DcData heads up Linux training in KwaZulu-Natal
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DcData, KwaZulu-Natal’s leading Linux and Open Source integrator has recently expanded their ever-growing list of services and solutions by offering instructor-led LPI Linux certification classes. DcData’s qualified instructors are industry professionals and will assist you with obtaining the globally recognised and sought-after LPI certifications via high quality courseware, study material and practical labs.
Please click on the image below for more information or feel free to pop DcData an email via our contact page.
Further information including the LPI course topics please visit DcData’s LPI training page.
Interview with Christoph Grab – First Results from the LHC Experiment and the Role of HPC
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In this interview Christoph tells us what scientific questions the LHC experiments want to answer. He summarizes the most important results that have been presented at the two last largest conferences explaining what the specific contribution from Swiss researchers is.
Could Big Data Be the Next Big Move for Red Hat?
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Is Red Hat interested in joining the Big Data trend? One of the biggest trends in computing at enterprises and even small- and medium-sized businesses is Big Data crunching, using tools such as the open source Hadoop. Businesses want to slice and dice their analytics and databases in new ways, surfacing views of everything from customer behavior to support trends in new ways. According to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, the explosion of data and new ways to sift it is squarely on his radar.
IBM’s Irving Wladawsky-Berger Talks Linux Then and Now
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The second day of LinuxCon North America 2011 kicked off with a key figure to Linux’s success, Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Formerly responsible for IBM’s response to emerging technologies, Wladawsky-Berger talked about the disruptive force of Linux then and now, and IBM’s relationship with Linux through the years.
Using Linux to Improve Energy Efficiency and Productivity
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In this “new economy,” I’ve noticed that some businesses are giving power consumption a strong second look. This is part of a renewed push for company productivity. And it’s led to increased interest in new technology being used to keep the enterprise space humming along.
In this article, I will explore how companies can use Linux-based technology to cut energy consumption while also boosting productivity at the same time.
An efficient office starts with power consumption
There’s been a long-standing belief that office automation is just too expensive to bother with. From possible higher hardware costs, all the way down to software licenses that are targeting large enterprise customers at high rates. The barrier to entry feels too high, thanks in part to costly price points within the automation industry.
Linux and the financial crisis
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On December 2007, the New York Stock Exchange adopted Linux. In late August 2008, we saw one of the worse worldwide stock market crash of the last hundred years. This crisis was not predicted by mainstream economists and experts. It took them by surprise and it took weeks or months before an explanation could emerge. Even to this day, there is much debate about what really caused the crisis and what makes the recovery so difficult.
The financial industry is out-innovating regulators, experts and common investors. For years, the financial industry hired the best hackers it could find. They have a sizable share of the most creative and smart engineers on the planet. And Linux is one of their favorite tools. It is not difficult to understand: you can literally rewrite, or help rewrite, the Linux kernel. Today, Wall Street runs on Linux and it thrives thanks to its elite programmers.
The dawn of Linux: “it’s just a hobby, it won’t be big and professional”
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As we are celebrating 20 years of Linux this week, it seems only fitting to highlight a few milestones in the life of what has come to be (for many people) a very important piece of software development.
This link will take you to some collected notes, which dig right back to the dawn of Linux history on the 31st of July 1992 when Linus Torvalds was discussing his ideas on an open newsgroup.
Torvalds wrote at the time, “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).”
The Next 20 Years? Who Knows?
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Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, took the stage in Vancouver, BC to talk about the challenges that Linux will face in the next 20 years. Whitehurst’s topic meshed nicely with the lead-in keynote from Jim Zemlin. While Zemlin examined the world without Linux, Whitehurst took a look at the next stage — Linux over the next 20 years.
A Conversation with Linus Torvalds
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A celebration of Linux’s 20th birthday wouldn’t be complete without an appearance from Linux creator Linus Torvalds. While Torvalds is famously reluctant to speak, he did take the stage at LinuxCon North America 2011 for a conversation with Greg Kroah-Hartman.
Microsoft just want to say Happy Birthday!
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This happy birthday wish in the form of an annimatation from ‘Microsoft’ is amusing in so many ways!
http://video.linux.com/video/2127
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