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**A new openQRM Community Edition is available!
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The brand new openQRM Community Edition version 5.3.1 contains a lot feature enhancements especially in the KVM and Cloud plugin. It also includes some important security updates and fixes regarding XSS-attacks and mysql-injection.

The latest free openQRM 5.3.1 Community Release/ Edition is sponsored by openQRM Enterprise and available for download at: http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/rm-Community.html
(all previous openQRM Community Releases are available for download directly at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openqrm/files/)... read more

After the first, very successful openQRM Community Summit 2014 last year we are proud to kindly inform you that the openQRM Community Summit 2015 (OCS2015) is taking place on the 21 May in Frankfurt a. M., Germany. Please notice that a binding (free) registration to this free event is needed! (limited number of participants, no entry fee)... read more

We would like to kindly inform you about a new minor openQRM Community release 5.2.1.1 which is now available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openqrm/files/openQRM-Community-5.2/

This is a bug-fix release for the 64bit check on the openQRM system when installing. Here the Changelog:

openQRM 5.2.1.1 Changelog
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* enhanced 64bit check

Bonn, Germany, February 12, 2015. New openQRM 5.2.1 Community Edition now available with redesigned CloudPortal!

We are proud to announce the release of the new openQRM 5.2.1 Community Edition sponsored by openQRM Enterprise. The new Community Edition now features increased robustness, improved usability and even easier installation. The redesigned openQRM Enterprise Iaas CloudPortal is also included and offers superior usability. Here a link to the Changelog and Installation instructions... read more

Magical openQRM Enterprise Cloud 5.1.4 released with new Cloud portal, Android OS support and real-time management overview.

The amazing openQRM Enterprise Cloud 5.1.4 version is out! It comes with a completely new, user-friendly and easy to use Cloud portal plus support for the Android OS. Professional Datacenter Management, System Administration and IAAS private, public and hybrid- Cloud made in Germany. ... read more

We have successfully mastered the first openQRM Community Summit on the 20. May 2014 in Berlin. The event was almost booked out and everybody enjoyed the technical discussions in a relaxed atmosphere.

It started with the get-together at the Spree social event on the 19. May evening with perfect weather in a perfect location. The main summit day was packed with brilliant speakers and thrilling talks filled with details and real-world examples of many different openQRM IaaS Cloud use-cases.... read more

A social event is going to happen on the evening before the openQRM Community Summit. Every registered participant of the openQRM Community Summit is invited to join at 19. May 2014 - 19:00 pm. The exact location will be sent out to all participants. Here a link to the conference talks... read more

This year on May 20th the openQRM Community Summit (OCS2014) in Berlin will take place for the first time. The focus of this event is the active exchange of experiences from users of the openQRM system administrations and IaaS Cloud platform. A social event is going to happen on the evening before the openQRM Community Summit. Every registered participant of the openQRM Community Summit is invited to join at 19. May 2014 - 19:00 pm. The exact location will be sent out to all participants. We are all looking forward to this happening in a laid-back atmosphere together with you. Also we are still searching for further speakers for the openQRM Community Summit 2014. Therefore we have extended the deadline of the "Call for paper" for the openQRM Community Summit until the 10. May 2014. Please send in your abstract for your talk, presentation or discussion (in German or English) to cfp@openqrm-enterprise.com.... read more

This HowTo is about how to create a Cloud Product for an Automatic-Backup solution on the Cloud systems (VMs and Bare-Metal) with Puppet and BackupPC on an openQRM 5.1 Cloud environment. Next to the howto about - Howto create a Monitoring Cloud Product with Puppet and Nagios for openQRM Cloud 5.1 - this new documentation shows in detail how to automate backup-task for the Users VMs (and bare-metal) by creating a Cloud product out of a custom puppet recipe for BackupPC.... read more

On May 20th the openQRM Community Summit 2014 in Berlin will take place. The focus of this event is the active exchange of IT automation and Cloud Computing experiences. 100% automated datacenter including automation of all included IT-Services paired with an IaaS Cloud self-service portal for virtual machines AND bare-metal systems is one of the unique features of openQRM.... read more

You are invited to our Webinar about System Administration: Server Lifecycle Automation and IaaS Cloud Computing on Friday April 11th, 2014 14:00 UTC/GMT - Stop chasing after IT resources, serve yourself in seconds instead of weeks, regain time and work on the stuff that really matters. You are the Admin. You run the operative heart of your organisation.... read more

