Open source software
Open source software (OSS) has become an important part of many enterprise IT strategies, and OSS products are available to support a wide range of IT needs. Products such as Linux, Apache, Ubuntu, MySQL and Firefox are widely used. We look at the latest trends and technologies.
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News
01 Feb 2022
Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding
Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research Continue Reading
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E-Zine
11 Nov 2021
CW Benelux: Dutch IT company rips up the HR rule book for better work-life balance
One Dutch tech firm has used learnings from the pandemic to rip up its HR rule book and implement an official work-from-home policy. In fact, Infolearn has gone further than hybrid working, with a personal mobility budget for staff and a four-day working week, all with retention of full-time salary. Also in this issue, read how Dutch education administrators appear to be underestimating the threat of cyber crime. Continue Reading
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Podcast
22 Aug 2022
State of open source: Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
In this special edition of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, OpenUK’s Amanda Brock speaks to Cliff Saran about open source challenges Continue Reading
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News
10 Aug 2022
GitHub targets vulnerable open source components
There are thousands of vulnerabilities in open source code – GitHub aims to help developers see if their projects are impacted Continue Reading
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News
02 Aug 2022
VMware CEO defends Broadcom deal
Raghu Raghuram is confident that Broadcom will invest in growing VMware through a broad portfolio of assets that will serve its entire customer base, not just its biggest customers Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jul 2022
Cilium speeds sidecar-optioned cloud-native networking
The Cilium project has reached general availability of Cilium 1.12. Great news, they’re (the Cilium team) excited… and so are we, but what is Cilium? Cilium is widely regarded as a (if not the) ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Jul 2022
Log4Shell on its way to becoming ‘endemic’
US government report concludes that, like Covid, Log4Shell will be with us for a long time to come Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Jul 2022
Keptn cooks up, becomes CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Keptn as a CNCF incubating project. Keptn is an event-driven orchestration engine that connects observability with operations in ... Continue Reading
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Podcast
14 Jul 2022
Bloomberg CTO interview: Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
In this special edition of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards discusses real-time data and open source Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jul 2022
Databricks hoists mainsail on flagship open source projects
Data and AI company Databricks has announced several contributions to popular data and AI open source projects including Delta Lake, MLflow and Apache Spark. At the Data + AI Summit, the largest ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2022
Developers grapple with open source software security
Software developers are taking longer to fix vulnerabilities and many do not know about the dependencies of open source software components they are using, study finds Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2022
SolarWinds unveils new development model to avoid a repeat of Sunburst
SolarWinds has unveiled a new, secure-by-design software development model to protect itself from a repeat of the infamous 2020 cyber attack on its systems, and serve as a blueprint for the industry Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Jun 2022
Challenges of securing a software supply chain
The US president has issued an executive order to improve cyber security, which has ramifications across the software development supply chain Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Jun 2022
The challenge of open source in the enterprise is not technical
There is no doubt that open source is the future of software development. But IT leaders trying to instil an open source culture in their organisation may struggle due to business practices ... Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2022
Commercialising open source
Most software developed today takes advantage of open source, but there are still gaps in understanding what open source means in business Continue Reading
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Definition
09 Jun 2022
nonprofit organization (NPO)
A nonprofit organization (NPO) is one that is not driven by profit but by dedication to a given cause that is the target of all income beyond what it takes to run the organization. Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2022
Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys
Mega International, a supplier of IT management software, turned to Synopsys’s Coverity and Black Duck products to reassure both itself and its customers that its software-as-a-service offerings were built to the best possible security standards Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 May 2022
Like a teenager, Kubernetes looks almost grown-up, yet still a bit awkward and confused
Platform: that’s the key word that sprung to mind after attending Kubecon-CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Valencia last week. As in, Kubernetes ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 May 2022
What to expect from OpenInfra Summit 2022 Berlin
Berlin, according to David Bowie, is the greatest cultural extravaganza one can imagine - it’s a city brimming with art, music, architecture, history and, of course, enlightenment. The Thin White ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 May 2022
OpenUK CEO: What open source really means today
