoft to ensure all the industry leading virtualization technologies work with SUSE Linux Enterprise, making it extremely flexible for enterprises to deploy the hypervisor of their choice,” he emphasised.

Open Source Will Not Let You Miss Windows 8 Start Button

You won’t have to miss out on the Start button in Windows 8. Guess who will come to your rescue - an open source application named Classic Shell, which can deal with the Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM).

According to a Register report, El Reg's antipodean lab installed Classic Shell on a Windows 8 RTM virtual machine running under Oracle VirtualBox on Mac OS 10.7.4. We can report that the application installed without a hint of trouble, and as soon as we clicked in its shell-like Start button we were offered a nice set of options to arranged Windows 8 so that it resembled versions of Windows past.
This application even gives you an option to access Windows 8 without having to seek TIFKAM screen. It also disables the “active corners” features that invoke the tiled interface.
While the authors are still not completely sure whether Classic Shell will actually work well with Windows 8. The FAQ of the app clearly indicates that it has not been formally tested under the RTM version that was made available for download last week.