February 1, 2017
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Almost two years ago, The Document Foundation announced it was going to bring LibreOffice to the cloud. With the release of LibreOffice 5.3, that day has finally come.
Bigger, better LibreOffice 5.3 released for the cloud. More>
January 31, 2017
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I’ve been consulting on cloud migrations and deployments for a while now. Along the way, I’ve seen lots of mistakes made. Mea culpa: I’ve made some of them myself.
Don’t be like me, or a lot of companies. Avoid these five blunders and you’ll be much better off.
January 31, 2017
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By its very nature, open source — and its most famous creation, Linux — relies upon the open exchange of ideas. While that happens largely on a free, net-neutral internet, it also needs face-to-face meetings. President Trump’s ill-considered, anti-immigration executive order is completely contrary to the spirit of open-source software.
Linux leadership stands against Trump immigration ban. More >
January 31, 2017
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I recently bashed Windows for being too darn snoopy, but you know what? It’s not just Windows. Ever since Yosemite came out, Apple’s macOS has been just as untrustworthy. As for Chrome OS, Android and iOS, come on! They’re all built around cloud services; by design, they share everything you do with third-party services. What’s the answer? Desktop Linux.
January 26, 2017
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NTP’s maintenance has slowed to a crawl and it’s been the subject of numerous DDoS attacks. It’s time to consider a change.
Doesn’t anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care? It made a fine song lyric for the band Chicago, but it’s no way to run the internet. On the net, everything needs to know the precise time to within a microsecond and the tool we use to do that with is Network Time Protocol (NTP).
NTP provides the internet’s heartbeat. Without it, servers and PCs wouldn’t know what time it is. That, in turn, would mean backups would fail, financial transactions would go awry, and many fundamental network services wouldn’t work. The primary time-keepers of the net are stratum-0 devices, i.e., atomic clocks. NTP connects these to other devices, which in turn set the time for everything online.
January 24, 2017
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Some people are still a little cloudy about the cloud. They shouldn’t be.
Let’s go over the basics again. The National Institute of Standards and Technology spelled out cloud computing for us years ago: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”
Clouds must have five essential characteristics: On-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity or expansion, and measured service. On these fundamentals, cloud designers have created a whole new IT approach.
Everything you need to know about clouds and hybrid IT. More>