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Survey: PHP Still Going Strong
By Klint Finley
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…
By Klint Finley
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Cloud Foundry Adds Automated Deployment Feature: Manifests
By Klint Finley
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…
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DachisGroup Launches Social Media Monitoring SaaS
By Klint Finley
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…
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Oracle Releases Big Data Appliance with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop
By Klint Finley
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.…
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Analyst: Linux Will Eat Oracle Solaris’ Lunch in 2012
By Klint Finley
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…
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Where Systems Integrators Fit in the Future of Enterprise Open Source
By Klint Finley
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…
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Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot, a DevOps Deployment Tool Written in Node.js
By Klint Finley
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…
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Cloudant Plans to Shift Focus to Apache CouchDB and Merge Features from BigCouch
By Klint Finley
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…
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More IT Firms Piling on the Consulting Bandwagon
By Klint Finley
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…
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Consulting and the Cloud in India
By Klint Finley
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,…