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Under the deal, IBM will build a hybrid cloud environment for Anthem, transforming that company’s information technology infrastructure.

VuePod runs Ubuntu Linux 13.04 and uses VRUI — an open source C++ toolkit — to render point clouds of geographical LIDAR scans. Photo credit:Mark A. Philbrick, Brigham Young University. Virtual reality may be best known for its entertainment value, but its practical applications are at least as compelling. With Cave automatic virtual environments (CAVE), for instance, engineers can save time … Read More

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is helping the European Space Agency (ESA) reach the cloud. The enterprise software company said Tuesday that it has developed an on-premise, private cloud infrastructure with advanced IT services that includes its open-source Linux operation system for the space agency’s user communities. Red Hat is the No. 1 provider of Linux, which has become a preferred alternative … Read More

Sales data from Amazon is pretty clear in this regard Microsoft is engaged in a silent war and it’s actually losing. They are fighting an enemy that is so insidious and so cunning that it’s actually hurting the company more than anything else. The enemy is called Chromebooks and they are using Linux. Full story

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At MakeUseOf, we cover Linux quite a bit as the “alternative” to Windows and Mac OS X However, those aren’t the only three operating systems out there — there’s also the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, which are technically speaking different from Linux.

Linux-based Tizen is on the rise!

Linus Torvalds has told a Q&A session at Linuxconfau that he is a huge believer in disclosing security issues publicly.

Linux Mint has announced that a new PC in its ‘MintBox’ line of PCs is coming in the spring: the ‘MintBox Mini’. The MintBox Mini is five times smaller than the original MintBox and is barely an inch tall. The MintBox Mini is no exception, offering twice the performance of the MintBox 2 in a device able to slip into a pocket. CompuLab will sell the MintBox Mini for $295 shipped in the US and €295 shipped in Europe.

Google’s Chromium team is making it easier to modify the software stack of your Chromebook, boot a Linux distribution from a USB drive, and carry out other tasks.

Samsung has announced the release of the world’s first Tizen phone, priced at $90 and on sale exclusively in India.

In October 2014, Databricks participated in the Sort Benchmark and set a new world record for sorting 100 terabytes (TB) of data, or 1 trillion 100-byte records. The team used Apache Spark on 207 EC2 virtual machines and sorted 100 TB of data in 23 minutes. In comparison, the previous world record set by Hadoop MapReduce used 2100 machines in a private data center and took 72 minutes. This entry tied with a UCSD research team building high performance systems and we jointly set a new world record.

The agenda for Game-changing IT trends | A Red Hat virtual event is now available. Mark your calendar for January 29 at 11 am for Game-changing IT trends, and ensure you’re prepared for what’s coming in 2015 and beyond.

The DcData gang celebrated the end of a high-flying year by… flying high – literally!   The gang enjoyed the glorious sights and exciting rush of the famed Karkloof Canopy Tour. The year-end function represented the culmination of one of DcData’s best years on record – not only in terms of numbers, but also in terms of company growth and … Read More

Over at ZDNet, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols discusses how SDS hopes to transform the way storage is administered. Of particular interest is his take on how open source intersects with SDS to provide open APIs, code maintainability, and – of course – a cost effective route forward to deliver enterprise class storage solutions. As the author points out, it’s impossible to … Read More