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Project Cauã: revolutionising IT for the masses
Project Cauã, the Free and Open Source Software and Hardware (FOSSH) project conceived by Linux International executive director Jon ?Maddog? Hall to make it possible for people to make a living as a systems administrator, is set to launch in Brazil next month.
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Start-up tackles advanced persistent threats on Microsoft, Apple computers
Start-up CrowdStrike today made available its first product, called Falcon, designed to detect and block stealthy infiltrations of Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh-based endpoint machines and servers.
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Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?
Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercialising Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.
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Cray integrates Hadoop Big Data analytics with supercomputers
Cray is bringing integrated open source Hadoop Big Data analytics software to its supercomputing platforms.
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CERN replaces proprietary video conferencing system with Vidyo
Tim Smith has some of the best IT end users in the world: the physicists who do research at CERN, which runs the particle physics lab that is home to the Large Hadron Collider, because they need little instruction when it comes to new technology.
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Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup
Red Hat has announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS.
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Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead
The German city-state of Berlin won't migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards.
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Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort
Citing concerns over technical and market direction, Big Switch Networks has downgraded its participation in the OpenDaylight consortium, a multivendor effort to define an open source SDN framework.
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Red Hat packages newer versions of Ruby, Python
Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python with support.
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Hackers exploit Ruby on Rails vulnerability to compromise servers, create botnet
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails Web application development framework in order to compromise Web servers and create a botnet.
