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Why RLC+?
The next step on your Enterprise Linux journey When considering the process of designing and creating infrastructure, Rocky Linux is where the journey often begins. A free, stable, community-governed…
CIQ at RMACC 2026
What Jonathon Anderson presented at the 2026 RMACC HPC Symposium: Version 3 brought Slurm integration and multi-cloud to production. Version 4 closes storage gaps for on-premises HPC teams. The CIQ…
We predicted the next wave. Five days later, we found it ourselves.
Here we go again. Five days is how long it took between me writing in our last blog post that we predicted that vulnerabilities would come in waves and realizing that this wave isn't done yet. I'd…
What does sovereign AI really mean?
Series: 10 reasons to own your AI infrastructure, Post 0 "Sovereign AI" now covers everything from "your data isn't used to train our model" to "you have the weights, the runtime, the audit trail, and…
Another local privilege escalation exploit. And, here's what CIQ did... again.
As the Head of Linux Engineering, yesterday was tough. My organization had done an amazing job resolving Copy Fail and pushing fixes out for all our kernel variants. I was catching up on Slack and saw…
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Run Fuzzball HPC workflows natively on Oracle Cloud
Fuzzball now deploys natively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), joining AWS, GCP, and on-prem bare metal as a first-class deployment target. A computational chemist can move a GROMACS simulation…
Copy Fail is a local privilege escalation exploit. Here is what CIQ did about it.
CVE-2026-31431 affects kernels built since 2017 and has a working public exploit in circulation. Patched kernels are available now for every CIQ-supported Rocky Linux variant. The vulnerability: CVE…
From default to defended. Taking command of your Linux security stack.
Your cloud provider's OS responsibility ends at image delivery. Everything above that belongs to your team. Server hacking (direct server compromise incidents) accounted for 45% to 56% of all reported…
Why Rocky Linux? Enterprise Linux, built to last
Enterprise Linux is the backbone of the modern internet. It powers the servers that run your cloud workloads, your AI training jobs, your financial transactions, and your telecom networks. It is…
The infrastructure AI actually requires
Spoiler alert: we've been doing it for decades! Every era of technological revolution follows a single, predictable pattern: the tools outpace the infrastructure. A critical gap appears, often…
How to run your own LLM on Fuzzball in minutes
Running your own language model can be a complex and imposing prospect: compute provisioning, GPU allocation, model downloads, service wiring, storage configuration, and authentication, with no…