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The Linux Foundation claims open-source code is worth $5 billion
Ever wondered how much open-source software is really worth? Well, the Linux Foundation has just attempted to answer it as best as it can in a new report that looks at the development costs of Linux-based collaborative projects. It’s challenging to put a price tag on open-source software platforms for numerous reasons. The most obvious ...
Rackspace expected to announce support for AWS next week
Cloud support specialist Rackspace Inc. is rumored to be getting into bed with Amazon Web Services, so it can lend its expertise to customers wishing to shunt their data centers into the AWS cloud. The Wall Street Journal says the partnership will be announced next week at Amazon’s AWS:reinvent conference in Las Vegas. The deal ...
Pepperdata spices up visibility into Hadoop usage across departments
While the skils shortage is often cited as being one of the biggest obstacles in the way of Hadoop’s widespread enterprise adoption, there are numerous other challenges that must also be overcome. Some of these include being able to support multiple users on a single cluster and leveraging systems that handle diverse workloads. Another challenge ...
Got Big Data, but will it blend? Pentaho says it can
Pentaho Corp. has released the first major update to its Big Data platform since it was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems back in February, with the goal of helping users to blend their data and manage the analytics pipeline more efficiently. Pentaho kept its old brand name in the wake of its acquisition, and now ...
The Open Data Platform rebrands as ODPi under the Linux Foundation
The members of the controversial Open Data Platform for Hadoop initiative have formally moved the project under the Linux Foundation, in a move that will further irritate those who’re opposed to it. In addition, the group has also announced a fresh batch of new members, plus an update on its work to introduce a core ...
Holberton School tackles software skills shortage with hands-on learning
The dearth of capable software and systems engineers is getting so great that a group of industry veterans have taken it upon themselves to tackle the problem, establishing a new “hands-on” school to train budding full stack software engineers in the latest and greatest IT technologies. Opened this week, the Holberton School in San Francisco ...
Rackspace gets fanatical with new managed security offering
Rackspace Inc., which has carved out a niche for itself as a provider of “fanatical support” for all manner of cloud services, is now getting into the security and compliance game with a new managed offering for small and medium-sized enterprises. The demand for cybersecurity skills has been on the rise in the enterprise, but ...
Pivotal open-sources Apache HAWQ & Apache MADlib
Pivotal Software Inc. has made good on a promise it made earlier this year to open-source its HAWQ SQL engine for Hadoop, and it’s also done the same for its MADlib machine learning technology. As of today, the development of both HAWQ and MADlib will now fall under The Apache Software Foundation, although Pivotal will ...
Hortonworks brings DataFlow to the enterprise
Hortonworks Inc. has announced the availability of support subscriptions for its advanced stream processing platform DataFlow, following a quiet launch late last week. DataFlow, which is based on the NSA-developed Apache NiFi project, was first introduced to an audience of oil and gas companies during a webinar last week as the solution to the processing ...
Altiscale delivers ‘Spark-as-a-Service’ cloud platform
Apache Spark and Hadoop are widely regarded as the marquee tools in the box when it comes to crunching and consuming Big Data, but their complexity makes them extremely difficult for many organizations to deploy. Add to that their resource hungry nature, and the challenges for organizations can often be insurmountable. Now though, Big Data-as-a-Service ...