The Momentum Index published its latest report, ranking  96 open-source startups. Out of its rankings, Momentum sees three emerging trends: The freemium pricing models work. Startups that use the model see early proof of traction. Talend could be an IPO candidate. Kaltura is one to watch. Its open source offering in the online video space ...

Aaron Swartz, the technology scholar, Internet activist and early Reddit employee, has been indicted on more charges in connection with the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) incident this past summer. Swartz, as you may recall, was initially indicted in July on charges that he broke into a secure network at MIT, hard-wired his computer to ...

In August, Jive Software filed its S-1 with the Security Exchange Commission to trade on the NASDAQ as a publicly traded company. Prior to that, there had been word that the company would be doing an IPO late this year. But now, here we are, with about a week until Thanksgiving and the December holidays ...

Earlier this week, Vyatta raised another $12 million for its virtual network security technology. In an interview with Vyatta executives on Monday I asked about their competitors. Vyatta CEO Kelly Herrell said they are far ahead of the market and comparison is difficult. He said the incumbent players, like Cisco do not sell open-source networking ...

Apache Hadoop has a new release, its first in more than a year. According to the Cloudera blog, the new release, Apache 0.23.0, has a number of new features and improvements, including HDFS federation and a new MapReduce framework. But as the Cloudera blog states, before you go to far with this new release it ...

The 451 Group is releasing a report that says Apache Hadoop and NoSQL funding is more than $350 million. Funding has shot through the roof in the past few months with funding for Hadoop and NoSQL startups more than doubling to $157 million since the end of August. Overall, the funding has increased considerably from ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new high performance computing instance and it’s a big one. In a blog post this morning, Jeff Barr of AWS described an instance that advances the idea of a supercomputer in the cloud. Granted, this is not the kind of service available to the general public. But who knows ...

The next wave in cloud computing is the transformation of the network. We’ve seen the virtualization of compute. Storage has since followed and now we are seeing the full virtualization of the network. Vyatta is at the leading edge of that transformation with its networking software for the virtualization layer. Today it is announcing a ...

I can care less about the distance when I take the bus across town. I am far more interested in how long it will take me to travel the ten miles from my home in St. Johns to downtown Portland. What I need is TimeMaps, a prototype app I ran across in a post by ...

I am flying back from New York after spending two days at HadoopWorld. On the theCube, we did two days of video coverage, interviewing leaders in the community and discussing the event’s hot topics. Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly took the time to curate the interviews we did. It’s a treasure trove of information. It includes: ...