Search Results for: open source

Can contributing to open source get you a job?

Could voluntary work on open source projects be a stepping stone to employment?

Open source is growing up – and here’s how

Analyst opinion If you’re among those who still think that open source is just for[...]

Cloud Foundry’s growth highlights open source success and the cracks in commercial licensing

Analyst opinion Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There’s no longer the[...]

Will open source storage make the hyperscale dream real?

Open-source software has become an important presence in many areas of IT, and now, as[...]

Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software

The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had[...]

Why I’m interested in Open Source

Because its having a distorting effect on the rest of the industry. I’m afraid I[...]

Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question

While much of October's KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America

Forget the ‘free’ software, the real value of open-source is the collaboration

Analyst Opinion: It’s a cliché, but why are we still reinventing wheels?

Digital identity and opening up the smartwallet

When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both[...]

Today’s hybrid clouds look more closed than open

Analyst Opinion We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are[...]

Growing fast, OpenStack shakes off old misconceptions

Analyst opinion One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new[...]

All about OpenStack

Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is[...]

Post-Copenhagen, does green IT matter?

It’s difficult to talk about “green IT” without coming across as a techno-apologist. However much[...]

Two-way web pushes door to information wide open

The Open Library project came up for discussion on the newly refurbed Talis Library Gang[...]

A cloud for all seasons

Open source PaaS ready for prime time?

Custom chatbots and model gardens: putting Private AI to work

Part 2: More to think about It’s essential to decide where to run your Private[...]

Linux on the Desktop

Throwback Thursday: The first thing that struck me when I re-read our ‘Linux on the[...]

Get going with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Accelerating adoption of hybrid cloud

The mainframe returns – as a platform for large-scale Linux

Analyst opinion There are several ways to build large scale Linux server environments, with x86[...]

What can Chromebooks offer the enterprise desktop market?

Analyst opinion If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end[...]

All-in-one Data Protection

Taking the pain out of information management

Causes of software development woes

Respondents point the finger at ambiguous requirements