Analysts agree on one thing: don’t fight cloud-based rogue IT, but embrace it.
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CentOS 7 is On Its Way
Developers have already started work on CentOS 7, the next version of the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone.
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HP Unveils Encryption Offerings for Data Centers, Cloud
New technology from HP’s Atalla division is provides encryption for data centers and cloud deployments.
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Mandriva to do Europe launch of “out of the box” QNAP IT Management Station
Mandriva SA is proud to announce the official Europe launch of the “out of the box” QNAP IT Management Station with its partner QNAP (Quality Network Appliance Provider) Systems, Inc., that aims to deliver comprehensive offerings of cutting edge network attached storage (NAS) and network video recorder (NVR) solutions featured with ease-of-use, robust operation, large storage capacity, and trustworthy reliability.
QNAP and Mandriva have entered into a technological and commercial collaboration to integrate Mandriva Pulse software with QNAP NAS hardware to bring jointly a comprehensive IT system management solution working directly out of the box.
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Community Management Training at OSCON, LinuxCon North America, and LinuxCon Europe
I am a firm believer in building strong and empowered communities. We are in an age of a community management renaissance in which we are defining repeatable best practice that can be applied many different types of communities, whether internal to companies, external to volunteers, or a mix of both.
I have been working to further this growth in community management via my books, The Art of Community and Dealing With Disrespect, the Community Leadership Summit, the Community Leadership Forum, and delivering training to our next generation of community managers and leaders.
Last year I ran my first community management training course, and it was very positively received. I am delighted to announce that I will be running an updated training course at three events over the coming months: OSCON, LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe.
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XFS & Btrfs For Linux 3.16 Bring New Features
While EXT4 didn’t see any exciting changes for the Linux 3.16 merge window, the XFS and Btrfs file-systems are continuing to receive a great deal of upstream improvements…
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Ubuntu 14.10 Server Decides On BCache, Other Improvements
Improvements to Ubuntu Server for the 14.10 release were discussed this morning during the second day of the Ubuntu Online Summit…
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Linux Hiring Frenzy: Why Open Source Devs are Being Bombarded With Offers to Jump Ship
Seven out of 10 Europe-based Linux professionals have received calls where they were pitched new positions in the past six months, and a third said they had received more calls than in the previous six months. One in three are looking to move anyway, and over half of them said it would be fairly or very easy. Salary is the biggest reason to move jobs, followed by work-life balance and the chance to gain additional skills….
The Linux Job Report has been produced for the last three years by the Linux Foundation and Dice but this is the first time that a specific report on European skills has been separated out of the worldwide report. Some 893 Linux professionals responded to the survey across Europe.
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Will Linux Ever Be Regarded as an Equal to Windows and Consoles at E3?
Linux is slowly becoming a gaming alternative, but it’s still a long way from consoles and Windows. How long will it take to see Linux represented at the E3 Expo in full effect, just like all the other platforms?
Making predictions is very hard, especially about the future. This simple statement from physicist Niels Bohr explains very well why it’s difficult to anticipate what will happen in the world of technology. Some things evolve faster than we can predict and others seem to stagnate.
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