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According to Microsoft, the number of small businesses entering the cloud business will triple in the next few years. So if you’ve already become a part of that statistic, you’ve made a wise choice. Unless, of course, you’ve picked the wrong provider to be your partner. Picking the rig...
Tim Gasper (Product Manager at Big Data platform Infochimps) has an informative article at TechCrunch that provides an overview of five open-source technologies trending now for Big Data applications. They are: Storm and Kafka (for processing stream data) Drill and Dremel (for ad-hoc q...
By BobGourley Cloudera and Cleversafe are totally different companies addressing different challenges. But the two firms have quite a bit in common. Here are key commonalities I’ve observed: Both invest in real engineering and deliver enterprise-grade/quality capabilities Both ar...
By BobGourley Terracotta Inc is widely known for their in-memory solutions enabling enterprise applications to scale, rapidly, including an ability to make dramatic improvements to application speed. They are also known for their support to the community through low cost licenses, supp...
23 Octobre : annonces multiples d’Apple, commentée dans mon billet précédent. 25 octobre : annonces multiples de Microsoft, objet de ce billet. 29 octobre : annonces multiples de Google, qui feront aussi l’objet d’une publication. Cette fin de mois d’octobre...
I have attempted to learn AADL and how to use OSATE several times over the years. I would read a good article on it and think to myself I can figure it out this time.A day or two into the adventure I would get frustrated with the toolset and getting it configured correctly, and the sca...
By RyanKamauff Here are today’s top cyber news and stories. The USPTO CIO is pro virtualization and open-source - John Owens, CIO of USPTO, has a very delicate budget. Any disruptions to the services come directly out of his budget and affect any potential bonuses. He hopes to pr...
Providing Assured Cloud Services to the UK Public SectorLondon - October 26th 2012 - Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave Assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has been awarded a G-Cloud ii Framework from Government Procure...
At the Strata conference in New York today, Steve Yun (Principal Predictive Modeler at Allstate's Research and Planning Center) described the various ways he tackled the problem of fitting a generalized linear model to 150M records of insurance data. He evaluated several approaches: Pr...
Here is the recording of the OpenNebula session at GigaOM Structure Europe. The interview covers the OpenNebula's focus on user needs and its recipe for success described in the post David Versus Goliath in Open-source Cloud Computing: The OpenNebula Recipe for Success.
  If you're a member of the open source community - as a contributor, a consumer or both - you know the constant challenges presented by the communal approach to coding. Nobody takes the rap...
The O'Reilly Strata conferences are always great fun to attend, and this latest installment in New York City is no exception. This one is super-busy though; the conference has been sold out for weeks -- and not just marketing-sold-out, it's fire-department-sold out. It's non-stop conve...
By BobGourley Maven is a widely used project management tool.  It is an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation which maintains a comprehensive project page at maven.apache.org Thetus is a company providing advanced analytical capabilities including model enabled analysis...
What's hot and what's not revealed in latest industry report23 October 2012 - Chicago/London/Sydney - ThoughtWorks, Inc., a global leader in custom software development, today announced the availability of its Technology Radar for October 2012. Created out of the lively debates held am...
Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2012 --(PR.com)-- As the new Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Sessions joins AVOXI with eighteen years of experience and skill sets that include everything from cloud technology and VoIP to knowledge among varied operating systems including Linux. Mr. Sessions is...
By RyanKamauff BigMemory Go is Terracotta’s free version of the BigMemory Max application that allows in-memory database up to 32GB on your application server. BigMemory Max can run across multiple servers to scale as large as you need. to BigMemory Go leverages the existing indu...
It’s been a pretty GigaOM-focussed week. To begin the week, my GigaOM Pro report on Europe’s Helix Nebula cloud project was published. Then Tuesday and Wednesday were dominated by activities in and around GigaOM’s first conference on this side of the Atlantic; Structu...
Watch CloudViews Unplugged! Watch the October episode of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News C...
In a webinar today previewing Spotfire 5 (scheduled for release this November), TIBCO announced that it will include TERR: The Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R. TERR is a closed-source reimplementation of the R language engine, and not based on the GPL-licensed R project from the R Found...
By RyanKamauff Here’s today’s top cyber news and stories.  Rob Carey, deputy DoD CIO, said on Tuesday - “Security is a game of risk management. If you have that sorted out, then you should be able to derive some savings because you’ve virtualized your computing ...
