Netflix open sources their cloud monitoring tool
At Netflix we need to be able to quickly query and analyze our AWS resources with widely varying search criteria. […]
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Marvell Plug gets a SMILE
Developed in conjunction with the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment (SMILE) program, the SMILE Plug is a cloud computing server
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HP Releases Two Beta Versions of Open-Source WebOS
Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu
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What users are saying about open clouds
Market research firm IDC says that data from a new survey shows that “open cloud is key for 72 percent
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The State Of Linux — How Even Apple Is Going Open Source
Apple — one of the most closed companies in the world — is actually using lot of open source and
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OpenStack could be the Linux of the cloud
OpenStack has the potential to become as widely used in cloud computing as Linux in servers, according to Rackspace’s chief
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XBMC coming to Android
XBMC Media Center is a very popular free and open source cross platform media player application that is developed by
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Eight features Windows 8 borrowed from Linux
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” — Pablo Picasso said it. So did T.S. Eliot. And, more recently, Steve Jobs.
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Open Source solution to Microsoft Azure
Build on VMWare CloudFoundry, IronFoundry offers .NET support in the Cloud. Cloud Foundry is VMWare’s PaaS solution which is open
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Why OpenStack is important
OpenStack is the future of Cloud computing. Founded by NASA and Rackspace it aims to provide a fully scalable open
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After free online courseware now MIT is offering free online leaning
After the success of Open Courseware, MIT is planning to launch free online learning courses. MIT Open Courseware is now
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LibreOffice coming to Android, iOS and to the Web
At the LibreOffice Conference, they announced that they will be releasing versions for Android and iOS. They also plan to
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Quicktext for Thunderbird 7
I have been using Quicktext as an addon for Thunderbird for a while now and find it very useful. Recently
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HP should open source webOS
Looks like HP is going to kill webOS. HP webOS as a part of the Palm acquisition. I sometimes wonder
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Patents hoarders are the new age mafia
[amazon_link id=”0470339454″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Earlier Microsoft sued Android phone makers, now Oracle is suing Google for Android. Patents were to
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Get an Open PC
What is special about the Open-PC? Hardware and Software is selected by the Linux Community The PC is preconfigured and
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LibreOffice 3.3 offers more than OpenOffice
After Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, OpenOffice was forked to create LibreOffice. Since LibreOffice is derived from OpenOffice, they have all the
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50 Open Source Applications for Sci-Tech Education
This article has a nice list of 50 open source applications for science education. Open Source: Astronomy and Space Exploration
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ASUS RT-N16 wireless gigabit router with DDWRT rocks
When I was looking at getting a new wireless router, I started looking at what users had to say about
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Bringing internet to the difficult terrains
AirJaldi is an organisation which has pioneered the art of creating mesh WiFi networks. They have managed to reach Internet to the