Tag: Source Tech

Pivotal Open Sources Entire Big Data Suite

As enterprise IT grows increasingly comfortable with using open source technologies, presence of enterprise vendors in the open source ecosystem grows too. Pivotal , the San Francisco-based company majority owned by EMC and VMware, whose mandate is to enable enterprise developers to build and deploy analytics-enabled software using modern agile development methods, has led three…

Linux version dilemma: Linus Torvalds is "running out of fingers and toes"

Linus Torvalds, creator and curator of the Linux kernel, has a quandary on his hands: Should he stick to Linux’s long-time tradition of massive, multple-decimal-point version numbers, or should he abandon them in favor of shorter, more easily distinguishable major versions? The problem at hand is the imminent arrival of Linux 3.20. Unlike most major…

Red Hat and NEC collaborate to achieve carrier-grade OpenStack solutions for NFV

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and NEC Corporation, a leading provider of innovative IT, network and communications products and solutions, today announced a collaboration to jointly develop network functions virtualization features in OpenStack in order to deliver carrier-grade NFV solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. As communication…