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OpenInfra Summit Europe: Digital sovereignty in the face of political tension

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Geopolitical tension and its potential impact on open source was one of the main focus points during the OpenInfra Foundation European summit held in Paris on 16–19 October. When asked about OpenStack’s resilience given the volatile geopolitical climate, Jonathan Bryce, executive director at the OpenInfra Foundation, said: “The thing that I love about open source…

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Meet the IT leader In Lebanon who became an IT entrepreneur

5 minutes of reading / AI, fintech, IBM, Kubernetes, Oracle, Tech / By

Asked for his advice as to whether it’s a smart idea to switch from being an IT leader to running your own company, Nassib Chamoun has some advice for potential poachers turned gamekeepers. “If you’re looking for stability, my recommendation is to stay where you are as an employee,” he says. “If you can accept…

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Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging

3 minutes of reading / AI, Git, GitHub, Kubernetes, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

Nvidia has made its KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes-native graphics processing unit (GPU) scheduling tool, available as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. KAI Scheduler, which is part of the Nvidia Run:ai platform, is designed to manage artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on GPUs and central processing units (CPUs). According to Nvidia, KAI is able to…

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Why geopolitics risks global open source collaborations

6 minutes of reading / cloud-native, compliance, edge computing, Git, GitHub, Huawei, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…

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QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration

4 minutes of reading / AI, Kubernetes, Tech / By

Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block pattern. The solution is to write data in key-value format and cut out the block addressing middleman. That’s the view of Silicon Valley startup QiStor,…

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Kubernetes at 10: CRDs at core of extensible, modular storage in K8s

7 minutes of reading / AI, API, AWS, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud-native, Docker, Google, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, Snap, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. Xing Yang, cloud-native storage tech lead at VMware by Broadcom, started working on storage in Kubernetes in 2017 on projects based around custom resource definitions (CRDs), which allow the orchestration platform to work around an extensible core. Later, she went on to see container…

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Kubernetes and storage in the enterprise: What the analysts say

5 minutes of reading / cloud-native, compliance, containers, DevOps, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, Tech / By

Kubernetes and containerised applications are growing rapidly across enterprises. Although Kubernetes has been around for more than 10 years, it’s now predicted to become a mainstream part of IT architecture as organisations look to make more use of cloud-native applications. But take-up of Kubernetes – aka K8s – and storage and data protection in particular,…

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Podcast: Storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, business continuity, cloud-native, compliance, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, open source, Tech / By

In this podcast, we look at storage features expected in Kubernetes 1.31 with Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases. Pronin talks about storage functionality expected in this week’s 1.31 release, but also what he sees as some of the gaps in terms of storage…

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What are the options when migrating from VMware?

5 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, compliance, digital transformation, Kubernetes, microservices, Microsoft, Oracle, Tech / By

It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…

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Kubernetes at 10: The long road to mastery of persistent storage

5 minutes of reading / agile, AI, API, cloud-native, containers, Docker, Flex, Kubernetes, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. Jan Safranek, principal software engineer at Red Hat, was there during the flurry of activity that saw Docker and then Kubernetes explode onto the scene and businesses and developers grapple with how to provide it with persistent storage. Safranek was there when…

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