In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for …
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Edward Snowden launches new security app
Edward Snowden, together with the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Guardian Project, has created Haven - an open source app that can run on any Android phone and turn it into a surveillance system.1 2781
Red Hat announces 13-city EMEA tour
Red Hat last week announced that it is set to host a 13-city tour of one-day events throughout Europe and …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
Hortonworks ports Windows version of Hadoop
Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops, it was reported on Monday. The …
Tizen 2.0 seeded to developers
Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung, on Monday released the software development kit and source code for …
Red Hat joins HP alliance programme
Following on from more than a decade of collaboration, Red Hat on Tuesday announced that it has joined the HP …
Researcher releases smart meter hacking tool
Security consulting firm SecureState today released a new open source hacking tool that it claims will let security researchers and …
HP cloud plans focus on open source, management
HP reiterated its commitment to open cloud computing standards this week at the Red Hat Summit, as the company’s enterprise cloud vice …
Red Hat acquiring FuseSource
Boosting its line of open-source middleware, Red Hat is in the process of acquiring open-source integration software vendor FuseSource from …
Facebook tackles Hadoop achilles' heel
Running what they believe is the world’s largest Hadoop-based collection of data, Facebook engineers have developed a way to circumnavigate …