March 12, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open Distro for Elasticsearch is Amazon’s move to show it’s pro-open source
Amazon Web Services (AWS) just launched Open Distro for Elasticsearch. This program takes AWS’s recent proprietary additions to Elasticsearch and open sources them under the Apache 2.0 license. That sounds good. Shay Banon, co-founder of Elasticsearchand CEO of Elastic, its parent company, sees … Continue reading
March 11, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on What’s the difference between containers and virtual machines?
I was at a conference recently when I realized the person I was talking with thought that containers were just smaller versions of virtual machines (VM). Ah, no. No, they’re not. Yes, they can function in the same ways from … Continue reading
March 11, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open source advances deeper into hardware: The CHIPS Alliance project
Open-source hardware is older than you might think. Sun released OpenSPARC in 2007, and IBM started OpenPOWER in 2013. OpenSPARC would die after Oracle bought Sun, and OpenPOWER remains largely IBM-driven. With the recent arrival of the RISC-V (pronounced Risk-Five), though, open-source CPU designs have finally … Continue reading
February 20, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up
On February 19, Redis Labs, the home of Redis, the popular open-source in-memory data structure store, announced it has raised $60 million in new financing. Redis Labs CEO Ofer Bengal told Ars Technica that one reason for this was its new “open-source” Common Clauselicense. “The … Continue reading
February 14, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on The top five upcoming cloud developments
Strap yourself in. We’ll be going to some interesting places with the cloud in the near future. 1. Hybrid Cloud Takes Off For the longest time, the hybrid cloud didn’t really go much of anywhere. That’s because it wasn’t easy … 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