Features ——– Have you ever had the need for a quick, simple and automatable way to get VM-level or host-level single-flow throughput and latency numbers from any OpenStack cloud, and take into account various Neutron topologies? Or check whether some OpenStack configuration option, Neutron plug-in performs to expectation or if there is any data path…
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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
Cumulus Networks Extends Server Standard to Networking for Radically…
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U.S. Summit 2015 — Cumulus Networks , provider of the Cumulus Linux operating system for open networking, today announced a new industry standard for networking hardware and operating system integration. Cumulus Networks has extended ACPI, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface that is the standard for OS integration with servers, laptops and desktop computers, to…
Firing community members
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Welcome back folks, for the second post in my Six Degrees column. While I am delighted to be returning, you all kinda screwed me with my first column. Source: Tech
Cities: Skylines
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Cities: Skylines is the first foray into the city building genre by Finnish developer Colossal Order . They were previously responsible for the Cities in Motion transport management simulation franchise, but have experimented with city building elements in their second game. Source: Tech
What's New for You This March in Open Source CMS
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Is open source the next big thing? At least that’s what it seems, based on a burst of unrelated news in the past month. As CMSWire writer Miles Kehoe explained a few weeks ago, “Open source software has gone from quirky and free to mainstream for the enterprise.” Source: Tech
OpenSSL To Undergo Major Audit
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The first major public audit of OpenSSL will soon be underway, backed by the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative — a .2 million open-source research fund established last spring in the wake of Heartbleed. The audit will be one of the first well-funded efforts to harden open-source infrastructure, historically financed only by researchers’ free time,…