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3 open source projects that make Kubernetes easier

Posted on August 9, 2017 by John Davis

Clearly, Kubernetes is an elegant solution to an important problem. Kubernetes allows us to run containerized applications at scale without drowning in the details of balancing loads, networking containers, ensuring high availability for apps, or managing updates or rollbacks. So … Continue reading →

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Why Edward Snowden loves open source

Posted on May 10, 2017 by John Davis

Infamous government hacker Edward Snowden believes open source is a fundamentally better way to use technology compared to proprietary technology that he believes disempowers users. Snowden was interviewed at the open source cloud computing project OpenStack Summit in Boston via … Continue reading →

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Open Source in the Enterprise: Challenges and Myths

Posted on March 16, 2017 by John Davis

Open source is all the rage, but isn’t exactly easy to adopt. An Interop ITX speaker offers some tips. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Microsoft embraces open source in the cloud and on-premises

Posted on November 21, 2016 by John Davis

With the announcement of a broad swathe of new data products and services at Microsoft Connect in New York City last week — including that the next release of SQL Server will support Linux (and Docker) —  the software giant … Continue reading →

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Open source tool manages AWS Lambda apps

Posted on May 23, 2016 by John Davis

A new open source project from Express and Node.js-canvas creator TJ Holowaychuk lets developers create, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions from a command-line tool. Apex, written in Google’s Go language, also makes it possible to run applications in languages not directly … Continue reading →

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Samsung Open Source IoT Platform Aims to Bridge Connected Devices Gap

Posted on November 1, 2015 by John Davis

Samsung challenge Intel and Qualcomm with the announcement of three new chips aim at the Internet of Things market. Samsung also announced the launch of SmartThings Open Cloud, which will help developers create the applications using their connected devices. The … Continue reading →

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IBM Strengthens Effort to Support Open Source Spark for Machine Learning

Posted on August 9, 2015 by John Davis

IBM is providing substantial resources to the Apache Software Foundation’s Spark project to prepare the platform for machine learning tasks, like pattern recognition and classification of objects. The company plans to offer Bluemix Spark as a service and has dedicated … Continue reading →

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Facebook Infer Bug Detection Tool Is Now Open Source

Posted on June 14, 2015 by John Davis

For Facebook, open sourcing Infer represents a gesture of goodwill toward the developer community, and advances the eventual goal of automated software verification. Doing so should also lead to improvements in Infer through external contributions. InformationWeek: Cloud

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X2Engine Inc. Ships Highly-Anticipated Version 5.0 of Its Open Source CRM Sales Software Company Reaches New Milestone

Posted on January 12, 2015 by John Davis

Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) December 08, 2014 The open source CRM software X2Engine has reached another major milestone in its history with the company’s latest announcement of the availability of version 5.0 of its open source CRM software, which includes … Continue reading →

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Canonical Adds Ubuntu OpenStack Distribution for Open Source Cloud Computing

Posted on November 18, 2014 by John Davis

Canonical Adds Ubuntu OpenStack Distribution for Open Source Cloud Computing Canonical has announced its own distribution of OpenStack, the open source cloud computing operating system, built on top of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux has already enjoyed the distinction of being … Continue reading →

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