By Liz McMillan  Containers are revolutionizing the way we deploy and maintain our infrastructures, but monitoring and troubleshooting in a containerized environment can still be painful and impractical. Understanding even basic resource usage is difficult - let alone tracking network connections or ma... Oct. 20, 2015 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,468 |
By XebiaLabs Blog  Much of what is written about Continuous Delivery at present seems to revolve around technical challenges and technical choices: “Which is better: Puppet, Chef or Salt?”, “Should I use Jenkins, Go or XL Release?”, “How do I build a CD pipeline with containers?” etc. etc. If we’re looki... Mar. 16, 2015 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,526 |
By Sematext Blog  Kafka has become the de-facto standard for handling real-time streams in high-volume, data-intensive applications, and there are certainly a lot of those out there. We thought it would be valuable to conduct a quick poll to find out which which implementation of Kafka Producers and Co... Jan. 21, 2015 02:15 PM EST Reads: 5,989 |
By Marcin Warpechowski  Web Components are a collection of emerging web browser standards that are on a path to significantly change the way we develop UIs of web applications – a paradigm shift in web development. With polyfills already available in all modern web browsers, and full native support in Google ... Dec. 12, 2014 09:45 AM EST Reads: 7,719 |
By Trevor Parsons  ECMAScript 6 brings powerful new capabilities and some tasty syntactical sugar to the ubiquitous Javascript language, as it continues to grab an ever increasing slice of developer mindshare.
Now that the ES6 feature set is frozen and just minor refinements will be made over the comi... Dec. 1, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 6,645 |
By Michael Meiner  My first blog showed how to move to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) using Tomcat. This blog will show how to do the same using WebLogic Server, deploying webapps via eclipse to a remote WebLogic instance running in the cloud.
Let’s say we plan to move our app to production on Ama... Dec. 1, 2014 05:15 PM EST Reads: 7,292 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Appcore aims to simplify private cloud through Apache CloudStack solutions. Nate Gordon serves as the Des Moines, IA-based company's Director of Technology, in its effort to enhance Apache CloudStack and Citrix CloudPlatform for its customers. We had a few questions for him, and this i... Oct. 30, 2014 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,805 |
By Lori MacVittie  One of the more popular methods of dealing with not just with the explosion of devices but the growing challenge of dealing with growth of compute devices under management in general is virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). While VDI has been overshadowed of late by newer and shinier T... Oct. 26, 2014 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,580 |
By Lacey Thoms …all this and more in this week’s compendium of open source news!
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Sounds like a Strauss Waltz? Almost. After 10 years the city of Munich’s love affair with open source may be coming to an end. Despite saving $16 million by using the custom ... Aug. 22, 2014 02:31 PM EDT Reads: 7,241 |
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy Azure platform is going all out and it is burgeoning."Microsoft Azure DocumentDB is a document-oriented, NoSQL database service designed for modern mobile and web applications"The above from Microsoft site.Microsoft beefs its Azure Services portfolio with yet another service. Azure Doc... Aug. 22, 2014 01:25 PM EDT Reads: 5,647 |
By Lacey Thoms
There’s no shortage to the benefits open source software provides. Though the technology is certainly not without its criticisms—for example, depending on the product, you might run into a lack of quality support—lately, its proponents have been eying a new application for open source... Aug. 20, 2014 09:43 AM EDT Reads: 1,722 |
By RealWire News Distribution Brocade Vyatta 5600 vRouter adds new functionality to accelerate Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) adoption SAN JOSE, Calif., August 19, 2014 - Telefónica (NYSE: TEF) and Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) have partnered to establish new benchmarks for the deployment and performance of N... Aug. 19, 2014 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,995 |
By Lev Lesokhin Thinking about building your own multi-language custom source code analyzer platform using open source components? Sure, the upsides seem to add up: no licensing fees, great customization ability, and an impressive new entry on your resume (making it even shinier). Read that project ... Aug. 18, 2014 02:32 PM EDT Reads: 2,297 |
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy In my previous post some of the cross-platform app development tools/programs were described in a general way. In this post I describe the Intel XDK tool which does not require skills except HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript. From here you can jumpstart your App development skills after down... Aug. 16, 2014 10:44 PM EDT Reads: 6,460 |
By Shelly Palmer Wearable technology is routinely being batted around these days as the cure-all for everyday health tracking gaps, but Intel’s latest venture is taking that potential to a whole new level. The Michael J. Fox Foundation has tapped the tech giant for a collaboration with the goal o... Aug. 15, 2014 04:35 PM EDT Reads: 2,508 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob Gourley
Editor’s note: The use case articulated here is important on its own, but is also one that can be repeatable across multiple other medical research activities and diseases. Thanks Intel and Cloudera for the technology and thanks to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for... Aug. 14, 2014 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,008 |
By Si Chen What do you say when people ask, “Why do you do your job?” Is it a mix of I’ve-done-it-for-years, I’m-good-at-it, and it-makes-me-money? That’s all fine and good, but please take a moment to think about the bigger picture: Our world is heading to a peak population of ... Aug. 14, 2014 05:22 PM EDT Reads: 1,240 |
By Lacey Thoms Is open source positioned to become the next mode of standardization in the virtualization world?
