Infochimps, known for its data market, today announced a big data management tool called Infochimps Platform, a suite for managing Hadoop and other big data tools that can be hosted in the cloud or on-premise. Infochimps will now provide customers with the technology stack that Infochimps has developed for its data market. Customers can use ...

This week Ubuntu sponsor company Canonical released the results of its latest Ubuntu Server User Survey. Over 6,000 Ubuntu Server users from around the world responded. Possibly the most interesting result is that although VMware still leads, Red Hat’s KVM has overtaken the Citrix backed Xen as the most common host environment for virtualized Ubuntu ...

The team behind the open source continuous integration tool Travis CI have announced support for Java, Scala and Groovy. TravisCI started with support for Ruby, and soon added support for Erlang, Clojure, Node.js and PHP. Continuous integration is the principle of committing and integrating source code changes more rapidly, saving integration time down the road. ...

According to a recent Information Week survey public cloud adoption in the enterprise has stalled slightly since 2011. In 2008, only 16% of survey respondents were using some sort of public cloud service. That went up to 21% in 2009, then to 22% in 2010 and jumped to 31% in 2011. It only raised to ...

Atlassian has added a set of new social collaboration features in version 5 of its popular bug tracking tool JIRA, available as both a hosted service or as an installable on-premise application. And perhaps more importantly for collaboration, the company is still supporting the Networked Help Desk API, a standard for integrating various systems pertaining ...

To celebrate the 17th anniversary of its legendary Web server Apache HTTP Server the Apache Foundation released version 2.4 of the server today. It’s the first major update since version 2.2 in 2006 (there was a 2.3, but it was only released as a beta). According to the announcement, the new version adds several features ...

Today Apache Hadoop services/support vendor Hortonworks and data warehousing vendor Teradata announced a partnership. The companies will work together to help customers best determine how to use Apache Hadoop. It’s not as large a deal as the one Hortonworks’ competitor Cloudera struck with Oracle – and Teradata also has a partnership with Cloudera – but ...

Today Objectivity announced a new version of its proprietary graph database InfiniteGraph, which now includes a plugin framework and support for the common graph database standard Gremlin. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL/non-relational database that focus on the relationships between objects in a database (yes, it is odd that relational databases aren’t good at ...

One of the things I hear periodically from critics of the DevOps movement is that it’s too heavy on the “Dev” side of things. For example, here’s a rant about how DevOps is a power grab by developers (and here’s a response to that rant). The way Circonus CEO Theo Schlossangle put it to us ...

BuiltWith is a new Web app that surfaces information about what Web servers, programming frameworks, JavaScript libraries and other technologies different websites use. Although you could find some of this by viewing a page’s source and scanning through it, BuiltWith makes it quick and easy to get a list of technologies used. For example, here’s ...