Yesterday our partners at Wikibon hosted a teleconference on DevOps as part of its Peer Incite series. You can watch the video here. During the conversation J. Wolfgang Goerlich, information systems and security manager at a midwestern financial services firm, explains how he turned his company into a DevOps shop and answered questions from the ...

FeedHenry is a platform for building and deploying cross-platform enterprise mobile apps. The company offers both tools for building and managing HTML5/JavaScript/Node.js applications and a platform-as-a-service for hosting the backend. Today the company that its platform will now be able to deploy Node.js apps to Cloud Foundry as well as its own cloud hosting. From ...

While many of my colleagues were at Strata last week (see our coverage here), I was at IBM PartnerWorld. As someone who spends a lot of time covering cutting edge technology, PartnerWorld was a sobering reminder that most companies have yet to adopt the cloud and don’t even know what big data really means. Strata ...

Cloud Sherpas, a Google Enterprise partner and consulting firm, will announce tomorrow that it is merging with GlobalOne, a Salesforce.com partner and services provider. The new company will keep the Cloud Sherpas name. In addition, the new combined firm has announced it has raised $20 million from Columbia Capital, the same firm that last year ...

Yesterday Github was hacked by a young developer named Egor Homokov. The way that Github handled it – suspending the user who demonstrated a vulnerability with a harmless prank – was widely criticized by the community. Github apologized and reinstated the user’s account. Now that the dust has settled a bit the whole thing looks ...

Github, the popular code sharing site, suffered a major security exploit today when an unauthorized user pushed a commit to the Ruby on Rails project. The problem appears to be a flaw in Ruby on Rails, which is not just hosted by Github but is used to run Github. Github is currently auditing its code ...

Between Strata, Mobile World Congress and IBM PartnerWorld it was a busy news week. The SiliconAngle’s show theCube broadcast live from StrataConf and our distributed team covered much of the news from the event, but here are a few big data stories that we haven’t covered yet. ReportGrid Rebrands as Precog, Wants to Be Heroku ...

ActiveState Releases Version 1.0 of Its Cloud Foundry Based Private PaaS This week ActiveState announce version 1.0 of its private platform-as-a-service Stackato. Stackato is based on the open source Cloud Foundry platform and supports multiple programming languages such as Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Erlang, Scala and Clojure, plus several frameworks and databases. ActiveState ...

Zettaset (formerly known as GOTO Metrics) is one of a growing number of companies trying to make Apache Hadoop more accessible and more enterprise-ready. Zettaset does this by offering a Hadoop based data warehousing and analytics solution with a graphical user interface, enterprise security and high availability features. The company’s new CEO Jim Vogt appeared ...

MapR came out of stealth in March 2011, not long after Datastax announced its own alternative distribution of Hadoop (which has since been rolled into its Cassandra distribution). Hadapt launched at the same time and meanwhile there were rumors that Yahoo would spin-off its Hadoop team (which ultimately happened, in the form of Hortonworks). The ...