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August 13, 2012
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Red Hat finally commits to OpenStack for the cloud

Red Hat has long supported OpenStack cloud software… in theory. In practice though the Linux giant wouldn’t commit to OpenStack until now. On August 13, Red Hat, announced the immediate availability of the preview release of Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution.  … Continue reading

July 23, 2012
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Juju: DevOps for Cloud Services

PORTLAND, OR: Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is trying to make Development/Operations (DevOps) on the cloud easy with its Juju framework. The Juju project has been around for a while, but frankly it wasn’t that impressive… until now. At a … Continue reading

July 18, 2012
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A first look at Dell’s ‘Sputnik’ Ubuntu Linux developer laptop

Portland, OR: Sputnik started, Barton George, Dell’s project Sputnik lead and director of web vertical marketing,   told me at OSCon as a six-month exploratory pilot to create an Ubuntu Linux-based developer laptop, It’s not just an idea now. Dell … Continue reading