Listening to OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock speaking at Percona Live 2022, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team noted the following thoughts from her keynote… “If you were wondering what a nice ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
17 May 2022
Digitally transforming UK power networks for renewable energy
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how the UK’s power networks need to be digital transformed to be ready for renewable energy – and the role of open source. Wi-Fi 6 was meant to give a boost to wireless connectivity – we examine why adoption has stalled. And we look at what a quantum datacentre might be like. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
13 May 2022
Open source community sets out path to secure software
A 10-point plan to improve the security and resilience of open source software was presented this week at a summit in the US Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2022
IBM lived up to its neutrality promise to Red Hat
Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier claims IBM has lived up to its commitment to maintain the neutrality of Red Hat three years on Continue Reading
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News
10 May 2022
NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’
NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 May 2022
Alibaba open sources privacy-preserving computation
Alibaba Group’s global research initiative Alibaba DAMO Academy has made the source code of its latest federated learning platform FederatedScope, a comprehensive platform with easy-to-use ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2022
Open source CMS platform Directus patches XSS bug
A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Directus platform could have enabled malicious actors to gain access to valuable data Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Apr 2022
The role of infrastructure as code in edge datacentre computing
As datacentre computing is pushed to the edge of the organisation’s network, IT has to address the overheads associated with remote server management Continue Reading
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Definition
08 Apr 2022
OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative)
The OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative) specification is a Java framework for developing and deploying modular software programs and libraries. Continue Reading
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News
08 Apr 2022
Was Spring4Shell a lot of hot air? No, but...
Find out why Spring4Shell was apparently not as impactful a security problem as many had at first feared, and why it’s on the cyber community as a whole to do better Continue Reading
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E-Zine
07 Apr 2022
CW Middle East: UAE and UK researchers work on ‘trustworthy’ cloud OS for datacentres
Imperial College London is embarking on a three-year project with an Abu Dhabi-based group of researchers to find ways for datacentre operators and cloud providers to secure their infrastructure. Also read how Dubai is positioning itself to reap the benefits of a promising global market for drone technology. Continue Reading
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News
05 Apr 2022
Hackathon team uses origami in James Webb Space Telescope Pi project
The James Webb Space Telescope was the inspiration behind a NASA challenge which uses an IoT device based around folded paper Continue Reading
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News
31 Mar 2022
Spring4Shell zero-day sprung on security teams
Some are describing a newly disclosed Spring Java framework vulnerability as the next Log4Shell, but what is Spring4Shell, and what can we do about it? Continue Reading
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News
29 Mar 2022
Wave of Log4j-linked attacks targeting VMware Horizon
Sophos issues a new warning to organisations that have so far failed to patch their VMware Horizon servers against Log4Shell Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Mar 2022
Aerospike ‘sharpens cloud’ for disparate real time data
Real-time data company Aerospike Inc. has sharpened its scope this month to now provide two new deployments for the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform. Why has Aerospike done this? It’s all about ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
29 Mar 2022
Ten years of the Raspberry Pi
In this week’s Computer Weekly, as the Raspberry Pi reaches its 10th anniversary, we look back on how the low-cost computing device went from schools to supercomputers and even into space. Gartner offers tips on how to motivate IT staff in a hybrid working environment. And we meet the Dutch hackers helping to secure the internet. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Mar 2022
Sonatype’s sonar-smart sonata for open source
Nobody quite knows why Sonatype is called Sonatype, the developer-friendly tools specialist for software supply chain automation and security doesn’t make a song and dance about its moniker. Sona ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Mar 2022
CNCF now incubating Knative for serverless & event-driven apps
Knative (pronounced kay-native) has just been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Incubating Project. This status happens when the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) votes ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Feb 2022
Trousseau turns up truss torque for Kubernetes
Protecting access to sensitive data in Kubernetes is complicated. Some would go far enough to say that the security layer in Kubernetes is not optimal. Named after the French for ‘truss’ or ‘turn ... Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2022
How Carrefour is lowering its Oracle footprint
Migrating core business applications requires a multi-pronged approach, so what remains on-prem, and where does SaaS fit? Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Feb 2022
How open source is shaping data storage management
Open source data storage offers a great deal of flexibility, but unlocking its benefits will require strong technical resources to meet requirements such as stability, high availability and security Continue Reading
