Linux Foundation is looking for collaboration partners for a new open standard for interoperability
A consortium of Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens and others under the Joint Development Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, invites colleagues to join the Margo Initiative and help build an effective interoperability standard that will digital transformation accelerates.
WHY IT MATTERS
San Francisco-based Zededa, the multi-industry edge computing company, is the latest to join the open standards interoperability effort.
Latin for edge, Margo aims to scale data exchange across multi-vendor environments by removing barriers to innovation.
The company, which uses open source EVE of LF Edge in its edge orchestration platform, said it has joined the steering committee to help develop the standard and deliver a compliance testing toolkit in a announcement last month.
EVE-OS, an open Linux-based operating system, provides a foundation for distributed edge deployments with any hardware, application, and in the cloud. It provides remote control of edge devices and more, and offers many capabilities including automated patching for security updates.
“This type of open collaboration represents an important milestone in realizing the full potential of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics at the edge,” Said Ouissal, CEO and founder of the company, said in the statement.
THE BIG TREND
Darren Lacey, Johns Hopkins’ chief information security officer, said he is interested in open-source tooling and that the rise of memory-safe languages could help improve the cybersecurity posture of healthcare systems.
He told Healthcare IT news in April that the foundational technologies underlying healthcare IT infrastructure are critical for healthcare information and security leaders to consider when managing cybersecurity.
“You’d be hard-pressed to find a complex application that doesn’t have dozens, if not hundreds, of open-source dependencies — from Linux to Apache to Kubernetes,” Lacey said.
“More broadly, memory security represents one of a whole host of low-level technical considerations for evaluating and securing technology. Our attention to the ingredients of the stew is as important as the stew itself.”
ON THE RECORD
“The idea that users should have the freedom to create the best solution for their needs, without unnecessary restrictions, costs or delays, embodies the spirit of open-source collaboration,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, when Margo launched in April.
“Microsoft is committed to aligning our adaptive cloud strategy architectures, such as Azure Arc and Azure IoT Operations, with the Margo initiative to help our customers build, deploy and scale their applications faster, both at the edge and in to run the cloud,” said Christoph Berlin, general manager of Microsoft Azure in Margo’s announcement.
Andrea Fox is editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News.
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