UR Solutions was awarded the "Red Hat Asia Pacific/Japan Most Committed Partner Award" during the FY10 Partner Conference held at The Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore last November 5, 2009. URSI merited the award for consistent attendance and participation in Red Hat webinars and tech updates, as well as having the most number of certified engineers and sales professionals.

Receiving the award from Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst and APJ President Gery Messer is URSI GM Patrick D. Reidenbach.

From: COMPUTERWORLD
By: Patrick Thibodeau

IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems.

From: Baseline
By: Samuel Greengard

Despite a brutal economy and tight budgets, organizations are making plans to deploy the technologies that are most likely to drive their business in 2010. Here are 10 business and technology trends that will hel­p solidify those plans.

From: ZDNet UK
By: Cath Everett

Diving into virtualisation without preparing properly is risky, so here is a checklist to help projects go smoothly

Despite the recession and the general pressure on IT budgets, the virtualisation sector has not been too badly hit. Organisations are still buying into the idea of cutting costs by reducing utility bills, improving the use of resources and freeing expensive datacentre space.

From: Mind Touch Blog­­­­
By: Mark Fidelman­­

From:Digium

Abot Tanaw uses dedicated videoconferencing hardware setup, similar to that found in businesses, to deliver high-quality video to overseas Filipino workers who wish to communicate with their families on a regular basis. Abot Tanaw curbs the cost of communication by taking full advantage of an Asterisk-based IP PBX server to provide the video calls at no cost to users.

From: technicianonline.com­­­
­­By: Heidi Klumpe, Staff Writer

From: The Open Road
By: Matt Asay

It's impressive to be able to give away 31.2 million free Gmail accounts, as Google has. It's even more impre­ssive to get customers to pay for 40 million mailboxes, as Zimbra reported today, representing a sharp spike from the 20 million paid mailboxes reported in early 2009.

From ­MailRadar­

­(Ken Milberg) Why is L­inux the answer for data center consolidation? To start, for a large IT infrastructure project to be approved in today's climate, it must make real business sense. The project must have a significant return on investment (ROI), which will lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Linux operating systems work well with these demands, as will be explained in this tip.

From ­The Open Ro­ad­