Cloud Computing

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Why Hospital Data Centers Are Moving to the Cloud

Meg Bryant | Healthcare DIVE | March 30, 2017

As hospital data center infrastructures age and resources shrink, IT leaders are increasingly looking to the cloud to meet their storage needs. Not only is it cheaper than investing in upgrades and replacements of existing hardware and software, but it can add a level of security, especially in disaster-prone areas. The trend has some wondering if hospitals will still have physical data centers in the future or whether they will go the way of the dinosaurs.

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Why Linux is Critical to Edge Computing

Edge computing is a model of infrastructure design that places many "compute nodes" (a fancy word for a server) geographically closer to people who use them most frequently. It can be part of the open hybrid-cloud model, in which a centralized data center exists to do all the heavy lifting but is bolstered by smaller regional servers to perform high frequency-but usually less demanding-tasks. Because Linux is so important to cloud computing, it's an ideal technology to learn if you intend to manage or maintain modern IT systems.

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Why the A.I. Euphoria Is Doomed to Fail

Evgeny Chereshnev | Venture Beat | September 17, 2016

Investors dropped $681 million into A.I.-centric startups in Silicon Valley last year. This year, the number will likely reach $1.2 billion. Five years ago, total A.I. investment spiked at roughly $150 million. This is how Silicon Valley works: When something new is hyped and seems to have investor trust, everybody jumps on the train without asking, “Where does this train go?”...

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Why We Need Standards-Based Interoperability In Digital Health

Bill Ash and Kathryn Bennett | MEDCITY News | October 15, 2014

A vision for “e-health” is gathering around the world, in which a rich array of dependable data is seamlessly and securely shared between patient and healthcare providers, in support of breakthrough wellness care and remote monitoring capabilities. Global, open development and wide-scale adoption of interoperability standards across technology areas such as personal health device communications, cloud computing, body computing, mobility, social networking and Big Data analytics comprise a critical enabler of the vision...

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With Code.Nasa.Gov, Agency Steps Up Hunt for Its Open-Source Software Projects

Nick Judd | Tech President | January 17, 2012

Over time, NASA releases data from Kepler — an unprecedented look at our universe, other planets and star systems — on a decidedly terrestrial web portal, data.nasa.gov. It's part of a broader effort at NASA to make the agency's work more accessible, which is itself part of the Obama administration's promise to make government more open. Read More »

With GOV.UK, British Government Redefines the Online Government Platform

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | January 31, 2012

The British Government has launched a beta of its GOV.UK platform, testing a single domain for that could be used throughout government. The new single government domain will eventually replace Directgov, the UK government portal which launched back in 2004. GOV.UK is aimed squarely as delivering faster digital services to citizens through a much improved user interface at decreased cost.

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Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

Press Release | The Linux Foundation | April 14, 2013

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Read More »

Olliance Group To Hold 7th Annual Open Source Think Tank Focusing on Industry-Driven Community Innovation

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
April 12, 2012 - 9:00am - April 14, 2012 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Silverado Hotel and Spa Napa, CA
United States

Olliance Group, a Black Duck company, and DLA Piper are sponsoring the upcoming Open Source Think Tank 2012 conference. The conference will be held April 12-14, 2012 in Napa, California. The exclusive, semi-annual conference brings together CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, legal experts, investors and senior executives involved in the commercial application of open source, mobile and cloud computing technologies to discuss the current state and future direction of open source.

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Cloud World Forum 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 26, 2013 (All day) - June 27, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
National Hall London
United Kingdom

The next Cloud World Forum, due to take place at National Hall, Olympia, London on the 26 to 27th June this year, has announced two more keynote speakers will be in attendance, representing Spotify and NASA.

Now in its fifth year, the Cloud World Forum brings together cloud computing industry experts, exhibitors and professionals to discuss and learn more on harnessing the cloud. 220 guest speakers will be in attendance, speaking in nine theatres, including representatives from some of the world’s largest corporations. Read More »

ContainerCon North America

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 22, 2016 - 9:30am - August 24, 2016 - 11:30pm
Location: 
Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square
Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
Canada

Linux has been at the center of this with advancements in nearly every aspect of virtualization with Linux containers being the most recent disruptive technology. The Linux Foundation is launching a new conference called ContainerCon to bring together leading contributors in Linux containers, the Linux kernel, and related projects to forge a path to continued innovation and education. Linux containers are disrupting traditional application development and virtualization models; enabling businesses to explore new, improved methods of deploying their services and products...

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The Xen Project Developer Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 25, 2016 - 10:00am - August 26, 2016 - 6:30pm
Location: 
Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square
Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
Canada

The Xen Project creates an industry leading open source hypervisor that is powering some of the largest clouds in production today. During 13 years of development, the Xen Project enabled many different use cases covering datacentre and server virtualization, cloud computing, desktop virtualization,  security for desktop computing and within hardware appliances. More recently, the Xen Project started to expand into new markets covering NFV, mobile virtualization, embedded virtualization and automotive...

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Red Hat Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 2, 2017 - 9:00am - May 4, 2017 - 7:15pm
Location: 
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
415 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210
United States

The Red Hat Summit is an open source technology conference designed to showcase the best and latest technology in virtualization, cloud computing, platform, middleware, storage, and systems management. The 2017 Red Hat Summit is the 13th annual summit since its start in 2005. Themes for 2017 include big data, internet of things (IoT), OpenStack, containers, culture of collaboration, IT strategy, management tools, security, integration, infrastructure, DevOps, business automation, application platforms, delivery, and development. Attendees can have access to breakout sessions, general sessions, hands-on labs and trainings, keynotes, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, discovery sessions, and the Partner Theater...

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Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2017

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 23, 2017 (All day) - May 25, 2017 (All day)
Location: 
Seaport World Trade Center Boston, MA
United States

The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo is a conference designed to showcase a wide variety of IT and informatics applications and enabling technologies for biomedical research, clinical and healthcare initiatives, and drug discovery and development. More than 3,300 delegates representing 41 countries are expected to attend this three-day event. The 2017 conference features more than 280 speakers, keynotes, workshops, industry awards, an exhibit hall, and the FAIR Data Hackathon 2017...

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OpenExpo 2017

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 1, 2017 - 11:00am - June 2, 2017 - 12:30am
Location: 
LA N@VE
Calle Cifuentes, 5 28021 Villaverde District
Madrid
Spain

OpenExpo 2017 is a conference designed for professionals and companies interested in topics related to open source software and open world economy, such as open data, open innovation, and free software. More than 3,000 attendees are expected to attend this one-day event, including open source developers, experts and hackers, as well as representatives for major companies and institutions, suppliers, and users of all levels. As the largest event in Spain related to open source software, free software, and open world economy, OpenExpo 2017 aims to promote sharing, discovery, and evaluation of industry trends and solutions...

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Red Hat Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
May 7, 2019 (All day) - May 9, 2019 (All day)

Red Hat Summit is an open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies.