Open Sources
Despite whacking Windows, Linux gets too little respect
After more than a decade of Linux vendors trying to grow into the enterprise -- and Red Hat, the poster child for Linux, approaching $1 billion in annual revenue -- it's easy to presume that Linux is pervasive in businesses. It is, but as the Linux Foundation's enterprise survey finds, there are still barriers to overcome. The survey also shows new data showing Windows -- not Unix -- as the primary operating system being migrated to Linux.
Resistance is futile: IT will love consumerization too
It's only a matter of time until the consumerization of IT bleeds over from your non-IT employees into your IT department. Although this may sound far-fetched, iPad-like systems such as appliances and workload-optimized systems are finding a foothold in your data center, and the trend has only started.
Mozilla's 3 bold bets to keep the Web open
Although a renewed search deal between Google and Mozilla is welcome news to millions of Firefox users, Mozilla has three big ideas for 2012 and beyond that will see it competing much more aggressively with Google, Facebook, and Apple. Here's why you should be cheering on Mozilla.
Microsoft Azure gets an open source rival
With Microsoft's Windows Azure striving for greater relevance and adoption, a relatively unknown vendor, Tier 3, is providing a cloud alternative for Microsoft .Net applications. Tier 3 is using EMC VMware's open source code as the basis of its offering, which opens the door for direct competition between VMware and Microsoft for .Net cloud workloads in the future.
Kindle Fire's rough edges reflect poorly on Android
With the holiday season upon us and tablets at the top of many gift lists, it's all but certain that millions of new users will get exposed to an open-source-based Android tablet.
Why devops is no silver bullet for developers
Although the devops movement is centered on reducing the friction between developers and operations teams and the ability for developers to deliver applications faster, neither outcome is possible without standardization. But are developers and operations teams ready to agree on standard environments?
Why OpenStack will falter
After reading a recent interview with Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos, I'm beginning to reconsider my views on the contest between Eucalyptus and OpenStack becoming the dominant open source cloud platform.
Why OpenStack will falter
After reading a recent interview with Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos, I'm beginning to reconsider my views on the contest between Eucalyptus and OpenStack becoming the dominant open source cloud platform.
From Facebook's data center to yours: 'Open source' hardware
The Open Compute Project Foundation recently announced results from Facebook's attempts to build an efficient data center at the lowest possible cost. The foundation claims to have reduced the cost of building a data center by 24 percent and improved ongoing efficiency by 38 percent versus state-of-the-art data centers.
Those numbers are impressive, but don't expect to be able to deploy the foundation's technology in your data center just yet.