Roaring Elephant

Episode 279 – The Lidle Cloud?

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Cloud Computing is everywhere and apparently more companies feel it’s a good idea to claim a piece of that fluffy pie. Recently, the parent company of the well know supermarket chain Lidl decided to join in the fun and they have now solidified their initiative by gobbling up a cloud security firm…. Is this a sign of things to come, or is the new Lidl cloud destined to stay… little?

We also take a quick look at how the UK government is going to penalize unsafe password policies… A good thing, for sure, but why is the suggested law already full of security holes?

Episode 278 – The 2021 Open Source Jobs Report (2)

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The yearly job report from The Linux Foundation was releases in cooperation with Edx. In last week’s first part we went over the findings of the Linux Foundation and in this episode, we’ll cover the Edx angle a bit more.

Episode 277 – The 2021 Open Source Jobs Report

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The yearly job report from The Linux Foundation was releases in cooperation with Edx. In this first part we’ll go over the findings of the Linux Foundation and in next episode, we’ll cover the Edx angle a bit more.

Episode 276 – IBM Fails @ Open Source Cloud?

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When we saw IBM put up a “Guide to open source development in the Cloud” website, we were expecting so much…. And we got so little… While we’ve often lauded IBM for their open source initiatives, this “guide” reads incomplete and pretty much a waste of space. See if you agree with us?

Episode 275 – High Performance podCast (2)

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Today we are going deeper, higher, farther and better than we ever went before: it’s HPC time at the Roaring Elephant and since we definitely do not qualify as experts on that particular matter, we are overjoyed to welcome Walter Lioen and Valeriu Codreanu who are Surf‘s rocket scientists, when it comes to High Performance Computing!