Mary Edie Meredith is a member of the OSDL Engineering Department and is initiative manager for the Data Center Linux initiative. She chaired the DCL Technical Working Group from 2003-2005. Mary has recently served at OSDL as lead database performance engineer in the Test and Performance Lab, has worked for several enterprise-level hardware and software vendors in hardware performance engineering, decision support engineering, and database research and development.
This article provides a brief introduction to the Data Center Linux (DCL)
initiative sponsored by the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). I'll describe
our goals, show how we achieve those goals though our committees and working
groups, and provide some examples of some DCL-driven activities and
challenges.
The OSDL Data Center Linux is one of three OSDL initiatives created so that
OSDL members can work together to accelerate the use of Linux for enterprise
computing. The DCL initiative was formed with the intent of promoting the
adoption of Linux-based servers in the enterprise across its many tiers:
edge, infrastructure, application, and database. It brings together
interested parties to accelerate the availability of stable, fully featured,
integrated, customer-avai... (more)
Mary Edie Meredith is a member of the OSDL Engineering Department and is initiative manager for the Data Center Linux initiative. She chaired the DCL Technical Working Group from 2003-2005. Mary has recently served at OSDL as lead database performance engineer in the Test and Performance Lab, has worked for several enterprise-level hardware and software vendors in hardware performance engineering, decision support engineering, and database research and development.
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