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Kubernetes 1.32 'Penelope' Introduces Key Innovations for Open Source Cloud Deployment

  • ITprotoday; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Dec 13, 2024 4:34 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
Kubernetes 1.32 boasts 44 enhancements, including new standardization to the platform and improved dynamic resource allocation.

ServiceNow open sources Fast-LLM in a bid to help enterprises train AI models 20% quicker

  • VentureBeat; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Dec 12, 2024 5:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Because it is an open source technology, anyone can use Fast-LLM to help accelerate AI training, including fine tuning operations. The intent is that it can be a drop-in replacement to an existing AI training pipeline with minimal configuration changes. The new open source project aims to differentiate against commonly used AI training frameworks, including the open-source PyTorch, with a series of innovations for data parallelism and memory management.

Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds

  • ITprotoday; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Dec 6, 2024 12:07 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Linux Foundation's Census III report reveals critical dependencies and growing security concerns in open source software.

Open source vector database vendor targets enterprise AI costs with cloud update

  • VentureBeat; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Nov 20, 2024 2:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Cloud
With vector databases becoming more crucial, enterprises are taking an ever closer look at performance and cost. Zilliz, the company behind the open-source Milvus vector database, is announcing new features aimed at dramatically reducing costs and complexity for production deployments, addressing the growing demands of enterprise users who have moved beyond initial experiments to full-scale AI implementations.

KubeCon 2024: Innovations and Milestones Shape Future of Cloud-Native Tech

  • ITProToday; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Nov 19, 2024 8:03 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 celebrated Kubernetes' 10th anniversary with major announcements, cloud-native certifications, and key updates from CNCF graduated projects.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 gains security, networking upgrades

  • NetworkWorld; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Nov 15, 2024 9:23 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 debuts with new security features, improved web console management, and updated networking capabilities to simplify enterprise IT operations.

SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the edge

  • NetworkWorld; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Oct 15, 2024 3:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SUSE
SUSE Edge 3.1 includes a new stack validation framework and an image builder tool that are aimed at improving the scalability and manageability of complex Kubernetes and Linux edge-computing deployments.

Python 3.13 Boosts Performance and Developer Experience

  • ITProToday; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Oct 9, 2024 8:15 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Developer, Python
One of the most notable additions in version 3.13 of Python — the most popular programming language — is the new and improved interactive interpreter.

PostgreSQL 17 accelerates open source database with replication and JSON tables

  • VentureBeat; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Sep 27, 2024 5:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community
As with all PostgreSQL releases there is a focus on improved performance. For enterprise users, a key focus of the update is a series of innovations that will make the database easier to use and manage. PostgreSQL has always been a relational database, but with the new release, it now integrates more JSON document database capabilities, that many enterprises commonly associate with the MongoDB Atlas database.

Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting bette

  • NetworkWorld; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Sep 12, 2024 3:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too.

New Apache Cassandra 5.0 gives open source NoSQL database a scalability and performance boost

After years of development effort and community discussion, the open-source Apache Cassandra 5.0 database is finally generally available. The new database update offers enterprises the promise of improved performance, AI enablement and better data efficiency.

Open source Wireshark 4.4 boosts network protocol visibility

  • NetworkWorld; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Sep 3, 2024 4:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview, News Story
The creator of the popular open-source network protocol analyzer talks about what’s new in Wireshark 4.4, how governance has changed, and what to expect next.

SUSE expands Linux Enterprise support to 2037, unveils product updates

  • SDxCentral.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Jun 20, 2024 4:42 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SUSE
From extended Linux support lifecycles to enhanced Kubernetes platform capabilities, SUSE is aiming to give customers expanded choice while enabling emerging technological use cases. As part of its SUSEcon updates, there are new versions of multiple platforms including SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 service pack 6, SUSE Manager, Rancher Prime 3.1, NeuVector Prime 5.4 and Harvester 1.3.1, SUSE Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform 3.0 and SUSE Edge 3.0

How the Linux Foundation aims to simplify multicloud networking

In a move to address the growing complexity of cloud networking, the Linux Foundation launched Paraglider, an open source initiative designed to simplify setting up and managing networks across multiple cloud providers.

OpenTofu 1.7 touts state encryption, open source Hashicorp Terraform drama continues

  • SDxCentral.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on May 1, 2024 4:50 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Not only is OpenTofu 1.7 an open source IAC technology that can potentially replace Hashicorp’s Terraform, it also goes a step further introducing a series of new features as well.

Kubernetes 1.30 (aka Uwubernetes) boosts cloud-native networking

  • SDxCentral.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Apr 21, 2024 7:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Cloud
The Kubernetes 1.30 update packs major improvements across core areas like networking, storage, scheduling and code architecture, further demonstrating Kubernetes’ continued evolution to support diverse cloud native workloads and environments.

StarlingX 9.0 open source cloud platform boosts performance for telco and edge

  • SDxCentral.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Apr 15, 2024 6:47 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Cloud
The open source StarlingX project is out with its 9.0 release, promising improved performance and capabilities for users of the telco and edge-focused cloud computing platform.

The StarlingX project is part of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, which is the home of the OpenStack cloud computing platform. In addition to OpenStack, StarlingX integrates Kubernetes and Ceph to help enable edge computing to telco use cases. T

Open source Apache Airflow 2.9 advances data orchestration as AI usage grows

  • VentureBeat; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Apr 8, 2024 6:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Apache, Cloud
The open-source Apache Airflow 2.9 release is out today, providing users of the widely deployed data orchestration platform with a series of advanced capabilities. The Apache Airflow technology was created by Airbnb as a way to help better organize and manage the flow of information in data pipelines. Airflow integrates with major data platforms and cloud provider systems including Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud

It’s Prime time for SUSE, as Rancher Prime 3.0 debuts

  • SDxCentral.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Mar 21, 2024 7:15 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SUSE
SUSE updated its container management and edge computing platforms with a pair of releases that boost security and automation. Rancher Prime 3.0 is SUSE’s flagship commercially supported container management platform. SUSE Edge 3.0 is, as the name implies, an edge computing platform that optimizes the Rancher platform for edge-of-network deployments.

Why it’s time to add some GUAC to open source supply chain security

No GUAC is not a tasty avocado based dip for nachos, The graph for understanding artifact composition (GUAC) is all about improving software supply chain security.GUAC is celebrating a major milestone today, joining the OpenSSF as an incubating project.

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