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Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

By Fred O'Connor | 25 May, 2012 15:03

Tags: health care, industry verticals, business intelligence, applications, software, internet

Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface.

By Joab Jackson | 24 May, 2012 16:52

Tags: Linux, operating systems, open source, software

Red Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013

The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as it also celebrated the tenth anniversary of its enterprise OS.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 May, 2012 06:06

Tags: software, Red Hat, operating systems, open source, Linux

VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering

In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware's open source platform-as-a-service offering Cloud Foundry with OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service model.

By Brandon Butler | 01 May, 2012 04:26

Tags: cloud computing, Cloud Foundry, cloud provider interface, IaaS, internet, open source, open source cloud, OpenStack, paas, Piston Cloud Computing, public cloud, software, VMware

Linux Foundation's open-source cloud conference set for August

The Linux Foundation today announced that it would hold a symposium on the cloud, big data and open source this August in San Diego dubbed CloudOpen.

By Jon Gold | 25 April, 2012 14:29

Tags: Canon, canonical, Chef, cloud computing, CloudOpen, Gluster, hadoop, internet, kvm, Linux, linux foundation, linux mint, open source, operating systems, software, ubuntu, Ubuntu 12.04, VMware

Linux Torvalds shortlisted for 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

The Technology Academy Finland has shortlisted Linus Torvalds for its 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, worth over €1 million (US$1.3 million).

By Peter Sayer | 20 April, 2012 00:47

Tags: linus torvalds, Linux, non-Windows, open source, operating systems, software, Technology Academy Finland

Puppet equipped to be OpenStack interface

Puppet Labs has equipped its namesake open-source configuration management software with the ability to control OpenStack cloud deployments, the company plans to announce on Tuesday.

By Joab Jackson | 17 April, 2012 23:07

Tags: cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet, open source, Puppet Labs, software

IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack Foundation

The open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure stack has gained a number of additional powerful allies, as IBM and Red Hat have both agreed to support the OpenStack Foundation, according to organizers behind the soon-to-be-created body.

By Joab Jackson | 13 April, 2012 04:41

Tags: cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet, open source, Red Hat, software

VMware marks PaaS birthday with open-source management tool

A new release management and deployment framework known as BOSH was released Wednesday by VMware, one year after the roll-out of its Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Foundry. In an official blog post marking the event, the Cloud Foundry team said that BOSH should make it easier for end-users of the platform to manage production instances of their apps.

By Jon Gold | 13 April, 2012 03:46

Tags: Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, Cloud Foundry, GitHub, internet, open source, OpenStack, software, VMware, vsphere

Oracle previews MySQL 5.6

Offering a glimpse of the new features some database administrators will be working with before too long, Oracle has posted a preview version of the next MySQL relational database management system.

By Joab Jackson | 12 April, 2012 03:05

Tags: applications, databases, open source, oracle, software

MySQL now has two user conferences

At one point last year, it looked as if the popular open-source MySQL database was in danger of having no user conference. Now it has two.

By Joab Jackson | 06 April, 2012 08:45

Tags: applications, business issues, databases, open source, oracle, O'Reilly, Percona, software

Eaton touts open-source SDK as a boon to power management

UPS supplier Eaton has released a new open-source software development kit aimed at providing better accessibility and flexibility to users of its power management products.

By Jon Gold | 06 April, 2012 04:40

Tags: eaton, EMC, open source, sdk, software, ups, VMware

Comparing participation in the open source cloud communities

With competition heating up in open source clouds, an analysis of community participation among four major projects shows that Eucalyptus - the oldest of those studied - has the largest standing community but OpenStack and CloudStack are gaining momentum in the developer community.

By Brandon Butler | 05 April, 2012 22:35

Tags: Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, CloudStack, eucalyptus, internet, open source, OpenStack, software

OpenStack Essex release is most stable yet, supporters say

The latest version of the cloud operating system OpenStack, known as Essex, will be released on Thursday, and supporters say that its stability should encourage larger deployments.

By Nancy Gohring | 04 April, 2012 23:01

Tags: cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet, open source, OpenStack, Piston Cloud, rackspace, RightScale, software

OpenStack supporters downplay Citrix defection

Top coordinators of the OpenStack project shot back at Citrix for dropping its support for the open-source cloud development platform in favor of starting a separate open source project based on an Apache license.

By Brandon Butler | 04 April, 2012 06:39

Tags: Apache Software Foundation, Citrix, cloud computing, Gartner, internet, open source, OpenStack, software, The Cloud

Citrix takes CloudStack to Apache, abandons OpenStack

Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has contributed as a project under the Apache Software Foundation.

By Nancy Gohring | 03 April, 2012 22:07

Tags: Apache Software Foundation, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet, open source, OpenStack, software

Yahoo serves Mojito for Web app development

Yahoo on Monday released an open-source Web application framework called Mojito that aims to make it faster for developers to write apps that can run on all major device platforms, including smartphones, PCs, iOS and Android.

By Cameron Scott | 03 April, 2012 01:08

Tags: mobile, mobile applications, open source, software, Yahoo

Red Hat joins the billion-dollar club

It's official: Red Hat is the first open-source software company to generate a billion dollars in annual revenue.

By Joab Jackson | 29 March, 2012 09:06

Tags: business issues, financial results, open source, Red Hat, software

Slashdot users debate the meaning of 'success' in open source

If there's one thing commenters on a recent Slashdot post could agree on, it's that it is difficult to come to any agreement on a standard metric of success for open-source projects.

By Jon Gold | 29 March, 2012 06:39

Tags: open source, Red Hat, slashdot, software

Puppet Enterprise gets a data library

Puppet Labs has added a data library to the enterprise version of its open-source IT automation software, allowing administrators to more easily reuse operational data in their own scripts and programs.

By Joab Jackson | 29 March, 2012 00:08

Tags: application development, Development tools, open source, Puppet Labs, software

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