In December, the Italian government issued final rules implementing a change to procurement law that now requires all public administrations in the country to first consider re-used or free software before committing to proprietary licenses. Source: Tech
Month: January 2014
Greylock leads $15 mln funding of open source project provider Docker
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•Docker , which runs an open source project used by cloud developers and operators to automate the deployment of apps, said it has completed raising a $15 million Series B round of funding. Source: Tech
Large Enterprises Purposely Build Walls Between Developers and Operators
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•DevOps encourages informal, spontaneous and collaborative connections between developers and computer operators. Everything that large organizations seek to reduce. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Inside the Linux Foundation's AllSeen Alliance and the Internet of Things
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•If you read the technology press lately, odds are you already know about the launching of the AllSeen Alliance (a Google News search I just did produced 412 results in a wide range of languages). That’s not a surprise, because this is an important and ambitious project. But there’s a story behind the story that…
Memory Monitoring and Limiting with LXC
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•A tutorial about Memory Monitoring and Limiting with LXC (Linux Containers) and the importance of building a metrics infrastructure. For a long time we didn’t limit the amount of memory that you can use during your build on Codeship. There was the possibility of a bad build eating up all of our memory. A few…
ABI Research spotlight on Openwave Mobility's Solution for Virtualizing Video
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•Analyst Joe Hoffman sees Openwave Mobility’s Integra platform as a highly scalable solution for networks to optimize and monetize video traffic REDWOOD CITY, Calif- January 20, 2014 – Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetize mobile data, today announced that ABI Research, a leading technology market intelligence company, has highlighted Openwave…
Five Ways to Bring a More Social, Open Development Environment to Your Company
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•Based on the success and effectiveness of the open source community, development organizations are taking a close look at the methods used within the open source world to understand how they can apply internal development to further increase creativity and accelerate development. To facilitate widespread, collaborative development, the open source world depends on a core…
If Microsoft Thinks Old Tor Clients are Risky, Why Not Windows XP?
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•Microsoft has been removing outdated Tor clients, stating that they pose a security threat, but if that’s the case, what about other outdated software? Aren’t they a threat too? Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
CloudBees appoints Kohsuke Kawaguchi as Chief Technology Officer
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•Creator of Jenkins CI to Assume Strategic Technology RoleBrussels, Belgium. – January 17, 2014 – CloudBees, Inc., the Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced it has promoted Kohsuke Kawaguchi to the position of chief technology officer. Kawaguchi, the founder and current lead developer of the popular Jenkins continuous integration (CI) open…
Convirture Announces Easy-to-Use Hyper-V Management platform
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•Managing virtual machines and hypervisors can be a real pain. Managing multiple ones across multiple platforms is even worse Convirture is easing the headaches. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux