Charles Babcock [InformationWeek] -- It's probably not surprising that open source systems management software would sprout around Linux and Apache servers, giving it a shot at managing infrastructure for big companies. Qlusters, founded in 2001, produces OpenQRM for provisioning and managing data center servers. It added virtual server management to its capabilities in the latest release.

Go to InformationWeek to access the full article by Charles Babcock.

Denise Dubie [NetworkWorld] -- Open source management software has become a viable alternative to commercial products. According to Raven Zachary, a research director at The 451 Group, the popularity of open source management vendors, or the "little four" comprised of GroundWork, Hyperic, Qlusters and Zenoss, is growing.

Go to NetworkWorld to access the full article by Denise Dubie.

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney [zdnet] -- For parallel processing to work central control must be light. This is almost never the case in a proprietary company. An open source development process, with light central control, lets you manage this challenge organically, in the way a grid computing stack does. Products like OpenQRM from Qlusters do it in an enterprise computing system.

Go to zdnet to access the full posting by Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney.

Chris A. MacKinnon [Processor] -- John Harleman, vice president of strategic development at Qlusters, says his company offers openQRM, a completely scalable data center managing and provision application. openQRM is fully open source and supports Windows, Linux, and Unix OSes. Harleman says that openQRM takes the benefits of virtualization and enables users to apply them to and between physical systems, as well as virtual ones. 

Go to Processor to access the full article by Chris A. MacKinnon.

Matt Rechenburg to present at T-DOSE in Eindhoven on "Automated rapid deployment in modern data-centers."

The presentation is about 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 gives 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 presentation, please refer to openQRM's Search News Forum

The Wall Street Transcript -- According to Qlusters' CEO, Ofer Shoshan, Qlusters is a leading provider of open source systems management solutions. Qlusters' openQRM provides a tool that is able to manage the hybrid physical/virtual environment and dynamically provision within this environment. So it's very easy to have a certain application or operating system running on a physical server and move it to a virtual server and back and so forth.

For the transcrpit of the interview with CEO Ofer Shoshan, goto The Wall Street Transcript