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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

As per the recent IDC InfoBrief “The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise”, open source software (OSS) is an important driver of enterprise digital innovation and provides greater agility, performance and security compared to proprietary software. Learn more about SUSE here.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” For example, a legacy, expensive, and difficult-to-support system runs on proprietary hardware that runs a proprietary operating system, database, and application.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

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. The open-source eBFP technology enables users to run code safely in the Linux kernel. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. At the eBPF Summit on Sept.

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SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the edge

Network World

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 One new feature is stack validation, which helps to ensure successful operations. release, announced today. In SUSE Edge 3.1, Wireshark 4.4 Wireshark 4.4

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Unknown threat actor targeting Juniper routers with backdoor: Report

Network World

A closer alignment between threat feeds and administration/operation function is advised. According to Lumen researchers, vulnerable routers are compromised by a variant of the open source cd00r backdoor, aimed at devices running UNIX, that has a passive agent looking for devices with five parameters.

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

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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Severe flaws in widely used archive library put many projects at risk

Network World

In a world where any new software project is built in large part on existing third-party code, finding and patching vulnerabilities in popular open-source libraries is vital to creating reliable and secure applications. Libarchive is an open-source library first created for FreeBSD, but since ported to all major operating systems.