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Definition
07 Feb 2022
Debian
Debian is a popular and freely available computer operating system (OS) that uses a Unix-like kernel -- typically Linux -- alongside other program components, many of which come from GNU Project. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Feb 2022
Finland brings cryostats and other cool things to quantum computing
Not only is Finland the clear leader in refrigeration technology for quantum computers, but it also leads in fundamental research into the underlying quantum information theory Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Feb 2022
Codefresh combats 'stale DevOps' with pipeline-speed optimisations
Code does go ‘stale’, of course. Software application development code (and many of the data reserves, pools, sets, marts, warehouses and lakes) that programmers engineer into the fabric of modern ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2022
Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding
Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Jan 2022
Low code goes open source: Appsmith is the Ferrari-factor
People (well, British people, Americans and many others) think that the name Smith is a comparatively dull moniker to be blessed with and that Ferrari speaks of Italian flair and passion. In truth, ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2022
Nightmare Log4Shell scenario averted by prompt, professional action
Prompt and professional community response to the Log4Shell disclosure means the dangerous and widespread vulnerability has not been exploited to the extent many had feared Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jan 2022
The road less travelled paves the path to stealth disruption
During the recent Ocado Re:Imagined event, the company’s founder and CEO, Tim Steiner, discussed how stealth disruptors were used to invent something he described as “really radical”. Really ... Continue Reading
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News
26 Jan 2022
PwnKit bug endangers Linux distributions worldwide
Qualys researchers share intel on a memory corruption vulnerability in a program installed by default on every major Linux distribution Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jan 2022
How Forensic Architecture uses tech to protect human rights
Forensic Architecture speaks to Computer Weekly about how it uses various digital technologies to investigate human rights abuses around the globe, including the pushback of migrants over the Greek border and the killing of Mark Duggan by London police Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Jan 2022
SUSE offers a Neu approach to container security, opens NeuVector codebase
SUSE has announced the NeuVector codebase to the open source community on GitHub. The German softwarehaus claims that NeuVector the first truly open source end-to-end [container] security ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Dec 2021
A trial relying on computer evidence should start with a trial of the computer evidence
Learning from the Post Office Horizon scandal - the most widespread miscarriage of justice in recent British legal history Continue Reading
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News
21 Dec 2021
Top 10 software development stories of 2021
Business recovery is leading to more emphasis on software projects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories for 2021 Continue Reading
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Definition
20 Dec 2021
copyright
Copyright is a legal term describing ownership of control of the rights to the use and distribution of certain works of creative expression, including books, video, motion pictures, musical compositions and computer programs. Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Dec 2021
GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL)
The GNU General Public License, often shortened to GNU GPL (or simply GPL), lists terms and conditions for the copying, modification and redistribution of open source software. Continue Reading
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Definition
10 Dec 2021
Red Hat
Red Hat is a software company that combines open source Linux operating system components with related programs into a distribution package that customers can order. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Dec 2021
GitHub suffers no bluffers in search to uncover & discover
GitHub has unveiled a technology preview. This time, the update is focused on making improvements to searching code on the platform itself. In the shadow of enterprise search now growing to become ... Continue Reading
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News
02 Dec 2021
Pandora Papers: How journalists mined terabytes of offshore data to expose the world’s elites
Six hundred journalists spent over a year mining 2.94 terabytes of data that revealed offshore companies and the politicians, world leaders and celebrities who secretly owned them Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Nov 2021
OpenUK widens open path to carbon-neutral future
Computer Weekly recently reported on open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
24 Nov 2021
The value of open source in Europe
Open source offers immense benefits across the private and public sector and enables organisations to tap into world-class expertise Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Nov 2021
Pants is not pants, open source build system is good
Branding can be a dangerous thing; name conventions do not always translate. There’s a whole list of these from Bimbo bread to the reason that the Vauxhall Nova (no go) doesn’t work in Spanish… and ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
23 Nov 2021
How software development will change in 2022
Businesses need a pipeline of software-enabled functionality that has to be delivered quickly and reliably without overworking software teams Continue Reading
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E-Zine
23 Nov 2021
