Tag: Open Source

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Dennis. To show you the latest capabilities of using Linux and Azure—and share some exciting announcements—we will be hosting Azure Open Source Day on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time. Push your apps and data to the next level by using Azure, open source, and Linux together. Join this free digital event to learn how to natively run your open-source workloads on Azure, expand their capabilities, and innovate in new ways using Azure services. At this event, you’ll learn how Microsoft is committed to open source and works ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. We are thrilled to have been awarded new funding as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science program’s education and capacity building strategy. This $400K grant will support a new project to enable more members of historically excluded groups to participate in, benefit from, and become leaders in the R, research software engineering, and open source and open science communities. Developers in the R and open source communities are overwhelmingly white, male, from a handful of countries, primarily English-speaking, and do not use assistive technologies to participate. Research software ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If you're looking to enforce CIS benchmarks with Puppet Compliance Enforcement Modules, click here.Enforcing CIS benchmarks on Linux using Open Source Puppet CIS (Center for Internet Security) is a non-profit organization that aims to develop a best practice in relation to cyber security. The CIS benchmarks have been adopted by many organizations as the standard against which to measure their systems. You can download a copy of the CIS standards for free from CIS Security; if you do, you'll see the high number of benchmarks. For example, for CentOS 7 there are 186 ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Any misgivings enterprises may have once had about adopting open source software for critical corporate functions is long gone. Studies show that over 90% of IT leaders consider open source software “strategically important” and that more than 87% of enterprises are running applications today that are open source. Enterprises embark on open source journeys – creating data pipelines with Splunk, using MuleSoft to connect applications, orchestrating workloads using containers – because they want to take advantage of open source software’s flexibility, shareability, and portability.Still, open source continues to cause headaches when it comes to support. As ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: William Ayd. Tableau is an innovator in the field of data visualization with its ease of use, stunning visualizations, vibrant community, and more contributing to success. Tableau recognizes that the way we use data today and the field of analytics is much different now than even a decade ago. There are currently strong offerings in both closed and open source software, and with Tableau, you get the best of both options as developers.  Visualization is, and I expect will always be, important to understand and help democratize data. However, improved hardware and machine learning algorithms are ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Proton now supports the definition of infrastructure in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) and the provisioning of infrastructure using Terraform Open Source through a git-based workflow. Platform teams define AWS Proton templates using Terraform modules, and AWS Proton leverages the customer-managed Terraform automation to provision or update the infrastructure. Customers can use Terraform as their infrastructure definition and provisioning tool, and AWS Proton will ensure that modules are used consistently and kept up to date. AWS Proton is the first fully managed application deployment service for containers and serverless. Platform teams can use AWS Proton to connect ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. One of the many reasons "the answer is Postgres" is due to its extensibility.The ability to extend Postgres has given rise to an ecosystem of Postgres extensions that change the behavior of the database to support a wide range of interesting capabilities. At Crunchy Data we are big fans of PostGIS, the geospatial extender for Postgres. Another extension we are asked about often is TimescaleDB. TimescaleDB is an open-source extension designed to make SQL scalable for time-series data. Timescale, Inc., the company behind TimescaleDB, provides an Apache 2 edition of TimescaleDB that is packaged as a Postgres extension that provides ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS released an open source Java (JDBC) driver to connect to Amazon Neptune. This makes it easy for customers to connect to Neptune with tools and libraries that support JDBC, such as popular Business Intelligence (BI) tools. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. Customers have asked us for an easy way to connect Neptune to BI tools in order to visualize their data and better understand the results of their queries. Customers can now connect their graph ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Take the OSP user survey now!The core of Puppet is an open source story. In the going-on two decades we’ve existed as a company — first as Reductive Labs then as Puppet Labs before becoming Puppet, Inc. — we have relied on the vision and expertise of our open source community. It’s a symbiotic relationship and the very definition of an ecosystem.After all, Puppet was built by IT ops professionals for IT ops professionals. We intimately understand the pain points of our users because we are those users. To build the best possible ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. Welcome to Microsoft Ignite. Today, I'm sharing how Microsoft is empowering you to innovate with cloud-native and open source on Azure. The growth of Kubernetes and cloud-native applications in Azure and the broader technology has been nothing short of humbling and awe-inspiring. Open innovation is at the heart of nearly every innovation in cloud computing. The cloud-native ecosystem empowers people to build applications that make it easy to take advantage of this innovation. It’s no surprise that according to IDC, more than 90 percent of new apps will be cloud-native by 2025.1 Using cloud-native ... Read More