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VA awards $4.9M contract to support open source tech

June 25, 2012 No Comments

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Ray Group International, a $4.9 million contract to support the open source community that is contributing software code to the VA and Defense Department integrated electronic health record system.

Talend Positioned as “Visionary” in Magic Quadrants for Application Infrastructure

June 25, 2012 No Comments

Enterprise open source integration company acknowledged by leading analyst firm for completeness of vision and ability to execute

NASA Drops OpenStack For Amazon Cloud

June 21, 2012 No Comments

NASA has withdrawn as an active contributor to OpenStack, saying it doesn’t want to be in the business of producing cloud software anymore.

Open source: Leading the way for big data applications

June 18, 2012 No Comments

The big data market is on the verge of a growth spurt that will hit $50 billion worldwide within the next five years.

Drupal Commerce Now Available in the Windows Web App Gallery

June 14, 2012 No Comments

Commerce Guys announces that its flexible eCommerce solution, Drupal Commerce Kickstart, is now included in the Windows Web App Gallery.

Open source middleware protects and maintains CERN collider

June 14, 2012 No Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN pushes the smallest known atomic particles to velocities near the speed of light with specially tuned open source middleware.

WSO2 on Practical SOA for Solution Architects

June 1, 2012 No Comments

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a framework for enabling IT and business efficiency and agility. However, too often implementations fall short because IT practitioners have lost sight of core SOA principles. To help foster effective SOA design, WSO2 has published a new white paper for solution architects, entitled “Practical SOA for the Solution Architect.” The concepts behind “Practical SOA” will also be covered in a webinar on Tuesday, October 25, 2011.

Talend Announces Talend Connect User, Customer and Partner Conference

May 29, 2012 No Comments

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Talend Connect Germany and Talend Connect Boston, the company’s first in a series of regional community, customer and partner conferences, will be held on June 12, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany and on June 19, 2012 in Boston.

SAP Further Extends Real-Time Data Platform With “Big Data” Capabilities

May 16, 2012 No Comments

SAP today announced advanced support and integration with Hadoop environments including an expanded “big data” partner council and customer showcases.

Talend Announces New Release of Enterprise Open Source Integration Platform

May 15, 2012 No Comments

Company enhances Talend’s next-generation integration solution to deliver big data tooling, unified ESB and BPM and enterprise-grade functions for mission-critical projects

West Texas A&M Selects Unicon for Open Source Portal Upgrade and Mobile Solution

May 7, 2012 No Comments

Unicon, Inc., a leading IT consulting services provider specializing in open source for the education market, announced today that it has been selected by West Texas A&M University to perform a portal upgrade and to deliver a mobile framework.

Gamification Expert Gabe Zichermann to Speak at CamelOne

May 1, 2012 No Comments

useSource Corp., experts in open source integration and messaging, announced that Gabe Zichermann, CEO of Gamification Co, author and chair of the Gamification Summit, will present to the general session at CamelOne 2012 – the only event designed for enterprise users of open source integration and messaging technologies.

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS: Certified, Available and Ready for the Hyperscale World

April 30, 2012 No Comments

Available for download now, Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS combines the Essex release of OpenStack cloud infrastructure and Canonical’s new Metal as a Service provisioning tool in a proven, certified server platform, with support guaranteed until 2017.

SugarCRM raises $33m to further expansion into enterprise

April 10, 2012 No Comments

SugarCRM, the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, today announced it has completed a $33 million equity and debt financing round. SugarCRM will use the funds to continue its advancement into the enterprise market and to pursue strategic business opportunities.

ownCloud Launches Commercial Offering with Easy-to-Use Desktop Clients and Mobile Apps

April 4, 2012 No Comments

ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source enterprise file sync and share project, today launched commercial offerings based on Version 3 of the community edition, bringing business-class flexibility and security to the file sync and share market.

EMC Goes Social, Open and Agile With Big Data

April 3, 2012 No Comments

EMC Corporation announced a new wave of products and services all with a singular goal – to enable organizations to derive greater insight and economic value from Big Data – datasets so large they break traditional IT infrastructures.

