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Optimize GPU, cost, and expertise with Fuzzball
Here's a story that's becoming common. A team ships a new AI product. Usage takes off faster than expected. Then the cloud bill arrives, and nobody can say which model, which job, or which cloud…
Sovereign AI, from desk to data center: a conversation with TechnologyInsider
Gregory Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and founder of Rocky Linux, sat down virtually with Frank Everaardt, founder and editor-in-chief of the Dutch publication TechnologyInsider, for a conversation about…
Why we're building OpenWALDO
For more than two and a half decades, I've helped build open source projects and communities that became infrastructure the world depends on: Warewulf, CentOS, Singularity (now Apptainer), and Rocky…
FIPS 140-3 under BOD 26-04: what federal agencies actually need to prove
Federal agencies running RLC Pro Hardened prove FIPS 140-3 cryptography with active Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) certificates, the evidence a compliance review accepts. BOD 26-04 put…
Routing LKRG runtime events into Wazuh from RLC Pro Hardened
LKRG watches the kernel from the inside. The moment something tries to subvert the integrity of the kernel or task credentials (e.g., a privilege escalation attempt), LKRG fires and can stop the…
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Own your Enterprise Linux lifecycle without hand-managing content views
Enterprise Linux teams make the same decision every time they update, whether they run 200 hosts or 20,000. The cadence is managed by the team, daily for some fleets and one Tuesday a month for others…
Why BOD 26-04's three-day window assumes runtime kernel monitoring
Federal teams running RLC Pro Hardened detect kernel-level exploitation while a patch is still in testing. BOD 26-04's three-day clock starts when a vulnerability enters the Known Exploited…
A Fortune 500 payments company cut licensing costs without recertifying a single application
Inside the migration that cut a Fortune 500 payments company's OS licensing costs by more than 40%, without touching a single production workload Every enterprise running RHEL at scale is having some…
A global high-frequency trading firm runs its own kernel team, and still chose RLC Pro
Inside the year-long test a global high-frequency trading firm gave CIQ, and what it took to turn a one-year renewal into a three-year commitment The hardest Enterprise Linux customer to win is the…
Rocky Linux or RLC Pro Hardened: what CISA's OSS guidance means for your kernel
CISA's new Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guide gives federal agencies a clear set of expectations for open source software: assess it before adoption, understand who…
What PEARC26 told us about the future of research computing
PEARC wrapped its tenth year in Minneapolis this week, and the theme organizers chose, Resilient Roots + Empowered Communities, turned out to describe the week better than most conference themes…