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Microcontroller and system-on-chip manufacturer Renesas has become a gold member of the Linux Foundation to advance embedded and automotive systems. In a move that stands to strengthen the hand of open source within the embedded Linux market, especially the automotive industry, the Linux Foundation has announced that microcontroller and chip manufacturer Renesas has become a gold member of the non-profit consortium.

KEMP Technologies has released the Condor application-delivery framework for managed and cloud service providers to offer subscription-based applications.

Looker has released a new version of its business intelligence and data analytics platform that focuses on customizability and finding the most useful data.

The M9 release of the Ubuntu Dual Boot Installer adds new features for installing Canonical's open source Linux OS on tablets, phones and other mobile devices. Dual-booting Canonical's Ubuntu Linux and Android on tablets and smartphones has moved a small step closer to reality with the release of a new version of the Ubuntu Dual Boot Installer. Codenamed M9, the release offers support for Ubuntu OS upgrades, along with a slew of other enhancements.

Rackspace, Cumulus Networks and CoreOS have become members of the Linux Foundation to support open source networking, virtualization and cloud computing.

Canonical has introduced a new OpenStack cloud hosting service and Ubuntu OpenStack training, while also achieving milestones in the OpenStack cloud computing world.

GroundWork has released a solution for monitoring the performance of various parts of the OpenStack open source infrastructure for cloud environments. OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, offers some metering tools as parts of the core OpenStack code. But it lacks a robust performance monitoring framework, which is why GroundWork has rolled out a new solution for tracking the performance of various parts of the OpenStack public and private cloud infrastructure.

The Xen open source virtualization hypervisor community is helping to lead the new Virtualization Special Interest Group of the CentOS Linux distribution.

Atlantis ILIO's in-memory software-defined storage platform now supports VMware Horizon 6 and VMware Virtual SAN.

Sanbolic's newest storage offering integrates legacy and scale-out storage from local servers and the cloud into a centralized environment. Sanbolic has unveiled a new contender in the software-defined storage (SDS) market. Compatible with a range of operating systems, virtualization and cloud platforms, the product aims to integrate legacy and scale-out storage infrastuctures into a single resource.

DataStax and Databricks have partnered to combine NoSQL data storage based on open source Apache Cassandra with Apache Spark data analytics.

Mirantis is aiming to make it easier for enterprises to deploy OpenStack, the open source infrastructure for cloud computing. This week, the company launched a Web-based database listing vendors who offer OpenStack-compatible solutions.

HP has become the most recent platinum member of OpenDaylight, the open source software-defined networking (SDN) project sponsored by the Linux Foundation.

Version 0.11 of Docker, the open source container-based virtualization platform, is now available, bringing with it networking and security updates.

Eucalyptus 4.0, the latest version of the open source platform for connecting private enterprise clouds to public services like AWS, is now available. Scalable object storage, refined deployment tools and high availability highlight the feature list in Eucalyptus 4.0, the latest version of the open source platform from Eucalyptus Systems for building private and hybrid clouds.

CloudLinux is introducting KernelCare, a new service for installing security updates on open source Linux kernels for virtual or physical servers without rebooting.

Red Hat—which already owns the object storage platform Gluster—has acquired Inktank, the company behind the Ceph open source, software-defined storage system.

The Docker container-based virtualization project is launching an Open Governance Advisory Board to help guide development of the open source virtualization software.

AMD and Mentor Graphics have become Gold-level members and joined the Advisory Board of the Yocto Project, which promotes open source Linux-based systems for embedded devices.

The Linux Foundation, along with channel partners, have launched the Open Core Initiative to improve the security of open source projects such as OpenSSL. The Heartbleed fiasco is doing little to promote confidence in the open source mantra that "many eyes make all bugs shallow." But it has spawned a new multimillion-dollar undertaking, called the Core Infrastructure Initiative, which the Linux Foundation and a slew of industry partners say will help improve security in OpenSSL and other key open source projects going forward.