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5 open source alternatives for routing/firewall

Network World

Economical and flexible Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These products can be downloaded and deployed on your own hardware, on a virtual platform, or in the cloud. Many of them sell pre-configured appliances as well.

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How Open Hybrid Clouds Will Change Cloud Computing

CTOvision

The cloud has evolved quickly. Businesses have weighed the perks of private, public, and even hybrid clouds. If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. A New Force in the Cloud Market. The DoD’s technology development community can use open source software and collaborate privately.

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Review: 5 open source alternatives for routers/firewalls

Network World

Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These open source products deliver simple routing and networking features, like DHCP and DNS. We reviewed five products: ClearOS, DD-WRT, pfSense, Untangle and ZeroShell.

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Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises that pushed in early to the cloud fared far better than their competition, Grant Thornton chief among them. But the benefits of buying in early to cloud-based productivity services didn’t stop there for Grant Thornton. So, Swift signed on before the official launch of Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC roughly one year ago.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host.

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Critical Xen hypervisor flaw endangers virtualized environments

Network World

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.