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    (Originally posted by Lori Macvittie on rishidot.com) Porticor, which earlier this year unveiled its split-key encryption technology for securing cloud data has taken the next step in its quest to assure users of the security of data in the cloud. In addition to adding VM...
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...
This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care. NoSQL or Traditional Database: From an APM Perspective There Isn’t Really Much Difference Author: Michae...
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...
As promised, the source distribution for R 2.15.2 is now available for download from the master CRAN repository. (Binary distributions for Windows, MacOS and Linux will be available from the CRAN mirror network in the coming days.) This latest point-update — codenamed "Trick or Treat" ...
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...
By RyanKamauff Here are today’s top cyber news and stories. Federal News Radio has released their “Cybersecurity Rising” report which includes the top cybersecurity accomplishments of the 2006-2012 - this report has polled cybersecurity experts on the top accomplishme...
By Kelsey Atherton Editor’s note: What follows is extracted from a storify post . This is a first post in this format for the CTOvision blog. Let us know what you think  on any aspect of this, including format in your browser, format in your newsletters and of course content- bg....
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...
Patented Innovations in LANDesk Management Suite and Security Suite enable IT to Maximise User Productivity while Reducing Cost, Complexity and RiskLONDON - Oct 23, 2012 - LANDesk Software, a global leader in integrated systems and asset management, endpoint security, end-to-end mobili...
A new report from analyst firm Gartner forecasts that IT organizations will spend $232 billion (US) on hardware, software and services related to Big Data through 2016. Some key findings from the report: $5.5 billion in new software sales will be driven directly by demands for new big ...
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...
You can now download the Vordel API Server v7.1 right off the Vordel website. It comes with handy QuickStart samples to walk you through API registration and management. But
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...
Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .038 – Tom Has Friends Edition Hosts: Bill Mathews (@billford), Ian Gillespie (@ianisgood), Patrick...Read More
It is a topic of fascination for me that the high-tech world just plain will not stand still. The changes in automotive technology over the last century, for example, do not match the changes in high tech over the last decade. In addition to the expected on-upsmanship that market leade...
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...
If you’re anything like us, you are somewhat obsessed with web hosting, web hosting technologies and web hosting solutions. From dedicated servers, to VPS solutions, to knowing how to get FTP access into your server’s control panel, having a healthy … Read More
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...
There is a growing momentum in the industry that is buzzing about the ‘Open Cloud’. Typically this refers to the open source software aspect of Cloud software, like OpenStack, or other options like OpenNebula. There is also the other dimension of open standards. This will become crit...
IGEL Universal Desktop Converter software extends life and manageability of old PCs by migrating them to fully manageable IGEL Universal Desktop thin client-like devices London, UK, October 17th 2012 - Angels were seen breathing life into old PCs at the IGEL Stand of IP Expo in Earls C...
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...
The low-cost and efficient multiprotocol SoC thin client for Citrix HDX SoC and Microsoft's RemoteFX is now also certified for VMware View Reading, UK October 17 2012 - IGEL Technology, one of the world's leading manufacturers of thin clients, today announced the IGEL UD2-LX MultiMedia...
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...
Hamburg-Cloud and TeamDrive scoop coveted IT security awards and offer template for how cloud service providers can deliver value added synchronization servicesHamburg, October 16, 2012 - Enterprise cloud synchronization provider TeamDrive has announced successful implementation on the...
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...
Helping Application Producers and Enterprise IT Developers Migrate Their Apps to the Cloud and Virtual EnvironmentsNew release enables multi-platform installation development from a single project file across physical, cloud, and other virtual environmentsMaidenhead, UK - October 16, 2...