Josh McKenty, founder of Piston and an early architect of what became OpenStack, announced today that he’s leaving the company he started to take on a new role at Pivotal.
McKenty will become “Field CTO” for Cloud Foundry for Pivotal, where he’ll work directly with businesses adopting the platform. He’ll also work with the Cloud Foundry product team.
Read more at The New Stack.
The streaming stick market is apparently heating up. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all have entrants in this space, and if a new Kickstarter appeal succeeds, there will soon be a Firefox OS stick getting in on the action.
Inspired by the Chromecast, the Matchstick will plug into your TV using HDMI, connect to devices locally using Wi-Fi, and be used as a streaming media platform. Unlike Chromecast, however, Matchstick will use the open source Firefox OS as its base, making it readily accessible to developers who will be able to build HTML apps for Matchstick that leverage open Web technologies.
Read more at ArsTechnica.
Guerrilla SOA redux? PwC consultants recommend lighter, simpler, faster services to keep up with business demands.
If you want to move ahead in your career, it’s important to command a skill that will enable you to write your own ticket in terms of job opportunities. Whether you’re looking for greater schedule flexibility, telecommuting arrangements, an impressive title or a great salary, you’ll be in a good bargaining position if you bring to the table one or more of these fastest-growing IT skills compiled by Dice.com.
Read more at Baseline Magazine.
Earlier this month NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 as their highest-end offerings based on their Maxwell architecture. Since the GTX 750 series debut I have been anxious to see Maxwell succeed Kepler in the high-end space and finally last week I got hands on time with the GTX 980. As long as you are not committed to using pure open-source graphics drivers, the GeForce GTX 980 is the best you can get as a Linux gamer/enthusiast for high performance graphics for ending out 2014.
Posted by Michael Kelley
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Open Source Technology Center
Microsoft has participated in the Linux community for several years now, contributing drivers for Hyper-V to the Linux kernel source code base, and then working with Linux distribution partners to incorporate those drivers into their distros. We’ve had great results in running a variety of Linux distros as a guest OS on Hyper-V and as a VM in Microsoft Azure, and our collaboration with SUSE has been a foundation for this work for many years.
Now we’re taking it a step further and open sourcing our test automation tools in a GitHub project, making it easy to validate Linux images for running in Azure. As noted in a recent blog post by SUSE, these test automation tools are Powershell, Python, and BASH scripts that allow Linux images to be tested for compatibility with Azure.
Read more at Openness at Microsoft Blog
eBay and PayPal are both on the OpenStack bandwagon. The PayPal spin-off will highlight how easy or difficult it will be to break up an OpenStack private cloud.
It’s no secret that Fedora has had a challenging time sticking to their release schedules for a long time. With taking care of blocker bugs, Fedora Linux releases tend to frequently slip — with Fedora 21 it’s about two months behind schedule and we’re just past the alpha stage. By the time Fedora 21 actually ships, Fedora 20 will have been at least twelve months old. However, a new release scheduling strategy might be tried starting with Fedora 22…
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I had believed that VMware took part in the OpenStack community because it was dragged there by its customers. Boy, I was wrong. VMware’s Dan Wendlandt helps set me straight.
