As I reported earlier this year, Cloudant is refocusing its development efforts towards Apache CouchDB by merging its open source Big Couch into the main Apache CouchDB project. The move followed CouchDB creator Damien Katz’s exit from the CouchDB project in favor of working on Couchbase (which acquired CouchOne, the company Katz co-founded to commercialize ...

For years Yahoo’s application YSlow has been a staple in the Web developer’s toolkit since 2007. Now the company has released the code on Github under the BSD license. The apps is entirely built in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. YSlow is available from the command line or as a browser plugin for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ...

This morning Hortonworks announced its training and certification program. What it didn’t announce that is that it has quietly shuffled its management team, a fact that’s reflected on its website. The biggest change, as spotted by GigaOM’s Derrick Harris, is that co-founder Eric Baldeschwieler is now CTO and not CEO. Rob Bearden, formerly COO, is ...

If you haven’t heard of the in-memory key-value store Redis, you’ll probably be hearing about more in the near future. Other NoSQL databases, such as the document database MongoDB remain somewhat controversial among practitioners. Nothing has garnered quite so much geek love as Redis. Take for example this Hacker News thread about how Redis is ...

Cloud hosting provider Rackspace announced today that it has acquired Sharepoint 911, a firm dedicated to providing services for Microsoft SharePoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition will give Rackspace more credibility in hosting SharePoint solutions to compliment its existing SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange hosting offering. It will also give Rackspace more ...

Healthcare in the U.S. is undergoing a transformation. New legislation such as Affordable Health Care for America Act along with new policies coming from private insurers are mandating new approaches to preventable hospitalizations. Accountable care, where payment is tied to quality and not quantity of care, is the new paradigm. And healthcare providers are increasingly ...

Hortonworks, the Yahoo spinoff dedicated to providing services and support for Apache Hadoop, today unveil HortonWorks University. Hortonworks already offers both online and in-person training courses, but the company is now expanding its offering to include a Apache Hadoop certifications and a Certified Training Partner Program. According to the Hortonworks’ announcement “Hortonworks University courses feature ...

The iPhone address debacle, which began with the revelation that Path uploads users’ iOS address books, and continued today with the revelation that Twitter also uploads and stores your iPhone contacts, has come to close with Apple announcing that users will need to grant permissions to apps to access certain personal information. Rob Beschizza at ...

Each week the ServicesAngle has a conference call to discuss the week’s news and trends. Sometimes we just do voice calls, other times we do videoconferencing. Sometimes we bring other people into the conversations. Wikibon and SiliconAngle are all about collaboration and transparency, so, we’ve decided to start sharing these conversations. This week Wikibon analyst ...

Hot on the heels of its Gen8 servers announcement, HP today announced a new professional services offering: HP Service Integration and Management. The new service is meant to help enterprises “integrate, manage and govern complex multivendor environments.” The services included in this offering include: Governance Management Business Service Management Operational Service Management Transformation Experience Workshop ...