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Vast majority of software developers now use open source, Forrester reports
In its eighth and most expansive annual survey of open-source technology adoption in the enterprise development community yet, Forrester Research Inc. has found that the overwhelming majority of software engineers now incorporate free software into their workflows. That proliferation mirrors the growing corporate participation in the movement, which the firm says is already seeing over ...
IBM takes its hybrid cloud to a new level with more interoperability, data services
IBM rolled out a string of new products at its Insight 2014 conference in Las Vegas intended to help organizations make more out of their data wherever it resides, be it on its infrastructure-as-a-service platform or behind the corporate firewall. Laying the foundation for the push is the addition of more configuration options that allow cloud ...
Cognizant exec says all evidence shows enterprises are ready for Hadoop | #BigDataNYC
The enterprise has passed the “science experiment” phase in its journey to adopt Hadoop, and it’s now entering a time when the real value of unstructured data can start coming to bear, according to Gustavo De Leon of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. The executive dropped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recent BigDataNYC meet-up to share his ...
Microsoft moves closer to cloud-first strategy with TechEd announcements
At its annual TechEd conference in Barcelona this week, Microsoft took the covers off two sets of upgrades to its core cloud services that together bring CEO Satya Nadella’s vision of a cloud-first product strategy a historic step forward. The first concerns the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform, which is now better equipped to host traditional enterprise applications. ...
Oracle analytics exec says Big Data market is coming his firm’s way | #BigDatNYC
With the evolution of Hadoop, the industry has shifted its attention from the technical details under the hood to ways in which the batch processing platform can help address tangible business problems. The vendor community is now adjusting by assembling technology components into solutions in a shift that Oracle Corp.’s Dan McClary sees as validation ...
SwiftStack raises $16 million to mobilize OpenStack for unstructured data
OpenStack continues to draw interest from the venture capital community, with SwiftStack Inc. raising $16 million on Monday to make the cloud operating system more attractive for ingesting the vast amounts of unstructured data pouring into the corporate network. The funding comes days after Mirantis Inc. closed a record-breaking $100 million round to drive the adoption ...
It’s adapt or die for system integrators in the Hadoop era, according to Cloudwick’s CEO | #BigDataNYC
Traditionally, organizations that want to implement new technology hire a small army of consultants to make up for the lack of in-house skills, but Cloudwick Inc. CEO Mani Chhabra believes that data analytics is reversing that pattern. He believes professional services are actually catalyzing the adoption of new solutions such as Hadoop. The industry veteran ...
Aerospike CTO touts need for speedy database to supplement Hadoop | #BigDataNYC
Hadoop provides a highly efficient means of storing and processing unstructured data, but for all the buzz surrounding the project, it doesn’t address the equally burning need to make the results available to users when they need them – which these days means on the spot. For that, companies have to turn to vendors such ...
What you missed in Cloud: OpenStack fever and an uneasy alliance
The battle for the enterprise cloud continues to heat up as players on both sides of the competitive divide step up their efforts to secure dominance in the future of corporate computing. Last week saw a shotgun wedding of sorts between two technology titans, but it was the open-source camp that set the pace when Canonical ...
SUSE bundles Docker and processor optimizations into major new Linux distro
SUSE LLC, the longtime second fiddle of the commercial Linux universe, is introducing a brand new version of its flagship distribution that levels the playing field against arch-rival Red Hat Inc. on multiple key fronts while adding several distinctive enhancements. The launch comes two months after the German firm unveiled the latest release of its ...