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Open Source, Cutting the Cost of a Gallon of Milk
As consumers, we routinely go to the grocery store in search of the goods we need for our daily lives, each of which is conveniently labelled with a nice little yellow tag indicating the price we'll pay at the cash register. Have you ever stopped to think about how that…
NYSE Technologies Opens Up Trading Technology with Middleware as Open Source
As the first week of November 2011 began, the New York Stock Exchange Technologies rolled out its new open source & standards middleware in a push to further make the trading markets vendor neutral. That a firm so reliant on smoothly functioning and secure technology has done this provides another…
Blog Series #1: Building a Smarter, Faster and Cheaper Government
Moving State and Local Government to the Open Source and Cloud Technology Model In the coming weeks, the Emergent blog will feature a series of topics discussing various open source and cloud technologies that state and local governments could adopt to save money and run more efficiently. This introduction is…
Open Source in the Cloud Movement
It's no grand revelation that there is a massive movement underway in the IT world today: Cloud. Everywhere you turn, the Cloud movement is proving that business applications should be provisioned instantly, from secured multi-tenant facilities, with built-in availability & disaster recovery, run by professionals, and securely accessible from the…
Security of Open Source Solutions
In the modern era of computing there is little doubt that cyber security either is or ought to be amongst the top considerations for any IT decision maker. Day after day, the headlines are filled with stories of intrusions, data theft, or worse. Within this context, the question of which…
KVM - The Open Source Enterprise Hypervisor
It's no secret that VMware currently dominates the on premise virtualization landscape with somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% market share. With this statistic in mind, it would seem logical that VMware products (and specifically their hypervisors) would equally dominate in cloud deployments. However, this isn't what we see. From…
Lessons Learned: The Sony PlayStation Network Breach
Sony today reported a 2nd breach of 8500 accounts on the the heels of the unauthorized disclosure of over 70 million records orginally reported by Sony on April 22nd 2011. These security breaches included the exposure of credit card information directly from the Sony PlayStation Network. These large scale incidents…
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