Introducing Linux
The Open Source Software community spans across the globe with over 1 000 000 developers worldwide constantly updating and improving Linux and Open Source Software. This has resulted in the global marketplace moving towards Linux based systems as opposed to UNIX or Microsoft systems with companies like Google and Amazon migrating their infrastructure to Linux.
Linux is renowned to be far more stable, reliable, secure, flexible and scalable as well as far more cost efficient. It is for these reasons that companies are beginning to see large amounts of value in implementing a Linux solution and many more companies are beginning to investigate implementing such solutions.
The bottom line: Linux is enterprise ready, are you?
What is Linux?
Linux is an open source operating system that was developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.
Today Linux has become the fastest growing operating system in technology history. The majority of the software distributed for Linux is done so under the Open Source Software license model. This means that the source code is freely available and visible and anyone can modify or edit it.
Why Linux?
In order to position an operating environment in a mission critical situation, most CTOs agree that an operating system needs to be:
- Scalable by providing your enterprise with the ability to expand processing headroom as needed to meet enterprise processing requirements.
- Available thus ensuring that most applications can run in a highly-available fashion with 99.95% availability if required.
- Reliable so that systems, applications, and databases do not crash.
- Secure thus guaranteeing that systems and applications have limited vulnerability to any security threats especially in mission-critical environments.
- Manageable so systems are easily maintained and managed through various readily available applications and resources.
- Flexible giving you system architecture that allows for growth and sustainability.
- Cost Effective by deploying system architecture that allows for a reduction in total cost of ownership.
Linux meets all of these requirements and more making it the operating system of choice for enterprises that are serious about their technology needs.