Comments on: Universities Embrace Open Source IT Monitoring http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/comment-page-1/#comment-72745 The VAR Guy Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:29:50 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/#comment-72745 Hey Spenser: Vyatta and pfsense are new to The VAR Guy. He'll give 'em a look. Hey Spenser: Vyatta and pfsense are new to The VAR Guy. He’ll give ‘em a look.

]]> By: spenser http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/comment-page-1/#comment-72718 spenser Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:08:44 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/#comment-72718 In the arena that vyatta, untangle and pfsense operate in, the showstopper eventually becomes vendor disclosure. There are some chip fabricators out there who sell into the security market who cannot seem to bring themselves to disclose sufficient information about their devices to enable their inclusion. Case in point, Cavium Networks. Their encryption hardware is selected by many vendors who agree to sign NDA's. The problem arises for those who want to use the same hardware, but with open source systems. Almost impossible. Without the hardware support, it is difficult for commodity hardware to accomplish the same tasks at the same throughput. You would think that hardware vendors, who already have a lock on the device itself would be failling all over themselves to make programming information available. In the arena that vyatta, untangle and pfsense operate in, the showstopper eventually becomes vendor disclosure.

There are some chip fabricators out there who sell into the security market who cannot seem to bring themselves to disclose sufficient information about their devices to enable their inclusion. Case in point, Cavium Networks. Their encryption hardware is selected by many vendors who agree to sign NDA’s. The problem arises for those who want to use the same hardware, but with open source systems. Almost impossible. Without the hardware support, it is difficult for commodity hardware to accomplish the same tasks at the same throughput.

You would think that hardware vendors, who already have a lock on the device itself would be failling all over themselves to make programming information available.

]]> By: Tristan Rhodes http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/comment-page-1/#comment-69478 Tristan Rhodes Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:55:05 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/#comment-69478 When you mention Untangle, you should also mention Vyatta because it can scale to much higher levels than Untangle. This makes Vyatta a great fit for universities, while Untangle is still targeting the small business market. We are looking into using Vyatta at the university I work for. http://www.vyatta.com/ Tristan Rhodes When you mention Untangle, you should also mention Vyatta because it can scale to much higher levels than Untangle. This makes Vyatta a great fit for universities, while Untangle is still targeting the small business market. We are looking into using Vyatta at the university I work for.

http://www.vyatta.com/

Tristan Rhodes

]]> By: Ricky http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/comment-page-1/#comment-68670 Ricky Thu, 29 May 2008 00:08:05 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/05/28/universities-embrace-open-source-it-monitoring/#comment-68670 you forgot Sakai, the collaboration environment built on open source. Big following among universities. you forgot Sakai, the collaboration environment built on open source. Big following among universities.

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