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Weekly Top 3 Highlights – Microsoft goes open source, AdultFriendFinder hack, Deloitte’s Fast 50

IT World Canada's Brian Jackson and Alex Radu discuss the top stories of the week in tech news. This week, we discuss Microsoft's commitment to...

Red Hat announces 2016 Women in Open Source award winners

Red Hat has chosen Jessica McKellar from Dropbox and Preeti Murthy, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon as the winners of the 2016 annual Women in...

Open Source’s digital future linked to IoT, mobility and cloud

TORONTO – Railroads may be one of the best examples of a traditional industry that could get lost or displaced in the digital transformation...

Red Hat outlines its 5-year plan in reaching $5b in revenue and its biggest challenge

Red Hat wants to hit $5 billion in revenue, and it wants to get there fast. At its North American Partner Conference in downtown New...

CDN’s Top 25 Newsmakers of 2015 – No 12: Luc Villeneuve

Red Hat is becoming a different company. No longer are they just the open source leader in the industry. They are transforming in new...

Walmart has made its application development cloud platform to open source

Customers that think of Walmart as the place to get toiletries, groceries and more can now add cloud to the list. Perhaps taking a page...

Red Hat Canada leader outlines 2016 alliance strategy

It all started with an  important strategic alliance with Cisco. Red Hat would support UCS Open Stack solution and Intercloud. That was announced late in...

Nominations are open for Women of Open Source Award

Red Hat has announced that nominations are open for the 2016 Women in Open Source Awards. This is the second year that the software company...

Red Hat makes acquisition of deployment and automation solutions provider

Red Hat today announced that it has acquired Ansible Inc., a software vendor specializing in deployment, task execution and automation. "Ansible's automation capabilities, together with Red...

Pat Finerty interview: Big data analytics with SAS on Hadoop

At this week's SAS Live event in Toronto, we caught up with Pat Finerty, the vice-president of alliances and business development at SAS Canada. He...

Drupal creator’s new approach to commercializing open source

TORONTO - One out of every 40 Web sites are powered by Drupal. The creator of Drupal Dries Buytaert recently sat down with ITWC's...

Drupal creator aims to be a disruptor in healthcare sector

The free publishing and management system Drupal that now powers several high profile Web sites such as The Weather Channel and the Grammies was created...

SimpliVity to further support OpenStack

One of the pioneers of hyper-converged infrastructure SimpliVity Corp. announced at the Open Stack Conference in Vancouver that it will now support the KVM hypervisor...

EMC software goes open source

LAS VEGAS – Jeremy Burton, the president of products and marketing for EMC, described the company’s plans to release an open source project based...

VMware launches open source cloud-native application projects

VMware announced Monday two new open source initiatives to help in the adoption of cloud-native applications, namely Project Lightwave and Project Photon. While Lightwave aims to improve...

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