Malware analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics — GitHub hosts a number of compelling tools for securing computing environments of all sizes The famous tenet “all bugs are shallow” is a cornerstone of open source development. Known as Linus’s Law, the idea that open code leads to more effective bug detection in a project is often…
Month: September 2014
Micro Focus buying Novell, Suse Linux owner for $1.2 billion
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Micro Focus is picking up Attachmate for a little over half of what Attachmate paid for Novell just three years ago In a move that will collect a lot of infrastructure software under one roof, mainframe software provider Micro Focus has started proceedings to merge with Attachmate Group, owners of Novell and Suse Linux, for…
WaveMaker PaaS Bets On Docker
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WaveMaker Enterprise, a newly issued platform-as-a-service, now uses Docker containers as its deployment step. While other platforms, including Apprenda, Red Hat’s OpenShift, and VMware/Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry, are moving the in the same direction, starting on Tuesday WaveMaker Enterprise gives you control over Docker as a default Linux container deployment environment, according to WaveMaker CEO Samir…
Broadband Forum and NFV ISG (ETSI) Up the Ante for NFV
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Two organizations collaborate to channel fully interoperable NFV solutions To see this press release, please visit: http://www.broadband-forum.org/news/download/pressreleeases/2014/BBF_NFV_FINAL_15Sep2014.pdf September 15, 2014, Dublin, Ireland – The Broadband Forum continues to collaborate with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV ISG) after agreeing a formal liaison relationship last year.The collaboration aims…
ThinkPenguin wireless router now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
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The TPE-NWIFIROUTER comes pre-installed with libreCMC, an FSF-endorsed embedded GNU/Linux distribution. “This is a big step forward for computer user freedom. For the first time, you can purchase a router that ships with only free software preinstalled. This router and OS give us a platform that we can trust and control, and that the community…
10 Things You Need to Know About the Hot DevOps Trend
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DevOps results in faster software/application deployment and quicker problem detection. Here are misconceptions about transitioning to DevOps. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Future of the Enterprise: Heavy Investment in Internet of Things Security
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Research firm Gartner says over 20 percent of enterprises will invest in security for business initiatives using Internet of Things devices by 2017. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Conference Schedule Announced
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Are you ready to put your data in the cloud? What is the future of security in the cloud? Does Docker quickly advance the development of an IoT application? What are the implications of Moore’s Law on Hadoop deployments? Get all these questions answered and hundreds more like them at 15th Cloud Expo. The Cloud…
6 Strategies for Cancelling a Major IT Project
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In the recent book Think Like a Freak, well-known authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner touch on a difficult topic for those in charge of IT budgets and project development: What if your project fails? In their witty and highly opinionated style, they explain how failure in business isn’t always a bad thing.…
Netflix: Introducing Chaos Engineering
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Ideally distributed systems are designed to be so robust and fault-tolerant that they never fail. We must anticipate failure modes, determine ways to inject these conditions in a controlled manner and evolve our reliability design patterns. Anticipating such events requires creativity and deep understanding of distributed systems; two of the most critical characteristics of Chaos…