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Submission + - Gluster Lead Speaks on Open Source Scale-Out Storage and OpenStack (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Monday November 10, 2014 @02:01PM

Mcusanelli writes: GlusterFS, the open source scale-out storage system Red Hat acquired in August 2012, is poised to play a key role in OpenStack and cloud computing, according to Gluster lead Dave Mcallister.

Submission + - OpenStack Summit Paris: Product, Partner News Roundup (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Friday November 07, 2014 @11:45AM

Mcusanelli writes: The latest from the OpenStack Summit in Paris includes partner and product announcements from Tesora, AQORN and Scality.

Submission + - Canonical Launches LXD Open Source Virtualization Container (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @02:53PM

Mcusanelli writes: Canonical is launching a new container-based virtualization hypervisor for its open source Ubuntu Linux operating system, called LXD. How will it get along with Docker?

Submission + - Incapsula Caters to SMBs with Anti-DDoS IT Security Guide (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:28PM

Mcusanelli writes: IT security vendor Incapsula has released a guide for SMBs to plan for and respond to DDoS attacks against their clouds, data centers and Web apps.

Submission + - Is an Intel Tablet with Ubuntu Linux OS in the Works? (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:48PM

Mcusanelli writes: Reports are circulating that a company plans to launch the UT One, a tablet running on an Intel x86 Atom processor and Canonical's Ubuntu Linux OS, by the end of 2014.

Submission + - Mirantis Previews OpenStack Juno Cloud Platform (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:03PM

Mcusanelli writes: Mirantis 6.0, available now as a technical preview and for production use within three months, brings Sahara, NFV and the other new features from OpenStack Juno to the company's open source cloud computing distribution.

Submission + - Convirture Adds OpenStack Cloud Backup Tool (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Friday October 31, 2014 @12:26PM

Mcusanelli writes: Convirture Backup, a new backup, restore and disaster recovery tool from Convirture, brings automated backup to OpenStack clouds running on the KVM virtualization hypervisor.

Submission + - Canonical Adds Ubuntu OpenStack Distribution for Open Source Cloud Computing (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:17PM

Mcusanelli writes: Canonical has announced its own distribution of OpenStack, the open source cloud computing operating system, built on top of Ubuntu Linux.

Submission + - Microsoft Promises Docker Open Source App Virtualization on Windows (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @02:52PM

Mcusanelli writes: Microsoft has announced plans to port the open source Docker containerized virtualization platform to Windows Server and the Azure cloud.

Submission + - Mirantis Secures $100 Million for OpenStack Cloud Development (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @02:34PM

Mcusanelli writes: Mirantis has secured $100 million in series B funding to support its open source, vendor-neutral OpenStack cloud-computing products.

Submission + - OpenStack Juno Release Adds Data Processing, Storage, NFV Features (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Friday October 17, 2014 @02:54PM

Mcusanelli writes: OpenStack Juno, the 10th release of the open source cloud-computing operating system, introduces new data processing, storage and network functions virtualization (NFV) features as well as enterprise readiness.

Submission + - MapR Promises Integration of Apache Spark, Drill Big Data Tools (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Thursday October 16, 2014 @10:50AM

Mcusanelli writes: MapR, in collaboration with Databricks, is integrating the open source Apache Spark and Apache Drill tools to make big data analysis and processing faster and simpler.

Submission + - OPNFV Project Begins Planning Open Source NFV Solutions (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @01:05PM

Mcusanelli writes: The Open Project for Network Functions Virtualization is now officially live, and has begun charting its plans for the future, including the release of its first software-defined data center software in early 2015.

Submission + - Will Your Drone Be Open Source? The Linux Foundation Hopes So (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @12:31PM

Mcusanelli writes: The Linux Foundation and industry partners have launched Dronecode, a project to create embedded open source software for drones and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Submission + - SUSE, MariaDB Partner on Open Source for IBM Power Servers (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by Mcusanelli on Monday October 13, 2014 @12:25PM

Mcusanelli writes: SUSE and MariaDB have partnered to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for IBM Power servers.

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