What the New European Cyber Resilience Act Means for the Open Source Industry
In community news, the European Cyber Resilience Act will have a massive impact on Open Source projects and Open Source businesses. The intention is to impose mandatory security requirements on everyone delivering/supplying the software. That by itself is a noble goal. However, it is slightly in contrast to what Open Source licenses do. Open Source licenses limit […]
Virtual Event – Building Next-Generation IaaS: LINBIT, Apache CloudStack & Ampere
On October 10th, ShapeBlue, together with the leading SDS vendor LINBIT and the first Cloud Native Processor supplier – Ampere, are hosting a 1-day virtual event, which will delve into how IaaS providers can build a super-fast and reliable infrastructure while ensuring cost efficiency and reducing carbon footprints.In today’s economy, where staying competitive is paramount, IaaS providers and […]
Kubernetes at the Edge Using LINBIT SDS for Persistent Storage
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings data processing and computation closer to the data source or “edge” of the network. This reduces latency and removes Internet connectivity as a point of failure for users of edge services. Since more hardware is involved in an edge computing environment than there is in a […]
Is the Open Source World Under Financial Pressure?
Two weeks ago, the news that EQT is buying back SUSE shares got some attention in the Linux world, which also happens to be when I realized Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen became the new CEO at SUSE earlier this year. EQT acquired SUSE in 2018 and tried to profit by selling the shares piecemeal on the […]
LINBIT Offers Official DRBD Basics Training
LINBIT® is offering an official training package for Linux system administrators who are interested in getting started using DRBD® to create high-availability and high-performance block storage in their clusters. Whether you need highly available storage to back a database, website, virtual machine image hosting, or other storage use cases that you can imagine, this training […]
