July 16, 2013
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Say you want a private cloud, but you also want to be able to expand out into the public cloud when you must? What can you do? One answer is use Eucalyptus 3.3, which can work hand in glove with … Continue reading
July 16, 2013
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Almost twenty-years ago in August 1993, Microsoft released its second networked version of Windows: Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It wasn’t a success. Success for Microsoft in a network-enabled operating system would come in the same year with Windows NT. On … Continue reading
July 12, 2013
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Anyone who programs for high-performance computing (HPC) knows that what works for standard computing doesn’t work for supercomputers. Now, with exascale supercomputers, which will be able to do a quintillion (1018 or 1,000 quadrillion) floating point operations per second, in … Continue reading
July 10, 2013
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Is Red Hat switching from Oracle‘s MySQL to MariaDB for its default database management system (DBMS) in its next major operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? Officially, Red Hat hasn’t decided to switch to MariaDB. Unofficially, it appears to … Continue reading
July 9, 2013
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The Linux Foundation used to be just about, well, Linux. Now, it also manages an open software defined network alliance, OpenDaylight, and the open-source Xen virtualization manager. On July 9th, the first fruit of these new efforts arrived: Xen 4.3. … Continue reading
July 9, 2013
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When NGINX zoomed up to take second place from Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) in the Web server derby, it looked like NGINX, a fast open-source Web server, would leave IIS in the dust and challenge long time Web leader … Continue reading