Open Source Insider

July 2013

• Magnolia: a truly open Java system should provide free training

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Jul 2013

Open Java CMS (content management system) company Magnolia is now offering a free online training course programme.

• Crypton open source project to thwart online surveillance

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Jul 2013

Online (Dropbox-style) storage company Spideroak has detailed news of its Crypton open source data security project.

• Met Office powers interplanetary space weather predictor on open source MongoDB

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Jul 2013

It's a fact of life, space and interplanetary technology installations prefer open source. Reports from the Linux Foundation earlier this year confirmed that the International Space Station's (ISS) ...

• Old school IBM meets new school OpenStack

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Jul 2013

IBM has just released news of its zEnterprise BC12 (lovingly nicknamed the "zBC12" for short) mainframe analytics, cloud and mobile computing tasks.

• Why NoSQL is a no-brainer

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Jul 2013

The Open Source Insider blogs likes open source champions, the Apache Cassandra project chair fits that profile.

• Why Linux is the powerhouse for big data

  Adrian Bridgwater 16 Jul 2013

This is a contributed posting for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog by Peter Linnell, Linux Engineer at SUSE.

• The HTML5 mobile CMS comes of age

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Jul 2013

Magnolia International has announced the release of the 5.0 version of its Content Management System (CMS). This release is positioned as an open Java CMS with a mobile-inspired HTML5 user ...

• Fedora 19 Schrödinger's Cat is out of the bag

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Jul 2013

The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Project has announced the Fedora 19 fully functional free of charge Linux operating system code-named "Schrödinger's Cat".

• NSA joint author on OpenStack Security Guidebook

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Jul 2013

Companies and organisations involved include Red Hat, HP, Nebula, NSA, Intel, Nicira, Rackspace, Cloudscaling, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Floss Manuals.

• The four cornerstones of open server virtualisation according to Citrix

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Jul 2013

Opening up the free server virtualisation tool market this month is Citrix XenServer, which has now moved to a full open source model beginning with the new XenServer 6.2.