Top Open Source Software Challenges for 2017
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 3, 2017
Open source software is thriving, but it faces challenges related to cloud computing, IoT, corporate control, software forks and more. Read More.
Interview: Cloud Foundry on its 2017 awareness-raising plans for open source PaaS
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Cloud Foundry’s executive director, Abby Kearns, sets out the organisation’s plans to ensure that market awareness of the platform keeps pace with its rapid enterprise adoption
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Launching an Open Source Book Project
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
In my list of planned 2017 projects , I mentioned that one thing I’d like to do this year is launch an open source book project. Well, I’m excited to announce The Open vSwitch Cookbook , an Apache 2.0-licensed licensed book project aimed at providing “how to” recipes for Open vSwitch (OVS).
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Looking Back: 2017 Project Report Card
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 4, 2018
As has become my custom for the past several years, I wanted to take a look at how well I fared on my 2017 project list. Normally I’d publish this before the end of 2017, but during this past holiday season I decided to more fully “unplug” and focus on the truly important things in life (like my family).
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Looking Ahead: My 2017 Projects
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 30, 2017
In this post, I’m going to share my list of planned projects for 2017. Without further ado, here’s the list for 2017: Finish the network automation book. One way or another, the network automation book I’m writing with Jason Edelman and Matt Oswalt is getting finished in 2017. Launch an open source book project.
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Unfold Latest Features of SQL Server 2017
Galido
MAY 18, 2017
From Python to graphic database to the various other focused changes, let’s have a look through the major features arriving with SQL Server 2017. Reporting Services benefited from a big overhaul in SQL Server 2016, and more improvements are coming in SQL Server 2017. Python power comes to SQL Server 2017.
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IDG Contributor Network: 5 cybersecurity trends to watch for 2017
Network World
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Companies of all sizes have embraced the cloud and open source has become the standard for infrastructure software. A major datacenter attack or failure could be problematic for many companies, and we can certainly expect an increase in the number of cyber-attacks based on open source vulnerabilities.
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Adobe just released the last Flash update ever
The Verge
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Flash has been on the chopping block since 2017 when Adobe announced it would finally end support. An open-source emulator called Ruffle will enable old Flash files through a desktop app or web browser. “We are proud that Flash had a crucial role in evolving web content across animation, interactivity, audio, and video.
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Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform
GeekWire
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Pulumi has more than 2,000 customers, including more than half of the Fortune 50, and counts 150,000 users on its open-source platform. Other existing backers including Silicon Valley heavyweight NEA, Bellevue, Wash.-based
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Google disables Maps traffic data in Ukraine to protect citizens
The Verge
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
One open source intelligence (OSINT) expert said he saw signs of the Russian invasion early last Thursday after spotting unusual “traffic jams” at the Ukrainian border on Google Maps. “I Usually, this data has to be combined with other sources to provide reliable info.
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98 X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source
Nutanix
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions.
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Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs in latest effort to identify Internet of Things security gaps
GeekWire
JUNE 2, 2021
the company behind the Binwalk open-source software that identifies hidden security vulnerabilities in firmware, the software programmed into the memory of devices to provide basic hardware control. Microsoft has expanded its focus on device security under CEO Satya Nadella. GeekWire File Photo).
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X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source
Nutanix
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions.
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20 X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source
Nutanix
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions.
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X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source
Nutanix
JULY 12, 2019
Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions.
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Open vSwitch Day at OpenStack Summit 2017
Scott Lowe
MAY 9, 2017
This is a “liveblog” (not quite live, but you get the idea) of the Open vSwitch Open Source Day happening at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. That wrapped up the OVS Open Source Day at the OpenStack Summit. Summaries of each of the presentations are included below. Kubernetes and OVN on Windows.
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Open vSwitch Day at OpenStack Summit 2017
Scott Lowe
MAY 9, 2017
This is a “liveblog” (not quite live, but you get the idea) of the Open vSwitch Open Source Day happening at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. That wrapped up the OVS Open Source Day at the OpenStack Summit. Summaries of each of the presentations are included below. Kubernetes and OVN on Windows.
