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Month: October 2014
Microsoft (hearts) Linux, for Azure's sake
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This was the message from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, standing in front of an image that read “Microsoft [heart symbol] Linux,” during a Monday webcast to announce a number of services it had added to its Azure cloud, including the Cloudera Hadoop package and the CoreOS Linux distribution. In addition, the company launched a marketplace…
IT Budget Increases Not Realized, but Hiring Increases Anticipated
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Help desk and technical support, cloud and social media have consistently been the least difficult roles to fill with exceptional talent. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Flexiant Opens New Multi-Cloud Revenue Opportunities for Managed Service Providers and Telcos
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Easily deploy and manage next generation applications across multiple public and private clouds with Flexiant ConcertoLondon, UK – October 15, 2014 – Next generation applications are the next big cloud revenue generating opportunity for managed service providers and telcos. To service these apps, born in the cloud and for the cloud, service providers need to…
Red Hat: 2014:1606-02: file: Moderate Advisory
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Updated file packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: file security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:1606-02 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory…
Will New European Commission Leaders Welcome Open Source and Open Standards?
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First time accepted submitter jenwike writes As Neelie Kroes leaves the office of the European Commission’s VP of the Digital Agenda, we need to take a look the new, incoming leadership and ask where they stand on open source software and open standards. Source: Tech
Dell Introduces Network Functions Virtualization Platform and Starter …
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Dell today introduced its NFV solution offerings and companion starter kits, comprising Dell systems and software combined with software from open ecosystem partners and open source distributions to help jumpstart carrier trials and adoption. Dell’s NFV solutions can help telecommunications service providers improve cost structures of existing service delivery and simply and quickly enable new…
GroundWork Announces GroundWork Net Hub – API-Based Monitoring for Software Defined Networks
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Oct. 14, 2014 – GroundWork, Inc. (www.gwos.com), the leading Unified Monitoring solution for IT operations management and cloud monitoring, today released GroundWork Net Hub. The new GroundWork Net Hub offers discovery and monitoring for dynamic software defined networks (SDNs).”Traditional network monitoring methods struggle to work and map well to the dynamic…
And Now for Something Completely Different
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“While some may complain about fragmentation, I love the idea that I can choose a distro that suits my needs,” said Google+ blogger Kevin O’Brien — “or more than one, if I have several different needs. Right now I have three different *nix systems on my home network — two of them Linux and one…
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic IT Trends For 2015
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Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is under way in Orlando. As always, their IT experts have identified what they believe to be the top-ten information technology trends for the year ahead. Strategic technology trends are defined as having potentially significant impact on organizations in the next three years. Here is a summary of the trends: 1. Computing Everywhere With…