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 [...]
September 1, 2010 9:14 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
The results of a new survey from application performance management provider AppDynamics shows that despite all the hype around virtualization, most companies haven’t yet virtualized their mission-critical applications.
Despite widely acknowledging the benefits of virtualization, most companies noted that they need more evidence that mission-critical [...]
August 26, 2010 8:36 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
Red Hat made several announcements Wednesday related to the development of public and private clouds, including updates to its Cloud Foundation portfolio, the effort to make its Deltacloud a standard API, a flagship cloud customer, and a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering.
The company is [...]
August 12, 2010 6:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
The browser war continues.
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StatCounter)
Some of the most highly trafficked interactive systems today are accessed through the Web: Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, Zynga just to name a few. These apps have to work flawlessly across any browser or risk losing eyeballs and audience consistency.
The browser [...]
August 2, 2010 7:48 PM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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http://hadoop.apache.org)
Lately, you can’t talk about business without talking about “big data,” which, incidentally, is the focus of the latest package from Revolution Analytics.
Revolution Analytics, which commercialized the open-source R statistics language, emphasizes expanding the use of R beyond its academic roots to business.
On [...]
July 28, 2010 6:00 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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http://lustre.org)
A new start-up called Whamcloud is coming out of stealth mode Wednesday with $10 million in private funding and a notion to disrupt the often academic world of supercomputing by leveraging the Lustre open-source project.
According to CEO Brent Gorda, the company is targeting the [...]
July 19, 2010 12:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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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 4:05 PM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
A new developer survey report from open-source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft shows that there has been minimal fallout from Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, and that Java and MySQL seem to be doing just fine in their new home.
These results contrast with the latest [...]
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 [...]
July 6, 2010 8:21 PM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
Free NoSQL and data scalability cheat sheet
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Dzone)
NoSQL databases and associated operational-data technologies based on nonrelational approaches to data management and manipulation continue to be top of mind for big Web shops and are slowly starting to make their way into enterprise IT infrastructure.
This means [...]