SDN Changing the Way We Network

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March 16, 2016

sdn-control-100624422-primary.idge SDN’s impact is profoundly changing the way users operate their networks. Databases and distributed systems can now participate in networking, and workloads can be segmented for scale, participants at the 2016 Open Networking Summit said here this week. Network management is simplified, and application interactions are more intuitive and network-aware.

Despite the progress to date in SDN, there’s more to come, the panelists agreed. Applications will take on more of the network configuration duties through policy, while SDN technologies will become thinner and lighter, and offer more variety in the way they abstract the physical infrastructure.

CyanogenMod 13.0 Release 1 Now Available

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Phoronix

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March 16, 2016

CyanogenMod 13 Release 1 is now available as the Android community’s first release based off Google’s 6.0 Marshmallow release. CyanogenMod 13 Release 1 thus brings the new battery-saving doze feature, a new permissions model, new settings, a new SMS/MMS application, and many other changes.

DAASI, Collabora Team to Bring Identity Management to CloudSuite, LibreOffice Online

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The Linux Foundation

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March 16, 2016

Collabora Productivity, the company that offers commercial solutions based on LibreOffice, has partnered with DAASI International, a provider of open source authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity management products to provide identity management integration solutions for CloudSuite. Under the partnership, DAASI International will integrate CloudSuite as a pilot into the European Commission funded AARC project (Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration).

DAASI will also offer support and implementation services for companies who want to integrate CloudSuite into their IT landscape. The two companies will offer flexibility and scalability for large organizations that want to deploy their own cloud document suites.

Installing Nginx with PHP (as PHP-FPM) and MariaDB (LEMP) on Debian 8

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Falko Timme

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March 16, 2016

This tutorial will show you the installation of the Nginx web server on Debian 8. Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. The setup includes PHP and MariaDB and is ready to use its as hosting system for CMS systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.

Crytek Unveils its Next-Generation, VR-Enabled Game Engine CryEngine V

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The Linux Foundation

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March 16, 2016

cryengine 2016 CE V Crytek unveiled its next-generation video game development engine, CryEngine, and it supports virtual reality headsets. The Frankfurt, Germany-based company made the announcement at an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. VR is expected to become a $30 billion industry by 2020, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital.

â€œGame engines that allow for lifelike rendering in real time will be at the forefront of this revolution,â€ said Frank Vitz, the creative director at Crytek.

The engine is uses a â€œpay what you wantâ€ basis for its business model, Vitz said. The company is also investing heavily in tools for content creation for VR.

FlyElephant Platform Adds Private Repositories

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insideHPC

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March 16, 2016

FlyElephant announced a number of upgrades that allow users to work with private repositories with an improved system security and good task functionality, including public API and improved logging.

“FlyElephant is a platform for scientists, providing a computing infrastructure for calculations, helping to find partners for the collaboration on projects, and managing all data from one place. FlyElephant automates routine tasks and helps to focus on core research issues.”

It uses the Azure cloud as a computational resource. Users can run computing tasks written in C++ (with support for OpenMP), R, Python, Octave, Scilab, Java, Julia, OpenFOAM, GROMACS, Blender on servers from 1 to 32 cores and up to 448 GB.

KaOS Linux Releases Updated ISO Image: A Clean, Simple, and Solid Linux

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ZDNet

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March 16, 2016

kaos1 KaOS is a specialty Linux rolling distribution focused on the KDE desktop. I have tested the latest release on several of my systems, with mixed results.

KaOS Linux is an unusual case in the world of Linux distributions. First, because it is not derived from any other distribution; second, because it is so tightly focused on the KDE desktop; and third, because it is a rolling distribution. When you put those three things together, it makes it interesting enough for me to keep KaOS Linux loaded on one or two of my laptops.

The KaOS developers recently announced the availability of a new stable ISO image. Because KaOS is a rolling distribution, it is not necessary to reinstall an existing system when a new image is released; simply making sure that you keep up with the official updates is sufficient.

Google Gets into Marketing Cloud with Analytics 360 Suite

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IT World

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March 16, 2016

Google Analytics 360 Suite, a new marketing cloud platform, is designed to help digital marketers make sense of vast pools of customer data.

Google launched a new marketing cloud platform for large enterprises. The Google Analytics 360 Suite is a set of tools designed to help marketers measure campaigns, compile data from various sources, and share insights for automated, or programmatic, marketing. Google has been working on its Analytics 360 Suite for three years, and it is the most comprehensive marketing platform from Google to date, according to the company. The new tools pit the company against notable rivals in the marketing cloud industry, including tech giants Salesforce, Oracle and Adobe.

Western Digital Offers Raspberry Pi Community 314GB Drive

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eWeek

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March 16, 2016

WE-pi-driveAM The PiDrive 314GB device is based on Western Digital’s high-volume 500GB platform with design changes made specifically for Raspberry Pi.

WDLabs, a business growth incubator of storage solutions specialist Western Digital (WD) announced availability of the WD PiDrive 314GB, a storage device engineered to serve the Raspberry Pi community.Featuring low-power USB operation, reliability and ease of integration, the WD PiDrive 314 GB HDD is designed to support Raspberry Pi growth by addressing barriers to hard drive adoption such as power loading and system set-up.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Enters Beta

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eWeek

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March 16, 2016

Although it’s no longer the leading edge of Red Hat’s product portfolio, RHEL 6 is still getting new features.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 officially enters its beta stage today, providing users of Red Hat’s Linux platform with new features, some of which had already debuted in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 in November 2015.While the RHEL 7 product branch first became generallyavailable in June 2014, Red Hat has a long life cycle for its products. RHEL 6, which was first released in November 2010, is still in what Red Hat refers to as Product Phase 1,…