Open19: The Vendor-Friendly Open Source Data Center Project
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JUNE 21, 2017
Its licensing framework is one of the key differences between LinkedIn’s data center tech foundation and OCP. Read More.
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In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B
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Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 5, 2024
The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own.
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VMware licensing and pricing hikes: What options do you have?
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 3, 2024
A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.
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Open RAN and HashiCorp are making us rethink openness
Network World
MAY 23, 2024
Why would a smart vendor buy a company whose product(s) are open source? The only possible answer is that the buyers of the product would rather get it in commercial form than in open form. Part of the reason is that it’s hard for enterprises to hire and retain specialists on all the open-source tools they might want.
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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 15, 2013
Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. Ruchira Sahan. Posted July 23rd, 2013.
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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2024
By understanding their options and leveraging GPU-as-a-service, CIOs can optimize genAI hardware costs and maintain processing power for innovation.” Open source is one way CIOs can definitely keep the costs low,” he says, pointing out that open-source models are also transparent and can be customized.
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Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more
The Verge
JANUARY 8, 2022
Now, Google has launched an open-source API standard called Ripple that could theoretically bring the tech to additional devices outside Google — perhaps even a car, as Ford is one of the participants in the new standard. One commit points out that the project was updated “to include CTA.”)
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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half
The Verge
JULY 7, 2020
But Fraunhofer says VVC could be a path forward for the industry, as almost every major hardware and software company is currently tied up in a messy patent royalty system that dictates how much various stakeholders must pay to use different compression and transmission standards for devices, websites, and apps.
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Navigate AI market uncertainty by bringing AI to your data
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 30, 2024
History suggests hyperscalers, which give away basic LLMs while licensing subscriptions for more powerful models with enterprise-grade features, will find more ways to pass along the immense costs of their buildouts to businesses. Can you blame them? Maybe you want to create avatar-based videos that communicate in multiple languages?
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Harvesting the Benefits of Cloud-Native Hyperconvergence
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 5, 2022
There are clear caveats in the HCI world: limitless control is all well and good, but infrastructure details like lack of local storage and slow networking hardware restricting I/O would always define the hard limits on what is possible. Worries around vendor lock-in surround the black-box nature of HCI-in-a-box appliances, too.
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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Dubbed in the media as “the cloud wars,” there are a handful of open source frameworks competing (or not, depending on who you ask). Cloud Wars. Think of the format wars between Beta and VHS.
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What is data science? Transforming data into value
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 22, 2022
Data science could help an organization build tools to predict hardware failures, enabling the organization to perform maintenance and prevent unplanned downtime. Data science teams make use of a wide range of tools, including SQL, Python, R, Java, and a cornucopia of open source projects such as Hive, oozie, and TensorFlow.
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Chip giant Nvidia acquires OctoAI, a Seattle startup that helps companies run AI models
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
More recently, regulators have been scrutinizing deals between tech giants and smaller startups that are structured as “ reverse acquihires ,” which include hiring company founders and licensing technology. Its original pitch was to help companies deploy machine learning models on various hardware configurations.
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DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.
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Unlocking the Secrets of Software-based DRM: A Comprehensive Guide
Kitaboo
MAY 23, 2023
From preventing illegal copying and piracy to managing licensing and access permissions, software-based DRM plays a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and value of digital assets. Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components.
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Introducing the GenAI models you haven’t heard of yet
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 16, 2023
Companies are looking at Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, Databricks’ Dolly, Amazon’s Titan, or IBM’s WatsonX, but also open source AI models like Llama 2 from Meta. Open source models are also getting easier to deploy. We feel that every hyperscaler will have open source generative AI models quickly.”
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Nvidia says its ‘proprietary information’ is being leaked by hackers
The Verge
MARCH 1, 2022
Hacking group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, and has demanded that Nvidia make its drivers open-source if it doesn’t want more data leaked. We request that NVIDIA commits to COMPLETELY OPEN-SOURCE (and distribute under a foss license) their GPU drivers”. “We
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- Microsoft vs Open Source
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
MARCH 2, 2009
In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. And the software for open source is on the web and freely available for such hackers to view! But this developer community is nebulous.
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Tech leaders discuss generative AI’s impact on enterprise, startups and society
GeekWire
MAY 11, 2023
Engineers may be tempted to use AI-generated computer code to boost productivity, but this can pose ethical and legal risks when it’s too similar to existing open-source code, Moses said. Startups must factor in hardware costs for running large AI models, according to Batalov. How can startups compete with tech giants?
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How IT Can Deliver on the Promise of Cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 15, 2022
Maintained audit control of open source applications running in your cloud-native or containerized workloads? For compliance, all the new licenses need to be audited and kept in a tight review cycle. Open source applications running in the cloud need to be copyrighted.
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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT
Cloud Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
Instead of leveraging IT budgets to maintain and upgrade hardware and software, cloud allows responders to devote more IT. Further, removing much of the infrastructure from the supply chain eases the logistics of monitoring and maintaining hardware in an. needed, without the concern of paying for licenses that won’t be used.
