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06- 02 2026

Syngenta Japan Moves from Proprietary Cloud to Open Source Cloud

Syngenta Japan successfully migrated its Drupal-based Web portal from a proprietary cloud to Rapid.Space open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud with the support of Netframe (France) and Nexedi KK (Japan). This success demonstrates the flexibility, cost efficiency and resilience of open source cloud compared to traditional cloud.
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10- 30 2018

Five Evolutions of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is essentially the automation of IT service provisioning through software which replace human tasks. It is currently evolving in multiple directions. Free Software and Open Hardware will eventually lead to massive price cuts compared to current price levels in USA or Asia. Edge Computing will reduce the need of data centres whenever network latency or availability become critical. Service Workers will eliminate the need of servers, both at the edge or at the data centre, in 90% cases. Big Servers will eventually replace smaller servers as the standard fabric the data centre.
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02- 24 2018

Nexedi Demonstrates Open Source Network Management System for 5G/4G Networks at MWC 2018

Nexedi is demonstrating during Mobile World Congress 2018 a preview of a Network Management System (NMS) designed for low latency 5G and 4G networks. NMS is published under Free Software license, integrated with Amarisoft 5G / 4G stack and supports Edge Computing for AI offloading.
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