Enterprise Open Source Software Solutions
The open source development model ensures constant innovation and iteration through a decentralized community of thousands of contributors to projects’ codebases. With presidential mandates and a recognized need for modern software spurring open source adoption in the public sector, IT leaders must determine how free open source and its enterprise alternatives fit into their purchasing strategies.
Enterprise open source software providers leverage the innovation of community-driven open source projects, while embedding the built-in security, scalability and support required in the enterprise environments of public sector IT organizations. Carahsoft provides Federal, State and Local Government agencies as well as Education and Healthcare organizations with enterprise open source IT solutions to modernize their approach to IT.
Your Trusted Enterprise Open Source Technology Provider
Carahsoft’s industry-leading portfolio of enterprise open source software providers support mission success across all levels of government. The U.S. and Canadian public sector can access best in class open source solutions through Carahsoft’s numerous contracts, including:
- Agency-specific agreements
- Government acquisition vehicles
- Cooperative purchasing contracts
Explore Carahsoft’s portfolio of enterprise open source software providers below to identify the best-fit technology for your mission needs.
All Enterprise Open Source Vendors
Carahsoft's enterprise open source solutions portfolio brings flexible, open principles to the public sector enabling improved, modernized mission capabilities and cross-team collaboration. Choose a technology vendor below to explore its Open Source solutions and services.
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Learn how you can implement DevSecOps to support your journey to secure, innovative software from industry and Government thought leaders.
- Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Atlassian, Copado, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Dynatrace, FCW, GitLab, Innovation in Government, Open Source, Red Hat, Tetrate, Veracode, VMware
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Ransomware Protection for Kubernetes Data in the Public Sector
July 25th, 2023
In this blog post, we will explore some of the common issues that public sector organizations face when using Kubernetes, and how Kasten K10 by Veeam can help them overcome these challenges with a simple, secure and scalable solution for Kubernetes data protection.
- Tagged Cybersecurity, Multicloud, Open Source, Veeam
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Empowering Public Sector Technical Teams With Generative AI in a Secure Collaboration Platform
July 10th, 2023
Leveraging Mattermost’s secure collaboration platform combined with Ask Sage’s generative AI capabilities can revolutionize the way government teams work together, manage technical projects, and respond to mission-critical situations.
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Returning to the Heart of Customer Experience: A Government for the People
June 30th, 2023
Customer experience stewardship, innovation and paths forward were top of mind at Carahsoft’s annual Government Customer Experience and Engagement Summit.
- Tagged 2023 Government Customer Experience and Engagement Summit, Customer Experience and Engagement, CX, Department of Veterans Affairs, Open Source
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Partnerships for Public Sector Solutions
May 22nd, 2023
Read our latest insights from SI cloud thought leaders to learn how Sis can help your agency thrive by partnering with innovative companies.
- Tagged Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, FCW, FSI, Innovation in Government, Leidos, Open Source, Public Sector, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Zero Trust
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Higher Education All-In on Cloud-First
May 15th, 2023
Learn how to grow beyond today’s analytics programs and mature them for endemic management and strategy in higher education on Carahsoft's Community Blog.
- Tagged Campus Technology, Education Technology, Higher Education, Innovation in Education, Multicloud, Open Source, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, SAP
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The Open Source Revolution in Government
January 20th, 2023
Discover the combined power of community-driven innovation and industry-leading technical support is expanding the government’s innovation in open source.
- Tagged Acquia, Big Data, Confluent, Cybersecurity, Databricks, EDB, Elastic, FCW, GitLab, Innovation in Government, Open Source, Red Hat, Sonatype
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Nutanix and Red Hat Partnership Brings Customers Best-in-Class Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Complete Stack
April 28th, 2022
Nutanix and Red Hat have partnered to deliver a hybrid cloud experience, offering their industry-leading technologies, such as Nutanix’s Cloud Platform now certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
- Tagged Multicloud, Nutanix, Open Source, Red Hat
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Gaining Insight: Data Use for Campus Success
March 17th, 2022
Read the latest insights from industry thought leaders and higher education industry research in campus technology data use on Carahsoft's Community Blog.
- Tagged Adobe Connect, Education Technology, Elastic, Innovation in Education, OMNIA, Open Source, Qualtrics, Red Hat, SolarWinds