Red Hat is now a member of billion dollar revenue club

April 3, 2012 No Comments

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 29, 2012.

Jaspersoft Extends Partnership with Talend to Deliver Big Data Integration

April 2, 2012 No Comments

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Jaspersoft, maker of the world’s most widely deployed business intelligence (BI) software, has upgraded its original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Talend to include native support for big data environments in Jaspersoft ETL.

Talend and MapR Announce Certification of Big Data Integration and Big Data Quality

March 21, 2012 No Comments

Talend, a global open source software leader, and MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of the industry’s most advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop, announced today that Talend Open Studio for Big Data, the leading open source big data integration solution, has been certified to use with MapR’s Hadoop Distribution, providing users of Hadoop in the enterprise with high performance and scalable integration options.

OpenLogic Updates Open Source License Compliance Management Solution

March 21, 2012 No Comments

penLogic, Inc., provider of enterprise open source support and management solutions for the data center and the cloud, today announced the newest version of its open source license compliance management solution, enabling greater team collaboration, improving efficiencies and empowering more corporate control through a new set of APIs.

New Zealand’s Newest Mobile Provider Uses WSO2 Carbon Middleware to Help Capture Nearly One-Sixth of the Market

March 7, 2012 No Comments

New Case Study on Two Degrees Mobile Highlights Role of WSO2 ESB and Other WSO2 Middleware Products in Delivering Innovative Mobile Services

Teradata Expands Integrated Analytics Portfolio

March 7, 2012 No Comments

ased on increased customer demand for faster performance, a wider variety of business intelligence applications, and self-service analytics, Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the world’s leading analytic data solutions company, today announced the continued expansion of Teradata Integrated Analytics portfolio.

Attunity and Hortonworks Announce Partnership to Simplify Big Data Integration with Apache Hadoop

March 5, 2012 No Comments

Attunity Ltd. (OTC BB: ATTUF.OB), a leading provider of real-time data integration software, and Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop, jointly announce today a partnership focused on the delivery of high-performance solutions to move Big Data in and out of Apache Hadoop.

Hadoop: How Open Source Can Whittle Big Data Down to Size

March 2, 2012 No Comments

Techworld Australia caught up with Doug Cutting to talk about Apache Hadoop, a software framework he created for processing massive amounts of data.

Fujitsu Releases “Interstage Big Data Parallel Processing Server V1.0” to Help Enterprises Utilize Big Data

March 2, 2012 No Comments

Reliability and processing performance enhanced with Apache Hadoop solution featuring Fujitsu’s proprietary distributed file system

Talend Empowers Apache Hadoop Community with Talend Open Studio for Big Data

February 29, 2012 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Talend Based on award-winning open source integration technology, big data integration solution to be released under Apache Software License, bundled in Hortonworks Data Platform Strata Conference, Santa Clara, Calif. – February 29, 2012 – Talend, a global leader in open source integration software, today announced the availability of Talend Open Studio for Big […]

Ericsson Joins OpenStack, Demonstrates Unique Virtual Data Center Manager

February 28, 2012 No Comments

As part of the recently announced Network-enabled Cloud concept, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has joined the OpenStack project, an open-source community dedicated to creating cloud software that has achieved strong industrial momentum.

Open Source Opens Doors for Aussie Start-Up

February 27, 2012 No Comments

It’s pretty rare for a start-up company to benefit from more than a decade of software development valued at about $2 million each year. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/open-source-opens-doors-for-aussie-startup-20120223-1tpub.html#ixzz1nbwWYlRh

Eight Business-changing Ways to Use Big Data

February 22, 2012 No Comments

Enterprises are finding business-changing ways to put the power of Hadoop, an open source Apache project for storing and processing large amounts of data, to good use. They are using Hadoop and Big Data to reduce risks, better serve customers and even change the Internet.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Achieves Highest-Level Security Certification

February 21, 2012 No Comments

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 have been awarded Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+ ) under the Common Criteria Evaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS).

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