SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key

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	SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, SUSE president and GM Nils Brauckmann shared with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant his views on the future of open source, his strategy for competing against Red Hat, and Suse's plans for helping customers build private and hybrid clouds. He also outlined his philosophy for working successfully with the open source community, talked about the role desktop Linux will and won't play in the enterprise, and explained where Suse's partnership will Microsoft is headed. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now In this Issue Watch out for FOSS advertising Forget FOSS Advertising, Watch Out For FUD-Mongering Metasploit Releases New Free Community Edition Building On Open Source Framework Open source WineHQ database breached Hadoop Makes For Strange Bedfellows, Open Source and Microsoft Can Open Source Provide The Protein For Security Below The Poverty Line WHITE PAPER: Sophos How to Keep Scareware off Your Network This paper provides insight into where fake antivirus comes from and how it is distributed, what happens when a system is infected with fake antivirus, and how to stop this persistent threat from infecting your network and your users. Read now Watch out for FOSS advertising The appeal of free and open source software is undeniable - after all, who doesn't want to take advantage of OPM (other people's money) to develop a finished software product or platform that would otherwise require long lead times, dedicated programming resources and significant cost? Read More Forget FOSS Advertising, Watch Out For FUD-Mongering Open Source is no panacea, but neither is it public enemy #1. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement Read More! Metasploit Releases New Free Community Edition Building On Open Source Framework Rapid7 the company who brings us the Metasploit penetration testing program is celebrating the 2 year anniversary of their acquisition of Metasploit with the release of a new free Community edition. Read More Open source WineHQ database breached For the second time in two months, a major open source project has been breached. This time the victim is the WineHQ project which manages Wine, an open source technology that lets users install and run Windows applications on Linux, Mac, Solaris and other operating systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Trend Micro Public Cloud Adoption Best Practices According to a recent survey, 43% of businesses have experienced a cloud security issue or lapse in the last year. Learn how to adopt best practices specific for public cloud security that include VM-level security, multi-layered defenses, data encryption and third-party identity and access management. Learn More Hadoop Makes For Strange Bedfellows, Open Source and Microsoft It seems Hadoop makes for strange bedfellows. At the Microsoft PASS Summit 2011 it was announced that the upcoming versions of SQL Server (2012) and Azure, the Microsoft Cloud service will both support Hadoop. Both of these should be available in preview soon with Azure by the end of the year and the new SQL server sometime in early 2012. Read More Can Open Source Provide The Protein For Security Below The Poverty Line Having been in the infosec world for more than 10 years, I have learned the hard way that there are some real issues around effective security for everyone. One of them is that security is hard and seems to be getting harder. As a result security is also very expensive. So expensive that only the largest of organizations who put a high value on securing their assets can afford it. Read More
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