Linux and Open Source Software can save valuable resources for your organisation – we look at the top products that make a real difference in business.

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TOP
10
OSS PRODUCTS
CUTTING OUT COSTS
AND MAKING A
DIFFERENCE IN THE
PUBLIC SECTOR

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1/ Nagios
Monitors the health of your systems,
providing your team with the
information they require to maintain a
healthy system.

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2/ Python, Perl
Two very powerful programming
languages, used by DevOps teams
around the world, offering flexible
control of systems.

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3/ Authentication,
Authorisation,
Accounting (AAA)
A complete set of tools from LinuxIT to
secure your infrastructure when staff
require access to restricted internal
systems.

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4/ Open VPN
A great tool to allow external members
of your team to access your internal
network, via an encrypted tunnel
across the public internet. Very easy
to set up and a flexible approach to
ensuring data security.

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5/ Puppet
Quickly provision new environments,
which can be used for development
and test, also control environments
using a powerful automated suite of
tools.

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6/ Cobbler
Provision and configuration tool used
in DevOps, build environments for your
teams to use.

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7/ Vagrant
Popular tool to create portable
development environments, which has
cross-platform compatibility.

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8/ Red Hat, Debian,
Centos, SuSe
Enterprise-ready, open source Linux
distributions with many years of
stability, providing a sound base for
your systems. Red Hat is very popular
due to its virtualization platform Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

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9/ Alienvault
Great suite of intrusion detection tools
that provide complete visibility for your
systems.

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10/ Cloud
infrastructure
platforms
These are platforms (for example,
Amazon Web Services) which provide a
flexible approach to your systems. This
is a growing area which will get bigger
over the next few months.

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OSS prOcurement:
delivering more for less
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