A new survey released Wednesday shows that more IT professionals are embracing open source software, with control and business continuity outweighing the cost savings as factors. The Ponemon Institute polled nearly 1,400 IT professionals in the U.S. and in 18 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa about their perceptions of open source software versus…
Month: November 2014
Android 5.0 Lollipop Embraces the Enterprise
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•With version 5.0, Android makes the work of enterprise admins much easier. Security is stronger and more standardized. Android fragmentation is crumbling. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Open-source IaaS: OwnCloud 7 Enterprise Edition arrives
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•Want to make the most of your existing storage infrastructure on a private cloud? You should consider ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Security Considerations for Enterprise Linux
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•To maintain an application infrastructure that meets continually expanding business demands, organizations need more than a maintenance and support contract. Organizations need a proven, scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise platform. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
SUSE Enterprise Linux Live Kernel Patching with Open Source kGraft
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•Imagine, if you will, applying a kernel patch to your production servers in the middle of the day, during peak transaction periods, and not … missing … a beat. Imagine that same update not requiring you to suffer downtime as the server reboots to apply the patch. These are ideas from the future, right? Wrong.…
Node.js in Flames: Performance Testing Netflix's New Web App
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•We’ve been busy building our next-generation Netflix.com web application using Node.js. You can learn more about our approach from the presentation we delivered at NodeConf.eu a few months ago. Today, I want to share some recent learnings from performance tuning this new application stack. We were first clued in to a possible issue when we noticed that…
Australian news agency joins open source project
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•Open source software developer Sourcefabric has signed Australian Associated Press to help develop an end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform. The two parties are inviting other news publishers to participate in the project, called Superdesk. Source: Tech
Jolla crowdfunds tablet in a couple of hours
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•Jolla, the Finnish outfit that launched a smartphone based on its Sailfish OS a year ago, started a crowdfunding campaign for its first tablet on Wednesday – and surpassed its goal in a couple of hours. Granted, it wasn’t the highest of goals – $380,000 – but the achievement is nothing to be sneezed at.…
Open Metrical Psalm project and Beginners Guide to GitHub
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•It has been a little too long since I launched CMAA’s GitHub presence , and since then there has not been as much activity as I would have hoped. We’re all busy people, and I know it isn’t exactly apparent to everyone why or how GitHub or an Open Source approach to the creation music…
Most IT Pros Rank Organizational Security Above Average
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•Nearly 30 percent do not believe they’re are a target for an attack and another 27 percent said they feel they are at low risk of a successful attack. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux