Open-Future, making open source work for You

  
  

Infosecurity

Posted Thu, 2010-03-11 11:12
2010-03-24
2010-03-25

Open-Future invites you to the biggest ICT event in Belgium.

We will be pleased to welcome you on the Zarafa booth (A067).

More information to follow soon.

To pre-register follow this link:  FR or NL

Best regards,

The Open-Future Team

Puppet

Posted Fri, 2010-03-05 16:12

Recently a customer asked us to improve their current automation setup and centralize the Configuration management . They required a flexible system, fast, scalable and easy to maintain.
 
We drew up a proposal built around the open source project puppet in combination with ldap and subversion. We implemented a flexible setup with complete automation of their servers; using the ldap as backend for the user accounts, rights and server configurations.
 
We set the ldap up to serve a tree with groups like development/staging/production and a separate tree for webservers, db servers, fileservers and so on. By changing the settings in the ldap, a host from group for example, and running a puppet update; the changes are automatically executed for the relevant servers.
This is the great strength of puppet!
 
A side effect to this setup is the speed. Installing a fresh server from scratch to ready for the production takes about 15 minutes.
Its Unlimited Scalability!
 
The subversion side of the setup was implemented for configuration revision control. Thus tracking all changes and as an added bonus also creating a backlog of what is changed and by who.
 
Our client is very satisfied with our setup and we have, since our initial implementation, set up 3 different environments with each more than 60 servers. We are planning the migration of several hundred more servers to this setup.
 

Care-free backup with Amanda

Posted Wed, 2010-02-17 11:49

We got a question from a customer for a good backup solution. The backup software we propose the most to our customers is Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver).
 
The feature that sold it to our customer was the setup and forget, which many of our customers love, after testing the restore of course.
 
We provided the right parameters after setting up the server, the dumpcycle (number of days), the tapecycle (number of tapes), the runspercycle (number of times the backup needs to run in the dumpcycle) and some other small modifications and you're done.
 
Schedule the backup and Amanda will decide when to do full, incremental or differential backups.
Based on the companies specific setup, we advised the client to use the virtual tape ability, something he liked a lot. It's easy to provide virtual tapes to amanda. Virtual tapes are tapes that reside on disk and not on physical tapes. Amanda mostly uses tar to create the backups.
 
Amanda provides the needed commands to manipulate the tapes and to do easy recovery.
 
You can find more information about Amanda on http://www.amanda.org.
 
Amanda also has commercial products (Zmanda cloud backup, Recovery Manager), which includes additional features.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation For Servers

Posted Fri, 2010-02-05 14:21

Because of the pending Premium Partnership between Open-Future and Red Hat,
we had the opportunity to install and test Red Hat's new Virtualisation technology for Linux:
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation(RHEV) for Servers.

Features included in this product are:

  • RHEV-M (The Red Hat Virtualisation Manager)
    A configuration management web interface and allround manager for your virtual datacenter.
  • Support for central storage (iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel)
  • Live Migration
  • High Availability
  • Templating
  • Load Balancing/Power Saving
  • ...

When playing with this product we were astonished by the performance and the quality of the product.
With this product you have all the tools and technology necessary for creating your own Cloud!

This was a sneak preview, read our newsletter, coming out early this week, for our full Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation For Servers experience.

Enterprise-Wide Virtualization with Red Hat

Posted Thu, 2010-01-07 13:54
2010-02-23 10:00
2010-02-23 14:00

Enterprise–wide Virtualization with Red Hat

The ground-breaking launch of major products in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) suite removes the cost, security and scalability barriers that currently hold back enterprise-wide virtualization. Join us at the Red Hat Virtualizaton seminar, on 23 February in Congrescentrum Lamot and find out how your business could deliver on-tap access to corporate resources, with greater efficiency, easier management and lower costs.

Zarafa Workshop

Posted Wed, 2009-12-16 10:53
2010-02-25 09:00
2010-02-25 12:30

1. Presentation by Stijn Meysens from Zarafa
2. Corporate presentation Open-Future by Ann Vanderheyden
3. Zarafa workshop with demonstration
- Zarafa advantages
- Position against other groupware solutions
- Z-merge framework
- Zarafa roadmap
- Q & A
- Demonstration

Open Future featured in Data News

Posted Fri, 2009-12-04 11:57

Open-Future is featured in Data News.
Nico Vercammen en Danny Herreman, allebei Unix-experten, maken de oprichting bekend van Open-Future.
De start-up heeft technische infrastructuurprojecten in de Linux- en opensourcewereld voor ogen en telt al 11 medewerkers. Open-Future wil zich bij de aanvang gaan toeleggen op de technische omkadering van implementatieprojecten, van het ontwerp van de architectuur over het uitrollen en testen ervan, tot opleiding, support en uiteindelijk maintenance.
Read more: nederlands / français

Open-Future Launch

Posted Wed, 2009-11-18 11:48
2009-12-07 16:00

Open Future Launch Party @ Oude Abdij, Kortenberg

Sign up on the bottom of the Launch Party page.

Open-Future working an open source breakthrough in Belgium

Posted Mon, 2009-09-21 20:47

Open-Future was recently featured in the IT Reseller and IT Professional magazine
Open-Future wil open source laten doorbreken in België Streeft ernaar dé referentie in open source markt te worden Sinds begin deze maand timmert het nieuwe bedrijf Open-Future aan de weg van open source in België. Open-Future is een initiatief van Nico Vercammen en Danny Herreman. Link: IT Reseller

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