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Red Hat honors North American partners for open hybrid cloud innovation

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 12:00

Red Hat partners continue to be a driving force behind open source innovation and customer success. The circumstances of 2020 brought many changes to the industry landscape and IT market, but Red Hat partners remained resilient and customer-centric to build new solutions and support scalable, flexible hybrid cloud environments for sustainable growth.

Microsoft Adding Azure "MANA" Driver To Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 08:32
Microsoft is preparing the Linux kernel for some yet-to-debut Azure network functionality...

ARM in the Datacenter - Virtualization Review

Google News - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 07:14
ARM in the Datacenter  Virtualization Review

KFence Memory Safety Error Checking Is Looking Good For Minimal Overhead On Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 04:16
Of the many new features coming with Linux 5.12 is KFence, short for the Kernel Electric Fence. KFence is a low-overhead memory safety error detector/validator for the kernel with lower expected overhead costs than say the Kernel Address Sanitizer. I just wrapped up some benchmarks looking out for any overhead impact of KFence on Linux 5.12 in its near-final state...

Google Deprecating RenderScript In Favor Of Vulkan Compute

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 01:59
Google announced today that with Android 12.0 they will be deprecating their RenderScript APIs. Moving forward Android developers should primarily target the Vulkan API for high performance compute needs...

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