Open Source
Linus Torvalds on Containers, IoT, Security
There was a Linus Torvalds sighting this week in Seattle. The father of the Linux kernel that underpins the open source movement showed up at the annual Linux conference ...Full Article
Did Analytics Answer Malaysia Flight MH370 Water-Entry Question?
The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014 generated few facts and many questions. But a team of computational math, engineering, modeling, and advanced scale computing ...Full Article
Catalina Sea Ranch Dives Into Aquaculture – and IoT
Just off the coast of Northern California, the Catalina Sea Ranch is starting to grow mussels – and an IoT-fueled bumper crop of data about aquaculture, mollusks, and the ...Full Article
IBM Insists It’s Open to Open Source
The annual Red Hat Summit, held in Boston last week, is something of revival tent for open source where the pulpits are plentiful and so are smiling believers. Indeed ...Full Article
NSA Contributes Security Tools For Puppet
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs has announced a new partner: The U.S. National Security Agency. Puppet Labs said Friday (June 19) that NSA is releasing to the open source ...Full Article
VMware Unveils Open Source Cloud-Native Projects
VMware today expanded its open source support when it unveiled Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project designed to extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications, and Project ...Full Article
Taking the Pain Out of OpenStack Upgrades
The tenth release of OpenStack, "Juno," last October, added a batch of new enterprise features aimed at boosting stability and performance and extending the reach of the open source ...Full Article
HP Expands Open Source Cloud Push
When Hewlett-Packard rolled out its Helion cloud infrastructure last May, it pledged to invest $1 billion over two years to deliver converged infrastructure geared toward hybrid IT platforms. Making ...Full Article
EMC Expands Open Source Collaboration
When the Cloud Foundry Foundation was launched last December, the open platform-as-a-service proponent also rolled out a new approach to open source development called "Dojo." The idea was to ...Full Article
Dell Bares Switch Metal To Other Network Operating Systems
When you look at a switch, you are looking at the vestiges of a proprietary past that many of the largest companies in the world want to do away ...Full Article