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Amazon Challenges Its Open Source Progeny with Hosted DynamoDB Service
In 2007, Amazon.com published a paper on its distributed datastore Dynamo, which the company uses to power its e-commerce site. The paper inspired several open source NoSQL projects, including Apache Cassandra, BigCouch (soon to be merged into Apache CouchDB) and Riak. But for years Dynamo has remained an internal tool. That changed today with the ...
Why So Many DevOps Tools Are Written in Node.js
If you’ve been following the growth of either DevOps or Node.js you may have noticed the number of deployment, monitoring and automation tools being created in Node.js. One of the most recent example is Dreadnot, a deployment automation tool created by RackSpace Cloud Monitoring, which is based on Deployinator another Node.js based automation tool created ...
RainStor Runs Its Database Natively on Hadoop
Today RainStor announced that it is releasing a version of its database that runs natively on Apache Hadoop called RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop. This will enable users to query data stored in Hadoop using both SQL and MapReduce. Also, thanks to the advanced compression techniques users will be able to store more data ...
Open Source “Splunk for Security” Company AlienVault Hires HP Fortify Team
Today AlienVault, the sponsor company of the open source security intelligence tool OSSIM, announced that it has hired former HP Fortify team members Barmak Meftah and Roger Thornton. Meftah, who was VP of software security products at HP, is joining AlienVault as President and CEO. Thorton, founder of Fortify, is the new CTO of AlienVault. ...
Former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com as EVP of Emerging Markets
Today Salesforce.com announced that former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra is joining the company as EVP of emerging markets. As the first ever CIO of the US federal government, Kundra was a proponent of both cloud computing and open data. Kundra left his position last summer for a role at Harvard after a ...
Splunk May Be Valued at $1.2 Billion. Still Lots of Opportunity for Consultants.
Word in Silicon Valley is that Splunk, which has filed its S-1, may be valued at $1.2 billion says SiliconAngle founder and CEO John Furrier. The S-1 is a sign that a company will soon file for an IPO. You can find the paperwork here. Splunk has been rumored to be planning an IPO since ...
Evolution of Agile: From Development Teams to the Whole Organization
Forrester has a new report titled Navigate The Future Of Agile And Lean. It looks at the progress from the early days of the agile methodology as a tool improving development team productivity to its current state as an approach that’s changing other aspects of organizations. Forrester estimates that at least 38% of development teams ...
Jaspersoft and Red Hat Launch Business Intelligence PaaS
Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft today announced its BI platform-as-a-service. The service will first be available on RedHat OpenShift and will enable developers take take advantage of Jaspersoft’s software for building customer BI applications. OpenShift can run both on-premise or in the public cloud. Jaspersoft VP of Technology Karl Van den Bergh says the ...
IBM and DachisGroup Team-Up for Social Business Consulting
IBM announced today announced a new services practice focused on social networking in the enterprise, plus a partnership with social business consulting firm DachisGroup. The announcement follows the launch of DachisGroup’s social media monitoring softare-as-a-service. IBM will offer training, certification and strategic consulting workshops via online courses. One of the first will be a quick ...
Apprenda Launches Free (As in Beer) Version of Its On-Premise .NET PaaS
Apprenda, the makers of an on-premise .NET platform-as-a-service, released today a free (as in beer) version of its software called Apprenda Express. The move follows the addition of .NET support to Cloud Foundry last month. Cloud Foundry is a VMware backed (with contributions from companies like Tier 3 and AppFog) free and open source PaaS, ...