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Opinion

How Rackspace flew through turbulence in the private cloud

Bryan Thompson, General Manager, OpenStack Private Cloud at Rackspace, talked about the second generation of cloud and some turbulence that OpenStack recently experienced.

05/22/17

Opinion

How Dell’s Project Sputnik came to life

I met and talked to Barton George, the project’s initiator and leader, to understand the backstory.

05/22/17

Opinion

Elementary OS is trying to create a business model for open source app developers

There is no dearth of Linux based operating systems, you will find dime a dozen. However there are only a few major ones that matter and elementary OS is among them.

05/20/17

Opinion

How Microsoft is becoming a Linux vendor

Microsoft is bridging the gap with Linux by baking it into its own products.

05/16/17

Opinion

Review: Galago Pro is a Linux laptop for professionals

Galago Pro comes with OEM version Ubuntu 16.04 and offers a great ‘out-of-the-box’ experience.

05/15/17

News Analysis

How GE Healthcare migrated 500 applications to the cloud

GE Healthcare recently migrated its infrastructure to cloud — and ‘remotely managed private cloud’ was a big part of that migration.

05/12/17

News Analysis

Reports of OpenStack’s death are greatly exaggerated

Contrary to the reports of demise of OpenStack, this open source project is growing at an unprecedented rate.

05/11/17

Opinion

How the US Army is using OpenStack to train cyber soldiers

The United States Army Cyber School has ditched its legacy training model and has taken an open source approach to courseware.

05/10/17

News Analysis

Snowden argues for cloud control at OpenStack Summit

“We should be working for the spirit of technology itself. Moving people closer to a more empowered future,” says Edward Snowden.

05/10/17

Opinion

How OpenStack is listening to the community and improving the project

OpenStack Foundation has identified key areas to improve engagement with its growing community.

05/09/17

Opinion

Six highlights of Red Hat Summit 2017

Major announcements and awards from this week's event.

05/05/17

Q&A

How Docker’s new CEO plans to manage the company’s growth

Steve Singh has three priorities for Docker: innovation, customers and talent.

05/03/17

Opinion

Why and how to run Linux in macOS ... for free

Parallels Desktop Lite is a free of cost app that allows you to run Linux distributions inside of macOS.

05/02/17

News Analysis

Can Project Halium revive Linux on mobile?

A group of developers have come together to bring open source mobile projects under the same roof to create a fully open source mobile framework.

04/27/17

Opinion

What makes Samsung Galaxy S8 the best phone you can buy

This is the phone that will tempt even hardcore iPhone users to switch.

04/26/17

Opinion

How Microsoft helped Docker with LinuxKit and Moby Project

Microsoft and Docker have been working together for over three years now, and this collaboration has led to the creation of LinuxKit and Moby Project.

04/24/17

News Analysis

How to containerize your legacy apps without sweating

Docker, along with its partners, has created a program called Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) to containerize legacy applications without changing a single line of code.

04/21/17