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 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 [...]
June 29, 2010 12:37 PM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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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 [...]
June 24, 2010 10:50 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
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Apache Hadoop)
Puppet Labs announced on Thursday that Adobe Systems is publishing code for managing Hadoop on the Puppet Forge community development site. (Disclosure: I am an adviser to Puppet Labs.)
Puppet is an open-source data center automation and configuration management framework aiming to provide system [...]
June 23, 2010 3:01 AM PDT
by Dave Rosenberg
The massive amounts of data being created on the Web and the rise of cloud computing together make an ideal environment for alternative database technologies to thrive. And the Web is often proving to be just an entry point for bleeding-edge technology to be [...]