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The Linux Foundation's initiatives suggest that free, online training for Linux development and administration will continue to have a global focus and become more important professionally.

ClusterHQ has announced that Flocker, its data volume and container manager for Docker, the open source, container-based virtualization platform, is now compatible with Docker's Fig orchestration tool.

Adobe has appointed Matt Asay, a veteran of open source leadership with experience at Alfresco, Novell, Canonical and MongoDB, as its new vice president for Mobile.

Databricks has launched a partner certification program for systems integrators of Apache Spark, the open source big data processing platform.

Talend 5.6, the latest version of the open source big data platform, introduces new support for Apache Spark and Storm, as well as better Internet of Things integration.

The buzz in the open source world last week centered around OpenStack, the cloud computing operating system. But OpenStack depends on many other pieces to run, one of which is scale-out storage from platforms such as Red Hat's (RHT) GlusterFS.

The latest from the OpenStack Summit in Paris includes partner and product announcements from Tesora, AQORN and Scality.

Canonical is launching a new container-based virtualization hypervisor for its open source Ubuntu Linux operating system, called LXD. How will it get along with Docker?

Reports are circulating that a company plans to launch the UT One, a tablet running on an Intel x86 Atom processor and Canonical's Ubuntu Linux OS, by the end of 2014.

IT security vendor Incapsula has released a guide for SMBs to plan for and respond to DDoS attacks against their clouds, data centers and Web apps.

Mirantis 6.0, available now as a technical preview and for production use within three months, brings Sahara, NFV and the other new features from OpenStack Juno to the company's open source cloud computing distribution.

Convirture Backup, a new backup, restore and disaster recovery tool from Convirture, brings automated backup to OpenStack clouds running on the KVM virtualization hypervisor.

Canonical has announced its own distribution of OpenStack, the open source cloud computing operating system, built on top of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux has already enjoyed the distinction of being the most popular platform for hosting OpenStack clouds. But now, Canonical has taken its commitment to OpenStack a step further with the announcement of its own OpenStack distribution.

Mirantis has secured $100 million in series B funding to support its open source, vendor-neutral OpenStack cloud-computing products.

Microsoft has announced plans to port the open source Docker containerized virtualization platform to Windows Server and the Azure cloud. Open source developers can be sure the software they're writing is a hit when even Microsoft (MSFT) wants a piece of the action. That's exactly what's happening with Docker, the containerized virtualization platform for running cloud apps, which will now be supported in Windows Server and the Azure cloud.

OpenStack Juno, the 10th release of the open source cloud-computing operating system, introduces new data processing, storage and network functions virtualization (NFV) features as well as enterprise readiness.

MapR, in collaboration with Databricks, is integrating the open source Apache Spark and Apache Drill tools to make big data analysis and processing faster and simpler.

The Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV), the collaborative partnership for advancing open source software-defined networking and data centers that the Linux Foundation announced last month, is now officially live. Here's what it's up to so far, and what it hopes to becomes over the coming months and years.

The Linux Foundation and industry partners have launched Dronecode, a project to create embedded open source software for drones and unmanned aerial vehicles.

SUSE and MariaDB have partnered to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for IBM Power servers.