Open Source

What were the most important stories concerning "compute engines" in 2019? Here's three that we think will affect the direction of IT for years to come.

Based on the secure chip in Pixel phones, the recently open sourced project holds promise for data center hardware.

Cloud-native technologies like containers and microservices have made infrastructure infinitely more complex. Service meshes are there to help.

IHS: More than half of all bare-metal data center switches sold in Q2 were OCP-certified

In addition to Knative, which is for deploying serverless workloads, Google evidently plans to keep the Kubernetes service mesh, Istio, in-house.

The relationship between CentOS and Red Hat is important because CentOS has a huge installed base, mostly comprised of well-staffed enterprises wanting to take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's rock-solid stability, but without the expense...

A lot changed for the open-source framework in a decade, thanks to the power of the cloud, but Hadoop still has a place.