The 451 Group has a new report out titled Data, systems management or devops likely to drive Red Hat’s next deal. I don’t have access to the report, but it seems pretty self-explanatory. Nodeable SVP of Business Development and open source software pundit Matt Asay posted this excerpt on the Nodeable blog: Given the prominence ...

Just over a year ago analyst firm RedMonk launched RedMonk Analytics, an effort to productize some of the data sets that the firm relies on. Since companies ranging from small analyst firms like RedMonk to large global consulting companies like Accenture are trying to figure out how to productize services, I thought it would be ...

SnapLogic, which makes it easy for customers to integrate multiple cloud applications via a simple Web based interface, today announced a partnership with Orchestra Networks to power the integration aspect of smartdatagovernance.com, a cloud-based master data management platform launched earlier this year. I’ve noted before that compliance and data governance are becoming hot areas for ...

Cloudera today announced Cloudera Enterprise with Cloudera Manager 3.7, the latest version of the company’s proprietary Apache Hadoop management stack. Most notably the launch includes a new Cloudera Manager Free Edition, which is available as a free download here. The Free Edition is only free as in beer, however – Cloudera Manager has not been ...

Platform-as-a-Service provider AppFog announced today that it is rolling out a new program for third party add-ons. Users will be able to manage accounts with third-party services from a single interface. The first partners are the MongoDB host MongoLab and the application performance monitoring company New Relic. This gives AppFog similar capabilities to Heroku, which ...

StackOverflow is a question and answer community for programmers. Users can ask questions and then vote on the best answers. Back in 2009, someone asked: “What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?” The result is a crowdsourced list of the best books on programming in general, rather than a list of ...

Graph databases are one of the most interesting but least talked about areas of non-relational/NoSQL database development. We hear a lot about MongoDB, Apache Cassandra and Redis, and much less about Neo4j and DEX. That can make it hard to know where to start in terms of evaluating graph databases. Fortunately Jasper Peilee has done ...

Developers may be the new king makers, as our pals at Red Monk have been saying for years, but they may soon be usurped by data scientists. Data scientist roles are even harder to fill than developer roles, and the greater emphasis being placed on big data is making this new type of worker a ...

In an e-mail to customers today Amazon Web Services announced a new pricing structure for its Reserve Instances service. The pricing will now include three tiers based on usage – light, medium and heavy utilization. The Reserved Instances let you keep machines ready in the cloud but avoid an hourly fee when they’re not running. ...

Apache CouchDB project chairman Jan Lehnardt sent an e-mail to the project’s mailing list yesterday addressing concerns about the the open source NoSQL document database’s future. Last week word spread that Canonical is discontinuing its use of CouchDB in its cloud storage service Ubuntu One. First, Lehnardt explains the situation and the CouchDB team’s side ...