Tech giants are lately releasing the code of many solutions. It seems to be an altruist way of helping the Open Source community, but this supposed change of mind could be part of an enterprise strategy.
Such is the case of Google and Microsoft, that are hitting the headlines and social media for open sourcing some of their products.
Google has open sourced Seesaw, a Linux-based load balancing system written with Go programming language.
Some time ago, Google used two different load balancing systems, but after registering both management and stability issues, they decided to develop their own solution: Seesaw.
This software enables to “increase service availability and reduce management” overhead, explains Joel Sing, Google Site Reliability Engineer
New vulnerabilities emerge every day, threatening enterprise information security. In order to avoid data and devices getting infected, it is important to find them out early so they can be fixed as soon as possible.
There are Open Source tools which can help to identify vulnerabilities, such as web servers and applications scanners, analysis tools, fuzzers… Below you can find a useful selection:
Nowadays, IT administrators face the challenge of monitoring thousands of users accessing corporate environments at the same time 24×7. These users can be anywhere and they use a wide variety of devices. In this scenario, how can we catch performance issues before they happen?
One of the options is monitoring VDI workloads effectively. If admins know how a virtual dektops environment behaves, they can provide a better experience to end users.
The first Kali Linux Rolling Edition is available after 5 months of testing, featuring the stability of Debian together with the latest versions of many outstanding penetration testing tools created by the information security community.
This new model of release feeds continuously from Debian testing, so the kali-rolling repository will always hold the latest stable releases of monitored tools after 24-48 hours being released.
Thousands of Open Source and free software developers from all over the world will meet very soon at FOSDEM 2016 to share ideas, collaborate and discuss about latest and future trends.
This free event organized by and for the community will take place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January 2016 in Brussels. The goal is to promote and widespread the use of free and Open Source software.
