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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO

As per the recent IDC InfoBrief “The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise”, open source software (OSS) is an important driver of enterprise digital innovation and provides greater agility, performance and security compared to proprietary software. Learn more about SUSE here.

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The Open-Source Philosophy

Perficient

Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software – What’s the Difference? To thoroughly grasp what open source is, one should understand what it is not. Open-source software grants its users a degree of accessibility that is not possible through its proprietary counterpart.

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Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS

DevOps.com

On EC2 alone, AWS offers nearly 400 instance types across storage, networking and operating systems. The post Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS appeared first on DevOps.com. Complicating this further is that users can choose from machines located in 24 regions and 77 availability zones.

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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

CIO

When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. In the gold rush race to the cloud, many SaaS vendors have built their offerings on widely available open-source platforms such as CentOS but not all give commercial support anymore.

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Open-Source Authorization as a Service

Dzone - DevOps

However, when enterprise software moved to the cloud, there was no longer a server operating system that could authenticate the user and keep track of what groups they’re a member of. As a result, every cloud application was forced to reinvent both authentication and authorization.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

However, this shift requires a thorough understanding of the security implications and how a business can protect its data and applications. Cloud infrastructure is especially sensitive, as many critical applications are at risk, such as customer-facing applications. What can businesses do?

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Linus Torvalds Biography

The Crazy Programmer

His Master’s Degree was awarded for work done on the Linux kernel, which is one of the most popular open-source operating systems today. Linux is an operating system developed by Linus Torvalds and released in 1991. In 1991, Linus wrote a text editor named vi (originally for UNIX systems).

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