March is Women’s History Month. As we celebrate women and their role in our history, our workplaces, and our homes, I thought it was important to bring to the forefront some of the strengths that might make them stand out as compelling agents of change in such a time as this in the IT industry.…
Day: March 17, 2015
Facebook, Open Compute Project Drive Transparency By @IoT2040 | @CloudExpo [#IoT]
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The Open Compute Project is a collective effort by Facebook and a number of players in the datacenter industry to bring lessons learned from the social media giant’s giant IT deployment to the rest of the world. Datacenters account for 3% of global electricity consumption – about the same as all of Switzerland or the…
Open Source and the Rise of as-a-Service Businesses
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In just a few lines of a Consolidated Statement of Operations is writ the recent history of the software industry. Even companies that have efficiently extracted billions of dollars in profit from traditional, perpetual license software businesses are increasingly looking to cloud and service-enabled lines of business for future growth. Source: Tech
An open source software updating tool
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Once a piece of software is installed on a user’s system, how do you keep it updated? While Linux users typically have a package management system to pull latest versions from a repository of their choice, users of other systems aren’t so lucky. We have developed an open source tool to assist in this process,…
SoC Spec Hits Version 1.0
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SAN JOSE, Calif. The Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Foundation has finished its 1.0 spec, turning attention to what SoCs will support it. Source: Tech