ZipWhip Releases Cloud Texting App for Linux Desktop

The company that introduced the Textspresso machine to the world has now released its desktop cloud texting application for Linux. Zipwhip’s Android app, which sends text messages to and from your desktop or tablet via the cloud is now...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 10, 2012

LinuxCon/CloudOpen Party Details Revealed

LinuxCon is known for its deep technical content and unmatched networking opportunities. This year LinuxCon and CloudOpen will provide 140 sessions, 15 keynotes, nine co-located events, and three onsite Linux training opportunities. But...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 9, 2012

Top Open Source Cloud Headlines, Week of Aug. 6

Open source cloud headlines this week feature the announcement of board elections for the OpenStack Foundation; Red Hat’s new branding as an open cloud company; eBay’s new open source cloud application testing platform; Intel’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 9, 2012

Fujitsu's Yoshiya Eto Becomes Vice Chair of Linux Foundation Board

We are pleased to announce that Yoshiya Eto of Fujitsu is the new Vice Chair of The Linux Foundation board. He joins officers Doug Fischer (Intel), Chairman, Alan Clark (SUSE), Secretary of the Board, and Frank Fanzilli, Treasurer. All...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 8, 2012

Keeping Linux Kernel Training Current

The Linux kernel develops at a truly astonishing pace, with a new major version emerging every two to three months. For both new and already active kernel developers, keeping up with changes and new features is both challenging and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2012

Intel’s Imad Sousou: Open Cloud Standards will Emerge With More Collaboration

Standardization is the biggest issue facing the open source cloud today, says Imad Sousou, director of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Adoption of open formats and interfaces will ensure flexibility and choice for users and vendors...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2012

Find 'Skater Tux' and Win Cool Linux Skateboard

In case you didn’t already know, the location for this year’s LinuxCon – San Diego – is known for its skaters. That’s right, the skateboarding variety. What happens when you combine the Linux community with a skateboard mecca? You get...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 3, 2012

CloudOpen Keynote Q&A: OpenStack's Maffulli Says Open Cloud is New Frontier of Innovation

OpenStack’s Stefano Maffulli is on the opening keynote panel at CloudOpen Wednesday morning August 29. He will be joined by Mark Hinkle from Citrix, Greg DeKoenigsberg from Eucalyptus and John Mark Walker from Red Hat on a panel titled...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 2, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 30

This week in the open source cloud headlines, SUSE makes a splash with its pro-open blog post on Forbes and a shout-out from OStatic for its own cloud contribution. Rackspace and HP both debuted OpenStack-based clouds this week. And...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 2, 2012

Inktank’s Ceph: An Open Source Storage Solution for the Enterprise

Editor’s Note: This profile is part of an ongoing weekly series on Leaders of the Open Cloud in advance of CloudOpen, Aug. 29-31 in San Diego. Launched in May, Inktank is one of the newest companies to enter the still very new open source...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 31, 2012

My Top Five Sessions at the CloudOpen Conference

CloudOpen will make its debut in a little over a month in beautiful San Diego alongside LinuxCon. While it will still be the best deal in technology conferences, the registration price goes up on Sunday. (Why do I think it’s a good deal?...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 27, 2012

Top Open Source Cloud Headlines Week of July 23

This week’s top open source cloud news features VMware’s acquisition of Nicira; a Q&A with Citrix’s Mark Hinkle; the pros and cons of open source cloud platforms for IT managers; and insider news that Nebula has enticed some Rackspace...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 26, 2012

CloudOpen Q&A: SUSE's Michael Miller on Why Linux is the Natural OS for the Cloud

In the latest of our LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynote Q&A series we talk to SUSE‘s Vice President of Global Alliances Michael Miller. Miller will be talking in his keynote at the events about how service-oriented clouds are bridging the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

The Linux Talent Draft is On

Make no mistake: the Linux draft is on. While the NFL season prepares to get underway there is an ongoing, intensive draft for Linux talent taking place right now. We hear this from companies large and small, universities from all over the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

Ask a Kernel Maintainer

I’ve been writing an occasional “Ask a kernel maintainer” column on the lwn.net weekly kernel page. It’s been a while since I last wrote one, so I figured it’s time to start it up again. So, consider this an open request for questions that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

OpenStack Quantum Project Aims to Define Future of Networking

Much debate has occurred recently over whether Amazon’s API should be considered a de facto standard by cloud computing service providers. Those who reject this notion (ahem, Lew Moorman) say you can’t clone Amazon’s cloud by copying its...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

Citrix’s Hinkle Proposes Linux Model for an Open Source Cloud

As the Senior Director of Cloud Computing Community at Citrix, Mark Hinkle oversees Citrix efforts around the open source Apache CloudStack IaaS platform and Xen hypervisor projects. Citrix is still very closely involved in CloudStack,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 24, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 16

This week’s open source cloud headlines include several OpenStack-related announcements, denials from VMware that it might spin off its own open source Cloud Foundry and a new global-scale CloudStack deployment. HP Cloud Object Storage and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2012

Calling All DevOps People: Chef 101 Workshop at CloudOpen

With both private and public clouds, increasingly complex virtualized environments and data getting bigger every day, DevOps folks are looking for ways to automate their infrastructure and expose data that informs important decisions about...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2012

LinuxCon Keynote Q&A: Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok on Why Linux is Essential to the Company's Success

This week’s LinuxCon/CloudOpen keynote Q&A is with Qualcomm Innovation Center President Rob Chandhok. He will be talking about “Mobility, Proximal Data and Compute Meshes” at the event just next month in San Diego. Here he gives us a peek...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2012

Congratulations to Our T-shirt Design Contest Winners

Congratulations to Brian Beck and Sabrina Aqil, our two winners in The Linux Foundation’s 2012 “Inspired by Linux” T-shirt Design Contest! Their awesome t-shirt designs took first and second place, respectively, in the community vote. The...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 18, 2012

Chef Offers a Recipe for the Open Source Cloud

Editor’s note: I spoke with Opscode CTO Chris Brown last week in advance of his keynote panel, “IaaS vs. PaaS: Composable primitives for building in the cloud,” at CloudOpen, Aug. 29-31 in San Diego. Opscode is also offering a Chef 101...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 17, 2012

LinuxCon Keynote Q&A: The OSS Behind a Tweet

The roster of keynote speakers for this year’s LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen events is mind blowing. I’ve got my favorites marked on my schedule and am excited to share a recent conversation I had with one of them. Twitter’s Open...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 12, 2012

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 9

This week the open cloud news headlines feature the OpenNebula 3.6 release, a new cloud controller plug-in for OpenStack and an interview with Rackspace’s Lew Moorman on APIs and the open cloud, among other things. OpenNebula quietly keeps...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 12, 2012

Lew Moorman: Open Cloud Key to Modern Networking

Rackspace President Lew Moorman made a splash late last month with his talk at GigaOM’s Structure conference on vendor lock-in and the cloud. He argued that simply cloning proprietary APIs doesn’t solve the compatibility problem for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 10, 2012