Microsoft kicked off the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference today by offering up open source software to run cloud switches. The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) was submitted for ...

As cloud computing, by many accounts, is poised to shake the very foundation of high-tech and IT, it's only fitting that the open-source community has taken notice, spawning a smattering of ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Monterrey, California: At the Linux Foundation Members Summit, Microsoft Azure's CTO, Mark Russinovich, unveiled a groundbreaking open-source project, Radius. This cloud-native, application platform ...

Looking to accelerate its footprint in the burgeoning cloud market, IBM bought leading open source provider Red Hat for $34 billion, the companies announced Sunday. In the deal, IBM purchased all ...

In addition to integration and intellectual property challenges, companies may not have the technical expertise to customize or secure open source software. Open source is a polarizing topic in IT and ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

IBM announced this afternoon that it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion. The deal will help IBM expand its reach as an enterprise cloud computing provider. Red Hat ...

I still remember the first time a notification popped on my screen informing me that TDengine, my open-source project, was ranked first on GitHub Trending. I was excited, hardly able to believe that a ...