Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. Open computing has been steadily growing in enterprise acceptance and, in 2013, that trend accelerated sharply. Many factors contributed to the upward trajectory of open computing in the last year. However, there were three notable developments…
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Take the 2013 Puppet Labs DevOps Survey and Win Cool Prizes
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•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…
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
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…
10 Useful Open Source Security Firewalls for Linux Systems
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•Being an Nix admin over 5+ years, I’m always responsible for the security management of Linux servers. Firewalls plays an important role in securing Linux systems/networks. It acts like an security guard between internal and external network by controlling and managing incoming and outgoing… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for…
In Remaking Itself, HP Delivers the IT Means for Struggling Enterprises to Remake Themselves
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•HP has quickly made itself a key supplier of some of the most important technologies of the present corporate era: cloud computing and big data processing. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
IBM Will be Bringing KVM Linux Virtualization to Power in 2014
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•KVM, the long a popular x86 Linux virtualization technology, will appear in IBM’s Power architecture in 2014. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Zenoss Focuses on Managing "Ridiculously Complex" Environments
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•Zenoss’ Chris Smith chats about what the company is doing and why they are winning in the market. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Are All Applications Going to be Virtual in the Future?
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•People want to be able to access applications and data from wherever they are, using their favorite device. Is application virtualization the answer? Spoon’s Kenji Obata thinks so. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Btrfs: Exploring its Powerful Filesystem Subvolumes and Snapshots
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•My hands-on experiments with some advanced Btrfs capabilities show why it’s such a useful tool for Linux administrators. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux