After being held in San Francisco past August, VMworld 2015 will start in Barcelona next 12th October with the theme Ready for Any.
From next Monday untill Thursday 15th, attendees will enjoy in-depth training, hands-on experience and networking opportunities with leading industry experts.
Apple has decided not to renew VMware‘s license agreement for server virtualization and it is planning to move to an Open Source alternative: KVM. So says CRN in this article published yesterday.
The company has been using VMware’s server virtualization and cloud management software from 2011 to run part of its IT corporate infrastructure.
It seems that Apple’s executives don’t agree with the terms described in the license agreement extension, which would cost around 20 million dollars and that’s the main reason why they have decided not to renew it.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), the nonprofit organization that promotes and defends free software use, celebrates tomorrow October 3rd its 30 birthday. An anniversary party will be held in Boston and all their supporters are invited.
But Boston won’t be the only scenario for this celebration, since different groups have organized around 20 meetings around the world.
A botnet made up of Linux computers is generating over 150 Gbps per second denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), which are seriously threatening some companies, since they are much more powerful than infraestructures can usually support.
This botnet is targeting around 20 sites each day, 90% located in Asia. The most common targets are online gaming and educational sites.
The malware feeding the botnet is called XOR DDoS and it was identified in September 2014 for the first time. Now, a the security response team from Akamai Technologies has discovered a new wave of attacks.
DefCore defines the capabilities, code & tests productos labelled as OpenStack must pass, thus creating a standard and the minimum requirements these solutions must meet.
It is a way of increasing user’s trust guaranteeing that those projects which aren’t mature enough to become part of OpenStack’s ecosystem are filtered if they don’t meet the defined standards.
CloudOpen will be held in Dublin next October 5th, 6th & 7th. This conference organized by The Linux Foundation is designed to provide a collaboration and education space to advance the open cloud.
This event gathers together the Open Source projects, products, technologies and companies that comprise the cloud and are driving the cloud, big data and networking ecosystems.
