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April 28, 2020
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Red Hat takes on the hybrid cloud with its latest OpenShift Kubernetes distro

A popular belief in today’s business circles is that every company is now a tech company. Red Hat — the powerhouse Linux and cloud business — agrees. Nearly every industry, including healthcare, logistics, retail, financial services, government, education, and more, needs faster, more widespread access to essential applications and services. For Red Hat’s leadership, that means the container and Kubernetes-powered open hybrid cloud.

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April 28, 2020
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Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability

Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu Linux, is doing better than ever according to founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Indeed, Canonical is now “self-sustaining.” That is, “We’re now well past the point where Ubuntu and all its supporting systems and infrastructure are dependent on me, said Shuttleworth. “If I were to meet my maker tomorrow. Ubuntu will continue in the very capable hands of the team at Canonical and the community.”

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April 27, 2020
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Micron speeds up SSDs with open-source database storage engine

Want to get the most from your database? Then you probably already use Database Storage Engines. Now, Micron Technology, a leading storage company, has announced the first open-source, heterogeneous-memory storage engine (HSE). This is designed for database management systems (DBMS)s to get the most from solid-state drives (SSDs) and storage-class memory (SCM).

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April 23, 2020
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Ubuntu 20.04 arrives with Linux 5.4 kernel and WireGuard VPN

As expected, Canonical has released the newest version of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, Ubuntu 20.04. This long-term-support (LTS) version is more than just the latest version of one of the most popular Linux distributions; it’s a major update for desktop, server, and cloud users.

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April 22, 2020
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How close are we to breaking encryption with quantum computing?

Quantum encryption cracking is on its way, so it’s time to start getting ready for it.

When famed Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynmann came up with the concept of quantum computers in 1982 in his speech and paper Simulating Physics with Computers, he probably wasn’t thinking about the effects it would have on cryptography. Today, we face the real possibility of quantum computers overturning the apple-cart of classical encryption and the promise of nigh-unto-unbreakable quantum encryption.

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April 22, 2020
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NetApp to make stateful applications easier to do in Kubernetes

Most web applications are stateless. These don’t save client data from one session for the client’s next session. A stateful app is one that saves client data from one session to the next. There are advantages to both approaches. But it’s not been easy to run stateful applications in containers. NetApp wants to fix that with Project Astra, a Kubernetes storage and container platform.

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