Ever since it was apparent that Red Hat would become the first billion-dollar Linux company, fans of free and open source software have held the company up as the poster child for Linux's business success. But the advent of cloud computing has brought a new ubiquity to Linux and open source technologies and new challenges for Red Hat.

Since the landing of NASA’s rover, Curiosity, on Mars on Aug. 11 (Earth time), I have been following the incredible wealth of images that have been flowing back. I am awestruck by the breadth and beauty of the them.   Read more... read more...

Pabst Brewing Co. is battling giants in the beer market and its secret weapon may be more nimble IT. That reality means legacy systems are being swapped for cloud services at a rapid clip.

Kathleen Nichols and Van Jacobson have published a paper describing a new network queue management algorithm that, it is hoped, will play a significant role in the solution to the bufferbloat problem. "CoDel (Controlled Delay Management) has three major innovations that distinguish it from prior AQMs. First, CoDel’s algorithm is not based on queue size, queue-size averages, queue-size thresholds, rate measurements, link utilization, drop rate or queue occupancy time. Starting from Van Jacobson’s 2006 insight, we used the local minimum queue as a...