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Well, they do say attack is the best form of defence. Britain is to develop the capability to launch cyberattacks, not just defend against incoming threats, UK defence secretary Philip Hammond announced this week. The shift in tactics is part of the Ministry of Defence’s £500 million plan to create a military unit – the Joint Cyber Reserve – that … Read More

If you are having trouble reading this email, read the online version. SUSE Launches SUSE Cloud 2.0 Help your customers improve business agility by implementing an enterprise-ready OpenStack private cloud infrastructure. SUSE, the first to release an enterprise-grade OpenStack distribution, is pleased to announce the availability of SUSE Cloud 2.0. SUSE Cloud 2.0 builds on the open source development and … Read More

Think it can’t be done?We’ll prove you wrong Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Quickstart — A fast installation of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform, aided and optimized by a Red Hat Consultant. This engagement gives organizations configuration expertise, high-level support, and knowledge-transfer to rapidly add virtualization. It leverages the deep product knowledge and experience of Red Hat consultants to mitigate deployments … Read More

In the eternal IT war between development and operations, one perpetual battle has been between the developers, who want the newest software tools, and the system operators, who want nice stable. Instead, Red Hat has released Red Hat Software Collections 10 This is a set of the newest, most stable versions of popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) open-source server programs.

New Orleans: If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times: The reason why desktop Linux hasn’t made it is because of its lack of games. Thanks to Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve and its Steam game platform, that’s not true anymore.   Linux gaming is ready to rumble and Valve expects it to win.   As a … Read More

Red Hat has been on a tear building out its cloud computing strategy and delivering tools to expand its Linux and middleware efforts. In addition to a new cloud-friendly release of Red Hat Storage Server, the company has just announced Red Hat Software Collections 1.0. Available via select Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions, Red Hat Software Collections delivers the newest, … Read More

Initially it looked like the “Hand of Thief” (HoT) Trojan would be the first successful Linux Trojan.

Rapid business growth and increasing IT requirements at Rural Credit Bank Funds Clearing Center led to high pressure on the server infrastructure that supported their network server information systems. They needed a solution to consolidate physical space and cut costs, while increasing availability and scalability. Find out why they migrated to Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization and how the entire system … Read More

Our customers understand the power of Red Hat virtualization, and many customers are already experiencing the benefits. Specsavers, the world’s largest privately owned chain of opticians sought to accelerate the development, testing, and deployment of the applications used in Specsavers’ core development house in the UK, while containing and minimizing IT costs.

As virtualization technologies and strategies mature, organizations are challenged with finding the best solutions for virtualization projects that scale, are cost-effective and don’t result in vendor lock-in.

Red Hat has carved out a strong reputation for its profitable Linux-focused strategy and the top-notch support it provides for enterprise customers, but there is no question that the company is betting on future growth in the cloud computing space. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is positioned to serve as the foundation for OpenStack-powered cloud deployments. Today Red … Read More

The next generation of applications will be smarter — with built-in data, mobile and social capabilities — and it will be built on private clouds that run on Linux servers, says Arvind Krishna, general manager of development and manufacturing in the Systems & Technology Group at IBM. What’s still unclear, however, is the business model for delivering these future applications, he … Read More

Endian firewall 2.5.2 community version now available After a long time, we are ready to announce the Endian Firewall Community 2.5.2 release. This release is mainly a bug fixing one. A list of the main changes and updates to follow: Antivirus ClamAV has been updated to the most recent version to make sure signature updates will continue to work. Anti-spyware Lists … Read More

In a milestone for Mozilla’s Firefox OS mobile phone platform, the ZTE Open Firefox OS phone recently started selling via eBay in the U.S. and U.K. Mozilla officials confirmed the news with some fanfare only a few days ago, noting that unlocked phones would sell for $79.99 and users could easily pick their own carriers. Now, the phones have sold … Read More

Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice The administration of the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia has completed its switch to LibreOffice, a free and open source suite of office productivity applications. Last week Friday the region’s ICT department announced that the office suite is installed on all of the 120,000 desktop PCs of the administration, including schools and courts. … Read More