Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Open-source cloud software maker Eucalyptus Systems has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, cash that will help the company serve quickly growing demand for private and hybrid clouds.

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. revealed today that it has raised $280 million in new funding ...

Microsoft kicked off the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference today by offering up open source software to run cloud switches. The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) was submitted for ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog recently sat down with Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist at the Cloud Foundry ...

With Cloud Computing being the biggest thing on the technology horizon, there is a huge race shaping up over which API will allow clouds to talk to each other. Like many other sectors in tech, the ...

IBM announced July 9 that it closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, an open-source cloud software vendor. 1. Through the acquisition, IBM and Red Hat will offer a hybrid, open-source platform ...

With competition heating up in open source clouds, an analysis of community participation among four major projects shows that Eucalyptus — the oldest of those studied — has the largest standing ...

Finnish telco vendor Nokia claimed it completed the first interoperability tests of 5G Standalone (SA) Packet Core’s User Plane Function (UPF) in the Sylva open-source cloud software environment, ...

One of open source’s promises is to minimize vendor lock-in. However, it’s not so apparent that this value proposition holds when using software as a service (SaaS) or cloud-based platform services.

Mickos most recently served as CEO of MySQL, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 for $1 billion, an astronomical sum for an open source company. Mickos left Sun in February 2009. At the ...