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Androids Dream of Electric Malware, Wake Up in Cold Sweat June 03, 2011 
Google has reportedly pulled several Android mobile applications that were lousy with malware from its official Android Market. This follows a report earlier this week from Lookout Mobile Security, which claimed it found dozens of apps in the market that contained malicious code.
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Google Deodorizes Sniffable Android Security Flaw May 20, 2011
Google has begun rolling out a patch to fix a security flaw in versions 2.3.3 and earlier of its Android mobile operating system. That flaw affects all Google services using the ClientLogin authentication protocol. It lets hackers access any personal data available through Android's application programming interfaces.
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For FOSS Firms, Data Means Dollars May 18, 2011 
"Data" -- it's the new buzzword in the open source world, according to Tuesday's keynote speakers at the Open Source Business Conference, being held in San Francisco. "The kind of data we're collecting today is way harder to store and process than it used to be," said Mike Olson, president and CEO of Cloudera.
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Who Gets to Decide How the Cloud Works? May 17, 2011 
A battle to set the model for cloud infrastructure is raging, according to Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat. "We're at a fork in the road," Whitehurst told a packed room of more than 200 people at the Open Source Business Conference Monday. "Now is the time that we're going to choose the dominant model for this next paradigm of computing."
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Demystifying BPM for Enterprise Users May 16, 2011 
The past year has seen business process management (BPM) achieve tremendous growth in the enterprise, but there continues to be a good deal of misunderstanding about BPM itself. At its core, BPM is about automating and streamlining manual processes. These processes may represent a diverse range of tasks, from citizens renewing their passports via online Web applications to an employee requesting paid time off from the HR department.
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The Great IT Integrators May 16, 2011 
Enterprise integration requirements are rapidly shifting to accommodate such trends as cloud computing, mobile devices' explosion, and increased demand for extended enterprise business processes. Application-to-application integration inside an enterprise's four walls is well understood, but very quickly the demands placed on integration are spanning multiple enterprises.
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Big Changes Afoot in the Linux Market May 06, 2011 
Having covered Linux in the enterprise and business arenas for more than 10 years, I've seen some dramatic changes in the way the open source operating system is developed and used. However, never has there been as much change in the Linux landscape and market as right now, given the impact of cloud computing, devops (the confluence of application development and deployment), and open source software's maturity.
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Wringing More Value From Enterprise Cloud Computing With Open Source May 03, 2011 
You're an IT manager responsible for keeping your infrastructure up and running while squeezing every bit of value from your budget. You're interested in the latest trends and have done your research. Many enterprises rely on their existing vendors for guidance on these trends and probably recommend their own cloud offerings -- the same vendors with six-figure pricing and annual release cycles that are often lagging behind the latest technology developments.
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Life in a Linux-less World April 29, 2011 
Well, well, well, so Linux has turned 20 at last. While we were reading about the inroads Android is making into the mobile market and weeping over the news that Groklaw is about to pack its bags and move on, we began wondering: Just what would the world have been like if Linus Torvalds hadn't sat down and written Linux?
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Microsoft Surprises With Stellar Server Security Marks April 20, 2011 
Don't look now, but Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 tied with IBM's perennially bullet-proof AIX v7. Both were rated by corporate users as the most secure among 18 major server operating system distributions. Nine out of 10 of the 468 respondents to a recent ITIC survey rated the security of Windows Server 2008 R2 and IBM's AIX v7 as "Excellent" or "Very Good."
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Red Hat's Steady March to the Big Leagues March 25, 2011 
Red Hat has by all measures hit the big time, providing validation of the open source business model that even the harshest critics will have a hard time brushing aside. In its fourth quarter, Red Hat's revenue reached $245 million, up 25 percent from last year. The Linux distribution vendor's fourth quarter subscription revenue was $209 million, up 24 percent from the previous year.
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Who's on the Mobile Security Job? March 09, 2011 
Enterprises are coming to realize that while their VPNs might be doing a fine job of controlling data, mobile devices have turned into a veritable wild west of security nightmares. It was all well and good when the only thing they had to worry about was data being accessed by enterprise BlackBerry users. Its proprietary server infrastructure has always provided a welcome security blanket for email security.
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Why RHEL 6 Keeps Its Patches Under Its Hat March 08, 2011
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, which was released last November, packs a hidden punch: The latest version of the operating system pre-bundles patches with the kernel. The disguised fixes have shaken up some controversy, but Red Hat contends that the move is aimed at making it more difficult for rivals like CentOS, Oracle and Novell to gobble up Red Hat's customers.
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Google Remote-Detonates Dirty Apps, Promises to Do Better March 07, 2011
Google has begun removing the "Droid Dream" malware from devices running Android versions earlier than 2.2.2, also known as "Froyo." About 260,000 owners of Android devices downloaded the malware, Google spokesperson Randall Sarafa told LinuxInsider. However, that doesn't mean they've all been impacted.
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SugarCRM - Not Just the Open Source Alternative March 07, 2011 
With an option for open source development, SugarCRM offers a sales automation system that encompasses pipeline management, social CRM, and the entire lead-to-cash process. "The SugarCRM core sales automation functionality includes lead capture and lead distribution, opportunity and account management, quotes and product catalog, quota and forecasting, as well as dashboards and reporting," said Clint Oram, CTO and cofounder of SugarCRM.
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Tablet Wars Begin in Earnest March 05, 2011 
The iPad 2 has made its entrance, and by next week it'll go up for grabs. There's been a lot of anticipation for what Apple would do with its next tablet now that rivals have showed up with their own tablets that beat the original iPad's specs -- granted, they were mostly demo units. Steve Jobs himself showed up to kick off the proceedings.
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Big Data, Big Open Source Tools February 25, 2011 
Enterprises are grappling with the skyrocketing amount of data they have to handle as that data proliferates into the terabyte and petabyte stage. Datasets that large are known as "big data" to IT practitioners. Relational databases and desktop statistics or visualization packages can't handle big data; instead, massively parallel software running on up to thousands of servers is needed to do the job.
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US Intelligence Agency: Linux Help Wanted February 08, 2011 
In a quick-response "Sources Sought" notice issued Jan. 28, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency said it was "researching the market availability of firms that can potentially provide services and products that could be seamlessly incorporated" into the agency's Linux-based information system.
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Amazon's Beanstalk Eases Climb to the Cloud January 19, 2011 
Amazon wants to make your cloud computing simple. The company announced Elastic Beanstalk on Wednesday. The application makes it easier to use Amazon's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services. The new application lets developers quickly deploy and manage Web services such as storage, computing clusters, application health monitoring, load balancing and auto-scaling.
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Open Source in GSM Could Breed Mobile Mayhem January 18, 2011 
Mobile malware may grow as a security threat this year, but security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann says there's a worse threat lurking around -- the GSM baseband system. The threat from hacking GSM baseband systems has been largely ignored, Weinmann reportedly told the audience at a presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Washington, D.C., Monday.
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