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Open source software

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

  Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Should you pay or should you go for free open source software?

  Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Dropping commercial open source lowers PaaS costs at Fidelity

  Investment company Fidelity has created an on-premise PaaS for its in-house developer teams using the open source Cloud Foundry platform

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Hortonworks Cloudera merger proposal stirs market pot

  The proposed merger between Hadoop distributors Cloudera and Hortonworks stings MapR, and elicits analyst comment pointing up the threat from cloud players AWS, Google, and Microsoft

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Singapore government makes bold cloud move

  Most government IT systems will be migrated to commercial cloud services within five years, while a private government cloud will host more sensitive workloads

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  DevOps researchers shine light on toll that outsourcing takes on productivity of software developers

  DevOps teams that use cloud and open source software tend to be higher performers, while organisations that outsource portions of their software development processes tend to be less productive, 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps report suggests

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Cryptographic agility is key to post-quantum security

  Although post-quantum security is not an issue for all organisations today, an expert believes that those needing to ensure data is secure for decades to come should aim to achieve cryptographic agility above all else

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  Apache Struts users urged to update due to new security flaw

  Another security flaw has been discovered in the Apache Struts, which was at the heart of the massive Equifax data breach in 2017

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  Why networking is the last frontier of IT automation

  Most organisations still manage networks manually, despite the cost and time needed in doing so, primarily because the impact of breaking something is much higher

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  ASEAN firms need to overcome DevOps hurdles

  Southeast Asia has had pockets of success with DevOps, but most organisations across the region will need to overcome cultural and legacy challenges to succeed

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  CIO interview: Alex von Schirmeister, CDTIO, RS Components

  The electronics distributor’s chief digital, technology and innovation officer (CDTIO) on putting in place a new IT infrastructure, creating a digital business and accepting risk

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Apache OpenWhisk users urged to patch

  IBM has patched vulnerabilities in its Cloud Functions service that is based on Apache OpenWhisk in response to vulnerability disclosures, and all other users are urged to do the same

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Google wants to ease hybrid cloud woes

  Cloud supplier Google claims its Cloud Service Platform will alleviate complexities in managing microservices in a hybrid IT environment

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Cloud sales stoke Microsoft’s strong growth

  Microsoft says cloud-based Office products made a huge contribution to sales growth

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Executive interview: Bill Ruh, CDO of GE

  With a new CEO in the driving seat, we speak to GE’s head of digital, Bill Ruh, about how the company has refined its digital strategy