Matchstick wants to take on Chromecast with a dirt-cheap dongle that is more open than Google’s streaming stick, and promises developers more powerful hardware. Remember that Firefox OS-based streaming stick we first told you about in June ? It debuted on Kickstarter on Tuesday under the product name Matchstick , and it’s priced to pick…
Month: September 2014
Atlantic.Net Challenges Amazon With Cheap …
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For 99 cents per month, the cloud service courts startups and developers with virtual servers that offer fast spinup, low cost, and 100% uptime. Atlantic.Net is trying to stage an end run around the massive Amazon Web Services cloud and siphon off startup companies and independent developers. Source: Tech
Through Microservices, a Renewed Push for Simplicity and IT Minimalism
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Guerrilla SOA redux? PwC consultants recommend lighter, simpler, faster services to keep up with business demands. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Bringing Together a Disconnected Team
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How do you connect remote workers together for better culture? Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Big telecom companies band together to form open-source project for network functions virtualization
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Companies like Cisco, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks along with the Linux Foundation are hoping that the Open Platform for NFV Project will develop a standard for NFV, a network architecture concept that calls for all aspects of networking to be virtualized. Big-name telecom providers and networking manufacturers, like Brocade and Cisco, have joined together…
HP claims ''FIRST'' with 64-bit ARM servers
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HP’s customizable server chassis ‘n’ cartridge range is getting interesting. Now it offers a 64-bit ARM unit, optimized for Web cache and HPC workloads. Source: Tech
Open NFV Group Uncloaks Its Platform Plan
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The Linux Foundation today made its long-awaited formal announcement of the Open Platform for NFV Project , promising to deliver a carrier-grade, open source reference architecture as a means of speeding up NFV deployment. The group’s initial focus will be on developing the NFV infrastructure and virtualized infrastructure management, two key pieces not already under…
Flexera Software/IDC Report Reveals Enterprises Fleeing the Perpetual Software Licence Model Due to Shrinking Budgets in Favour of Alternative Models
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Ironically, ‘shelfware’ is rampant with 96 percent of organisations wasting money on un-used softwareMaidenhead, U.K. – September 30, 2014. Enterprise software spending is being squeezed, and as a result organisations are looking for better ways to align software costs to value. This is the conclusion of a new Flexera Software 2013-14 Key Trends in Software…
The Internet Is Broken, and Shellshock Is Just the Start of Our Woes
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Brian Fox drove from Boston to Santa Barbara, with two tapes stashed in his trunk. These weren’t music tapes or video tapes. They were computer tapes—two massive reels loaded software code and data, the sort you can see spinning on furniture-sized computers in classic movies like Dr. Strangelove and Three Days of the Condor. The year was 1987,…
Improved Patch Tackles New Shellshock Bash Bug Attack Vectors
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System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new patch that addresses additional attack vectors. The Shellshock vulnerability was originally discovered by Akamai Technologies security researcher Stephane Chazelas and can be exploited in several ways to…