Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point Cloud Library Open Source Community

Urban Robotics, a leading provider of three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors, software and algorithms, today announced it is making its highly scalable, spatially searchable and colorized 3D octree-based point cloud format available to the Point Cloud Library (PCL) community. PCL is a standalone, large scale, open source project for 3D point cloud processing. Willow Garage of… Continue reading Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point Cloud Library Open Source Community

Open Virtualization Management Gains Momentum with Industry Support for oVirt Project

The oVirt project today announced that Canonical, Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Red Hat and SUSE have joined together to help create a new open source community for the development of open virtualization platforms, including virtual management tools to manage the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. With the oVirt project, the industry gains an open source,… Continue reading Open Virtualization Management Gains Momentum with Industry Support for oVirt Project

Australian Evolution Systems Builds Cloud Service on Red Hat Solutions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provide technology foundation for Australian IT leader’s cloud service offering RALEIGH, N.C.: Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Evolution Systems, a Sydney, Australia-based full service IT support business, has built its cloud service offering, The Evolution Cloud, on… Continue reading Australian Evolution Systems Builds Cloud Service on Red Hat Solutions

Oracle updates free, open source VirtualBox hypervisor

Oracle has announced the general availability of version 4.0 of the Oracle VM VirtualBox free open source virtualization platform. The announcement comes only three weeks after the company debuted the 3.2.12 maintenance release, and it marks the first major release of the virtualization offering under the Oracle brand.

First OpenStack Release Produces Open Source Cloud Alternative

OpenStack, an open source cloud computing platform with broad developer and commercial support, today announced the “Austin” code release of OpenStack Compute and Object Storage. Since the project’s inception three months ago, OpenStack has built an active community of contributors, delivered on its code release and feature commitments, attracted new member organizations and received significant interest from enterprises and service providers.