A new survey released Wednesday shows that more IT professionals are embracing open source software, with control and business continuity outweighing the cost savings as factors. The Ponemon Institute polled nearly 1,400 IT professionals in the U.S. and in 18 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa about their perceptions of open source software versus…
Month: November 2014
Android 5.0 Lollipop Embraces the Enterprise
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With version 5.0, Android makes the work of enterprise admins much easier. Security is stronger and more standardized. Android fragmentation is crumbling. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Open-source IaaS: OwnCloud 7 Enterprise Edition arrives
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Want to make the most of your existing storage infrastructure on a private cloud? You should consider ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Security Considerations for Enterprise Linux
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To maintain an application infrastructure that meets continually expanding business demands, organizations need more than a maintenance and support contract. Organizations need a proven, scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise platform. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases First Issue CC-BY-SA
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M-Saunders writes Linux Voice, the crowdfunded GNU/Linux magazine that Slashdot has covered previously , had two goals at its launch: to give 50% of its profits back to the community after one year, and release each issue’s contents under the Creative Commons after nine months. Well, it’s been nine months since issue 1, so the…
IT Spending to Rise, Though Growth Remains Sluggish
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The outlook for 2015 is mostly positive, with innovations in mobility, business intelligence, and cloud computing, Computer Economics found. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Microsoft is considering open sourcing parts of Bing backend tech
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‘Open source’ and ‘Microsoft’ used to be like oil and water; the two would never be mixed. But today, Microsoft has shown that it is highly supportive of this community by open sourcing parts of its key products and allowing these platforms to run on its Azure infrastructure. Source: Tech
WebRTC Setup and Build
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In this whitepaper, we will be going through the steps necessary to build the WebRTC source code from Google in order to run their sample AppRTC/WebRTC application. WebRTC is an open source project initiated by Google* geared towards enabling web browsers with Real-Time Communication capabilities through the use of JavaScript APIs. Source: Tech
UPnP Forum Invites Organizations to use UPnP+ Certification
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18 November 2014: UPnP Forum, the global standards group responsible for the seamless connectivity of billions of home devices today launches its UPnP+ Certification level for improved device and open source implementations in new paradigms, including mobile connected computing, Cloud-based service delivery, Smartphone content sharing and the Internet of Things (IoT). With Gartner predicting the…
AliView: a fast and lightweight alignment viewer and editor for large datasets
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Summary: AliView is an alignment viewer and editor designed to meet the requirements of next-generation sequencing era phylogenetic datasets. AliView handles alignments of unlimited size in the formats most commonly used, i.e. FASTA, Phylip, Nexus, Clustal and MSF. Source: Tech