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Eight Key Features for IT Managers in Latest Docker Release

As Docker the company continues to push its eponymous platform for building, deploying, and running applications in Linux containers into more enterprise data centers, more and more improvements are focused on the traditional enterprise IT musts, such as high availability and security. Continue reading

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New Version of Ubuntu Includes LXD Hypervisor and OpenStack Kilo Support

The latest release of Ubuntu will be available for download on various platforms this week, and will add significant server updates including support for the Linux container-based LXD hypervisor, and it is the first major operating system to offer production-ready OpenStack Kilo. Continue reading

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Security Certificate Project ‘Let’s Encrypt’ Becomes a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

A new Certificate Authority initiative called “Let’s Encrypt” that aims to make switching a webserver from HTTP to HTTPS as easy as issuing one command or clicking one button is now being hosted by the Linux Foundation as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Continue reading

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Cloud Firm Linode to Add Singapore, Germany Data Centers

Linode is one of those technology success stories that start with Linux and a dream. The company started in 2003, three years before Amazon Web Services hit the scene, and was 100 percent bootstrapped. Now it’s an international hosting and cloud provider expanding into two new markets: Frankfurt and Singapore. Continue reading

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GHOST Vulnerability Poses Threat to Most Linux Systems

Cloud security and compliance company Qualys discovered a high severity vulnerability in the Linux GNU C Library (or “glibc”) that could allow attackers to remotely execute code and gain control of Linux systems. Continue reading

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