Monday, February 24th, 2014
Demand for Linux Skills Rises with Cloud Computing
Demand for people with Linux skills is increasing, a trend that appears to follow a shift in server sales. Cloud infrastructure, including Amazon Web Service, is largely Linux based, and cloud services’ overall growth is increasing Linux server deployments. As many as 30% of all servers shipped this year will be cloud services providers, according […]
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Thursday, February 20th, 2014
GoGrid Wants to be Open Source Option to Amazon’s Cloud Databases
GoGrid CEO John Keagy says if an organization wants to use a true open source database, like MongoDB, Basho’s Riak, Hadoop or Cassandra, Amazon is not the place to go. “We want to be an open source alternative,” he says. “If you’re not worried about lock-in then use (AWS). If you’re an enterprise that wants […]
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Salesforce going OpenStack?
You gotta love it when one vendor helpfully announces what another vendor’s plans. That’s what apparently happened Monday when Rackspace Chairman and co-founder Graham Weston was quoted in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO blog  saying that Salesforce.com would start running OpenStack’s open-source cloud technology. Read More: http://gigaom.com/2013/12/17/salesforce-com-will-adopt-openstack-says-rackspace/
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
OpenStack Keen On Indian Market
OpenStack, a non-profit organization promoting open source cloud computing software, wants to increase its presence in India. The organization has formed a three -pronged strategy—launching new products and features, tapping organizations deploying cloud computing, and training the vast channel base of its alliance partners who have a strong presence in the country. Mark Collier, COO, […]
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Friday, November 8th, 2013
Amazing OpenStack statistics from user survey
US Number 1 Country, India Number 2! Ubuntu No 1 OS. KVM Number 1 Hypervisor.
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Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Tax-funded software must be made open source
The administration of the Swiss canton of Bern has decided that, in principle, software developed by or for public administrations should be made freely available. Using open source software helps to reduce the canton’s dependence on software vendors and in the long-term will reduce ICT costs, the Bern administration writes on 23 October. It has […]
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Intel teams up with Arduino to promote open-source hardware community
Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich announced today that the world’s biggest chip manufacturer will collaborate with open-source hardware platform Arduino. Together, they will work to foster innovation in the “maker†and educational communities. Krzanich, speaking at the Maker Faire in Rome, Italy, also introduced the Galileo development board that will become the foundation of open […]
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Monday, October 7th, 2013
Paypal has rebuilt Netflix’s cloud-management system for OpenStack
Netflix has developed s Asgard, a web interface that lets engineers and developers manage their AWS infrastructure using a GUI rather than a command line. Netflix Asgard is open source. Paypal a big user of OpenStack has ported Asgard to OpenStack. Read More: http://gigaom.com/2013/10/02/paypal-has-rebuilt-netflixs-cloud-management-system-for-openstack/
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Friday, August 16th, 2013
Building the open source laptop
This machine isn’t your standard corporate-issue device, but a machine that from top to bottom is open in its design. Every component in Huang’s laptop, known as the Novena, is open. Datasheets describing the design and workings of each component – from the motherboard, through to the ports and various processors – is documented and […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2013
Intel’s First ‘Open-Source PC’ on Sale for $199
Intel has shipped its first “open source PC,” a bare-bones computer aimed at software developers building x86 applications and hobbyists looking to construct their own computer. The PC, called the MinnowBoard, is basically a motherboard with no casing around it. It was codeveloped by Intel and CircuitCo Electronics, a company that specializes in open-source motherboards, […]
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Thursday, July 25th, 2013
IBM partners with Open Source Cloud Foundry
IBM is backing Cloud Foundry the Open Source PaaS platform. By teaming up with Pivotal and Cloud Foundry, IBM wants to help developers focus on getting apps to the cloud without having to worry about whether the underlying technology will be compatible. The first product of the IBM-Pivotal partnership is IBM WebSphere Liberty, a lightweight […]
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
The Microsoft lock-in strategy: catch them young
The recent controversy about the AICTE offering about 7.5 million Office 365 accounts in Indian technical education institutions is based on the A2 plan, which Microsoft is offering free of cost. But then, what is the catch? Reaad More.
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Open Source is taking over the software world
From:  http://www.slideshare.net/blackducksoftware/the-2013-future-of-open-source-survey-results Black Duck and North Bridge announce the results of the seventh annual Future of Open Source Survey. The 2013 survey represents the insights of more than 800 respondents – the largest in the survey’s history – from both non-vendor and vendor communities.
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
The biggest cloud app of all: Netflix
Netflix, the popular video-streaming service that takes up a third of all internet traffic during peak traffic hours isn’t just the single largest internet traffic service. Netflix, without doubt, is also the largest pure cloud service. Netflix, with more than a billion video delivery instances per month, is the largest cloud application in the world. At the Linux Foundation’s Linux […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Raspberry Pi available in India
Was happy to see the Rasberry Pi available in India. Broadcom  700MHz  processor 512MB RAM Boots from SD card, running a version of the Linux operating system (supplied separately) 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket HDMI video socket 2 x USB 2.0 sockets RCA composite video socket SD card socket Powered from microUSB socket 3.5mm audio out […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Google donates patents to protect cloud software from lawsuits
Google unveiled a “patent pledge†that it hopes will shield cloud software and big data developers from the type of litigation that has engulfed the mobile phone industry. The pledge, which is like a non-aggression pact, covers ten patents related to Google’s MapReduce technology. The pledge, which Google announced on Thursday, says that developers are […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2013
Do you want a better open source email client ? Do you like Shotwell ? Yorba, the organisation behind Shotwell is looking for raising funds using crowd sourcing to create their next generation email application called Geary . Yorba’s goal is to create world class open source desktop application. Go help them if you think they are […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Living one year with Open Source
Berlin filmmaker Sam Muirhead is attempting to live a completely open source life for one year. Here’s why. The phrase ‘Open Source’, to many people, means ‘software you don’t have to pay for’—but really it’s so much more than that. It’s a way of thinking and working focused on transparency and collaborating with others. It’s […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2012
Samba 4 brings comlete replacement for Active Directory
The team behind the Samba file, print, and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients announced the release of Samba version 4 yesterday. This version includes significant new capabilities that offer an open source replacement for many enterprise infrastructure roles currently delivered exclusively by Microsoft software, including acting as a domain controller, providing SMB2.1 protocol […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich
Over €10 million (approximately £8 million or $12.8 million) has been saved by the city of Munich, thanks to its development and use of the city’s own Linux platform. The calculation of savings follows a question by the city council’s independent Free Voters (Freie Wähler) group, Read More. Urge your city to save money from taxes, its […]
