Listen to The CloudCast Podcast Next Week, Live from CloudOpen

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September 12, 2013

The “all things cloud computing” podcast, The CloudCast, will be recording on site at LinuxCon and CloudOpen next week in New Orleans, sponsored by Citrix and Linux.com. Guests will include an all-star line-up of open source cloud computing experts from Cisco, Red Hat, Piston Cloud, HP, SaltStack, CoreOS, and more.

You can catch the recordings at www.thecloudcast.net or on Linux.com throughout the day, starting on Monday Sept. 16 and ending Wednesday, Sept. 18. Or stop by their booth in the Celestin Foyer near the trade booths at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans.

Hosts Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely will interview presenters and other experts attending the event. They also welcome attendees to stop by for impromptu whiteboard discussions. (Be prepared to be recorded!)

The CloudCast just completed its 100^th episode and Delp and Gracely were both recently named to the “Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter” list on Huffington Post. Don’t miss their insightful discussions on some of the hottest tech in the cloud with the industry’s top experts at Cloud Open North America.

Samsung, Apple to Fuel ARM Licensing Pop

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ZDNet

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September 12, 2013

A 64-bit processor for the iPhone 5S and Samsung support of a multi-core processing architecture translates into licensing revenue for ARM Holdings.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

ASUS bridges Android and Windows 8 with new Transformer Book Trio

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ZDNet

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September 12, 2013

The Transformer line of Android hybrids has been popular with buyers wanting a good tablet with a laptop dock. The new Trio continues the tradition with a few surprises thrown in.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Why is Samsung Throwing Money at Startups?

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The Verge

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September 12, 2013

In a swank office building, waiters handed out fried pickles and caviar-covered sushi. Shiny new LCD screens covered several walls. It was opening night for Samsung’s new startup accelerator in midtown Manhattan, and the company had spared no expense. “The future for us is about the thoughtful integration of hardware and software,” said David Eun, the head of Samsung’s Open Innovation Center. “And that means startups.”

The smartphone market is increasingly made up of vertically integrated companies that create both the hardware and software for their devices. Apple was the pioneer of this model in its modern form. Google got in the game when it purchased Motorola. And Microsoft completed the trifecta when it acquired Nokia. Samsung,…

CPUsage Makes It Easier To Harness The Cloud’s Compute Power

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TechCrunch

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September 12, 2013

The cloud computing services from Amazon, Microsoft and others make it possible for businesses to access a virtually unlimited amount of compute power for their applications. What’s hard, however, is to orchestrate all of the distributed infrastructure, provision the right instances and to maintain these setups. Portland, OR-based startup CPUsage, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today, wants to turn compute into a utility in order to help developers, scientists and researchers to use high-performance computing in the cloud without the need to spend months on setting up their infrastructure.

As CPUsage’s co-founders Jeff Martens and Matt Wallington told me, the idea behind the service is to allow anybody to take their existing applications and then allow them to run on virtually any cloud computing service available, whether that’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure or one of their competitors. That’s still in the future, though. What the company is launching today is support for AWS, with support for Azure and Google’s Compute Engine coming by the end of the calendar year.

Red Hat Offers Popular Open Source Languages, Databases with RHEL

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OStatic

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September 12, 2013

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, stable versions of open source runtime components to subscribers. It provides access to newer, updated versions of languages and open source databases with a three-year lifecycle.

Tech Heavyweights are Signing on to Create New Chromebooks

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OStatic

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September 12, 2013

This week marks a significant move forward for Google’s Chrome OS platform and Chromebooks–portable computers based on it. A series of new Chromebooks announced this week are based on new CPU technology from Intel. At the recent Intel Developer Forum, Intel discussed broad plans to bring its Haswell chip technology to new Chromebooks. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard and Acer announced new versions of Chromebooks and Toshiba, a respected player in the portable computer space, signed on to deliver Chromebooks.

Acer, of course, has already made a splash with its C7 Chromebook (shown above) which has steadily sold for $199–a remarkable price point. In fact, some OStatic readers have reported buying low cost Chromebooks just to put their favorite Linux distros on the machine.

Dell Going Private Through $25 Billion Buyout

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The Verge

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September 12, 2013

Michael Dell has finally wrestled control of Dell, the company he founded, back from its shareholders. A board vote this morning ends month of speculation on whether it would approve Michael Dell’s multibillion-dollar offer to take the company private. Dell’s offer saw strong competition in the form of a counteroffer from “activist investor” Carl Icahn, but Icahn ultimately pulled the plug on his attempt, saying that it would be “almost impossible” to win today’s shareholder vote.

“I am energizing to continue building Dell.”

The plan to take Dell private was almost approved back in July, but a series of postponements delayed the decision. Since the idea was first floated, Dell has had to up his offer, and the final agreed package is…

Boston Viridis ARM Server: Addressing the Power Challenges of Exascale

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insideHPC

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September 12, 2013

In this talk, we look into the benefits the ARM architecture brings to this platform and evaluate the product potential to address the power challenges faced by the HPC industry as we approach Exascale.

Samsung Tizen-Based TVs Could Hit Market in 2014, CEO Says

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CNET

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September 12, 2013

Boo-Keun Yoon, co-CEO of Samsung and head of the consumer electronics business, tells a German publication that the company is working on televisions running the open source operating system. [Read more]