An EU-commissioned study in the impact of open source returns mixed results
The economic benefits highlighted by the study are enormous. However, the European Union is on the "back foot" when it comes to implementation. The study comes from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect). The study's authors in...
Microsoft becomes Platinum member of Open Infrastructure Foundation
OpenStack, the open-source, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) cloud company related to projects like Airship (open-source tools for cloud provisioning) and Zuul (the Ansible-based Continous Integration (CI) system), has for years been stuck between what Gartner calls the Trough of Disillusionment ...
Open source has the potential to boost the EU economy
The European Commission (EC) has released a new report that reveals the impact open-source software (OSS) and open-source hardware (OSH) can have on the European Union economy. The report is titled "The Impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological dependencies, competitiveness and i...
Amazon MemoryDB by AWS is now generally available
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a managed in-memory database the company says will simplify the application development process. Enterprise applications have different data access speed requirements.
For instance, a revenue forecasting tool ma...
Open Compute Project unveils its Strategy 2.0
The Project is focusing on open silicon designs and optical networking.
The Open Compute Project has outlined a new strategy which it released last week. The Project will pursue open silicon designs and concentrate on future innovations in optical networking, AI, and immersion cooling.
The O...
Google unveils a unified vulnerability schema for open source
The release aims to make it easier to share vulnerabilities between databases.
Google this week announced a unified schema to address an issue with existing vulnerability databases. Specifically, the release wants to address the problems arising when various ecosystems and organizations create t...
New Relic gives boost to observability with Pixie Auto-Telemetry
The innovation is one of a series of new products announced at the company's developer conference.
New Relic announced a series of new product innovations and community initiatives at its annual developer conference, FutureStack 2021.
The new offerings aim to help engineers make observability...
Kubermatic K8s v2.17 brings automated multi-cluster backups
The Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform has added automated backups, replications, and other features to the KKP 2.17 release. This comes as the multi-cluster Kubernetes platform provider is looking to offer users an expanded platform that can manage several clusters across multiple clouds and on-premis...
Flutter 2.2 unveiled at Google I/O 2021 with monetization plugin
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit used to develop apps across Google Fuschia, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android using a single code base. Google launched Flutter 2.2 at Google I/O 2021. The new version comes with a payment plugin to include Google Pay on both iOS and Android...
Trend Micro and Snyk collaborate to tackle open source vulnerabilities
Trend Micro and Snyk have unveiled their collaborative SaaS solution, named Trend Micro Cloud One – Open Source Security by Snyk. The solution is the first of its kind in the industry, targeting security operations teams.
It can provide real-time insight into open-source flaws to improve risk ...
Companies are becoming increasingly reliant on open-source software
Research shows that all large enterprises have an enormous appreciation for open-source software. The enterprises feel that the use of open-source brings benefits to their businesses.
The survey was conducted by Percona, a company that offers open-source database software and related services. T...
Linux Foundation launches Infrastructure Project for Agriculture
The initiative aims to enable global collaboration among industry, government and academia.
The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new open source digital infrastructure project aimed at the agriculture industry. The new project is going by the name of the AgStack Foundation. It seeks to promo...