When you are going to monitor your engine, you probably try first to find some tool that can do it. Very likely, of course, that tool should be able to handle monitoring online and to notify you when the health of your engine is starting to go bad. There are already several well-known ...
Colorado Springs, CO, October 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise open source portal platform, announced it has awarded XTIVIA, Inc. the 2012 Liferay “North America Partner of the Year.” This announcement was made at the 7t...
Guildford, Surrey – 17 october 2012 – Memset is a young entrepreneurial company in the fiercely competitive cloud computing and managed hosting business. The company is sitting at the helm of one of the most powerful and disruptive technology changes over the past 100 years...
Joseph Rickert reports from last weekend's ACM Data Mining Camp in San Jose. Andre Ng, co-founder of Coursera, Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and Associate Professor with the University’s Computer Science department gave the keynote address at the ACM’s Data Minin...
This Week in Website Performance is a  new weekly feature of the Monitis blog. It used to be featured on the Monitor.Us blog, but we decided to share this awesome compilation of website performance articles with our readers at Monitis as well. It summarizes recent articles about websit...
You wouldn’t think that a hang gliding accident could start a revolution in medicine. But when a teenager fell 150 feet into a lake several years ago, the subsequent events that sparked a revolutionary new diagnostic method, what I am … Continue reading →
My previous post “The Degradation of Java Developers” sparked several interesting discussions. One of the major topics was if today’s developer has to know what’s going on under the hood of a particular framework. To be more specific, if Hibernate, a popular obj...
You're probably familiar with the Game Of Life: create a grid sparsely populated with "cells"; apply a couple of simple rules (cells "die" if they have too few or too many neighbours; dead cells spring into life if they have exactly three); watch complex behaviour spontaneously emerge....
Tens of Thousands of Commercial, Shareware, Freeware and Open Source Components and Tools Support Embarcadero RAD Studio Family of ProductsMaidenhead, UK - 11 October, 2012 — Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database developme...
Shanghai, China - 11th October 2012 - Codethink, a provider of software engineering services for mobile and embedded devices, has unveiled and demonstrated Baserock Embedded Linux at the GENIVI automotive industry trade association meeting for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) standards in...
Hadoop traces its origins to Google where two early projects GFS (Google File System) and GMR (Google Map Reduce) were written besides Big Table, to manage large volumes of data. These systems are great at crunching large volumes of data … Continue reading →
By RyanKamauff Here is the top tech news for the day. Calxeda, an ARM-based server firm, receives $55M in investment - ARM processors (those used in mobile devices) can be used in servers, creating power efficient rigs that optimize a few different kind of applications. While no single...
Now that OpenNebula has been listed by GigaOM on the list of main reasons why Europe really matters to cloud computing, I am receiving several emails asking about how OpenNebula is able, what’s its "secret recipe", to compete with other open-source projects, like OpenStack, CloudStack ...
Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .037 – I’m Lost in Apple Maps Edition Hosts: Bill Mathews (@billford), Ian Gillespie...Read More
The RHadoop project, the open-source project supported by Revolution Analytics to integrate R and Hadoop, continues to evolve. Now available is version 2 of the rmr package, which makes it possible for R programmers to write map-reduce tasks in the R language, and have them run within ...
By BobGourley Mil-oss.org is a site loaded with information you can use. If it has been a while since you have checked out this tremendous resource please return to the site and check it out. You will find news, context, information on policy, and tips on making the most of open source...
By BobGourley The TechAmerica Foundation is a non-profit (501c3), non-partisan resource and voice for the US technology industry. They have a tremendous reputation for encouraging industry-wide collaboration and for disseminating concepts, ideas and well researched policy proposals on ...
Phoenix, Ariz - October 3, 2012 - Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) announced today that it has closed the acquisition of the Magirus Group (Magirus), a leading pan-European distributor of data center solutions and services. Magirus is a respected value-add distributor of software, systems and re...
The Maker Movement has led to the production of open-source 3-D printers and other manufacturing machines that allow hobbyists to design, create and produce real-world objects affordably. Now R user Ian Walker, in a post at the Psychological Statistics blog, shows how to use the R lang...
By BobGourley Cloudera is the company that makes Apache Hadoop ready for enterprise use. They provide the free to use open source distribution called CDH (for Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop). We built a list of Twitter accounts we believe to be associated with Cloudera, ...