Citrix expands open source integrations
Citrix informs Techzine that it will expand open source integrations. This should allow companies to use cloud environments from different providers. Businesses need to be able to switch to the cloud more quickly.
The company also reports that Citrix ADC (Application Delivery Controller) has obta... Read more
Major tech companies set up new security group Confidential Computing Consortium
A number of major players in the tech and IT market have joined forces to improve safe computing. Alibaba, ARM, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom and Tencent are part of the group.
The collaboration takes place under the name Confidential Computing Consortium. The obje... Read more
Twitter makes network performance tool Rezolus open source
Twitter has created an in-house developed tool for discovering performance anomalies and peaks in network usage.
Twitter uses Rezolus to measure workloads, measure runtime performance and obtain data for network optimization, says Brian Martin, site reliability engineer at Twitter in the blog pos... Read more
Google makes voice engine of Live Transcribe open source
Google creates the voice engine used for Live Transcribe open source. The company hopes that this will enable developers to transcribe long conversations. The source code can be found on GitHub.
The engine is currently already used for Live Transcribe on Android. This tool uses algorithms and mac... Read more
Red Hat sees itself as the only open-source hybrid cloud enabler
Red Hat increasingly sees itself as the engine for
the hybrid cloud. This was recently demonstrated during our visit to the annual
Red Hat Summit 2019. The various products of the open-source specialist have
become more or less a standard in the enterprise market. Discussions with
employees and cus... Read more
Red Hat community still concerned about IBM acquisition
The community around open source specialist Red Hat is still very concerned about the recent acquisition by IBM. This is shown by a recent Q&A with Red Hat's CTO Chris Wright on the popular online discussion platform Reddit. According to the CTO, as often communicated, really nothing will change... Read more
Microsoft wants to simplify data division between companies with agreements
Microsoft has proposed several agreements that companies can use to share data across different computing systems and services. There are three draft proposals for similarities for different scenarios.
Companies have always been able to share data, but according to Microsoft, this is often chaotic. ... Read more
Facebook makes Hermes JavaScript engine available on GitHub
Facebook has made JavaScript engine Hermes available on GitHub so that any developer can use it. The engine needs to optimize large applications on Android devices, reports VentureBeat.
The introduction of the new JavaScript engine is the latest in a series of open-source activities from Facebook.... Read more
IBM makes Kabano tools for collaboration on Kubernetes apps open source
IBM has launched a new open source project that allows all kinds of professionals, from developers to operational teams, to work more closely together in building Kubernetes-based applications. The project is called Kabanero and contains several new open source tools.
These tools include Appsody, Co... Read more
Cloudera decides to become 100 percent open source
Cloudera plans to make all software open source. This is followed by the Hortonworks, which Cloudera took over in January.
Before the takeover, the two companies distributed their products under slightly different open source licensing models, according to Charles Zedlewski and Arun Murthy of Cloude... Read more