by Gina Rosenthal | Feb 13, 2018 | Containers, Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms
Fans of the open source ecosystem will undoubtedly recognize the names Red Hat and CoreOS. Red Hat has has long been the leader of open source in the enterprise with a huge following of many community projects including Fedora, Ansible, Ceph, and many others. CoreOS...
by Gina Rosenthal | Sep 5, 2017 | Gina Rosenthal, Linux
Solaris changed our industry. But according to reports, the Solaris operating system may be nearing death. Oracle, who acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, has laid off most of the remaining staff who were working on Solaris. There will be support for the OS until 2030,...
by Theresa Miller | Jun 20, 2016 | Containers, Linux, Open Source, Storage, Theresa Miller
As enterprises continue to become interested in Docker; the types of features we have access to and the available third party integrations become more and more important. You may have previously seen this topic covered on 24×7 IT Connection by Melissa Palmer....
by Gina Rosenthal | Feb 9, 2016 | Linux, Melissa Palmer, Open Source, Platforms
Recently, CoreOS, the creators of a streamlined Linux distribution with running containers in mind, announced the 1.0 release of Rocket (rkt), their home grown container runtime environment. CoreOS was initially released in October of 2013, and has seen a massive...
by Gina Rosenthal | Jan 19, 2016 | Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms
OpenSSH is regarded as the most widely used SSH library, and would rival for top adopted open source products with significant numbers of enterprise vendors wrapping it into their network and security products. It wasn’t that long ago that we saw the release of...
