The company’s new offering provides packaged engineered hardware to enable an organization to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud, taking on VCE’s vBlock.

Brocade CMO: Where Marketing and IT Meet in the Truly Modern Enterprise

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May 18, 2015

Christine Heckart knows about the intersection of marketing and IT: As a CMO and one-time CIO, she serves up lessons on cloud, marketing and customer data.

Canonical to Modify Ubuntu Touch Release Channels

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May 18, 2015

Canonical has been publishing Ubuntu Touch images and the developers used different channels to make their work known. That’s about to change as the Ubuntu devs prepare to make some modifications to the current system.

Until now, the Ubuntu Touch project was separated into various channels that served different purposes. You can tell which one is stable, which is just for testing, and everything in between. In fact, there is now a channel for the BQ phone and one for the ne… (read more)

BSD Release: PC-BSD 10.1.2

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May 18, 2015

Ken Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 10.1.2. The PC-BSD project offers users a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. The project also provides a server edition, called TrueOS. The latest release of PC-BSD allows users to maintain their home directories on an encrypted external drive and….

Red Hat Unveils its Full-Stack Cloud Suite for Applications

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May 18, 2015

From next month, early access starts to Red Hat’s Cloud Suite for Applications, built from its existing offerings to form what it calls a complete open-source cloud stack.

MakuluLinux Aero Is Linux Distro That Has the Look and Feel of Windows Aero – Gallery

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May 18, 2015

MakuluLinux Aero, a Linux distribution based on the Debian testing branch that uses Cinnamon and some customizations that make it look like a Windows OS, has been released.

There are quite a few operating systems out there that try to emulate the look and feel of Windows OSes. This trend has increased in the past few years, and it seems to be more powerful than ever. Users could customize their Linux distros in the past with themes and icons to achieve the same kind of resu… (read more)

Spanish University Drops Windows and Gets Ubuntu

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May 18, 2015

Open source is becoming a powerful alternative to proprietary software and proof of that is that many municipalities, governments, and companies are now adopting open source solutions, but that is also happening in schools and universities as well. The Augustinian College of León in Spain is just such a place.

We are used to seeing big entities like an administration apparatus of an entire city move to open source and Munich is the perfect example. Open source has now becom… (read more)