Cloud Computing: 4 Ways To Overcome IT Resistance

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March 21, 2013

Business and IT leaders are bombarded with cloud computing hype and promotion. Yet very little is said about how the cloud affects the evolution of the IT organization itself. Enterprise cloud adoption is a transformative shift where the greatest implementation challenges are often more about people and process than technology integration.

Agents of change, especially in large enterprises, must overcome various forms of resistance. This includes organizational fiefdoms and the IT silos that evolved with them. These four organizational change strategies can help IT departments fight fear and inertia as they move to cloud computing:

Distribution Release: Slackel 2.0 “Openbox”

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DistroWatch

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March 21, 2013

Dimitris Tzemos has announced the release of Slackel 2.0 “Openbox” edition, a lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Slackware’s “Current” branch: “Slackel Openbox 2.0 has been released. Slackel is based on Slackware and Salix. It uses the excellent Salix tools and Salix packages. A collection of two Openbox….

Do Open Source Competitions Really Impact the Movement?

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OpenSource.com

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March 21, 2013

Sunglass, a platform for collaborating on 3D projects in real time, and DIYRockets, a global space company helping humanity establish a civilazation in space by building an open space frontier, are partnering in an effort to build rocket engines.

‘Most Game Designers Really Just Suck,’ says RPG Legend Richard ‘Lord British’ Garriott

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The Verge

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March 21, 2013

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Richard Garriott, the space-faring developer who created the Ultima series and recently announced his return to games with the successful Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter project, has come out swinging with some harsh words for his peers. “I’ve met virtually no one in our industry who I think is close to as good a game designer as I am,” said “Lord British” in an interview with PC Gamer. “I’m not saying that because I think I’m so brilliant. What I’m saying is, I think most game designers really just suck, and I think there’s a reason why.”

Windows 8 Outperforming Ubuntu Linux With Intel OpenGL Graphics

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Phoronix

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March 21, 2013

In our benchmarks of Microsoft Windows 8, we have found that Intel’s Windows OpenGL driver is generally superior to that of their open-source Linux graphics driver. Some progress has been made, but in today’s testing of an ASUS Ultrabook bearing an Ivy Bridge processor, Linux has a ways to go for some games in matching the Windows binary performance and features.

HP Creating Glasses-Free 3D Tech for Smartphones, Tablets

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CNET

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March 21, 2013

Remember the hologram of Princess Leia in “Star Wars?” That’s what this new 3D technology is supposed to look like. [Read more]

The State Of The Tux3 File-System For Linux

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Phoronix

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March 21, 2013

Is the Tux3 file-system alive and well for Linux or will it face a fate like Reiser4 where it may never see a mainline state?..

Honda and Audi Show the Future of Driving at Nvidia Conference

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CNET

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March 21, 2013

At seminars during the annual Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, Honda and Audi discussed new automotive technologies that could change the way we drive. [Read more]

A Demo of Samsung’s Multi-Window Android Extensions (video)

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LinuxGizmos

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March 21, 2013

DeviceGuru.com reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 in quite some depth several months back, and later posted a YouTube video demonstrating the non-standard “multi-window” features added by Samsung via the tablet’s Android 4.1.2 firmware update. This post provides an excerpt from that review, discussing and demonstrating Samsung’s pumped-up TouchWiz user interface. The Galaxy Note 10.1′s Android […]

Why Tizen Will Be a Game-Changer

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LinuxGizmos

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March 21, 2013

In this guest post, Jared Weiner, an analyst at VDC Research, presents four reasons why he believes Samsung’s first Tizen-based smartphone, expected to arrive this summer, is likely to be a game-changer. 4 Reasons Tizen is Bad News for Android by Jared Weiner bada. LiMo. Maemo. Moblin. MeeGo. At one time or another, […]