Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS; Is FOSS Metasploit suffering under Rapid 7?

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Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS
Rackspace wants to help enterprises build private clouds using OpenStack while Dell works on OpenStack-ready PowerEdge C servers. Read More


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Leveraging Big Data for Competitive Advantage
The ability to navigate large data sets is giving companies new insights into their markets and delivering competitive advantage. This paper written by AMD Senior Fellow, Keith Lowery, introduces the main hardware and software concepts of the new trend called "Big Data". Read now!

Is FOSS Metasploit suffering under Rapid 7?
Alan Shimel: Any time a corporate entity comes into control of an open source project there is the chance their commercial interests could take over. Metasploit is showing worrisome signs. Read More

Open Stack Taking Over the Cloud
Alan Shimel: The open source ecosystem is dragging vendors into making their products open. Read More

Novell steps up to managing enterprise Linux servers
Novell Thursday shipped software for managing enterprise Linux servers made by Novell and Red Hat, taking its systems management approach to a higher level. Read More


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Do I have to buy Android?
Stephen Spector: I am currently an iPhone user and have been thinking about switching to an Android phone. As a supporter of Open Source, I would like to put my money where my "mouth" is. Read More

Quit considered harmful? Canonical thinks so
Joe Brockmeier: Ubuntu losing the "quit" button? Radical ideas are usually met with a great deal of resistance. Read More

DotNetNuke: It's Not Who Screams Loudest That Wins
Alan Shimel: DotNetNuke moves into social collaboration solutions. Read More


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Control & Automate Application Performance Management.
This report by Forrester Research discusses how to handle IT complexity using application performance management converged with Complex Event Processing to produce a closed-loop automation solution for application management. Learn More

Android roars past BlackBerry globally, in U.S.
Bob Brown: Google's Android mobile OS surpassed RIM's BlackBerry OS globally and in the United States for the first time last month, with the Google smartphone and tablet software nearly tripling its worldwide market share. Read More

Massive data volumes making Hadoop hot
Rapidly growing sores of structured and unstructured data are prompting IT executives to turn to open source Hadoop technology for storage and analysis efforts. Read More

8 must-have Android security apps
Here are eight Android applications that can help IT departments keep a better hold on employees' Android-based devices. Read More

Ins and Outs of Open Source Audits
How do open source audits work? You probably know what you're looking for, and why, but the devil is in the details. Read More

Visit Open Source Subnet for more news and blogs
Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More



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