Why You Shouldn’t Just Rely on the Open Source Community to Harden Code

“Responsibility for secure open software is, well, complicated,” writes Government Computer News. It’s not just complicated; it’s also perhaps one of the most misunderstood aspects of open source software development.

You’ve no doubt read that open source software (OSS) is more secure than proprietary software because the code is genuinely hardened thanks to reviewers in the open source community who have tested it, tried to break it, and then fixed the problems they uncover.

Power up Your Agency Data Center with The Latest Release of RHEV 3.5

On February 11, Red Hat announced its newest release – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 (RHEV for short).  This latest upgrade to Red Hat’s open source virtualization platform promises to deliver greater visibility into provisioning, configuring and monitoring of virtualization infrastructures and tighter integration with the OpenStack cloud infrastructure platform.

Content Workflow for Satellite

Before diving into system registration, take some time to set up a new organization and think through your workflow. You will have a better long-term experience by doing this work up front instead of trying to retrofit it. Managing when and how patches and updates from Red Hat are made available to systems and environments is one of the strongest arguments one can make for bringing Satellite into your shop.

The Application Jazz

Today, a unique post from middleware engineer Abukar: a free-form poem to middleware, to applications, to open standards, to connectivity, to the continued evolution of software. Relax and enjoy: "The Application Jazz." Saxophone not included.