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IDC Tech Spotlight: Making Open Source Work for You

DevOps.com

Starting from remarkably humble beginnings over three decades ago, open source software is the story of a better mousetrap that wins over the world. The post IDC Tech Spotlight: Making Open Source Work for You appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

Apache Tomcat is an open source server that provides static data (like images and other static content), which makes it fully accessible from the internet, making it an attractive attack surface. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file. /var/lib/gssproxy/rcache/:

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A Comprehensive Guide to Multipass: Simplifying Virtual Machine Management

Dzone - DevOps

The ability to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) is essential for anyone interested in technology, whether they are programmers, system administrators, or just tech enthusiasts. A simple method for creating and managing virtual machines on your local machine is offered by Multipass, an open-source program created by Canonical.

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CVE-2023-38545, CVE-2023-38546: Frequently Asked Questions for New Vulnerabilities in curl

Tenable

Background On October 3, Daniel Stenberg, an open-source developer and maintainer of curl, took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that a new high severity CVE would be fixed in curl 8.4.0. curl is widely used by system administrators and developers. Identifying affected systems Once curl 8.4.0

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Why you don’t want to run a roll-your-own cloud

DXC

I also have production private clouds — open-source OpenStack and NextCloud spring to mind. But, but, as someone who cut his teeth on Unix system administration back in the 80s, I also run my own smaller private clouds using a homebrew of programs. Thanks to my job, I have accounts on many public clouds.

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Operations Training and Certification for Apache Cassandra® – Starts June 7

Instaclustr

Apache Cassandra ® is an open-source, non-relational, or NoSQL database that enables continuous availability, tremendous scale, and data distribution across multiple data centers and cloud availability zones. Instaclustr has more than 100 million node hours and 7 PB of data under management across its open-source technology suite.

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Cloud Computing Cost Drivers and Savings

CloudSphere

A Reduction of Duplicate Data: According to a report by Gartner , cloud computing has the potential to reduce duplication and cost, especially in government data centers. Fewer License Requirements: Other cost opportunities involve moving from custom software to standard off-the-shelf packages or even open-source software stacks.

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