It appears that might very well be the case following the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specifications Group’s deci... Aug. 13, 2014 09:33 AM EDT Reads: 3,912 |
By Bob Gourley By Katie Kennedy
Editor’s note: On Wednesday 30 July 2014 analysts, executives and technologists gathered at our Analyst Forum, an event established by a partnership between AnalystOne and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) to help share lessons learned across... Aug. 12, 2014 09:53 PM EDT Reads: 4,193 |
By PR.com Newswire Philadelphia, PA, August 12, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Lehigh University, one of the top private research universities in the country, has decided to replace its existing electronic procurement platform with Unimarket’s cloud-based solution to improve the performance of their procuremen... Aug. 12, 2014 01:18 PM EDT Reads: 2,619 |
By Shelly Palmer I am an advocate of strong passwords — inconvenient, long, strong passwords. 7-1d7w!Ka was my Yahoo! password until a few hours ago. Can you guess the phrase I based it on? Hint … it’s written in LEET and it is a famous phrase from the 1939 movie classic, The Wizard of Oz. Got it? ... Aug. 12, 2014 06:12 AM EDT Reads: 1,842 |
By PR.com Newswire Seattle, WA, August 12, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Miga Col.labs in partnership with Walkthrough Media today announce the much anticipated release of Mividio, a Software as a Service (SaaS) developed specifically for real estate professionals and their colleagues.
"Over the past year, we... Aug. 12, 2014 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,865 |
By RealWire News Distribution New solution competes in Best TV Everywhere/multiscreen video category RGB Networks, the leading provider of the industry's most scalable, unified solutions for multiscreen video delivery, today announced that its CloudXtream cloud-based multiscreen video processing and ad insertion so... Aug. 11, 2014 09:18 AM EDT Reads: 2,244 |
By David Smith So says CIO.com, in a recent article 11 Market Trends in Advanced Analytics. R, an open source programming language for computational statistics, visualization and data is becoming a ubiquitous tool in advanced analytics offerings. Kirsch says nearly every top vendor of advanced analyt... Aug. 8, 2014 11:08 AM EDT Reads: 1,292 |
By Lacey Thoms It’s all here in this week’s compendium of open source news
A Tangled Web of GPLv2, Patents and Software Distribution
A new court case could have Far-Reaching Effects for software Licensing. It began when Versata took its licensee Ameripres Financial to court to stop them from m... Aug. 8, 2014 10:49 AM EDT Reads: 3,323 |
By Kevin Benedict The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.Also read Connected Globe News WeeklyAlso re... Aug. 7, 2014 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,644 |
By Lacey Thoms These days, computing processing power has advanced to the point where we can collect a previously unimaginable wealth of information relating to virtually everything. And it can be reasonably concluded that such processing power will increase substantially in the years to come, just a... Aug. 5, 2014 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,192 |
By RealWire News Distribution 5 August 2014, Maidstone, Kent - Complete security services provider, SecureData is proud and pleased to announce its acquisition of 25% of ordinary stock of Paterva (Pty) Ltd, the South African registered maker of the Maltego software suite.'Maltego', built by Paterva, is a powerful s... Aug. 5, 2014 06:41 AM EDT Reads: 1,032 |