Can the tech community show us how to save the world?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we report from the COP26 conference on how the tech world’s collaborative open source model could help tackle climate change. Gartner has urged IT leaders to rethink their role as business come to rely on digital technologies. And we ask if your office security is at risk as staff return. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
12 Nov 2021
OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26
Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse Continue Reading
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E-Zine
11 Nov 2021
CW Benelux: Dutch IT company rips up the HR rule book for better work-life balance
One Dutch tech firm has used learnings from the pandemic to rip up its HR rule book and implement an official work-from-home policy. In fact, Infolearn has gone further than hybrid working, with a personal mobility budget for staff and a four-day working week, all with retention of full-time salary. Also in this issue, read how Dutch education administrators appear to be underestimating the threat of cyber crime. Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2021
Inside Krungsri Bank’s open API journey
Thailand’s Krungsri Bank has been harnessing open application programming interfaces to enable its partners to build new services in a strategy that has won over customers from rival banks Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Nov 2021
Linux Foundation LFX: secrets-in-code down, DEI-inclusivity up
The Linux Foundation has enhanced its free LFX Security offering. This is all about being able to give open source projects more ways to secure their code. Security comes in more than one form ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2021
How GitHub is driving secure software development
GitHub’s first chief security officer offers a glimpse into the company’s efforts to help developers and organisations embrace secure software development practices Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Oct 2021
Forget the 'free' software, the real value of open-source is the collaboration
It’s a cliché, but why are we still reinventing wheels? It is increasingly clear that the real value and opportunity in open-source isn’t so much the actual software itself, but the collaborative ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Oct 2021
Slicing open The Onion Router (Tor) with no tears
Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication by directing Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
07 Oct 2021
Open source for good
Imagine volunteering to build a home for a struggling family and the entire community shows up to help – that is what open source is all about Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2021
Apache web server users urged to patch immediately
New zero-day in Apache HTTP Server is already being actively exploited and must be addressed immediately Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Oct 2021
Gitpod runs upstream VS code in a browser
Git has become a prefix in and of itself. Obviously stemming from Linux creator Linus Torvalds’ self-deprecating joke that he might be ‘a bit of an old git’ at times, the now capitalised Git ... Continue Reading
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Definition
30 Sep 2021
open source
The term 'open source' refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Sep 2021
Microsoft ‘accelerates’ Flatcar Container Linux
Earlier this year Microsoft announced that it acquired Kinvolk, the creator and distributor of Flatcar Container Linux, a community Linux distribution designed for container workloads, with high ... Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Sep 2021
Making the enterprise composable
We speak to industry experts about how to develop composable IT that can quickly adapt to business change Continue Reading
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News
24 Aug 2021
13 million malware attacks on Linux seen in wild
Cryptominers, web shells and ransomware are the most common varieties of malwares targeting Linux systems, thanks to its prevalence as the backbone of most public cloud services Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Aug 2021
Sonatype Lift aims to elevate ‘pull request’ analysis
Software supply chain automation is a perhaps un-loved sub-genre of the total information technology landscape. But this harsh reality is not so at Maryland-based Sonatype, the company that likes ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Aug 2021
Spectral Preflight, buckles up supply chain script verification
The Holy Land’s technology sector continues to expand it seems, Tel Aviv-based Spectral is making noise relating to its Preflight tool. The company claims to be a developer-first cyber specialist, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Aug 2021
Project Trino: a data-developer inside story
In 2012, while working at Facebook, Martin Traverso, David Phillips, Dain Sundstrom and Eric Hwang created open source project Presto to replace Apache Hive to attempt to address the problems of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Aug 2021
The speed of software, MACH Alliance hits 30
In news that perhaps slipped through the cracks in the pre-summer build-up, earlier this year the MACH Alliance has reached the 30 member milestone. For the record, the MACH Alliance presents and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Aug 2021
Linux in space: CloudLinux powers Atlas V rocket
In a world where some question the code-share channels of open source communities and the use of components that may (or indeed may not) bring into question their provenance, prowess and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jul 2021
Redis explains why data architecture 'crumbles' at AI/ML model inferencing
Rolling out Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is tough. It’s tough because it’s hard to get these projects to production and ultimately deliver the desired results. What’s ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2021
Executive interview: Lee Porte, chair, Cloud Foundry Foundation TOC
Cloud Foundry wants more non-IT industry code contributions and its technical oversight committee has a new chair who wants to ramp up user focus Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jul 2021
Linux as a computational storage panacea?
