Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB. The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4 , released Thursday, includes a number of new features that address the rapidly growing market for Web applications, many of which require fast storage and...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Red Hat will not provide support for customers of its RHEL (R...
If they call it a NoSQL database, why would you want to run SQL queries on it? ...
Canonical's Juju had been a great high-end cloud DevOps tool for Ubuntu on OpenStack. Now, Canonical is porting it to CentOS and Windows. And with IBM's help, that's only the start....
The question isn't: "What can you do with a Raspberry Pi?" The question is: "What can't you do with a Raspberry Pi?" ...
Canonical, best known as the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is entering the private cloud hosting business with an OpenStack-based option for your data center or hosting provider. ...
Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, believes the future belongs to those in any company who can embrace not just the OpenStack cloud, but the open source method and its hyper-accelerated rate of IT change....
It took a while, but Red Hat has finally open-sourced its ManageIQ cloud management software as part of OpenStack....
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If you're seeking evidence that OpenStack might finally have arrived with enterprises after three years in the wild, look no further than two collaboration announcements today from OpenStack kingpin Red Hat at the OpenStack...
Node.js and JavaScript bring with them great power and performance, but at two costs....
Chalk up another notch for OpenStack's growth as a platform....
How much would you pay to free your Android smartphone or tablet from CryptoLocker? How about to get your phone to stop displaying a message that you've been downloading kiddie porn? ...
Joining Red Hat, Oracle, Canonical, and others, Hewlett-Packard is releasing its own distribution of the OpenStack cloud hosting software. The distribution will be a cornerstone of a set of cloud products and services HP will offer, under the Helion brand. ...
One of Linux's advantages has always been that you rarely need to reboot it. Now, a new program, CloudLinux's KernelCare, tries to make rebooting totally unnecessary....
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From the Loading... dept.: Valve Software has sponsored some interesting improvements developed by LunarG for the Mesa OpenGL library on Linux for deferred and threaded GLSL shader compilation. What these changes mean for users of the open-source Linux graphics drivers when running their favorite games is that OpenGL games now load a lot faster. As an example, the time from starting Dota 2 until the...
We all know about the Raspberry Pi, but it's far from the only single-board computer out there that makers might find both useful and affordable....
Weeks after the OpenSSL debacle, the question still stands: Why did so few people show up to work on such widely-used and important code?...
From the App Stores???? dept.: Google's open source Android platform has the distinction of being the most popular mobile operating system in the world. That's great in terms of dominating the market and reaping the rewards that come with it, but it's also for that very reason that Android finds itself the target of virtually every new mobile malware threat that emerges. According to data published...