SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc, the world’s largest networking gear manufacturer, is nearing a deal to buy U.S. telecommunications software firm BroadSoft Inc for close to $ 2 billion, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday.… Continue Reading
Infamous government hacker Edward Snowden believes open source is a fundamentally better way to use technology compared to proprietary technology that he believes disempowers users. Snowden was interviewed at the open source cloud computing project OpenStack Summit in Boston via… Continue Reading
CockroachDB, an open source, fault-tolerant SQL database with horizontal scaling and strong consistency across nodes—and a name few people will likely forget—is now officially available. Cockroach Labs, the company behind its development, touts CockroachDB as a “cloud-native” database solution—a system… Continue Reading
Red Hat reports 13% growth in the second quarter, improved cloud and emerging technology sales, and an expanded revenue estimate for third quarter.InformationWeek: Cloud RSS-4
Red Hat reports 13% growth in the second quarter, improved cloud and emerging technology sales, and an expanded revenue estimate for third quarter. RSS-1
Whitehurst cited the cloud revenues, a small fraction of its total, as a sign that Red Hat has a firm grip on future revenues based on cloud computing. RSS-1
The developers behind WordPress, for example, have switched to Slack for their team communications. … If you work with sensitive information, or need to make sure that all communication stays behind a firewall, self-hosting might be your best option. RSS-5
Samsung challenge Intel and Qualcomm with the announcement of three new chips aim at the Internet of Things market. Samsung also announced the launch of SmartThings Open Cloud, which will help developers create the applications using their connected devices. The… Continue Reading