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Xen Security Issue Prompts Cloud Computing Reboots

Several public cloud computing vendors, including Amazon, Rackspace, Linode and IBM have notified customers of impending reboots due to a security issue with the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability in question

Chef and Microsoft Partner on Automation, DevOps

Chef and Microsoft have announced plans to work together on new automation features for Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio and Windows PowerShell DSC. In addition, Chef will provide DevOps training for

Facebook Accelerates Its Open Source Efforts

At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit last week, James Pearce, who heads up Facebook’s open source efforts, said the company is picking up the pace on its contributions to open

Software Bug Caused 2-Hour Google Cloud Outage

On February 18-19, Google Compute Engine went down for two hours and forty minutes. The company said that the problem, which began around 11 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, resulted