Container management tools offer developers isolated, portable, and consistent environments that can help them quickly develop, test, and deploy applications across a wide variety of platforms. This ...

Sun on Tuesday said it is offering developer tools and professional services capabilities that will allow developers to build on its OpenSolaris platform and even turn industry-standard servers into ...

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

Open-E has added several features designed to enhance data security to its Data Storage Server (DSS) software. The company, which specializes in IP-based storage-management software, introduced the ...

Software-defined storage promises enterprises greater flexibility and freedom of choice when it comes to their data storage deployments. By taking lower-level software operations and day-to-day ...

Storage orchestration software holds the promise of seamless management. But for now, enterprise customers are stuck with point tools. For cash-strapped IT shops looking to get out from under manual ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

Qlusters’ OpenQRM project offers single point of control for Linux-based data centers. IT professionals struggling to better manage a growing number of x86 systems running important business ...

Redis Ltd. has acquired Speedb Ltd., the developer of a storage engine it uses to power its commercial database offerings. The company didn’t disclose the financial terms in its announcement of the ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...