Desktop Linux Gains Share in Recent Months

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	Desktop Linux Gains Share in Recent Months Linux's prospects as a desktop operating system have long been a topic of hot debate, with some arguing that it will never surpass 1 percent of the market while others -- including yours truly -- countering that it already has. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations This paper discusses ways to simplify data center transformation and introduces a new process – BOCA – Build Outs, Consolidations and Acquisitions. Learn the five stages of BOCA and see how the right remote access and IT infrastructure management tools, deployed early and continuously monitored, can dramatically improve overall efficiency. Read now! In this Issue Measuring Open Source Success Apache License Without The Apache Consensus In The Browser War Does The Tortoise Beat The Hare? Desktop Linux Gains Share in Recent Months MLK and Open Source: 2 Degrees of Separation Improve Linux System Efficiency with Control Groups WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Measuring Open Source Success Much has been made of the fact that Red Hat will be the first billion-dollar company using an open source model. Many people say that Red Hat will also be the only company to ever reach a billion dollars based on an open source model. I have written before that I think there is more than one way to skin the open source success story. Companies who use open source don't need to make a billion dollars to be successful. I was reminded of this again this week talking to my friends at Alert Logic. Read More Apache License Without The Apache Consensus Last week I wrote about CouchDB founder and Couchbase developer Damien Katz announcing that he and his team would be concentrating on CouchBase Server and not CouchDB going forward. In his blog post explaining why Katz mentioned that while the Apache Foundation was a great place to start CouchDB, he found that consensus based, community approach did not fit his and his companies needs now. Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive Wi-Fi Management Moves to the Cloud Once you've enabled your people to work from virtually anywhere, anytime, and on any device, you need to maintain essential security and control under the constant pressure to drive down cost, while increasing productivity and growth. Enter the Cloud. Learn more. In The Browser War Does The Tortoise Beat The Hare? Responding to critics of their rapid release schedule for the popular Firefox browser, Mozilla has announced a new version of Firefox called Firefox ESR. Read More Desktop Linux Gains Share in Recent Months Linux's prospects as a desktop operating system have long been a topic of hot debate, with some arguing that it will never surpass 1 percent of the market while others--including yours truly--countering that it already has. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT Consolidation Hazards Providing central services means more bandwidth between data centers and remote users. This ESG paper highlights new research on IT initiatives, how to avoid the common pitfalls of consolidation, and alternatives to ensure application performance, even for remote and mobile users, does not suffer after an IT consolidation. Read now! MLK and Open Source: 2 Degrees of Separation On Tuesday evening, my teen daughter and I had some quality bonding time over milkshakes and the first season of Star Trek, which was timely considering the conversation I'd have the next day with a couple of NASA employees. Read More Improve Linux System Efficiency with Control Groups Control groups in Linux let you aggregate tasks to allow for hierarchical resource management and allocation. Here's how you can take advantage of control groups to improve your systems' efficiency. Read More
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