BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, February 28, 2014 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) joined the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in filing a brief amici curiae in software patent case Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank before the United States Supreme Court yesterday. Source: Free Software
Month: February 2014
Are Your Servers Pets or Cattle?
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Yesterday I attended a talk by Randy Bias of Cloudscaling. The talk was called “Pets vs. Cattle: The Elastic Cloud.” I thought Randy’s perspective on infrastructure and system administration is really interesting, so I’m going to explain some of the key points that he shared with us yesterday… Under the old-fashioned “enterprise computing” infrastructure model,…
CloudSigma Partners with CompatibleOne to Allow for a Unified View of Computing Environments Across Locations
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Partnership Further Validates CloudSigma’s Commitment to Advancing Open, Flexible Cloud Environments Zurich, Switzerland – February 27, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it is partnering with CompatibleOne, an open source, cloud-aware software platform that enables organizations to operate as a Cloud Services Brokerage. Through the…
Symantec's Vision of Enterprise Security Rests Upon Collaboration, Sharing Data
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Symantec’s chief of security intelligence suggests an approach that could reveal and fix more blind spots in enterprise IT worldwide. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Interview: Ask Richard Stallman What You Will
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Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1984, the Free Software Foundation in 1985, and remains one of the most important and outspoken advocates for software freedom. Source: Tech
First look at the first two Ubuntu handsets
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Last week Canonical announced that Ubuntu would ship on handsets from two companies, BQ and Meizu, later this year. Source: Tech
Munich opts for open source groupware from Kolab
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Web browser or Office suite? Microsoft’s and Google’s office productivity and collaboration clouds pit rich and complex against simple and lean more Who, What, When, Where and Why: Tracking the 5 Ws of Change in Active Directory, SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange and VMware Learn the limitations and capabilities of native auditing tools and how a…
Things newcomers to open source rarely ask but often wonder
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Open Source Comes to Campus is an event series run by OpenHatch that introduces college students to open source tools, projects, and culture. Source: Tech
usbid 1.0.2
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This module helps to get infos for your connected usb devices, and find out where they are mounted on your fs. Source: Tech
Be Part of the Cloud-Enabled Infrastructure Evolution or Lose Your Competitive Edge, Telstra Global Tells Enterprises
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26 February 2014, LONDON: Speaking at Cloud Expo Europe in London, Nathan Bell, Director of Marketing, Products and Pricing at Telstra Global, told the packed conference that having cloud-enabled managed hosting will eliminate many of the overheads associated with traditional ICT, making it a crucial investment for any enterprise which hopes to succeed in the…