Google’s spending on infrastructure is big and getting bigger — more than doubling to $2.23 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013. [Read more] Read more at CNET News Source: Linux
Month: January 2014
IBM's suggestions for mid-market cloud security
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IBM gives recommendations that were designed to help mid-market decision makers think about and implement processes that would help make their uses of cloud computing services safer. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Microsoft joins ARM server effort
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Microsoft has joined a new project to accelerate the development of ARM-based servers, suggesting ARM versions of products like Windows Server and Hyper-V could be in the works. Source: Tech
Carnegie Hall Unveils New Season
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A festival of South African music and art, yearlong residency by the composer Meredith Monk and concert series built around violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will come to Carnegie Hall next season, the institution announced on Wednesday. Source: Tech
A New Star Is Born: The PIAF-Green Virtual Machine featuring Scientific Linux 6.5
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We are delighted to announce our first of many releases of PBX in a Flasha 3.0.6.5 running atop the just released Scientific Linuxa 6.5 . Source: Tech
Innodisk to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Innodisk, a designer and manufacturer of solid state drives (SSD) for commercial and industrial applications, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Innodisk is a service-driven designer and manufacturer of industrial…
Erratic mouse behaviour on Dell laptop with soft touchpad – Adjusting the trackpad in Ubuntu
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I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 17 laptop, to primarily run Linux. This is a 17″ laptop with touchscreen and a Touchpad. Source: Tech
IT-as-a-Service and DevOps: Competitive or Cooperative Concepts?
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It’s the age old battle of top-down or bottom-up. IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) is clearly being driven from the top down in organizations. Large vendors and consultants are working with their executive counterparts to change expectations for how IT provides services to the enterprise. DevOps, on the other hand, is the traditional bottom-up grassroots movement that like…
How to Kill the Caps Lock on your Linux Desktop
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Didn’t there used to be a straightforward, GUI-powered way to disable the Caps Lock key on one’s keyboard? I remember it as being one of the first modifications I did as a Linux newbie that actually altered the way a piece of equipment performed . Source: Tech
Predictions for Virtualization in 2014
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According to a prediction made by IDC back in 2010, 70 percent of servers would be virtual by 2014. Gartner now estimates Windows being at between 60 and 70 percent virtualized and Linux being at between 35 and 45 percent virtualized, making IDC’s largely accurate. In addition, very few systems shipped today are not virtual,…