This is a guest post by Nigel Kersten, Puppet Labs Last year we partnered with Gene KimJez Humble to survey over 4,000 technical professionals across a wide range of businesses to better understand how the collection of practices we call DevOps had evolved since the label was first coined by Patrick Debois in 2009. This year, we’re pleased to…
Month: December 2013
Curoverse Raises $1.5 Million to Build Open Source Platform for Genomic and Biomedical Big Data
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•Arvados is a computational storage platform designed for the biomedical industry. Source: Tech
Open Source Spat: OpenBSD versus FreeBSD
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•What happens when people, who are supposed to advocate openness and collaboration among developers, start to snipe at each other’s ability to deliver the goods? It’s like the Peloponnesian War without the hunky warriors, action, and historic relevance. Source: Tech
Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says
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•The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. Source: Tech
Security in 2014: What are the Experts Predicting?
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•I get a lot of security predictions pitched at me and I was intrigued by quite a few this year. There’s good and bad news, and good and bad predictions. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
German coalition favors German-owned or open source software, aims to lock NSA out
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•Germany’s new coalition government listed open source software among its IT policy priorities, and said it will take steps to protect its citizens against espionage threats from the NSA and other foreign intelligence agencies. Source: Tech
What a Successful Exploit of a Linux Server Looks Like
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•Andre’ DiMino Like most mainstream operating systems these days, fully patched installations of Linux provide a level of security that requires a fair amount of malicious hacking to overcome. Those assurances can be completely undone by a single unpatched application, as Andre’ DiMino has demonstrated when he documented an Ubuntu machine in his lab being…
Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads
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•This IDC whitepaper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today, commercial Linux has become a key platform across many workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to support the opportunity for Linux…
March Communications Launches New Services, Expands Client Roster
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•March Communications unveils three new service areas and announces the addition of nine new clients as 2013 ends on a high. Source: Tech
Fedora 20 is here — an early Linux Christmas present
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•Many Linux users have been holding their breath in anticipation for the 20th version of Fedora Linux, codenamed Heisenbug. Source: Tech