Linux is widely agreed to be key to the onward development of computational storage. As we have noted before, computational storage enables a software and hardware system to offload and alleviate ... Continue Reading
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News
26 Jul 2021
Malicious actors turn to obscure programming languages
Using new, lesser-known or otherwise uncommon programming languages to code new malwares can help skirt cyber defences Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Jul 2021
Lizard logic, Abbyy NeoML open source library adds Python
Abbyy didn’t let the summer slowdown ‘silly season’ dampen its news cycle too much, the ‘digital intelligence company’ announced an update for NeoML, its cross-platform open source machine learning ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Jul 2021
Cloud Foundry Foundation rebalances commercial code contributions
Most open source contributions in Cloud Foundry come from developers whose companies commercialise the platform Continue Reading
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News
12 Jul 2021
NHS to get new online jobs platform
NHS Business Services Authority is working to transform the NHS Jobs platform, currently in beta stage, with plans to launch it early next year Continue Reading
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Photo Story
25 Jun 2021
Important LGBTQ+ figures who shaped tech’s history
As the world celebrates Pride month, we take a deep dive into the lives of some of the people who have shaped the technology we use today, who are also LGBTQ+. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2021
DataStax eyes growth in APAC
DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2021
NHSX policy document focuses on patients and data sharing
Patient privacy and data and code reuse are three of the pillars outlined in the NHSX’s new data strategy for sharing patient data Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Jun 2021
EU goes large on BIG: (Bridging Interoperability Gaps) hackathon
Not put off by the complex circumlocutions and (many people with an understanding of economics and common sense would argue) calamitous complications and consequences of Brexit, the European ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Jun 2021
Do the right thing
A recent study has put a spotlight on a worrying trend in software development. Open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work. Or, if they do get paid, on average, they can ... Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2021
Penny-pinchers undermine value of open source
The majority of IT runs on open source, but many of the people who maintain open source projects do not appear to get rewarded for their efforts Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2021
Oxbotica and TRL pilot safety framework for off-road autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicle technology companies develop code of practice to deploy autonomy safely, efficiently and at scale across a range of environments, in particular off-road settings such as mines, farms and ports where there are no pre-defined or standardised highway rules Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 May 2021
Snyk sneaks up on sinful snippets, acquires FossID
London-originated but Boston-headquartered cloud native application security company Snyk has acquired FossID, a software composition analysis tool that scans code for open source licenses and ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
27 Apr 2021
Python @ 30: Praising the versatility of Python
Python recently celebrated its 30th birthday, and pioneers of the language have been reflecting on its significance as an open source project Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2021
Grafana Labs switches open source licensing to stem strip-mining tactics
Public cloud providers have been accused of strip-mining open source products, offering them as managed services, cutting a valuable revenue Continue Reading
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Opinion
21 Apr 2021
Elastic vs. AWS highlights open source monetization dilemma
The fight between AWS and Elastic over the commercial usage of Elasticsearch highlights how open source software vendors need to change in the era of cloud computing. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Apr 2021
Death of firewire
In the tech sector, computer interfaces come and go in the name of progress. RS232 was superseded by USB1; now there is USB C and USB 3.1 and the latest Macs have USB 4. But not everyone wants to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Apr 2021
Linux Foundation sigstore finds ‘origins’ in software supply chains
The Linux Foundation announced the sigstore project this spring. Designed to improves the security of the software supply chain, sigstore is said to enable the adoption of cryptographic software ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Apr 2021
Gitpod DevXConf ‘developer experience’: never mind UX, what about DevX?
Open source developer platform company Gitpod is sprouting new growth. The company’s software is positioned as a software engineering platform to automate the provisioning of ready-to-code ... Continue Reading