http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes Cfengine News en-us Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:25:15 -0400 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:25:15 -0400 brendan@cfengine.org (Brendan Strejcek) brendan@cfengine.org (Brendan Strejcek) http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000043.html GNU/Linux is taking over the embedded device market, bringing Open Source flexibility and superior Unix management techniques to distributed, partially connected, and nomadic environments. Associate Professor Erik Hjelmås of Gjøvik University College in Norway has been experimenting with the latest Cfengine on a Nokia N900 mobile phone. Wed, 9 Jul 2010 00:08:13 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000043.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000042.html Users at Oslo University will soon be offered the Ubuntu operating system on their laptops and desktop machines, and it will come with fully automated Cfengine management. Friday, 24 Jun 2010 00:08:13 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000042.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000039.html Cfengine made its Orion Cloud Pack available last week, as a 1-2-3 quick-start for users of its Cfengine 3.0.x family of products. Continuing the astronomical theme of the company, the page sports the slogan "Get the cloud under Orion's belt" -- a reference to the M42 Nebula in which is located, where else, just under the famous three stars of Orion's belt. Sun, 30 May 2010 00:08:13 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000039.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000040.html When Ubuntu LTS Server Edition made the radical decision to offer Long Term (five year) support for its server edition software, it sparked the potential to make a significant impact on data center mangagement. Upgrading servers is one of the most disruptive operations in a data center because it means down-time. Now you might never have to take down a machine during its entire lifetime. Sun, 30 May 2010 00:08:13 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000040.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000036.html More players are beginning the realize the benefits of the kind of model-driven configuration thinking that Cfengine introduced in the 1990s. Today, this kind of pre-programmed, policy-based configuration and repair are becoming essential partners for the commoditization of computing services in the Cloud. Cfengine has been there since before the beginning, and it still doesn't care where your computer is located. Sun, 30 May 2010 00:08:13 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000036.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000032.html With so many earthquake events along the Indo-Australian plate, and the risk of equally catastrophic Tsunami waves, Tsunami warnings are a mission critical service in the area. The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre's Earthquake Monitoring component at Geoscience Australia recently adopted Cfengine's newest release to radically simplify the management of their test and production real-time monitoring systems. Wed, 10 May 2010 00:16:40 -0500 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000032.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000031.html Jarle Bjorgeengen of the University of Oslo did a laboratory study showing the efficiency merits of Cfengine. The report is available to USENIX members in their ;login: magazine. Resource efficiency is a huge factor when talking about virtualization and configuration management in elastic Cloud Computing. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:16:40 -0500 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000031.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000028.html Mark Burgess was interviewed (with a sore throat) on FLOSS weekly. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:25:51 -0500 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000028.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000026.html Moving into a new year, the privately owned and funded Cfengine company has changed its board to include some power members of the Free and Open Software community. "The time has come to change the style of our board work, as we move into a different phase of growth," says CEO Thomas Ryd. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:12:11 -0500 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000026.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000016.html Cfengine was listed in NetworkWorld's 11 open source companies to watch. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:50:06 -0500 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000016.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000010.html Cfengine is now partnering with key industry re-sellers to bring professional support to users of the commercial and community editions. By supporting a complete datacentre package through leading industry suppliers, we are working to simplify Cfengine datacentre deployments for new and existing users. The future of Cfengine's world-spanning footprint depends on our two-pronged approach: constant simplification of the solution, and scaling up of support around the world. Today, we are bridging services across 3 continents to help users as effectively as we can. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:45:44 -0500 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000010.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000004.html According to Network World, Cfengine challenges "the 'Big Four' management vendors -- BMC, CA, and IBM -- on not only cost but also capabilities. Cfengine [has] introduced [a] project that will be worthwhile to follow and will likely give the big four proprietary IT management solutions a run for their money..." Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000004.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000005.html Needless to say, we agree with this characterization: "Cfengine, the leading Open Source provider of datacenter automation solutions introduces Cfengine Nova, drawing on 15 years of market feedback and more than a million installations of worldwide experience. Cfengine Nova is best of breed automation solution, bringing multiplatform repair and policy-based compliance to global organizations. Cfengine Nova has been enhanced extensively by user feedback to manage the entire server lifecycle." Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:02:00 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000005.html http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000006.html The cover feature of the April 2009 issue of Linux Pro Magazine is a tutorial I wrote for introducing Cfengine 3. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cfengine.org/cftimes/articles/0000000006.html