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  • SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery

    Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 15 May 13 21:57

  • Dell buys Enstratius to beef up multi-cloud management chops

    Dell has purchased Enstratius, a company that allows customers to manage cloud resources across multiple providers from a single management console for an undisclosed sum this week.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 09 May 13 14:28

  • Facebook to design an open source switch

    As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 08 May 13 20:57

  • Debian wheezes out Version 7

    The latest version of Debian -- Version 7.0, codenamed "Wheezy" -- is now in stable release, bringing with it accessibility enhancements, a new version of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and support for multiple hardware architectures.

    Written by Jon Gold • 06 May 13 21:30

  • How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

    Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 06 May 13 11:14

  • Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

    Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 01 May 13 20:44

  • Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult

    Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 30 April 13 18:02

  • Brocade unleashes a data center barrage

    Brocade this week extended its data center networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical and virtual resources.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 30 April 13 14:08

  • Opera sues ex-employee for $3.4M over alleged trade secrets violation

    Trond Werner Hansen, the designer of some of the Opera Web browser's signature interface features, has been sued by that company in Norway for 20 million kroner ($3.4 million).

    Written by Jon Gold • 29 April 13 22:10

  • IBM launches an appliance for the Internet of Things

    Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages

    Written by Joab Jackson • 29 April 13 19:22

  • Indiana University dedicates biggest college-owned supercomputer

    Indiana University today dedicated the fastest supercomputer owned by a university to date -- the new Big Red II system.

    Written by Jon Gold • 26 April 13 21:00
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    Trisquel GNU/Linux flies the flag for software freedom

    Trisquel is a 100 per cent 'free as in free speech' GNU/Linux distribution started by Rubén Rodríguez Pérez nine years ago.

    Written by Rohan Pearce • 26 April 13 16:02

  • Why openness drives innovation

    Figuring out the next big thing in technology is something a lot of us are tasked to do, and it becomes even more challenging when predicting what will succeed long term. But one attribute that stands out as giving a new technology a leg-up is using open technologies for a creative freedom to spur innovation.

    Written by Lauren States, vice president, CTO, IBM Corporate Strategy • 23 April 13 17:56

  • SkySQL, MariaDB to merge

    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.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 23 April 13 13:56
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    Using open source to build sustainable communities

    A forthcoming documentary from Filament Features will feature the work of the Open Source Ecology project, which aims to produce a set of open source tools capable of building environmentally sustainable communities.

    Written by Rohan Pearce • 23 April 13 11:17

  • Red Hat drops JBoss, goes with WildFly for Java middleware

    If you've ever thought that Java-related open-source middleware just wasn't exciting enough for you, good news -- Red Hat announced today 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.

    Written by Jon Gold • 22 April 13 22:16

  • Victoria Legal aid taps Drupal for website redesign

    Victoria Legal Aid has gone live with a new Web presence based on Drupal. Previously the organisation, which provides legal aid to disadvantaged Victorians, used the proprietary RedDot content management system.

    Written by Rohan Pearce • 22 April 13 09:48

  • IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

    IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 19 April 13 14:00

  • Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow

    The team in charge of maintaining and developing Fuduntu, a Linux-based operating system designed as a hybrid of Fedora and Ubuntu, voted Sunday to close down the project.

    Written by Jon Gold • 17 April 13 22:04

  • Google grabs behavioral analysis startup Behavio

    Behavio, the startup best known for maintaining the open-source Funf mobile framework, announced Saturday that its staff had been acquired by Google, in a move likely aimed at bolstering the search giant's mobile capabilities.

    Written by Jon Gold • 16 April 13 22:56
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