The impact of resource management and managed IT resourcing
As the name suggests, resource management entails making the best use of a company's available resources to achieve organisational goals. Without this in place, businesses will struggle to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving marketplace that relies increasingly...
Red Hat accelerates IT automation with Event-Driven Ansible
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Event-Driven Ansible, a scalable and resilient solution that expands how organisations can activate automation as a reliable strategy across the hybrid cloud. Available as part of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform...
Recommendations for Open Source security issues
CA Southern Africa has revealed details of the 2023 Veracode State of Software Security report into the factors that introduce flaws in application development, one of which the research notes is the great unknown of open source. The report notes that developers build...
Red Hat, Oracle expand collaboration
Red Hat and Oracle have announced a multi-stage alliance to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The strategic collaboration starts with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on OCI as a supported operating...
Harness the opportunities of the metaverse
Even though the metaverse has sparked significant interest, it is not that much different to how people have been working and living for the past two years. By Muggie van Staden, MD and CEO of Obsidian Systems Think of the metaverse as a virtual world that uses the...
Open source the building block for tech innovation
Open source is by no means a new technology, but it has matured over the past 30 plus years and with the latest wave of digital transformation, its role has become increasingly prominent. By Sumit Kumar Sharma, enterprise architect and head of advisory services at...
Challenges, trends and predictions for the future of open source
In life, the only constant is change. Open source projects are no exception, having undergone massive transformation in recent years. By Sarthak Rohal, vice-president: IT services at In2IT Technologies Some changes have benefited users at large, while others have...
Open source the building block for tech innovation
Open source is by no means a new technology, but it has matured over the past 30 plus years and with the latest wave of digital transformation, its role has become increasingly prominent. By Sumit Kumar Sharma, enterprise architect and head of advisory services at...
Open source: the future of continued innovation
A growing appetite from organisations for innovation and the requirement for an alternative to traditional proprietary software are two serious driving factors in the growth of open source technology globally. So says Quintin Brussow, Red Hat development lead at...
Open source at the forefront of next-gen ICT infrastructure management
The demands placed on businesses to automate and streamline ICT infrastructure management has placed open source technology under the microscope and highlighted a range of benefits. Industry experts are adamant that the open source market will experience triple-digit...
How open source is changing the world
The future of software lies in open source. Open source operating system Linux has grown exponentially to become the foundation for much of the global public cloud workload, smartphone operating systems, the world’s fastest supercomputers, and more. By Johan...
Red Hat and General Motors collaborate on software-defined vehicles
Red Hat and General Motor have announced a collaboration to help advance software-defined vehicles at the edge. The companies expect to expand an ecosystem of innovation around the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System, which provides a functional-safety certified Linux...