How do you use open source software, and still get a reliable commercial system?

Cloud providers' proprietary APIs will limit you

Seven years on, have we learnt the lessons yet?

As the balance in data infrastructure tilts from the core to the edge, a new battle is set to rage. What are the challenges and how might it play out?

At work we use on average half a dozen specialized apps that are not designed for cooperation. The answer to this distressing status quo is a holistic approach.

Open source has become an indispensable part of many companies, yet some stubborn prejudices about the supposed insecurity of open source solutions persist

We are following the footsteps of a long-dead software species: an anticipated report from the future about astonishing code discoveries in the middle of this century. 

With containerization, edge and serverless computing in the mix, it will be a standout year

IBM gets open source cloud clout - if it can keep Red Hat senior management on board

After IBM's surprise decision to buy Red Hat for more than $33 billion, analysts are calling for the open source firms' CEO to take the top seat at Big Blue

New approach to virtualization saves costs and resources for load balancing and firewalls

The entire open source community needs to work together and recognize the duty of care it has

Many organizations simply fail to keep up with the rapid release cycle of the various OpenStack updates

Now there’s another open standard at the data center rack level. Will Open19 get on with the Open Compute Project?

As Lustre’s popularity grows, so does the tension between users who want it to be easier to consume and those who rely on it to get bigger and faster

Moving to OpenStack has many benefits, but you will need to deal with higher labor costs than public cloud

How 25 years of Linux has changed the tech world

Google joining Open Compute is more exciting than Spiderman’s appearance in a Captain America movie trailer

Cloud operators have to deal with a mess of network standards. Astara hopes to change that

Finance firms are buiding the data center of the future - using containers, open standards, and full encryption 

OpenStack is expanding rapidly, but you need to understand how it handles storage

Vendors that pretend to be open may soon meet their nemesis

Incumbents used to resist change. Now they have no choice but to embrace it

HP and Microsoft - and even Apple - are in the Open Compute Project. Could Google one day open up as well?