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Open Network Linux is bringing together a disparate set of tasks into a unified and flexible OS, that could reduce the complexity of configuring Open Compute Project networking switches.

OpenStack turned 5 last month. This week it made some important friends who want to help accelerate the open source cloud project.

You might not have known, but the NSA -- yes, that NSA -- has a Tech Transfer Program. When it transferred the tech that became Apache NiFi to open source last year, the engineers who had been working on the project launched their own startup. Hortonworks bought it today and is folding it into its company.

You probably didn't think we would ever be putting Ubuntu and mainframe in the same sentence, but Canonical and IBM announced a partnership today to put Ubuntu Linux on IBM mainframes.

Everyone wants a piece of the OpenStack action and IBM is no exception. This week at the OpenStack Summit it announced some new services designed to make it easier to implement the project.

HashiCorp released an early version of a new secrets manager called Vault today. The tool is designed to help protect credentials as they move across services, leaving an audit trail and even generating credentials with a limited shelf life on the fly.

This week, we look at HP back-pedaling from exiting the public cloud, Docker's huge pay day and how cloud security fears persist despite evidence to the contrary.

This week, we look at artificial intelligence in the cloud, the music business and the cloud and the latest Chromebook.

It took a long time for the traditional enterprise vendors to hop on board the cloud band wagon, but today, cloud is central to every large vendor's strategy.

The cloud was once the buzzword of the day, but I've notice lately it's being replaced by Big Data and the Internet of Things, and the cloud has settled in that level of comfort where we just accept it as a way of computing. And you know what? It's about time.

Couldn't help but notice that the Internet of Things was taking center stage at Mobile World Congress this year, and people are beginning to pay more attention. Look for lots more action over the next 12-18 months.

One analyst suggested in a Tweet Storm today that the only cloud that mattered is public cloud and the rest is basically a garbage bin set of terms to please the markets. I can't totally disagree, but I also know a hybrid mix of public and private computing is going to exist for a long time to come.

This week, we look at Amazon package delivery being pressured by apps born in the cloud who might be using AWS (talk about irony), universities preparing students for the cloud future and an overview of infrastructure service providers.

Pivotal announced today it was open sourcing key parts of its Big Data Suite, giving customers, partners and third party developers the ability to build upon and adapt these powerful tools, while still offering a commercial version of its own with support and enterprise features.

This week, we look at Gartner dissing private clouds, Microsoft trying to buy some Silicon Valley startup love and Hadoop in the cloud.

The cloud was supposed to simplify everything, but as it turns out when you are start layering on multiple services and mixing and matching with on-premises it can get pretty darn complicated. That's where cloud service brokers might be able to help. They are a new breed of cloud consultant.

This week, we look at OpenStack dominating private clouds, how the cloud keeps hackers at bay, and some cloud migration advice.

The snow won't stop falling this winter and it's been so bad in New England many folks haven't been able to get to work where the work is piling up like the snow in your driveway. If your company uses cloud services, you could continue to operate even when you can't make it to the building.

DataStax is the commercial face of the open source Apache Cassandra database. Yesterday it filled in a major hole in its offering when it bought Aurelius, an open source graph database company, along with its 8 person engineering team.

This week, we look at AWS's trillion dollar ambitions, what Tesla opening their patent cache can teach the cloud industry and what Box's IPO surge means to the cloud.