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Red Hat delivered its fourth quarter and year-end financial results after the bell on Wednesday, and the news gets ever rosier. The company is in the midst of a major shift in its strategy toward OpenStack-based cloud computing, and it looks like service revenues from that effort are starting to arrive. Non-GAAP earnings were 43 cents per share on revenue of $464 million, up 16 percent year-over-year, marking the 12th consecutive quarter of revenue growth in the mid-teens. As 2014 ended, there were many eloquent summaries of the state of open source and the state of cloud computing, but one of the most focused ones came from Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

So SUSE’s announcement last month of its new enterprise storage solution based on the open source Ceph project is perfectly timed. If you’re attending Vault this week, be sure to look for the four SUSE engineers presenting there, including Lars Marowsky-Brée, a SUSE Distinguished Engineer and architect for SUSE Enterprise Storage.

Following Valve’s Steam Machine reveal in 2013, the PC games giant retreated for a year and, at GDC this week, returned to the stage with a robust and detailed line-up of 15 systems.

The “Year of the Linux desktop” is something you often hear about in the Linux community. This idea refers to the year when Linux will claim the dominant market-share percentage from operating systems such as Windows and OSX. While I am not sure if Linux on the desktop will ever become dominant, one thing is for certain: Linux has already … Read More

Canonical has finally got skin in the mobile game, putting its first Ubuntu phone on sale in Europe last month.

Dice and The Linux Foundation today are releasing their annual Linux Jobs Report, which details the responses of more than 1,000 hiring managers and 3,000 Linux professionals about the state of the Linux job market. With new Linux-based systems, projects and products constantly emerging, hiring the right talent to support all the growth continues to be a priority amongst employers.

Red Hat was proud to announce earlier today, March 5, the availability of the first maintenance release of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system for computers, used in numerous enterprises worldwide. The first point release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system is here to improve the stability and security of the acclaimed OS.

According to the SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy), a nonprofit organization hosting a variety of open source projects, VMware is facing a legal battle.

On December 4th, 2014, DcData management was proud to be invited to the Stakeholders’ Awards Luncheon hosted by Dube TradePort. The prestigious year-end ceremony was in recognition of excellence and outstanding achievement as Dube TradePort stakeholders, presented by Dube TradePort CEO Saxen van Coller.

Google-owned Boston Dynamics released a YouTube video of its latest robotic endeavor Thursday, and the four-legged, 160 pound, mechanical canine is both borderline adorable and borderline terrifying. The robot also has the ability to self-stabilize, which Boston Dynamics illustrates by video taping employees kicking him in the side.

It looks like the infrastructure to facilitate live kernel patching will be added to the Linux 3.20 kernel, the result of collaboration for SUSE’s kGraft and Red Hat’s Kpatch. Last year SUSE and Red Hat introduced their own live kernel patching mechanisms after not knowing each company was independently working on a solution for patching running versions of the Linux … Read More

Over the years, there have been a number of claims that the Linux desktop is lacking in terms of good, highly useful software. Today, I’m aiming to put this myth to bed once and for all. Continue reading for my list of the top ten best applications for Linux. Full story

One of the most common objections to open source applications such as LibreOffice is that there may not be quite the same features in open source programs. They are simply not good enough – it is said. Let’s have a look at some of the areas where LibreOffice is actually BETTER than the competitor Microsoft Office. Full story

The best solution is to ‘own’ your cloud, either though an on-premise cloud running in a local network disconnected from the Internet or one running on your own secure server. Seafile is one of the most promising, open source-based cloud projects.

In order to use the web app service all you need is a browser (Google Chrome on WIndows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS and support for more browsers is coming soon). Mobile devices, Windows Phone, Blackberry 10 and Android, will get update for WhatsApp today.