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The Long View on Blockchain
Blockchain is everybody’s latest buzzword–right up there with AI and IoT–but what does it mean, and how is it relevant to the enterprise? The answer to those questions is likely “a lot,” but before we get to that, let’s define what a blockchain is–and isn’t. So What...
Open Source Strength Within Distributed Weakness Filing
If you could visualize the code that comprises our current technology landscape, you might imagine in your mind's eye a glowing field of interconnected lines with bright bits of information flowing along the lines' paths. Here and there, you might see flaws in the...
Bringing Intelligence to the Edge with IoT Gateway
In the previous blog, my colleague David Bericat discussed why Internet of Things (IoT) architecture should be built with open source. One of the core components of end-to-end IoT architecture listed in that article was an intelligent IoT gateway that can process data...
Building an Open End-to-End Internet of Things Architecture
Designing, implementing, securely operating, managing and maintaining IoT projects is complex. In fact, there are entire organizations whose sole mission is solving a specific problem within an IoT architecture. The problems that can be found within such architectures...
How Computers Became More Specialized Again
Computing styles ebb and flow. The centralized mainframe in the glass room largely ebbed in favor of the PC revolution that itself gave way, at least in part, to the web and the cloud. Today, we have a complex mix of massive datacenters, Internet-of-Things (IoT)...
Evaluating Tools Available to Deploy OpenStack on Kubernetes
The TripleO project is transitioning from bare-metal to containers-based OpenStack deployments. This transition started almost a year ago and it was split in two phases. The first phase targets Docker as the container runtime, whereas the second phase moves these...
Understanding the Open Virtual Network
In January of 2015, the Open vSwitch (OVS) team announced they planned to start a new project within OVS called OVN (Open Virtual Network). The timing could not have been better for me as I was looking around for a new project. I dove in with a goal of...
The Promise of Open Source Network Functions Virtualization
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is revolutionizing the telecommunications industry. That word, “revolution”, is often misused, but it is appropriate for the transformation of core network services from physical to virtual infrastructure. The transformation is...
Ansible Declares Declarative Intent
Back in January 2016, Ansible delivered the first integration of network support into the Ansible 2.0 code base. The initial introduction of network support was originally conceived to help operators focus on being able to execute configuration changes on...
Bridging Universities and Business with Open Source
As a result of long-term cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University, especially in the area of teaching, Red Hat has opened an open source laboratory directly on the University grounds on October 26th, 2016. The reason behind...