Cologne, Germany, March 13th, 2014 - A hardened openQRM Enterprise Edition with the version number 5.1.2 has been released by openQRM Enterprise today. The 5.1.2 version again comes with lots of usability enhancements for the UI plus a new local volume cache feature for efficient image cloning in the openQRM IaaS Cloud.... read more

Video: Fully automated IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) Environments aka Private Cloud are a great way to increase flexibility and agility for your IT. The capability to request server on demand via a Self-Service Portal can dramatically increase the speed of general IT processes and workflows. Common Use-Cases for Private Clouds are e.g. Developer- and QA-Teams which do not have to wait for server deployments any more.... read more

A presentation from by Steffen Rieger (Director Infrastructure and Operations it-novum GmbH) for the openQRM Community Summit 2014 - 20. May 2014 in Berlin. Automatic deployment of virtual machines requires a central storage system. Only block-based storage devices are providing an effecient combination of performance, costs and security. openATTIC combines standard open source technologies and smart add-ons to a powerful enterprise storage system for block-device based VM provisioning with openQRM.... read more

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In this video (taken during LinuxTag 2013 in Berlin) Holger Koch presents how Deutsche Bahn/DB Systel are profitting from running several private Cloud Computing installations using the openQRM Enterprise Edition. A perfect private Cloud use-case.... read more

This HowTo is about how to create a private Cloud with a fully automated self-service for server deployments on Debian with openQRM 5.1. With openQRM Cloud several different virtualization and deployment technologies are supported. This HowTo explains a popular use case based on KVM Virtualization. - http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/resources/documentation-howtos/howtos/cloud-computing-with-openqrm-51.html

openQRM is an open source systems management platform that automates both the virtual and physical assets with enterprise data centers. openQRM significantly minimizes downtime for IT infrastructure and business applications, reduces annual management costs for complex data centers, and increases server utilization. In other words, it helps system administrators sleep better. - http://www.ohloh.net/p/3440

openQRM Demo-Cloud statistics: Currently running 216 Virtual Machines for 244 registered User. Please try yourself - http://demo.openqrm.com

openQRM Demo-Cloud statistics: Currently running 212 Virtual Machines for 238 registered User. Please try yourself - http://demo.openqrm.com

Video: In this video Laura Paduano from it-novum demonstrates how openATTIC integrates with openQRM to seamlessly provide block-based VM and Cloud Storage. - http://www.it-novum.com/blog/providing-cloud-storage-for-openqrm-with-openattic/

On May 20th the openQRM Community Summit 2014 in Berlin will take place. The focus of this event is the active exchange of IT automation and Cloud Computing experiences. 100% automated datacenter including automation of all included IT-Services paired with an IaaS Cloud self-service portal for virtual machines AND bare-metal systems is one of the unique features of openQRM. - http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/community/summit.html

This new HowTo is about how to create and manage VMware ESX Virtual Machines on Debian 7 aka Wheezy with openQRM 5.1. openQRM abstracts virtualization technologies and provides support for all mainstream virtualization vendors. With its improved integration with VMware ESX in the openQRM 5.1 version it is capable to create and manage VMware infrastructures comparable to the commercial management options. Additional to that openQRM provides added-value by automated VM highavailability, automated VM and service monitoring, automated application deployment (PaaS) and last but not least a 100% automated IaaS self-service Cloud portal for the VMware. - http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/company/news/article/howto-virtualization-with-vmware-esx-and-openqrm-51-on-debian-wheezy/archiv/2014/03/06.html

Candide has been working in Sales-, Marketing- and Project Management for over the past 10 years. He has lead various international projects in agency environments planning and developing sales strategies for renewable energy, advertising, finance as well as hard and software products and services. Candide: I am very much looking forward to my start at openQRM Enterprise. Having worked closely with IT experts for many years, one of their main issues has always been providing comprehensive services and platforms as well as managing increasingly complex business processes and applications with fewer people. Following the simple philosophy that all sides should be happy at the end of the day, I see that openQRM Enterprise gives Admins an incredible and affordable community backed solution at hand to effectively streamline and automate large chunks of their daily work - making them happy at the end of the day. - http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/company/news/article/we-would-like-to-welcome-our-new-sales-director-candide-bekono/archiv/2014/03/05.html

A presentation from by Steffen Rieger (Director Infrastructure and Operations it-novum GmbH) for the openQRM Community Summit 2014 - 20. May 2014 in Berlin. Automatic deployment of virtual machines requires a central storage system. Only block-based storage devices are providing an effecient combination of performance, costs and security. openATTIC combines standard open source technologies and smart add-ons to a powerful enterprise storage system for block-device based VM provisioning with openQRM. - http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/community/summit/steffen-rieger.html