Open Source Insider

July 2015

• IBM pumps extra DBaaS juice into Bluemix

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Jul 2015

This month we see the firm scoop up a private outfit known as 'Compose' -- a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) company.

• Intel with Rackspace: 'Cloud for All' developers, developers, OpenStack developers

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Jul 2015

Intel has announced its Cloud for All initiative, a programmer designed to drive all types of cloud adoption through easier deployments.

• Fanatical elasticity: ObjectRocket by Rackspace adds managed Elasticsearch

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Jul 2015

The company known for its 'fanatical' approach to cloud services support, Rackspace, has added managed Elasticsearch technology to its cadre.

• CloudBees Jenkins plugs in (deeper) to Google Kubernetes

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 Jul 2015

Jenkins company CloudBees announce delivery of three Kubernetes plugins to assist in the continuous delivery of containerised applications with Jenkins.

• RealVNC: more open remote access protocols will increase security

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Jul 2015

RealVNC, the pioneer of VNC, has opened up its technology for hackers and developers to scrutinise.

• CenturyLink shows some 'guts', open source gifts for Docker, Chef & vSphere

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Jul 2015

CenturyLink has contributed three of its own technology projects to the open-source community with the intention of improving the way developers use Docker, Chef and vSphere technologies.

• Linux SWAT team busts a multi-scanning move on malware nasties

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 Jul 2015

Infrastructure security company OpSWAT this month releases a new version of its Metascan product for Linux deployments.

• Appery to developers: happy xmas, the HTML5 vs. native (war is over), if you want it

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Jul 2015

Appery is a company known for Appery.io, a 'low-code' platform for cross-device software application development.

• Linux Foundation 'census' to assess planet's project population & health

  Adrian Bridgwater 16 Jul 2015

The Census Project expands on the CII's efforts to collaboratively identify and fund critical open source projects in need of assistance.

• Stormy Peters heads Cloud Foundry developer relations

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Jul 2015

Stormy Peters is a prominent Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) advocate, she co-founded the GNOME Foundation.

• Oracle's big play for mobile cloud, with Xamarin

  Adrian Bridgwater 09 Jul 2015

Oracle is making a big play to win in cloud and mobile, it hopes.

• Yeah, but no, but yeah... Bristol is a 'gert lush' Smart (open) City

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Jul 2015

Bristol Is Open and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) are pushing for digital greatness -- gert lush!

• What is upstream & downstream software?

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Jul 2015

In software application development and programming, upstream refers to source code that has been posted/hosted into/onto the code repository.

• Microsoft open sources Worldwide Telescope (WWT)

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Jul 2015

Microsoft "hearts" Linux and open source, remember?