Which company contributes most to OpenStack?

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	Which company contributes most to OpenStack? Although Rackspace can lay claim to contributing the most lines of code to the OpenStack project since its inception in 2010, DreamHost has emerged as the top code contributor over the past six months, followed by Red Hat. More than 80 percent of the DreamHost-generated code is specifically for Havana, the version of OpenStack slated for release in October. Read More WEBCAST: Attachmate Webinar: Monitor, Prevent, and Investigate Fraud Privacy and monitoring solutions combat insider threat and protect privacy across web, mainframe, and business applications. See how to track and profile end-users behavior, non-invasively record user and application activity, alert on suspicious events in real-time, and support audits and compliance. Learn more. In this Issue Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure enterprises wary of public cloud Google releases Chrome 28 with Blink browser engine Feds asked to sit out Defcon hacking conference this year PC shipments mark longest decline ever as Lenovo surpasses HP Move over, Linpack: Supercomputers get new performance test WHITE PAPER: Aerohive 2012-2013 WLAN Buyer's Guide Today Wi-Fi tends to be the primary network access method for many. This paper discusses key requirements to consider as you plan for a WLAN purchase. It will highlight top 10 features for a WLAN, help you decide on architectural choices and summarize how to use the RFP process to select a vendor. View now Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure enterprises wary of public cloud Amazon Web Services has dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware. Usually cloud resources are multi-tenant, meaning that multiple customers are running workloads on the same virtualized hardware. Read More Google releases Chrome 28 with Blink browser engine Google on Tuesday released Chrome 28, the first polished version of the browser to use the company's home-grown "Blink" rendering engine. On Windows, the upgrade also sported Google's new notification service that lets developers of Chrome apps and add-ons display messages and alerts outside the browser window.The upgrade was the first since May 21, when Google shipped Chrome 27 and touted some minor performance improvements. Read More Feds asked to sit out Defcon hacking conference this year The organizers of the Defcon hacking convention have publicly asked U.S. federal government workers not to attend the event this year due to tension in the hacker community caused by the recent revelations about the U.S. government's electronic surveillance efforts. The historically antagonistic relationship between hackers and the government seemed to have eased up in recent years, with three-letter government agencies increasingly looking to recruit cybersecurity talent at high-profile hacker conferences such as Defcon and Black Hat. Read More PC shipments mark longest decline ever as Lenovo surpasses HP Weakness in the global economy, component shortages, sluggish demand for Windows 8 and the popularity of tablets all contributed to another double-digit percentage decline for the global PC market in the second quarter. PC shipments in the period from April to June totalled 75.6 million units, down 11.4 percent from the same quarter in 2012, research firm IDC said on Wednesday. Read More Move over, Linpack: Supercomputers get new performance test The developer of the most widely used test for ranking the performance of supercomputers has said his metric is out of date and proposed a new test that will be introduced starting in November. Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee, said the Linpack test he developed in the 1970s, which has been the basis for the Top500 list of the world's fastest computers for the past 20 years, is no longer the most useful benchmark for how well a system can perform. Read More
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