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60 X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source
Nutanix
MAY 9, 2018
Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions.
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How Faulty Data Breaks Your Machine Learning Process
Dataconomy
JUNE 23, 2017
This article is part of a media partnership with PyData Berlin, a group helping support open-source data science libraries and tools. To learn more about this topic, please consider attending our fourth annual PyData Berlin conference on June 30-July 2, 2017. Miroslav Batchkarov and other experts will be giving talks.
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78 DockerCon EU 2017 Day 1 Keynote
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 17, 2017
This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote/general session at DockerCon EU 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Hykes says that this integration was made possible by the transition earlier this year (announced in Austin) to the Moby Project, which is the upstream open source project that then becomes the Docker CE and Docker EE products.
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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2023
According to Technology Evaluation Centers, the most popular software includes: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) , an open-source framework for building Python programs to work with human language data. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.
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Canceling the OVS Cookbook Project
Scott Lowe
MARCH 27, 2017
In my list of proposed 2017 projects , I mentioned that I wanted to launch an open source book project. In late February, I launched The Open vSwitch Cookbook , an unofficial—as in not formally affiliated with the Open vSwitch (OVS) project—effort to gather together OVS “recipes” into an open source book.
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DataRobot Announces Expansion Into Federal Market With Erin Hawley as VP Public Sector
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- DataRobot , an industry leader in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced it is expanding into the federal market, beginning with the appointment of a Vice President of Public Sector. The press release below gives us reason to hold them in even higher regard: BOSTON , Jan.
American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing
Cloud Musings
JUNE 29, 2017
This critical failure has been highlighted by a number of newsworthy incidents including: · Delta, April 4, 2017 - Following storms that affected its Atlanta hub, Delta's crew-scheduling systems failed, causing days of operational issues for the airline. 23, 2017 - An outage at JetBlue forced the airline to check in passengers manually in Ft.
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Looking Back: 2016 Project Report Card
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Even though 2016 isn’t over yet, it’s close enough to the end of the year that things won’t change that much before 2017 is upon us. Make more open source contributions. Make more open source contributions: This is another area I continue to struggle. Expand my knowledge and use of Python. Shame on me.
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60 Most Perspective Gadgets In 2017 That Will Enchant You
Galido
JULY 27, 2017
It seems now that everything has been invented and it is unlikely that a person can come up with anything original, but we have compiled a list of the most perspective gadgets of 2017, which will certainly surprise you. The post Most Perspective Gadgets In 2017 That Will Enchant You appeared first on Information Technology Blog.
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Unlocking the Secrets of Software-based DRM: A Comprehensive Guide
Kitaboo
MAY 23, 2023
According to a 2017 survey, $315 million in book sales were lost due to ebook piracy. Can software-based DRM be used in open-source software? Yes, software-based DRM can be implemented in open-source software. Does software-based DRM impact the performance of software applications?
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NFL reveals new ‘Expected Rush Yards’ stat, with help from Amazon Web Services
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
” According to Amazon , more than 2,000 people participated in the open-source contest and a two-person team from Austria — who had more expertise in machine learning than American football — came away as winners. — Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) July 20, 2020.
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10 most in-demand generative AI skills
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
TensorFlow Developed by Google as an open-source machine learning framework, TensorFlow is most used to build and train machine learning models and neural networks. Most relevant roles for making use of NLP include data scientist , machine learning engineer, software engineer, data analyst , and software developer.
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Facebook tries to revamp password recovery by supplanting email
Network World
JANUARY 30, 2017
The company is releasing an open source protocol that will let third-party sites recover user accounts through Facebook. It asked me what my favorite color was, and it let me guess as many times as I wanted,” he said Monday, during a presentation at the USENIX Enigma 2017 security conference. Forgot your password?
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The Risks In Using Third-Party Code
ForAllSecure
MARCH 11, 2021
BlackDuck Software uncovered that 67% of the applications they analyzed contained open source security vulnerabilities. In September 2017, Equifax faced a data breach. The breach was made possible due to a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open source server framework, Apache Struts. Free is Never Free.
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Network World
JULY 22, 2016
The open-source developer added that in 2017 it will dramatically expand the anti-Flash restrictions: Firefox will require users to explicitly approve the use of Flash for any reason by any website. Mozilla yesterday said it will follow other browser markers by curtailing use of Flash in Firefox next month.
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Why ForAllSecure Is On MIT Technology Review's 2017 List Of Smartest Companies
ForAllSecure
JUNE 27, 2017
I am honored to share that ForAllSecure has been named to MIT Technology Review’s 2017 list of 50 Smartest Companies. This means Mayhem solves two fundamental issues that slow down the state of the art today: 1) No need for source code, so even 3 rd party code that is open source or legacy can be analyzed, 2) zero false positives.
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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
The Verge
APRIL 30, 2021
I’ve spent the past week digging into this world — the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. The story begins in 2017, when a systems-security researcher named Kangjie Lu became an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.
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126 Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.
All Things Distributed
MAY 19, 2017
They would love to migrate to an open-source style database like MySQL or PostgresSQL if only such a database could meet the enterprise-grade reliability and performance these high-scale applications required. I hope you will enjoy reading this paper this weekend as it contain many gems about modern database design.
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The Risks In Using Third-Party Code
ForAllSecure
MARCH 11, 2021
BlackDuck Software uncovered that 67% of the applications they analyzed contained open source security vulnerabilities. In September 2017, Equifax faced a data breach. The breach was made possible due to a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open source server framework, Apache Struts. Free is Never Free.
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Nmap security scanner gets new scripts, performance boosts
Network World
DECEMBER 21, 2016
The Nmap Project just released the Holiday Edition of its open source cross-platform security scanner and network mapper, with several important improvements and bug fixes. 15, 2017: Use code 8TIISZ4Z. ]. GET A 15% DISCOUNT through Jan.15,
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Why ForAllSecure Is On MIT Technology Review's 2017 List Of Smartest Companies
ForAllSecure
JUNE 27, 2017
I am honored to share that ForAllSecure has been named to MIT Technology Review’s 2017 list of 50 Smartest Companies. This means Mayhem solves two fundamental issues that slow down the state of the art today: 1) No need for source code, so even 3 rd party code that is open source or legacy can be analyzed, 2) zero false positives.
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WHY FORALLSECURE IS ON MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW’S 2017 LIST OF SMARTEST COMPANIES
ForAllSecure
JUNE 27, 2017
I am honored to share that ForAllSecure has been named to MIT Technology Review’s 2017 list of 50 Smartest Companies. This means Mayhem solves two fundamental issues that slow down the state of the art today: 1) No need for source code, so even 3 rd party code that is open source or legacy can be analyzed, 2) zero false positives.
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Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea
Vox
APRIL 15, 2021
In 2017, Facebook launched a kids version of its Messenger app. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.
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Amazon vets raise $4M from Madrona, Bezos Expeditions, others for AI2 spinout WhyLabs
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
“I left Amazon with a vision to enable every enterprise to operate AI reliably,” said Visnjic, who departed Amazon in 2017. ” It offers an open-source library that integrates with various on-premise or cloud infrastructure services and monitors activity. Now she wants to bring that ability to any company.
Looking Back: 2018 Project Report Card
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 28, 2018
For example, here’s my project report card for 2017.) Make three contributions to open source projects. Make three contributions to open source projects: I’m very pleased to report that my contributions to open source projects have increased significantly during 2018.
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The Fuzzing Files: The Anatomy of a Heartbleed
ForAllSecure
JULY 28, 2020
In late March 2014, two teams of security researchers independently started fuzz testing OpenSSL, an open source utility that encrypts traffic from a web browser to a server and forms the basis of trusted transactions online. He describes the events leading up to it in this 2017 podcast. Responsible Disclosure.
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The Fuzzing Files: The Anatomy of a Heartbleed
ForAllSecure
JULY 28, 2020
In late March 2014, two teams of security researchers independently started fuzz testing OpenSSL, an open source utility that encrypts traffic from a web browser to a server and forms the basis of trusted transactions online. He describes the events leading up to it in this 2017 podcast. Responsible Disclosure.
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