Red Hat can't match Microsoft or Oracle's marketing budgets, but the open source paradigm gives it an advantage in the long term, chief executive Jim Whitehurst told eWEEK Europe

Virtualisation held the promise of simplifying IT infrastructures, but ended up creating another abstracted management layer, says Veeam's CEO, Ratmir Timashev

Cheaper data analysis could alter the way businesses run, says Ingres' Ketan Karia

Don't ask to run Google Apps on your own server. If you want that, you're wrong, says Google's Eran Feigenbaum. But does Google use two-factor authentication or not?

While the focus during this recession may have turned to green IT and virtualisation for IT savings, Michael Bayer of Avaya argues the case for unified communications.

Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system consolidation and standards will be key.

Not Sun or Oracle, but SpringSource, according to their CEO Rod Johnson; a recent survey and work on java specs with Google supports his opinion

The future for Java is an unknown, says its creator James Gosling. But at least Sun Microsystems is owned by a software company - albeit one with a "colourful" reputation

If you think storage is cheap, you aren't doing your sums right. The big picture, with power, carbon, and legal costs, adds up to a new discipline, says Hitachi Data Systems' David Merrill - a storage economist