September 1, 2010 8:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg

Despite the fact the economy remains teetered on the edge of oblivion, software companies have increased their profitability dramatically over the last year, according to a recently concluded annual benchmarking study of the small and mid-sized software industry conducted by information services provider OPEXEngine.

Benchmarking [...]

July 19, 2010 12:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg

(Credit:
http://openstack.org)

Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds.

Dubbed OpenStack, the new Apache-licensed project will feature several cloud [...]

July 14, 2010 12:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg

Despite the fact that the state is constantly teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, California remains at the top of the venture capital heap churning out the most deals with the most dollar volume in the second quarter of 2010.
A new report from [...]

June 29, 2010 12:37 PM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg

(Credit:
Cloudera)

Cloudera, a provider of support and services around the open-source cloud platform Apache Hadoop, on Tuesday announced Cloudera Enterprise, a suite of subscription-only add-ons to its free distribution.
The core platform, called Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (or CDH for short), was first unveiled in March [...]