February 18, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat finds enterprise users are adopting open-source software at a rapid pace
Enterprise customers believe open-source software is great. In a just-released Red Hat 2020 enterprise user report, the Linux and cloud folks from Raleigh found 95% of almost 1,000 enterprise IT leaders thought open-source is “strategically important to their organization’s overall enterprise infrastructure … Continue reading
October 4, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Fedora drops 32-bit Linux
Seven years ago, Linus Torvalds dropped “ancient-386-CPUs” support from the Linux kernel, dismissing it with “good riddance.” While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux’s mainstream. Gradually, distributions such as Arch Linux dumped it, as well. Then, Canonical decided to boot 32-bit … Continue reading
October 2, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on IBM and Canonical work together in financial services
Yes, IBM bought Red Hat, but as Chris Wright, Red Hat‘s CTO, recently told me, “We’re fundamentally a separate entity from IBM.” Want proof of that? In NYC, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, Ubuntu Linux‘s parent company, and Ross Mauri, general manager … Continue reading
February 12, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat CloudForms 4.7 released
There’s an old, wise IT statement: “Never fix what’s broken.” Of course, there’s an equally true tech management thought, which goes: “You snooze, you lose.” So, trying to satisfy both the tortoises and hares of IT, Red Hat‘s newest version of … Continue reading
February 5, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat introduces first Kubernetes-native IDE
These days we often package our new programs in containers, and we then manage those containers with Kubernetes. That’s great as far as it goes, but if you’re a programmer, it’s still missing a vital part: An integrated development environment (IDE). … Continue reading
January 14, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on DevOps for the hybrid cloud: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4
With the growth of the cloud and containers, DevOps has become increasingly important. Old-school sysadmin methods and means simply aren’t up to managing server instances that can spin up at a moment’s notice when needed. Red Hat knows that better than many companies, so … Continue reading