In what might well be a technology industry first, an enterprising student at the Holberton School of Software Engineering in San Francisco, California, penned and posted a three-minute in-class rap performance about bash scripting. As the video went viral (at least inside the software community), it even caught the attention of Linus Torvalds, creator and ...

Being able to mix and match software components in container configuration has become an important part of virtualizing the distribution of applications in the enterprise stack. So when Docker Inc. announced the Moby Project at DockerCon earlier this year, it was both an opportunity to capitalize on innovations in the open-source community to further the container cause, ...

An ambitious project to recycle plastic refuse in developing countries that have little or no waste management systems is being powered by the IBM Blockchain. Big Blue’s use of the tamper-proof ledger system is only half the story, because the recycling project is also designed to pay people who bring in their plastic, a tricky proposition ...

The open-source community may be headed toward a major turning point, thanks to a security breach of epic scale. When news broke this month that the personal credit records, including names, birthdates, Social Security Numbers and home addresses of 143 million people had been breached at the credit rating bureau Equifax Inc., there was outrage. ...

If telecom giant CenturyLink Inc.’s proposed acquisition of fiber networking provider Level 3 gains final approval, it will give the company a new set of products to sell to enterprise customers and will fit nicely with its strategy to be a major multicloud network provider. CenturyLink has already made significant investments in virtualization and workload ...

The installation of new servers and ancillary hardware usually follows a five-year cycle in many enterprise data centers, although there is growing evidence that rapid change in information technology structures are causing cycle times to accelerate. VMware Inc. believes that 60 percent of its customers will be going through a server refresh by the end of ...

VMware Inc.’s continued rise in popularity is testimony to customers’ desire for a flexible, virtualized system that can facilitate a common data structure, from the edge to the data center, from private clouds to public clouds. But customers also need their systems to be secure, and this is gaining more attention as information technology vendors ...

Over the course of two full days of appearances in San Francisco this week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and three of his fellow commissioners covered a lot of ground, including 5G network deployment, small cell installation, broadcast spectrum auctions, emergency response, competition in the wireless industry and closing the digital divide. They even waxed ...

What if the cost of shipping a container halfway across the world could be reduced by 50 percent? Or patient records could be available immediately in any medical facility around the globe? Or every shipment of food could be tracked mile by mile to avoid spoilage? These are a few of the problems that the Hyperledger ...

After two years of work, the Open Container Initiative launched Version 1.0 for container runtime and image specifications in July. OCI’s foundation, formed by a number of container industry leaders, was tasked with the mission to create specifications that would support container portability across different operating systems and platforms. Red Hat Inc.’s chief technologist likes the specifications ...