OS Bridge Day #1: Hacking for Freedom
Keynote: Hacking for Freedom
(Description of Hacking for Freedom)
Day #1 has kicked off with a bang. A keynote that really pulled at the heart strings for the love of freedom and liberty! The notion of technology being involved directly to those pushing for their freedom in other parts of the world is huge. Below I’ve snagged… read more…
OS Bridge, What is it?
I’m headed down to Portland, Oregon today for OS Bridge. OS Bridge is a conference for the open source community, by the community. The conference is one of the premier events to learn how open source really works, learn from others, and meet people that are also learning about and involved in the open source [...]
LexisNexis Offers An Alternative To Hadoop
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a leader in offering information that helps customers across different verticals assess and manage risk, today announced the release of their big data platform built on top of High Performance Computing technology under an open core approach where the community edition will be available for free and with source code and an [...]
OpenStack Cactus Adds Some Interesting Features
OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage), the Open Source Cloud Platform project spearheaded by Rackspace, today announced the release of the next stable version, codenamed Cactus. Even though this release is more about making the compute code more stable, they also have some interesting new features for their compute and storage products. Some of the interesting [...]
Open Source, Adoption And Whatever
Regular readers of my blog know that I am an unabashed advocate of Open Source. However, in my conversations with the industry, I often come across an argument which I feel is somewhat misdirected. Even though the title of this blog post is a bit rhetorical, these arguments cannot be dismissed outright and needs some [...]
RIP: Ubuntu ShipIT
Canonical (previous CloudAve coverage), the commercial company behind Ubuntu Linux Distro, yesterday announced that they are ending the ShipIT program. ShipIT was a hugely successful marketing attempt by Canonical where they shipped Ubuntu Linux to any place in the world for free. In fact, I would even claim that this program is partly responsible for [...]
Jaspersoft Adds Big Data Support
Jaspersoft (see previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based BI vendor, today announced support for big data sources for Business Intelligence reporting. They recently released a ramped up version 4 targeting embedded BI market. With today’s release, Jaspersoft support native reporting for Hadoop, NoSQL and Massively Parallel Processing Analytics Databases. In this era of big [...]
Curating a bit of the Cloud over at GigaOM Pro
Image via CrunchBase I’ve been a fan of Om Malik‘s boutique analyst site, GigaOM Pro, pretty much from the outset, and happily renew my subscription each year. The site covers a wide range of industry topics, and those Quarterly Wrap-ups are worth the fee all by themselves. I’ve written a few reports for them in [...]
Cloudant Gains Traction With Hosted CouchDB And Analytics Offering
Image via Wikipedia Cloudant, the company offering cloud based CouchDB solutions and creator of BigCouch open source product, has been gaining good traction ever since they delivered their first version of Cloudant in Q3 of 2010. In Q4 of 2010 alone they have seen 400% growth in customers using Cloudant’s hosting services since the release [...]
Jaspersoft Ramps Up Their Offering To Meet Embeded BI Market Needs
Jaspersoft, the San Francisco based Business Intelligence vendor, yesterday announced the newer version of their product, Jaspersoft 4, with embedded BI market in mind. Jaspersoft 4 leverages a new modular UI architecture which makes it easy to customize and embed, thereby making the BI tool more attractive to users. This version has a new GUI [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Eucalyptus Joins Hand With RedHat Targeting Private Cloud Market
Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage), the academic project turned commercial venture offering private cloud solutions for enterprises, today announced a partnership with RedHat (see previous CloudAve coverage), leading enterprise Linux vendor who is shifting their focus to cloud computing recently. This partnership suits both the companies and it can go a long way towards [...]
10Gen Raises $6.5M funding To Push MongoDB Ahead In The NoSQL Race
10Gen, the commercial company behind Open Source MongoDB NoSQL database, today announced a $6.5 Million round of funding. This round is lead by Sequoia Capital with participation from prior investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Union Square Ventures. The open source MongoDB database has 90,000 downloads per month and companies like bit.ly, foursquare, IGN and Sourceforge [...]
Google Wave Enters Apache Foundation Incubator
I am an unabashed sucker of Google Wave (see previous CloudAve coverage) and the two reasons for its demise are Mainstream users had difficulty seeing the value in Google Wave as a collaboration and communication platform Google didn’t flex its muscle enough to push it down the throat of users and make them see the [...]
Deploy Kaltura 3.0 On AWS In 15 Minutes
Kaltura, the open source video platform, recently announced the release of Ver 3.0 of its community edition bringing parity with their commercial offerings. The key highlights of this version is the availability of the same feature set of the commercial offering and an easy way to deploy their software on the cloud. More than 100,000 [...]
Eucalyptus Open To OpenStack
Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the open source academic project which turned into a commercial offering for enterprises, appears to be open about OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage here), its biggest Open Source competitor in the space. When OpenStack was established, NASA moved Nebula development from Eucalyptus to OpenStack. Many perceived OpenStack to [...]