By Eric Brown Open source operating systems are improving day by day. Ubuntu, CentOS, Linux and its different versions have become the primary choice of IT hardware and software industries. Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux with ease, functions... Aug. 5, 2014 03:55 AM EDT Reads: 3,287 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob Gourley
Editor’s note: We believe the release below will be of high interest to enterprise technologists since it directly relates to topics of enhanced functionality and security of your mission critical infrastructure. – bg From: http://ctolink.us/1v1WiaZ Monday, A... Aug. 4, 2014 11:29 AM EDT Reads: 2,336 |
By RealWire News Distribution Boston and Ljubljana, Slovenia - 4 August 2014 - Pioneering predictive analytics leader RapidMiner today announced a strategic partnership with CRMT, escalating RapidMiner's momentum within the EMEA market. The partnership combines RapidMiner's expertise in advanced analytics, especial... Aug. 4, 2014 09:42 AM EDT Reads: 1,282 |
By Tomohiro Iizuka Alinous-Core's ide is provided as Eclipse plugin. Eclipse is very useful open source IDE. Installing it is very easy, just download zip or tar.gz archived file and extract it into proper folder. Aug. 3, 2014 04:47 PM EDT Reads: 837 |
By Tomohiro Iizuka Alinous-Core's ide is provided as Eclipse plugin. Eclipse is very useful open source IDE. Installing it is very easy, just download zip or tar.gz archived file and extract it into proper folder. Aug. 3, 2014 03:47 AM EDT Reads: 625 |
By RealWire News Distribution Operators simplify deployment and accelerate the monetization of TV Everywhere services with RGB's cloud-based solutionsRGB Networks, the leading provider of the industry's most scalable and unified solutions for multiscreen video delivery, will show its industry leading products, incl... Jul. 31, 2014 10:56 AM EDT Reads: 2,559 |
By Lacey Thoms …are all covered in this week’s compendium of open source news!
Death of OSS licensing dead or in its prime?
Recently, technology writer Matt Asay wrote an article in InfoWorld heralding the death of open source licensing. OSI president Simon Phipps fired back by declaring open s... Jul. 31, 2014 09:19 AM EDT Reads: 372 |
By Lacey Thoms
Taking advantage of open source software and hardware, Samsung recently announced a plan to help entrepreneurs craft wearable technology that will revolutionize the health care industry, according to Samsung officials.
The Samsung Digital Health Challenge will be funded by $50 million... Jul. 29, 2014 08:50 AM EDT Reads: 862 |
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy There are lots and lots of Apps. In fact there are over a couple of million Apps including all of the major brands, Apple, Google, Blackberry, Microsoft with Apple at the top and Microsoft in the bottom. But this is a growing market. The variety is truly bewildering, different size dev... Jul. 28, 2014 11:52 PM EDT Reads: 5,789 |
By Shelly Palmer Last month Google said that it was tired of mashed-together bug fixes for OpenSSL and decided to create its own fork called BoringSSL. It has now implemented that variant in the latest Chromium build, the open-source software that eventually arrives in Chrome. OpenSSL is software used ... Jul. 24, 2014 01:38 PM EDT Reads: 1,394 |
By Si Chen When we started opentaps nine years ago, our goal was to create great business software from open source. And have we ever! Most people wouldn’t have believed that enterprise-class open source ERP and CRM was possible, but we did it — thanks to Linux, Apache, MySQL, Postg... Jul. 24, 2014 12:27 PM EDT Reads: 3,580 |
By Lacey Thoms No matter how sophisticated technologies become and how much mankind evolves, there is little—if anything—we can do to prevent natural disasters from occurring. What we can do, however, is implement technologies that help streamline the way we respond to such disasters.
And that’s whe... Jul. 24, 2014 10:12 AM EDT Reads: 527 |