Open Source

Mirantis and NTT launch their own partnership for OpenStack growth

The companies join forces to offer OpenStack as a service via NTT’s enterprise cloud and delivered from the company’s global data center network

SDN groups shack-up to promote standards, open software development

Open Networking Foundation and ON.Lab merge, promise to continue developing core open SDN projects

Red Hat and Ericsson sign open source deal

Expanded partnership will focus on OpenStack, NFV infrastructure, software-defined networking, software-defined infrastructure and containers

Facebook’s 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open

The Open Compute Project has accepted the Wedge 100 design, opening up a hardware-software ecosystem

Om nom Nomulus: Google open-sources TLD registry platform

Nomulus manages domain names on the Internet, shows off Google Cloud power

Down the rabbit hole, part 4: Securing your email

Want your email to be secure and private? Stay away from mainstream email and consider one of these options.

Ubuntu 16.10 targets hybrid cloud deployments, supports Unity 8 development

Canonical hopes its latest release of Ubuntu draws users away from Red Hat and SUSE

How blockchain can benefit IT outsourcing providers

IBM and Bank of Tokyo say they’ve developed a smart contract prototype to manage their IT services engagement on a blockchain. Here’s why IT outsourcing deals may be a low-risk proving ground for multiparty blockchain applications.

elementary OS 0.4: Review and interview with the founder

My thoughts about Loki (it's great, but not for me), and what elementary's founder, Daniel Foré, says is the best feature of the open source operating system

Book review — The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics