With the growth of development platforms like Ruby on Rails and Node.js you might be temped to think that demand for the by now old school language PHP might be starting to decline. But judging by a survey of PHP developers conducted by PHP server vendor Zend Technologies, you’d be wrong. Of the respondents, only ...

The team behind Cloud Foundry, the open source platform-as-a-service developed by VMware, added new application deployment feature called “manifests” to the Cloud Foundry command line tool (VMC). Manifests are YAML documents that contain a list of input commands. “With this manifest document, VMC will simply read the input values from the file rather than prompt ...

Social business consulting firm DachisGroup today announced its social media monitoring tool called Social Performance Monitor. It’s the firm’s first subscription service and another example of how service companies are expanding to productize services and own more intellectual property. Social Performance Monitor is a compliment to the firm’s free Social Business Index service and is ...

Today Oracle is releasing Oracle Big Data Appliance, which was first announced Oracle Open World last fall. Also, today Oracle announced that the appliance will include the Cloudera Distribution Including Hadoop and Cloudera Manager. Oracle also announced a set of connectors for integrating data stored in Hadoop and/or Oracle NoSQL Database with with Oracle Database ...

According to a survey of over 165 server professionals conducted by the 451 Group, 67% are planning to spend more on databases and data warehousing with Red Hat and 55% are planning to spend less with Oracle in 2012 compared to 2011. Only 6% plan to spend less with Red Hat and only 9% plan ...

A few months ago Karl Flinders at Computer Weekly asked whether systems integrators were slowing the adoption of open source in the UK government. Flinders wrote about how even though open source would seem like an attractive option for cash strapped agencies, the adoption has been surprisingly low. That could be due to systems integrators ...

Today Rackspace announced that it is open sourcing Dreadnot, a tool for automating and monitoring deployments with support for multiple regions. The project, which was heavily influenced by Etsy’s Deployinator, was built in Node.js and is used in production at Rackspace by the Cloud Monitoring team The goal of Dreadnot is to enable “continuous deployment.” ...

The drama regarding the future of Apache CouchDB is winding down and looks to have a happy ending. Following Couchbase’s announcement that it is discontinuing its own distribution of CouchDB, Cloudant announced that it is now in the process of merging its fork of CouchDB, called BigCouch, into the main CouchDB project. In an interview ...

Earlier today I looked at Tata Consulting Services’ cloud ambitions. But as Suparna Goswami Bhattacharya writing for DNA India points out in a story on the development of the international consulting market, the real action may be in Indian BPO companies encroaching on traditional service providers in the consulting and system integrations business. IBM got ...

We’ve been writing about how traditional service providers, such as Accenture, have been starting cloud hosted services to keep up with the changing IT world. This is a trend that extends around the world, including to business process outsourcing (BPO) providers. According to the Times of India, Tata Consulting Services (TCS) landed 200 customers for ...