We’re no longer looking to the future for the IoT wave. It’s no longer a distant dream but a reality that has arrived. It’s now time to make sure the industry is in alignment to meet the IoT growing pains – cooperate and collaborate as well as innovate. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter,…
Month: February 2015
Four Steps to Take Before Migrating Legacy Components to a SaaS App
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Your organization should break down a legacy system into components before putting them into a SaaS app your development team creates. Follow these steps. Read more at TechRepublic Cloud Source: Linux
Jenkins Community Reaches Milestone: More Than 100,000 Active Installations Worldwide
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Vibrant DevOps Automation Community Has Fostered Innovation, Enabling Global Brands to Accelerate Software Delivery and Generate Superior Business ValueLOS ALTOS, CA – February 26, 2015 – The Jenkins CI community, the community of practitioners using open source Jenkins, today announced that as of January 31, 2015, the Jenkins CI open source project has grown to…
Red Hat's Atomic Host promises a safer, sleeker Docker
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So it’s little wonder Red Hat has elected to ride that wave by producing a variant of its Linux distribution devoted to Docker containers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host, the latest incarnation of Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Linux offering, enters general availability today. Source: Tech
Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Samba
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Security researchers are urging users to install new Samba security updates in order to address a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol that enables Unix-like systems, including Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X to share files and printers with…
5 specialized Linux distributions for computer repair
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Computers are incredible tools that let users doing amazing things, but sometimes things go wrong. The problem could be as small as accidentally deleting files or forgetting a password-and as major as having an operating system rendered non-bootable by file system corruption. Source: Tech
Perforce Announces MATLAB and Simulink Integration with P4D
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P4SL for Simulink® Extends Perforce’s Powerful Version Management and Collaboration to Scientists and Engineers Using MATLAB and Simulink for Embedded Systems Software DevelopmentKey Points:P4SL for Simulink® integrates P4D with MATLAB and Simulink from MathWorks for enhanced version management in Model-Based Design for projects that include MATLAB scripts and data files, Simulink models, test vectors, simulation…
Last Week on Channel 9: February 16th – February 22nd, 2015
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It was hard narrowing down the list of stuff to highlight this week. Lots and lots of exciting Azure news, plus a full schedule of our regular shows… In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Josh Caplan , a Program Manager on the Power BI team. Source: Tech
Rocket Containers: How CoreOS Plans To Challenge Docker
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As containers rise in importance for data center innovation, the Rocket project has attracted 50 contributors in its bid against today’s de facto option, Docker. Containers are a hot trend in data center innovation, so we should expect some tough competition among companies looking to cash in on that trend. Source: Tech
Taking Linux Infrastructure to the Next Level in 2015
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This is a guest blog by Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems. What will 2015 bring for the Linux community? It is a good question, since over the past 20+ years the Linux community has virtually redefined IT development. It has created a paradigm where clients look for, and downright expect, to get the…