Author Archives: Christine Hall

HashiCorp, maker of open source cloud tools for DevOps, has a valuation of $1.9 billion in Series D round. Continue reading HashiCorp's Cloud Tools Fuel $100 Million Funding Round→

This week Red Hat released RHEL 7.6 with enhancements to security and compliance, management and automation, and containers. Continue reading RHEL 7.6: Red Hat's Swan Song as an Independent→

Big Blue has bet the farm that IBM ownership of Red Hat will pay big dividends. Continue reading Will Red Hat Survive IBM Ownership?→

The OpenStack Foundation has released StarlingX, a new open source platform ready to take you to the edge
• It incorporates existing open source applications like Kubernetes with Wind River and Intel’s Titanium Cloud code
• Wind River said the code was made open source at the insistence of potential customers
• The platform offers a compute, storage, and networking solution for a wide variety of edge applications Continue reading OpenStack Foundation Says Its Open Source Edge Platform StarlingX Is Ready to Fly→

Big Blue’s acquisition of Red Hat probably has very little to do with Linux and much to do with the cloud. Continue reading Red Hat Cloud Prowess Drives $33 Billion IBM Deal→

Canonical says that the latest version of its Ubuntu Server Linux operating system incorporates input from the financial services industry. Continue reading Canonical Eyes FinTech With Ubuntu Server 18.10→

Lenovo has partnered with hyperconverged infrastructure platform developer Scale Computing to offer an out-of-the-box HCI solution for edge computing
• The solution combines Lenovo hardware with Scale’s HC3 platform, which brings together storage, servers, and virtualization
• HC3 has been available and fully supported on Dell hardware since 2012 and on equipment from Super Micro for about three years, a Scale rep told Data Center Knowledge Continue reading Lenovo and Scale Pitch Hyperconverged Boxes for the Edge of Enterprise Networks→

Due to a coding error, the libssh SSH authentication library would pass anyone who said they’d already successfully logged-in. Continue reading SSH Authentication Bug Opens Door If You Say You're Logged-In→

The company has joined OIN, giving up its ability to sue users of Linux for infringing any of 90,000 or so patents it holds. Not everyone in the open source community believes in its good intentions. Continue reading Microsoft's Peace Treaty With the 'Linux System'→

The Cloud Foundry Foundation announced two new Kubernetes-focused projects at its EU Summit in Switzerland
• The move comes after last year’s addition of its Container Runtime for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
• Foundation CTO called it an example of the open source PaaS platform’s “evolutionary directions” Continue reading Cloud Foundry Goes All-In With Kubernetes→