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CLOUD: The Evolution of OpenStack: Where Next For the Open Source Cloud Platform? The OpenStack Summit revealed details of how the seven-year-old open source platform is overcoming its growing pains and positioning itself for even greater enterprise adoption. Read more
[COMPUTERWEEKLY.COM]

DATABASES: CrateDB 2.0 Enterprise Stresses Security and Monitoring—and Open Source. The open source database for processing high-speed freeform data with SQL queries now has enterprise features, available as open source for faster developer uptake. Read the rest
[INFOWORLD.COM]

INNOVATION: Why Open Source AI Voice Assistants Pose Little Threat to Amazon Alexa and Apple’s Siri. An open source AI tool called Mycroft wants to challenge Alexa and Siri. But, proprietary AI-driven voice assistants will trump a more open approach, at least for now. Find out more
[TECHREPUBLIC.COM]

GOOGLE: How Google’s OSS-Fuzz is Securing Open-Source Software. Google released OSS-Fuzz five months ago with a mission to make open-source projects stable, secure and reliable. Since then, the continuous fuzzing solution has found more than 1,000 bugs with 264 of them flagged as potential security bugs. Read more
[SDTIMES.COM]

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NOW ON SLIDESHARE: Tech Update Summary from Blue Mountain Data Systems April 2017 https://www.slideshare.net/BMDS3416/tech-update-summary-from-blue-mountain-data-systems-april-2017-75757463.

IT SECURITY SUPPORT: Blue Mountain Data Systems is actively involved in implementing FISMA and NIST standards with Federal Civilian Agencies. Due to our extensive experience in this area, Blue Mountain has developed processes and organizational techniques to help ensure security deliverables are completed on time, and performed in the most efficient manner possible. We ensure that NIST-800-53 control requirements are treated consistently during definition, analysis, implementation, auditing, and reporting phases of a system. Find out more about Blue Mountain Data Systems IT Security Support Services. Call us at 703-502-3416.

BLUE MOUNTAIN DATA SYSTEMS HAS THE EXPERIENCE: 1994 to Present – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking, administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support. Read more.

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Open Source – Daily Tech Update – May 17, 2017

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