Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open source integrations
Google has announced to collaborate with a number of major open source data management and analytics companies, to integrate their products into the Google Cloud Platform and offer them as managed services. These are Confluent, DataStax, Elastic, InfluxData, MongoDB, Neo4j and Redis Labs.
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Suse returns to being an independent company for the first time in a long time
Suse, the company behind one of the oldest Linux distributions, today announced that it is independent again. The company, which provides open-source infrastructure and applications, has been acquired from Micro Focus by growth investor EQT for $2.5 billion (€2.2 billion).
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Microsoft creates data compression algorithm and hardware for the cloud open source
Microsoft has created its algorithm, hardware specification and Verilog source code for compressing data in its Azure cloud open source. All information is contributed to the Open Compute Project (OCP).
Large cloud providers today store huge amounts of data. To make this possible, the data is comp... Read more
Rubrik launches open source community called Rubrik Build
Rubrik has launched an open source community called Rubrik Build. Here participants can propose new applications, automation solutions and integrations to simplify monitoring, testing, development and automated workflows.
With Build, the company wants to create a vibrant community around its own API... Read more
Microsoft joins OpenChain Project for better open-source policy
Microsoft wants more standardization in the field of open-source software licenses. For this reason, the company joins the OpenChain Project as the newest platinum member. Other companies such as ARM, Facebook, GitHub and Google are also platinum members of the OpenChain Project.
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Microsofts Azure Bot service promotes development of AI assistants
Microsoft has released an artificial intelligence (AI) toolkit that allows companies to create their own virtual assistants. The so-called Azure Bot service can be found on the Github website, a meeting place for open source software.
According to the software supplier, companies need to introduce t... Read more
Intel joins open source code of conduct Contributor Covenant
All Intel open source projects will now comply with the Contributor Covenant. This is a code of conduct from 2014, which encourages participants to use a common language and to promote the participation of people around the world. That's what ZDNet reports.
Coraline Ada Ehmke wrote the Contributor C... Read more
OpenStack Foundation releases open source edge platform StarlingX
The OpenStack Foundation has released a new open source edge platform. The so-called StarlingX unites existing open source applications such as Kubernetes with Wind River and Intel's Titanium Cloud code.
Last May, shortly after Intel announced the sale of Wind River to the investment company TPG, bo... Read more
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind makes even more AI projects open-source
Alphabet's research group on the development of artificial intelligence, DeepMind Technologies, is going to share more of its work with the world. Some of the important algorithmic components is made open-source. These are algorithms associated with what the company describes as some of its most suc... Read more
Microsoft makes 60,000 patents available to open-source community
Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network (OIN). This is a consortium of patent sharing companies that can protect open-source software - including Linux - from patent owners' claims. Previously, Microsoft was just one of the companies that made the claims.
By joining the group, Microsoft makes li... Read more