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Red Hat is not a networking vendor, but it does play a strong supporting role in the networking ecosystem overall.

Wright noted that while his company is not necessarily in the business of low-level data center infrastructure networking gear, such as switches and routers, Red Hat’s software does integrate and touch all the low-level gear in one way or another.

Meta is contributing a series of technologies to a new open source initiative at the Linux Foundation designed to help improve networking connectivity.

Amazon is one of the leading contributors to Dent and helped to get the project started back in 2019 at the Linux Foundation. Dent is largely targeted at edge deployments which is where Amazon and other large organizations are using the technology.

As part of the open approach, there is an open source Java Development Kit (JDK) distribution that is published by multiple vendors, including but not limited to Oracle. For most of the history of OpenJDK, Oracle has remained one of the most commonly used distributions. In 2023 that slipped somewhat...

The open source Ray machine learning (ML) technology for deploying and scaling AI workloads is taking a big step forward today with the release of version 2.4. The new release takes specific aim at accelerating generative AI workloads.

Kubernetes is on the cusp of a series of new developments that will change the way networking works in cloud native deployments.

Kubernetes organizes its development efforts into various Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for specific topics. In session at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF‘s) Kubecon conference this week in Amsterdam (and streamed virtually) SIG-Network project leads detailed a series of upcoming innovations that are currently being developed for Kubernetes networking.

Among the most popular control planes is the open source Crossplane project, which Upbound leads. Crossplane is based on the open source Kubernetes control plane, and it enables users to pull in services from different providers and cloud service providers.

The 1-year-old open source PyScript programming framework is getting a new service that advocates hope will ease Python application development.

Just about every LLM/ Generative AI tool any of us can name is trained on cloud native architectures and and almost *all* of them rely on the open source Kubeflow project to make it happen.

A lot of people might say they’re running Linux, but the OS itself is actually almost just a single application that’s just running on Linux versus giving you that full Linux user experience,” Charles Conte exec director at Comcast said. “This is almost like an out of the box experience with SONiC because it is truly is a Linux user experience.”

The open source OpenStack cloud platform received its first major update of 2023 on March 22, with the release of OpenStack Antelope. With Antelope, OpenStack has now had 27 releases of its open source cloud platform, which got its start as a joint effort between Rackspace and NASA in 2010, expanding significantly in the years since then.

The open source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been used by networking professionals for the last two decades and today the technology is finally getting its own open source foundation.

Among the big changes in the new StarlingX 8.0 update is a shift to the Debian Linux operating system, support for O-RAN standard as well the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) all in an effort to help telco users with IoT, 5G and edge computing deployments. StarlingX 8.0 also claims a 50% reduction of the platform footprint for 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, enabling more vRAN capacity.

Among the key networking features in Linux 6.2 is initial support for 800 Gbps wired networking as well as support for the emerging WiFi 7 wireless standard. The Linux 6.2 kernel also introduces a protective load-balancing feature that could potentially have a significant impact on reducing networking traffic congestion.

Ray, the popular open-source machine learning (ML) framework, has released its 2.2 version with improved performance and observability capabilities, as well as features that can help to enable reproducibility.

With the new release, Red Hat is integrating new capabilities to help improve security and compliance for OpenShift, as well as new deployment options on ARM-based architectures. The OpenShift 4.12 release comes as Red Hat continues to expand its footprint, announcing partnerships with Oracle and SAP this week.

Among the most popular CMS technologies is the open-source Drupal framework, which debuted in 2001 and has continued to evolve over the last two decades.

After nearly a year of operation, the OpenSSF today issued an annual report outlining what Alpha-Omega has actually achieved to advance the state of open-source security.

The new Kubernetes 1.26 release integrates new security, storage, container registry and performance capabilities. A total of 6,877 individuals representing 976 different companies contributed to the release.

One of the biggest improvements in the 1.26 release isn’t to be found in any one piece of code, but rather in how the project is managed.

Not all features that were initially in development for Ubuntu 22.10 made it into the final release. One such feature is support for Azure AD (Active Directory), which is Microsoft’s cloud service for directory and user authentication.