Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure. Tb/s of switching capacity with support for open-source network operating systems including SONiC. Wireshark 4.4 how governance has changed, and what to expect next. Wireshark 4.4

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. A growing community of developers and users believe SONiC could change the way many large enterprises, hyperscalers and service providers run their networks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The move relaxes Meta’s acceptable use policy restricting what others can do with the large language models it develops, and brings Llama ever so slightly closer to the generally accepted definition of open-source AI. Meta will allow US government agencies and contractors in national security roles to use its Llama AI.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2022

Picking just 10 Linux open source security tools isn’t easy, especially when network professionals and security experts have dozens if not several hundred tools available to them. There are different sets of tools for just about every task—network tunneling, sniffing, scanning, mapping.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Open source and Linux platform vendor SUSE is looking to help organizations solve some of the complexity and challenges of edge computing with the company’s SUSE Edge 3.1 Overall Linux management is enabled with the included SUSE Manager technology. release, announced today. Rounding out the SUSE Edge 3.1 In SUSE Edge 3.1,

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Networking software provider Aviz Networks today announced a $17 million Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in open networking solutions and artificial intelligence capabilities. In the past year, Aviz Networks has seen solid progress, with the company reporting a 400% increase in revenue compared to the previous year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2024

It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects. SAP’s manifesto is in reaction to the fact that all is not always sunshine and roses in the open source world.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 29, 2025

Oumi came out of stealth mode this week, announcing a $10 million seed round and an ambitious plan to build an open source AI research and development platform. The AI sector needs a “Linux moment,” according to Manos Koukoumidis , a former senior engineering manager at Google Cloud who is CEO and co-founder of Oumi.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Two developers, sponsored by Google, will dedicate their time to addressing vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel as part of a wider effort to improve the security of open-source software.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

NextHop AI, founded by former Arista Networks Chief Operating Officer Anshul Sadana, announced this week that it has secured $110 million in funding to develop highly customized networking solutions specifically for the worlds largest cloud providers. NextHop is a member of the Linux Foundation and works with SONiC.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Some open-source projects are spectacularly successful and become standard components of the IT infrastructure. Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example. OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost.

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Network World

JANUARY 12, 2019

If you're contemplating a career in cybersecurity and haven't come up to speed on Linux, now's the time to get ramped up and here's one easy way to do it. Because Linux is open source, tool developers (and you) have a level of access that is unsurpassed. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

The product delivers valuable insights into AI workloads, LLM token usage, and GPU performance, and increased functionality to support the development of agentic workflows, says Abhinav Puri, VP and GM of portfolio solutions and services at SUSE. Red Hat, which dominates the enterprise Linux space, launched RHEL for AI in Mary of 2024.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

Multiple standards and certification efforts made progress in 2024, helping networks to be more reliable and deliver more bandwidth.One of the most significant developments was the maturation of 800 Gigabit Ethernet (800GbE). The IEEE P802.3df taskforce released version 1.0 of the 800GbE specification on Feb. 2025 will be a big year for UEC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

One technology that modern mainframes need is secure open-source software. Four years ago, the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project introduced Zowe , a first-of-its-kind open-source framework based on z/OS, making it easier than ever to connect the gap between modern applications and the mainframe.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Linux is a powerful and customizable operating system that has been the backbone of many businesses for decades. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for securing Linux on company computers and computers used to conduct company business. From the policy: DEVELOP TEMPLATES BASED ON.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Open Source Licensing Training Enterprise 342

Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

The technology is based on the open-source Kuadrant project, which combines traffic routing, security controls, and policy management capabilities that organizations typically handle through separate tools. There are even more options for OpenShift.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 8, 2024

Read about a supply chain attack that involves XZ Utils, a data compressor widely used in Linux systems, and learn how to protect from this threat.

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Linux System How To Data 512

Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. 11, users and developers detailed how they are working with eBPF today and where the technology is headed in the future. At the eBPF Summit on Sept.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

There are many different ways of doing virtualization in the cloud, and among the most common approaches is to use the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. The open-source KubeVirt project is a technology that does exactly what the two parts of the name imply. What is KubeVirt?

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

When AI agents begin to proliferate, a new, open structure will be needed so they can securely communicate and collaborate together to solve complex problems, suggests Cisco. For example, Microsoft has talked about how AI agents will impact application development.

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2020

is donating three open-source artificial intelligence development toolkits to LF AI, an organization within the Linux Foundation that maintains open-source machine learning tools. The LF AI Technical Advisory Committee […].

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Network World

JANUARY 12, 2019

If you're contemplating a career in cybersecurity and haven't come up to speed on Linux, now's the time to get ramped up and here's one easy way to do it. Why Linux is important to security. Because Linux is open source, tool developers (and you) have a level of access that is unsurpassed.

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Linux Open Source Network Tools 284

Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Nokia is offering customers an alternative way to set up data center networks by expanding its data center fabric package to support the open-source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud ( SONiC ). Nokias SR Linux NOS supports a wide range of network protocols and features as well as third-party applications.

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Data Center Data Linux Open Source 398

Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Forrester analyst Naveen Chhabra has developed an approach for thinking about server virtualization strategy across two dimensions: time to license renewal against number of VMware software tools in use. The open-source KubeVirt project wraps each VM in a lightweight container.

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Virtualization Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 431

Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The open-source Kubernetes technology in recent years has become the de facto standard for cloud-native deployments, running on all major cloud hyperscalers and supported by a long list of vendors, including Red Hat. OpenShift is Red Hats commercially supported Kubernetes distribution.

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Network Cloud Load Balancer Virtualization 380

Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

IBMs primary case is that the defendants breached, or procured breach of, the ICA [IBM customer agreement], using Winsopias access to the IBM mainframe software to develop the SDM by unlawful reverse engineering of the licensed software, the court wrote.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

SQLite moves off the desktop and into the network In a move to improve developer experiences, Cloudflare announced the integration of SQLite within its durable objects. SQLite is one of the most widely used open-source database technologies and it’s almost always set up to run with local on-device storage. Wireshark 4.4

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Network Security Open Source Linux 418

Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A new certification program from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation is aimed at validating the skills needed to utilize OpenTelemetry to gain visibility across distributed systems. OpenTelemetry is the second most active open-source project of the CNCF, following Kubernetes.

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Open Source Linux Engineering Devops 367

Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The latest release candidate of Linux 6.12 was announced over the weekend, promoting some comments about grammar from Linux founder Linus Torvalds. He took the opportunity to express some irritation when developers use passive, rather than active, language in their commit messages, which he believes is less clear, Neowin reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

Tap into open-source software Mainframe-dependent businesses often think that open source is just for cloud-based products – but that assumption is incorrect. Open-source software accelerates IBM Z® application development and delivery through modern tools that drive automation and integration to and from the mainframe.

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Applications Development Open Source How To 263

The Verge

MAY 18, 2020

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2013

By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? A Beginning of Openness – Documented and Supported. A Milestone – Open Source.

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Venture Beat

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Google announced today that it will underwrite the salaries for two developers to focus on Linux's fundamental security. Read More.

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