Stories by: Shelley Solheim

The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday, with IBM's BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices's (AMD's) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year.

Network Appliance on Monday introduced a new operating system to power its storage for high-performance Linux computing clusters in large-scale computational systems.

Red Hat has completed its US$350 million acquisition of Java application server vendor JBoss, the company said Monday.

Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said Tuesday.

IBM researchers have made a breakthrough in magnetic tape data density they say will help secure the media's destiny.

XOsoft on Monday will release the next version of its WANSync data synchronization and replication software with added support for Linux, 64-bit environments and the BlackBerry mobile device.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Wednesday rolled out software aimed to simplify the management of its BladeSystem blade servers running Linux, said the company.

Virtualization and Linux together can play a strong role in both the enterprise and on the client side, said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer of Dell in his keynote Wednesday at the Linuxworld Expo and Conference in Boston.

IBM and Novell have teamed up to drive Linux adoption among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with new packaged bundles of Novell's Linux distribution and IBM's software and servers.

Support for Oracle database clustering and IBM's Cell processor are among the new enhancements in the latest version of the Linux kernel.

Red Hat has released the latest version of its Fedora Core Linux community distribution with new desktop applications, security capabilities and virtualization technologies.