Inside the Briefcase
To help you evaluate various solutions and technologies available on the market, and to compare the leading open source application integration technology with alternatives, this white paper presents top the 10 reasons why organizations are choosing open source for application integration.
Tweet A consortium of tech companies announced the formation of the Open Virtualization Alliance Tuesday to foster the adoption of open virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). Founding companies include HP (HPQ), IBM, Intel (INTC), BMC Software (BMC), Red Hat (RHT), Eucalyptus Systems and SUSE. Complementing Open Source The aim of the alliance will […]
WSO2, the lean enterprise middleware company, today announced that it has closed $6.5 million in growth financing. The funding round was led by Quest Software, Inc. and joined by existing investor Intel Capital. WSO2 will use the funds to expand its global operations; grow its Silicon Valley-based marketing, sales and support teams; and extend its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings to support the rapid increase in global demand for WSO2’s open source middleware platforms.
Cloud.com, a provider open source cloud computing software, on Tuesday announced that Appcore, a global business information systems provider, is using the company’s flagship product, CloudStack, for its private cloud computing platform.
Verizon has won in the Superior Alternatives category of the 2011 Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards competition. The award, announced during the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World on May 6 in Boston, recognizes Verizon for “the most successful migration from proprietary solutions to open source alternatives.”
Pentaho, the pioneer in agile business intelligence (BI), today announced it is an initial technology leader supporting the EMC® Greenplum® distribution of Hadoop. In addition, Pentaho also now offers native adaptor support for Greenplum GPLoad (bulk loader), which enables Greenplum and Pentaho customers to leverage Pentaho’s data integration capabilities to capture, prep and quickly load massive amounts of data into Greenplum tools in a more manageable graphically designed way.
FuseSource Corp., the experts in open source integration and messaging, announced that the company was among a select group of leading vendors invited to participate in the April 2011 report, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2011.
Liferay, provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, today announced a new technology partnership with MuleSoft, the provider of web middleware built on leading open source projects Mule ESB and Apache Tomcat. As a part of the partnership, Liferay, Inc. is offering a special bundled version of Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) preinstalled with MuleSoft Tcat Server with full enterprise support coming from Liferay.
BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, today announced that it has been included in Gartner Inc.’s “Cool Vendors in Business Process Management, 2011” report by Michele Cantara, John Dixon, Janelle Hill, David McCoy, Ned Frey and Jim Sinur.
Alfresco, the open platform for social content management, today announced the industry’s first preview of the Activiti Business Process Management (BPM) workflow engine integrated with Alfresco.
Tweet It’s unlikely that hordes of VMware, Citrix or Microsoft Hyper-V users will flock to open-source virtualization or cloud-computing platform as an alternative to the hypervisors and virtualized infrastructure-management software they’ve already chosen, analysts say. So where does open source fit in the cloud world? Think lock-in and migration flexibility. Cloud computing customers will want […]
This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn’t record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer.
Researchers at the University of Exeter discovered that iPhones using the latest operating system keeps detailed records of where you’ve been.
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that NTT Communications has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation of its cloud computing and hosting service offering, Biz Hosting Basic.
Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced the general availability of Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop v3 (CDH3), the latest major release of the company’s open source Hadoop platform.
Tweet Perhaps the biggest reason I — and many others in my firm who follow open source software and enterprise IT — am so bullish on cloud computing is the user empowerment and enablement that has occurred. Open source software began teaching us about the importance and value of communities. Today, software and technology communities […]
Tweet Written by Scott Cranton, Principle Solutions Engineer, FuseSource OSGi technology brings a number of much needed benefits to the Jaa enterprise application market, and is disruptive in that it impacts the software development, deployment, and management practices of many organizations. OSGi impacts deployment given the shared, modular nature of OSGi, meaning application code must […]
ProcessMaker®, an industry leading Open Source Workflow and Open Source Business Process Management (BPM) Software will now include modules for advanced Business Intelligence and Data Integration thanks to an agreement with Orlando based Pentaho Corporation, the pioneer in agile business intelligence (BI).
OpenERP S.A. has announced the launch of its open source ERP applications library. OpenERP Apps, with over 1,000 applications available for free, is one of the largest repositories or libraries of enterprise management applications in the world.
Tweet A software package designed to minimize the potential risks of synthetic biology for the nation’s defense and security is now available to the gene synthesis industry and synthetic biology community in an open-source format. Virginia Tech has licensed GenoTHREAT, a software tool that helps detect the use of synthetic DNA as bioterrorism agents. Developed […]
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DATA PRIVACY, Featured Webinars, Inside the BriefcaseTweet SOURCE: SilverSpore SilverSpore LLC, an innovator in intelligent IT management solutions, has announced the release of their Spore Monitor compound metric extension to the Open Source community. Spore Monitor extends the Icinga and Nagios open source monitoring systems, combining multiple measurements into a single check as defined by a simple configuration file. Demonstration […]
Companies like IBM and Wal-Mart are already doing amazing things with Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Why are so many others reluctant to take the plunge? In the second of our 3-part series of extracts from his book “The Next Wave of Technologies: Opportunities in Chaos (Wiley, 2010), Phil Simon explains why organizations hesitate to embrace new systems — until it’s too late. (See our interview with Simon here.)
Tweet SOURCE: Microsoft Microsoft has prohibited developers from using GPLv3-licensed open source software in any application distributed on the Windows Phone Marketplace. But Redmond is pushing mobile application developers to use packages based on an open source license created by Microsoft. The Windows Phone Marketplace Application Provider Agreement says applications “must not include software that […]
Tweet SOURCE: Talend Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced an alliance with Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), the people behind BIRT® and the leading open source Business Intelligence (BI) vendor. Under this technology alliance, Talend is the preferred provider of data integration and data quality solutions for migrating data on the recently launched BIRT […]
Tweet SOURCE: Autonomic Resources Autonomic Resources, an IT and service integration firm serving the U.S. federal government, announced today the completion of an open source Business Intelligence (BI) implementation for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The implementation included solutions from Jaspersoft, the world’s […]
Tweet SOURCE: Pentaho Pentaho Corporation, the open source Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration leader, today announcedthat Brussels Airport has selected Pentaho BI Suite following a competitive proof-of-concept project to replace both its Oracle reporting and an IBM Extraction Transformation and Load tool. Brussels Airport is at the heart of the modern Belgian economy housing […]
Tweet SOURCE: FuseSource FuseSource™ Corporation, the experts in open source integration and messaging, today announced a three-part webinar series designed to provide developers using or considering Apache CXF with the advice and expertise required to make their use of Apache CXF in the enterprise as successful as possible. Presented by Dr. Adrian Trenaman, a Senior […]
Tweet SOURCE: MuleSoft MuleSoft has debuted an upgrade to its open-source enterprise service bus software with new capabilities that make it easier to integrate on-premise applications and data with cloud-based Web applications. The new Mule ESB 3.1 also provides a management console with capabilities based on the DevOps movement to develop a common set of […]
Tweet SOURCE: BonitaSoft It’s been almost a year since Bonita Open Solution 5.0 was released! To celebrate this – and after months of hard work – we will be releasing a new version of our BPM suite, Bonita Open Solution 5.4 on January 27. For this occasion, we will organize our quarterly BonitaDay webcast to […]
