Abstract: Authorization is a key component of cloud security. However, the differences in access control mechanisms in heterogeneous cloud environments bring many challenges to cloud users, such as ...

Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has reached the end of standard Expanded Security Maintenance with Ubuntu Pro. Anyone still on this version wanting to keep using it must now buy the ...

The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner. “The server virtualization market is facing the most significant disruption in decades,” states the ...

OpenStack has delivered its 32nd major release, named "Flamingo." OpenStack Technical Committee chair Goutham Pacha Ravi singled out work to remove eventlet dependencies as a major feature of this ...

The OpenStack cloud infrastructure project keeps on going, 15 years after it was first created as a joint effort of NASA and Rackspace. Today the open-source effort debuted its 32nd release known as ...

Ethernet simply refers to the most common type of Local Area Network (LAN) used today. A LAN—in contrast to a WAN (Wide Area Network), which spans a larger geographical area—is a connected network of ...

The company has detailed the ways it uses Python, one of the world’s fastest growing languages. Streaming giant Netflix has revealed how it is making the most of the versatile programming language ...