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Open Source software is beautiful. It's beautiful because you can see the code, share the code and change the code. Our talented developers make sure that when you look under the...

Recently, our Catalyst Cloud GM Bruno Lago was in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit. He talked to attendees about what he's learned getting the Catalyst Cloud up and running....

Planned outages are a necessary evil. As a Moodle Partner, we manage hosting and support for our enterprise Moodle clients. Some of these clients receive millions of page...

The Catalyst Cloud object storage service is about to get even better. It will replicate your objects across regions and introduce features that are very useful for web...

Samba implements many things, but in this case we look at Samba as an Active Directory DC. In that role, Samba now has a quite credible implementation of the required protocols...

During the build of one our Catalyst as-a-Service offerings – CourseBank – we implemented a recurring credit card billing solution, which allows customers to fully provision a...

OS//OS Talk – 7 Themes of Catalyst I gave a talk at the second Open Source Open Society conference in Wellington recently. I was asked to talk about how Catalyst had grown and...

There’s a lot happening in the education technology conference space in the next few months. Here at Catalyst we are passionate about all things elearning, so we are always...

    Last night I was fortunate enough to attend the Docker Meetup Groups event. Docker in this case being the forum for a cloud-centric discussion -- The Big...

Traditionally Catalyst has been a huge user of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for our internal chat and private messaging requirements. IRC is a big part of the way that Catalyst...

A password needs to be easily remembered but hard to guess – seems conflicting right? The trick with making a good password is to have it so specific to you, that no one will be...