July 23, 2013
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Perhaps OpenOffice should adopt a new slogan from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “I’m not dead yet!” While LibreOffice has supplanted it as the default office suite for Linux distributions, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the immediate availability of OpenOffice 4.0 on July 23.
July 23, 2013
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Linux is the top supercomputer operating system. But while you can build your own Linux supercomputer using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, even with just Raspberry Pi boards, these don’t natively support massively parallel computing — the cornerstone of modern supercomputing. That’s where Adapteva, with its $99 Parallella parallel processing single-board supercomputer, comes in.
Build your own supercomputer: First $99 Parallella boards ship. More >
July 23, 2013
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If you still think the cloud is just so much marketing hot air, RightScale, a cloud management company, has news for you: Almost 50 percent of businesses have already moved at least some applications to the cloud.
July 19, 2013
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Anyone can set up and run a single server instance on a cloud. That’s easy. Few people can set up multiple server instances on a cloud that can efficiently and automatically shift gears to match the rise and fall of user demand. That’s hard. And that’s where cloud configuration management programs such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansile come in.
July 19, 2013
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Based on Microsoft’s latest earnings report, its Surface RT is a flop. This, in turn, means that Windows RT has failed. But, there are many other would-be tablet operating system challengers to Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Seriously, though, do any of them have a real shot?
July 19, 2013
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Three years ago, on July 19th, 2010, Rackspace and NASA introduced OpenStack. Then, it was just another cloud stack project, a promising one but only one among many. Fast forward to today and OpenStack’s list of backers is a technology giant’s who’s who: HP, IBM, Red Hat, VMware, the list goes on and on. How did this happen?
Happy Birthday OpenStack! How did you grow up so fast? More >