OSS enterprise extensions released

Open source systems management vendor Zenoss has released Enterprise Edition 2.0 of its eponymous monitoring and management software, adding commercially-licensed extensions to the open source Zenoss Core, reports Computer Business Review Online.

The US-based company began talking up Zenoss Enterprise 2.0 in June with the release of Zenoss Core 2.0, which added CMDB functionality to its management software.

Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich said it had always been the company's intention to add a commercially licensed extension to the enterprise offering, alongside the existing support services and legal protection.

IBM is looking to ride its leadership position in the enterprise portal space into a similar position in the Enterprise 2.0 arena, where Web 2.0 technologies intersect with the enterprise, reports eWeek.

According to IDC analyst Kathy Quirk, the company is aggressively adding features and capabilities to its portal software and improving the usability of the software for business users. Larry Bowden, VP of portals and Web interaction services at IBM, said the company is integrating its WebSphere Portal software with advanced Web 2.0 expertise to create a more dynamic, personalised version of a portal.

In addition, IBM's commitment to Web 2.0 and service-oriented architecture-based systems will continue to make its collaboration software more flexible and useful, he said.

Eleven collaborating technology vendors reached the first milestone in a major virtualisation benchmarking project under the aegis of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), reports Channel Web.

Dell, AMD, Fujitsu Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SWsoft and VMware formed a working group last October with oversight by SPEC, a standards body for performance benchmarks.

The working group has completed the group's investigatory phase, the first of nine milestones in SPEC's rigorous benchmarking process, said Andrea Eubanks, VMware's senior director of enterprise and technical marketing. The group hopes to complete the process sometime in 2008, she said.