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OpenStack's hottest products right now

Posted April 23, 2013 - 1:45 pm

At the OpenStack Summit last week, a variety of companies made product and services news. Here's a roundup of the best.
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Coming soon to Linux: A lightweight KDE alternative

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:11 am

Among the goals for the new 'KLyDE' desktop are a minimal footprint, simplified configuration, and a fast startup.
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SkySQL, MariaDB to merge

Posted April 23, 2013 - 9:56 am

Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to merge.
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Red Hat drops JBoss, goes with WildFly for Java middleware

Posted April 22, 2013 - 8:02 pm

If you've ever thought that Java-related open-source middleware just wasn't exciting enough for you, good news -- Red Hat announced that it would be jazzing up its JBoss application server software, rebranding the project as WildFly and focusing on obtaining Java Enterprise Edition 7 certification.
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How OpenStack should prepare itself for the enterprise

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:27 pm

With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing up to do before it gets there.
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IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:16 pm

IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster.
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35 open source and free tools to manage your online store

Posted April 22, 2013 - 11:47 am

From shopping carts to marketing tools to image-editing software, everything you need to get started with your own Web store.
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Discourse - A new type of forum

Posted April 19, 2013 - 8:00 am

I don’t know what it is, but people love them some forums. I’ve struggled with this phenomenon for my entire internet life and to this day I regularly debate the need for them on new projects, or the need for them at all for that matter. Recently however, a new forum system has emerged that threatens to change my view on the subject.
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PayPal dodges VMware question -- again -- but sheds light on OpenStack implementation

Posted April 18, 2013 - 2:17 pm

The company didn't clarify recent reports suggesting that it will dump VMware, but it did share some insight into its new OpenStack cloud
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Physicists link OpenStack, Nimbus clouds around the world to share resources

Posted April 18, 2013 - 12:28 pm

Particle physicists need huge computing resources but for relatively short periods of time. They've already started linking their clouds so they can better share those resources when they aren't being used.
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Open source is taking over the software world, survey says

Posted April 18, 2013 - 10:51 am

Innovation, quality, and growth are named as key motivators for using open source software.
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Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow

Posted April 18, 2013 - 9:32 am

Maintainers of popular Fedora/Ubuntu hybrid vote to close up shop.
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U.S. intelligence agencies embrace OpenStack

Posted April 17, 2013 - 1:38 pm

The NSA is already running a production OpenStack cloud and said it's about to share it with all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies
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Six good reasons to try Manjaro Linux 0.8.5

Posted April 17, 2013 - 10:59 am

This new update to the up-and-coming distro adds key beginner-friendly features.
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HubSpot latest to leave Amazon Web Services -- mostly. Should Amazon worry?

Posted April 17, 2013 - 9:00 am

HubSpot announced at the OpenStack Summit that it built a private OpenStack cloud to take over some work it was running on Amazon Web Services
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Interoperability question shows OpenStack growing pains

Posted April 17, 2013 - 7:00 am

A panel discussion during the OpenStack Summit about interoperability issues shows that the community recognizes how important the issue is, but hasn't quite figured out how to handle it
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Comcast, Best Buy take the wraps off OpenStack implementations

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:58 pm

Comcast and Best Buy are talking about their OpenStack implementations for the first time.
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Red Hat advances enterprise OpenStack distro to early adopter program

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:21 pm

Red Hat Distribution for OpenStack, or RDO, is designed to provide a place for the community to add upstream features to Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack distribution, similar to the role the open source Fedora Project plays for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Immaturity holding back OpenStack deployments

Posted April 16, 2013 - 2:48 pm

Attendees at the OpenStack Summit say that businesses worry about using OpenStack because it currently takes too much work to implement
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Don't have enough sources for breaking news? Try Wikipedia

Posted April 16, 2013 - 12:12 pm

The Wikipedia Live Monitor can identify breaking news stories almost as quickly - and more reliably - than social networks
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OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:40 am

HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly
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Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:25 am

The software program, called Savanna, will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service
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Fuduntu Linux is closing its doors

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:20 am

Plans are already afoot for a brand-new replacement for the distro, which was just updated last week.
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Open your data to the world

Posted April 16, 2013 - 7:22 am

Not having an API is becoming like not having a website, but the interface has got to be easy for outside developers to work with.
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Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution

Posted April 15, 2013 - 5:05 pm

Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program.
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