“We want to tell people there is tremendously great work going on here, and it makes the open-source community better and it makes the world better”, he said. The Open Mainframe Project is of interest to Zemlin, who noted that his father was a mainframe programmer. OEMs will now have a choice of drive vendors for Kinetic-based drives. The Kinetic technology was originally created by Seagate.
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The Linux Foundation launched a Census Project in July designed to identify and fund critical open source projects. Without a dedicated team of security professionals on board, it is a complicated, hard and often expensive process to patch up problems before vulnerabilities weaken online services – and their users – which rely on open-source software. “We’re looking forward to working even more with Huawei and know our efforts will be maximized with the company’s support”.
“Object storage means the way storage is accessed is changing”, he said. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences including LinuxCon, and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development.
“This collaboration is critically important as virtualization is putting more demands on flexibility, performance and security”, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “Huawei is willing to contribute our idea and work with Linux Foundation Kinetic Open Storage Project to promote object drive technology together”. “Today’s storage requirements force us all to think out of the box and keep an open mind when reviewing existing storage solutions”, said Tony Bogaert, VP Corporate Development, Open vStorage.
The Linux Foundation doesn’t focus just on certain areas of the planet, and they aim to cover pretty much everyone.
The Open Mainframe Project is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. The new Kinetic project is also unique within the Linux Foundation as a bare-metal, block-storage effort and has the support of Cisco, Dell, Red Hat and Seagate. “By aligning the Kinetic project with our partners under the Linux Foundation, the project now has strong validation within the industry and shows Seagate’s support of open-source technologies in providing solutions to the most challenging problems of data storage”.
The Open Mainframe Project will establish a neutral home for community meetings, events and collaborative discussions providing structure around the business and technical governance of the project. “At least we are having a conversation about open source security”. That approach not only can serve to lower the cost of acquiring and owning those products, it also can make it easier to swap one set of products for another. (TAEC). “Toshiba is delighted to work with this alliance to develop scale out solutions that address these growing storage needs”. Profit margins on the products themselves tend to be fairly slim in an open source world.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced Huawei is becoming a Platinum member of the organization.
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As software bugs, vulnerabilities and other security gaps lead to a seemingly endless string of high-profile breaches, the Linux Foundation is expanding an infrastructure initiative to include a certification program and development tools needed to promote secure coding practices.
