Microsoft kicked off the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference today by offering up open source software to run cloud switches. The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) was submitted for ...

As cloud computing, by many accounts, is poised to shake the very foundation of high-tech and IT, it's only fitting that the open-source community has taken notice, spawning a smattering of ...

There's a persistent myth that using free or open-source software means compromising on quality. Sure, open-source software isn't always the best choice, and that's ok. But the notion that you're not ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently augmented its cloud security toolbox of free open-source software, and there are now five programs that can be used to identify ...

WASHINGTON — The core technology developed for NASA’s Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will ...

IBM announced July 9 that it closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, an open-source cloud software vendor. 1. Through the acquisition, IBM and Red Hat will offer a hybrid, open-source platform ...

Monterrey, California: At the Linux Foundation Members Summit, Microsoft Azure's CTO, Mark Russinovich, unveiled a groundbreaking open-source project, Radius. This cloud-native, application platform ...

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

In addition to integration and intellectual property challenges, companies may not have the technical expertise to customize or secure open source software. Open source is a polarizing topic in IT and ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...