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What is the future of data centres? Most likely using Linux and open source software In modern business a company’s data centre has become its heart and core. With enhancing technology and flexible markets, it is quite important that data centres are flexible, easy to manage and secure. Consultancies like ATIX AG, The Linux & Open Source Company, can help to find the right solutions with Linux-based data centres, using the potentials only open source software has to offer. TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN I PHOTOS: ATIX AG
Open source plays an increasingly important role in IT and will be the future of data centres and their management – that is the belief of Jan R. Bergrath, a board member who is responsible for marketing and distribution at ATIX AG. ATIX, based in Munich, is a specialist for Linux applications and open source software use in complex data centres.Today 75 per cent of data centres are already based on Linux, not only because of Linux’s functionality, security and stability but also because it works well
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with cloud-based applications and is free to use. It is easy to understand why software developers like using open source: they can rely on what others have already developed, make their own adjustments, add new features and improve existing software instead of having to start from scratch. In addition, co-operations between developers are far easier when everyone has access to the same open source software. But why