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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. By: John Rath July 23rd, 2013. LinkedIn.

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Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

CIO Business Intelligence

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. The age-old question: How secure is open source software?

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The big, gaping hole in software supply chain security

CIO Business Intelligence

If software supply chains consisted solely of open source code, securing them would be easy. Effective tools and methodologies exist for discovering and remediating software supply chain security risks that arise from open source components. But SBOMs are designed mainly to catalog open source software.

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9 Must-Do Tips to Secure Ubuntu Server

Tech Republic

And if you happen to be a Linux systems administrator, you might think it doesn’t apply to you. Even though the Linux open source platform is considerably more secure than many. In today’s world, if you’re not constantly working to secure your servers, you’re already 10 steps behind every hacker on the planet.

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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems

The Verge

When companies are building programs, they often use open-source code written by other people, so they’re not spending time and resources solving a problem that’s already solved. According to Birsan, most of the companies he contacted about the exploit were able to quickly patch their systems so they were no longer vulnerable.

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

Data security segregates data from privileged user accounts including system administrators and protects storage from theft or improper disposal. Big Data CTO Apache Accumulo Apache Hadoop Cloudera HBase HDFS MapReduce Open Source' Learn More about Cloudera here.

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open-source automation tool that helps companies deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications. Its a common skill for cloud engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, microservices developers, systems administrators, containerization specialists, and DevOps engineers.