• Facebook-Led Open Compute Project Tackles Network Switches

  By Thor Olavsrud | 08 May, 2013 21:50

  Speaking at Interop today, Open Compute Project Chairman and President Frank Frankovsky announces plans for a new open source project to develop a specification and a reference box for an open, OS-agnostic switch.

• Facebook to design an open source switch

  By Joab Jackson | 08 May, 2013 20:57

  As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

• How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  By Brandon Butler | 06 May, 2013 11:14

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

• Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

  By Joab Jackson | 01 May, 2013 20:44

  Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

• Control and security of corporate open-source projects proves difficult

  By Ellen Messmer | 30 April, 2013 18:02

  Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.

• Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily

  By Ian Harac | 09 March, 2011 06:09

  FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly Encryption" refers to the encrypting/decrypting of data as it is written to or read from your hard disk.

• Switching to desktop Linux? 6 ways to ease the migration

  By Katherine Noyes | 27 January, 2011 06:52

  With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly relying on the free and open source operating system.

• Overclock your smartphone, if you dare

  By Keir Thomas | 05 January, 2011 12:56

  WARNING: Overclocking is not for the faint of heart. Do not attempt to hack your phone unless you understand and accept the risks of turning it into a useless "brick."

• Is your business compliant with open source licenses?

  By Katherine Noyes | 05 November, 2010 10:49

  There are many ways that vendors of proprietary products try to scare business customers away from open source software, and one of the more commonly heard examples involves vague fears about compliance with open source licenses. There's nothing like the specter of a good lawsuit to scare a company back into a paid vendor's welcoming arms.

• How to choose a desktop Linux distribution

  By Katherine Noyes | 28 August, 2010 04:20

  With all the many reasons to use Linux today -- particularly in a business setting --it's often a relatively easy decision to give Windows the boot. What can be more difficult, however, is deciding which of the hundreds of Linux distributions out there is best for you and your business.

• Sizing up open source: Not so simple

  By Stacy Collett | 06 May, 2013 10:09

  Choosing open-source software is more complicated than picking traditional software. Is your IT department prepared to contribute code fixes to the community?

• Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open-source code

  By Mary K. Pratt | 06 May, 2013 10:08

  Just about anyone in the office can introduce open-source code into the company's IT infrastructure. Yet CIOs face real dangers if they're not properly managing their open-source assets.

• Open your data to the world

  By Neil Savage | 16 April, 2013 11:22

  Not having an API is becoming like not having a website, but the interface has got to be easy for outside developers to work with.

• Choosing an open-source CMS, part 3: Why we use WordPress

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 27 February, 2013 12:34

  In the third part of a three-part series, we look at two organizations that have chosen WordPress as their content management system.

• Choosing an open-source CMS, part 2: Why we use Joomla

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 19 February, 2013 11:47

  In the second part of a three-part series, we look at two companies that have chosen Joomla as their content management system.

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