Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

There are a handful of leading commercial toolmakers to help IT detect and respond to system outages and application failures, commonly referred to as "incident management and response," including ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

In 2016, a group of companies banded together to address a key storage management challenge that they and their customers were facing – managing a heterogenous storage footprint that was hampering the ...

Open source seeped into nearly every software product category in 2005, leaving an indelible mark on how software is bought and sold. Linux was once behind successful open-source companies such as Red ...

Businesses and organizations investigating free enterprise software platforms might want to keep an eye on Alfresco, an emerging open source software company. Alfresco makes content management, portal ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the past decade, open-source software has become a transformative force for data ...

From the launch of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, to the continued emergence of Drupal as a content management system, open source made significant strides in 2009. Established products like Firefox and ...