October 31, 2014

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Summary: Users to Take Center Stage at the Paris OpenStack Summit

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On Monday the OpenStack® Summit kicks off in Paris, and estimates are that nearly 4000 people from around the world will be attending what I believe will be the best summit yet. It will also be my ninth summit, so to say that I’ve had an opportunity to see the project, community, and user base […]

October 23, 2014

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Snort 2.9.7.0 has been released

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Following our February announcement of OpenAppId at RSA, we released an alpha version of Snort 2.9.7.0.  Response has been extremely positive, with thousands of downloads of the platform, a beta release, a release candidate, and tons of feedback. Today we released Snort 2.9.7.0 with built in OpenAppId technology, and it is now available for download […]

August 25, 2014

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Paradigm Shift with Edge Intelligence

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In my Internet of Things keynote at LinuxCon 2014 in Chicago last week, I touched upon a new trend: the rise of a new kind of utility or service model, the so-called IoT specific service provider model, or IoT SP for short. I had a recent conversation with a team of physicists at the Large Hadron […]

July 31, 2014

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Testing Video4Linux Applications and Drivers

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Introduction The video4linux subsystem of the kernel which deals with video capture, video output and hardware video codecs has a very large API with many ioctls, settings, options and capabilities. And most hardware will only use a fraction of that. This makes it hard to test whether your driver implements everything it should and it […]

June 27, 2014

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Open Source at The Large Hadron Collider and Data Gravity

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I am delighted to announce a new Open Source cybergrant awarded to the Caltech team developing the ANSE project at the Large Hadron Collider. The project team...

April 28, 2014

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Cisco, a founding member of the Linux Foundation Initiative

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Our Cisco colleague Anthony Grieco wrote a quick blog post over on the Cisco Security blog announcing that Cisco is a proud supporter and founder of the Linux Foundation initiative announced on April 24th. We are pleased to help form a critical mass of governance, funding, and focus that will support the output of open […]

April 11, 2014

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New Open MPI stable series launched: v1.8

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The Open MPI project released version v1.8 last week.  This is a major release that heralds the beginning of a new production-ready series, full MPI-3.0 support, and a new OpenSHMEM implementation. Open MPI is developed in a tick-tock fashion: Odd-numbered series are focused on feature development and expansion Even-numbered series are focused on stability and […]

April 4, 2014

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The First Open Source Project to Win the Interop Grand Prize…

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… is none other than…  (drum roll, please!) … our one year old baby, OpenDaylight! My heartfelt congratulations go to the OpenDaylight committers and contributors, the open source collaborators who have poured their heart and soul into this wonderful project. This is indeed a remarkable event, considering the skepticism surrounding its start just about one year […]

March 28, 2014

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In Search of The First Transaction

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At the height of an eventful week – Cloud and IoT developments, Open Source Think Tank,  Linux Foundation Summit – I learned about the fate of my fellow alumnus, an upperclassman as it were, the brilliant open source developer and crypto genius known for the first transaction on Bitcoin. Hal Finney is a Caltech graduate who went […]