In his keynote address at APU13, AMD Corporate Fellow Phil Rogers highlighted the significant progress AMD has made in both developing software internally and empowering others to develop software to take advantage of the capabilities of AMD APU technology, which combines industry leading AMD Radeoni 1 2 graphics processing engines with x86 … (more) Source:…
Yum Tips for Taking Charge of Package Management in CentOS
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An important aspect of administering a CentOS server is to understand its package management system and its various online repositories. Together they ensure you are always running a secure and updated server. CentOS uses the Yellow Dog Updater, Modified (yum) package manager to install and update software packages in RPM format from online software repositories.…
IBM System z, Legacy or Useful Tool?
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Kusnetzky Group clients often speak to us about their need for scalability, reliability, management, and security. They also report the challenges they face when considering cloud computing, the use of Big Data and analytics to better understand their customers’ needs and how to safely and effectively support both their own staff and customers using today’s…
Surprise: Top Executives are Really Bullish on Virtualization, Survey Says
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Top executives are enthusiastic about the benefits of virtualization, while middle managers’ responses are a collective ‘meh.’ Say again? Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
2014 Seen as Rebound Year for IT Spending, Says IDC
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IDC is expecting that a bounceback in emerging market economies will fuel IT spending growth in 2014. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Red Hat CloudForms commandeers OpenStack for the enterprise
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HP and Dell lead Samsung, Lenovo, and Acer in InfoWorld’s reviews of both classic clamshell notebooks and innovative touch-driven hybrids more Today’s networks are facing trends like mobility, virtualization and cloud computing making today’s network administrators rethink their router and switch designs. Source: Tech
Bribe.io Startup Lets You "Bribe" Developers to fix Your FOSS Software
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We’ve written before numerous times about bug bounties–cash prizes typically offered by companies to anyone who finds key software bugs in open source applicaitons and platforms. Source: Tech
LINBIT Enhances Oracle Linux With DRBD Support
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Open source high availability powerhouse LINBIT announced DRBD support on the Oracle Linux operating system this morning. Source: Tech
Inte reveals initial open source drivers for Broadwell
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FUD Zilla spotted that Intel has already issued initial kernel driver support for its future Broadwell processor. Source: Tech
FOSS in the Enterprise: To Pay or Not to Pay?
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One of the big attractions behind the growing popularity of open source software is the ability to get it and use it for free. In a world of ever-rising costs in pretty much every other aspect of business and life, “free” is an offer that’s increasingly difficult to refuse. Support is one area, however, where…