Find 'Skater Tux' and Win Cool Linux Skateboard

In case you didn’t already know, the location for this year’s LinuxCon – San Diego – is known for its skaters. That’s right, the skateboarding variety. What happens when you combine the Linux community with a skateboard mecca? You get...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 3, 2012

CloudOpen Keynote Q&A: OpenStack's Maffulli Says Open Cloud is New Frontier of Innovation

OpenStack’s Stefano Maffulli is on the opening keynote panel at CloudOpen Wednesday morning August 29. He will be joined by Mark Hinkle from Citrix, Greg DeKoenigsberg from Eucalyptus and John Mark Walker from Red Hat on a panel titled...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 2, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 30

This week in the open source cloud headlines, SUSE makes a splash with its pro-open blog post on Forbes and a shout-out from OStatic for its own cloud contribution. Rackspace and HP both debuted OpenStack-based clouds this week. And...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 2, 2012

Inktank’s Ceph: An Open Source Storage Solution for the Enterprise

Editor’s Note: This profile is part of an ongoing weekly series on Leaders of the Open Cloud in advance of CloudOpen, Aug. 29-31 in San Diego. Launched in May, Inktank is one of the newest companies to enter the still very new open source...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 31, 2012

My Top Five Sessions at the CloudOpen Conference

CloudOpen will make its debut in a little over a month in beautiful San Diego alongside LinuxCon. While it will still be the best deal in technology conferences, the registration price goes up on Sunday. (Why do I think it’s a good deal?...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 27, 2012

Top Open Source Cloud Headlines Week of July 23

This week’s top open source cloud news features VMware’s acquisition of Nicira; a Q&A with Citrix’s Mark Hinkle; the pros and cons of open source cloud platforms for IT managers; and insider news that Nebula has enticed some Rackspace...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 26, 2012

CloudOpen Q&A: SUSE's Michael Miller on Why Linux is the Natural OS for the Cloud

In the latest of our LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynote Q&A series we talk to SUSE‘s Vice President of Global Alliances Michael Miller. Miller will be talking in his keynote at the events about how service-oriented clouds are bridging the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

The Linux Talent Draft is On

Make no mistake: the Linux draft is on. While the NFL season prepares to get underway there is an ongoing, intensive draft for Linux talent taking place right now. We hear this from companies large and small, universities from all over the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

Ask a Kernel Maintainer

I’ve been writing an occasional “Ask a kernel maintainer” column on the lwn.net weekly kernel page. It’s been a while since I last wrote one, so I figured it’s time to start it up again. So, consider this an open request for questions that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

OpenStack Quantum Project Aims to Define Future of Networking

Much debate has occurred recently over whether Amazon’s API should be considered a de facto standard by cloud computing service providers. Those who reject this notion (ahem, Lew Moorman) say you can’t clone Amazon’s cloud by copying its...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2012

Citrix’s Hinkle Proposes Linux Model for an Open Source Cloud

As the Senior Director of Cloud Computing Community at Citrix, Mark Hinkle oversees Citrix efforts around the open source Apache CloudStack IaaS platform and Xen hypervisor projects. Citrix is still very closely involved in CloudStack,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 24, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 16

This week’s open source cloud headlines include several OpenStack-related announcements, denials from VMware that it might spin off its own open source Cloud Foundry and a new global-scale CloudStack deployment. HP Cloud Object Storage and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2012

Calling All DevOps People: Chef 101 Workshop at CloudOpen

With both private and public clouds, increasingly complex virtualized environments and data getting bigger every day, DevOps folks are looking for ways to automate their infrastructure and expose data that informs important decisions about...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2012

LinuxCon Keynote Q&A: Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok on Why Linux is Essential to the Company's Success

This week’s LinuxCon/CloudOpen keynote Q&A is with Qualcomm Innovation Center President Rob Chandhok. He will be talking about “Mobility, Proximal Data and Compute Meshes” at the event just next month in San Diego. Here he gives us a peek...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2012

Congratulations to Our T-shirt Design Contest Winners

Congratulations to Brian Beck and Sabrina Aqil, our two winners in The Linux Foundation’s 2012 “Inspired by Linux” T-shirt Design Contest! Their awesome t-shirt designs took first and second place, respectively, in the community vote. The...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 18, 2012

Chef Offers a Recipe for the Open Source Cloud

Editor’s note: I spoke with Opscode CTO Chris Brown last week in advance of his keynote panel, “IaaS vs. PaaS: Composable primitives for building in the cloud,” at CloudOpen, Aug. 29-31 in San Diego. Opscode is also offering a Chef 101...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 17, 2012

LinuxCon Keynote Q&A: The OSS Behind a Tweet

The roster of keynote speakers for this year’s LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen events is mind blowing. I’ve got my favorites marked on my schedule and am excited to share a recent conversation I had with one of them. Twitter’s Open...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 12, 2012

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of July 9

This week the open cloud news headlines feature the OpenNebula 3.6 release, a new cloud controller plug-in for OpenStack and an interview with Rackspace’s Lew Moorman on APIs and the open cloud, among other things. OpenNebula quietly keeps...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 12, 2012

Lew Moorman: Open Cloud Key to Modern Networking

Rackspace President Lew Moorman made a splash late last month with his talk at GigaOM’s Structure conference on vendor lock-in and the cloud. He argued that simply cloning proprietary APIs doesn’t solve the compatibility problem for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 10, 2012

HP Public Cloud Aims to Boost OpenStack Customer Base

Hewlett-Packard is one of several high profile companies working to deploy public and private clouds on the OpenStack platform. HP has announced plans to become a platinum member of the OpenStack® Foundation and has played a key role in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 3, 2012

New Open Cloud Computing Forum on Linux.com

Linux.com has started a new forum for community members to discuss cloud computing and the open cloud. Just like the Linux Foundation’s upcoming CloudOpen conference in August, the forum is intended to help highlight the people, projects...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 28, 2012

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of June 25

Red Hat dominates the open source cloud news this week with a string of product launch and acquisition announcements from the Red Hat Summit in Boston and the ensuing commentary from the blogosphere. Red Hat: Keep clouds open, like Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 28, 2012

Survey: SMBs Prefer Debian on File Servers, Seek Cloud Backup Options

Small and medium-sized businesses prefer Debian over Red Hat and CentOS for operating their file servers, according to a survey released Monday by cloud storage network provider Symform. The survey of 100 companies with Linux file servers...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 26, 2012

Why We're Fighting for an Open Cloud

A few months ago I announced a new Linux Foundation conference called CloudOpen built to spotlight and advance the conversation on the open projects, companies and technologies that make up cloud computing. I am pleased to announce the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 21, 2012

How to Get a Discount on Embedded Linux Training in Silicon Valley this July

The Linux Foundation’s embedded development training has helped companies like Compunetix with their transition to Linux and allowed individuals (even 13-year engineering veterans) to expand upon their existing knowledge of embedded. We’re...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 21, 2012