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Things To Understand To Prevent Data Loss
Galido
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Some senior management managers may have concerns about the ability of the cybersecurity team to absorb a larger budget in terms of execution and increased headcount, the only alternative is a clever combination of hardware, software, and few personnel to enforce data loss prevention in a custom methodology. Ice Cream Sandwich.
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Game Gear Micro review: peak Sega
The Verge
OCTOBER 16, 2020
There are lots of ways to play Game Gear games if you really want to, whether it’s through the 3DS Virtual Console or less official means like the countless open-source emulator handhelds out there. I love the original, but I’d never played this version, and it was a blast to see how it was crammed into the Game Gear hardware.
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Getting your enterprise ready for the real AI
Network World
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The AI model providers (with one exception noted below) are also eager to promote licensing of their generative AI tools. You can’t buy hardware in anticipation of your application needs,” one CIO said. All either group needs is buyers to line up, but the confusion I just mentioned means most don’t even know how to start.
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Third-party support: a cure for convoluted database costs
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Gone are the days when companies used a single database and had a straightforward cost structure, including hardware and software costs and number of users. Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source.
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Some Photoshop users can try Adobe’s anti-misinformation system later this year
The Verge
AUGUST 3, 2020
The white paper makes clear that Adobe will need lots of hardware and software support for the system to work effectively. Adobe originally announced Twitter and The New York Times Company as partners, and the CAI specifications will be freely available under an open source license.
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Technology Short Take #48
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).
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Scott Lowe
MAY 17, 2019
Servers/Hardware. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license.
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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Confusingly, Microsoft already offers a Sales Copilot; Copilot for Sales is a different product that includes a license for Copilot for Microsoft 365, and helps sales staff prepare for customer meetings by creating custom briefing documents. Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023.
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Understanding Readium – Features, Architecture and Alternatives
Kitaboo
MAY 19, 2020
The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. x, audiobooks, Web Pub, and image-based books such as Manga.
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 15, 2022
Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Ulrich Speidel shares some of the findings after the volcanic eruption in Tonga.
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Llama 3: Everything you need to know about Meta’s latest LLM
Dataconomy
APRIL 24, 2024
Meta made its new Llama 3 LLM open-source and you can run it locally with Ollama. By making Llama 3 open-source, Meta has unlocked a wealth of potential for businesses of all sizes. Ollama provides a platform for running open-source large language models such as Llama 2 on local systems. What does Ollama do?
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Technology Short Take #37
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware. In part 2 , Mike discusses things like using the appropriate virtual hardware, the right kernel modules for VMXNET3, getting rid of unnecessary hardware (like the virtual floppy), and similar tips. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX?
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Breaking Down the Product Benefits
ForAllSecure
JANUARY 21, 2021
Because protocol fuzzers license per test suite, users have access to the test suite for regression testing as well. The quality of results -- defects found as well as test suite -- from open source fuzzers is largely dependent on implementation. Protocol suite licenses are for consecutive use only. Protocol Fuzzing.
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Breaking Down the Product Benefits
ForAllSecure
JANUARY 21, 2021
Because protocol fuzzers license per test suite, users have access to the test suite for regression testing as well. The quality of results -- defects found as well as test suite -- from open source fuzzers is largely dependent on implementation. Protocol suite licenses are for consecutive use only. Protocol Fuzzing.
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VMworld 2013 – VMware`s chance to stay relevant
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 25, 2013
Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. VMware could come in with their ROI calculator and show even with a hefty license cost and hardware investment almost any organization would save money. VMware has some great technology.
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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.
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ePUB.js vs Readium.js – A Detailed Comparison of 2 ePUB Readers
Kitaboo
JUNE 15, 2021
As a comprehensive reference system for ePUB that promotes digital publications for the Open Web, ePUB.js is an open-source Javascript library that allows any web page to easily render ePUB documents on any device with a modern browser. Does the license suite of libraries suit your individual project needs? Download Now!
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Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 14, 2017
Servers/Hardware. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. The popular open source container registry project, Harbor , has released a new version (version 1.2). Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes. Virtualization.
How does Flux AI compare against Midjourney?
Dataconomy
AUGUST 7, 2024
This new text-to-image AI, towering with 12 billion parameters, sets a new benchmark in the realm of open-source visual generation. For enthusiasts and developers, Flux Dev offers a non-commercial license. Despite these advances, there’s a caveat for users with less powerful hardware.
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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 21, 2024
For instance, Microsoft provides up to 10 free licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Premium to qualifying nonprofits, which include advanced cybersecurity features. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.
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Technology Short Take #61
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Is OpenStack turning into a niche product? Is now the time? Is it the right move?
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IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
He shows off a demo of Skylake as well as a hardware reference platform for Skylake playing full 4K video. Fisher reinforces Krzanich’s mention of OIC and Intel’s participation in creating open, royalty-free standards for compatibility and interoperability among the billions of devices in the IoT. IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 1.
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