Deni Connor [Network World] -- In the financial news of storage companies last week several news items made the list. IBM acquired database archiving and classification vendor Princeton Softech. Isilon, which went public in 2006, lost money, but the amount was less than previous losses. Data Domain announced its IPO. ONstor announced it may go public. And, Qlusters announced an investment from Network Appliance.

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LinuxElectrons -- The 451 Group has found that the 'Big Four' systems management vendors (BMC, HP, IBM and CA) are ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players.Analysts at The 451 Group found the open source systems management category is mostly dominated by systems monitoring, configuration, provisioning and patching components. This 60-page report, “Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management,” was written by Jay Lyman and Raven Zachary. The report includes in-depth competitive assessments of Qlusters.

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San Jose Business Journal -- Open source systems management software maker Qlusters Inc. promoted Chief Oerating Officer Dror Harel to president. The Palo Alto-based company also named John Harleman as vice president of sales and business development.

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Matt Rechenburg to present at FrOSCon 2007 in Germany on "Automated rapid deployment in modern data-centers."

The presentation will deal with improving the common scenario of slow deployment in modern data-centers and show how to turn to an automated, flexible and scalable infra-structure managed by openQRM. It will give an overview of a typical reference-installation and will point out details about the system-management and deployment features of openQRM.

For further details about the conference, please refer to http://programm.froscon.org/2007/events/5.en.html