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by Joseph Rickert This past Saturday, the New Frontiers in Computing Conference (NFIC 2013), held at Stanford University, explored the theme: Social Network Analysis: It’s Who You Know. The speakers were a well-chosen, eclectic lot who covered a remarkable array of issues in less than ...
CloudBees sees 350% revenue growth in 2012; similar growth in new customers and Partner Ecosytem services; triggering European expansionParis, FRANCE - May 16, 2013 - CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced a new office in Brussels, Bel...
Adblock Plus has issued a response in relation to the news that several of the best known German online news publications (Spiegel Online, Sueddeutsche.de, FAZ.net, Zeit, Golem.de and RP Online) have started a joint campaign urging their readers to disable their ad blockers. With over ...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users: A critique of a SAS whitepaper comparing the performance of SAS, R and Mahout. A video presentation from statistician Tess Nesbitt at UpStream, who uses GAM survival models in R for marketing ...
Leaders in software delivery and business automation offer enterprise DevOps at scaleBRISBANE, Calif and BELLEVUE, Wash, May 13, 2013, CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the leader for Enterprise Cloud Development, and UC4 Software (www.uc4.com), the leader in Business Automation, today...
The Field Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia New...
Tous les ans, la SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) organise la conférence AATC, All About The Cloud, « tout sur le cloud ». J’ai eu l’opportunité d’y participer cette année, du 7 au 9 mai, à San Francisco. C’est...
There have always, it seems, been people for whom attribution and citation really matter. Some of them passionately engage in arguments that last months or years, debating the merits of comma placement in written citations for the work of others. Bizarre, right? But, as we all become i...
The Software Freedom Conservancy has a plan to help all non-profit organizations (NPOs) by creating an Open Source and Free Software accounting system usable by non-technical bookkeepers, accountants, and non-profit managers. You can help them do it by donating now. To keep their books...
Charlotte, NC, May 10, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Woodstitch a Charlotte NC, digital marketing agency announced today the launch of their incubator WebhostingWeaver.com. The new website aims to provide small businesses with an unbiased and straightforward means of finding web hosting providers...
This June 23-25 the CloudStack Community is holding their second open source cloud computing users conference in Santa Clara, CA. The conference is also your opportunity to share ideas, discuss plans for Apache CloudStack, and conduct workshops and sprints. There will be a hacker space...
#OpenStack #Cloud #devops It's not just about operations, it's also about IT as a whole A Forrester Infrastructure and Operations analyst, Dave Bartoletti, offered up his thoughts on OpenStack in a recent blog, "OPENSTACK SUMMIT REPORT: REAL CUSTOMERS BUILDING BETTER PROD...
by Thomas Dinsmore On April 26, SAS published on its website an undated Technical Paper entitled Big Data Analytics: Benchmarking SAS, R and Mahout. In the paper, the authors (Allison J. Ames, Ralph Abbey and Wayne Thompson) describe a recent project to compare model quality, product c...
CloudBees' Platform as a Service enables Choose Digital to launch innovative digital store quickly and cost effectivelyParis, France - May 7, 2013 - CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Choose Digital used the CloudBees PaaS to ...
By Ryan KamauffOne of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should “root.” Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs “superuser” access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the operating system, enabli...
Put away that Kindle Paperwhite – there’s a new e-reader in town with an even clearer screen. Kobo, the go-to e-reader for bookstores looking to distance themselves from Amazon, recently unveiled its Aura HD, the world’s first HD e-reader. With 25 percent more pixels per inch than the ...
"The cloud AZs will be divided into two divisions: AZ and AZ Zappa." Spring is finally here on this beautiful Friday. This week’s cloud publishings includes a whole lot on Microsoft claiming a huge number of users for their cloud-based services, increased evidence of BYOD success,...
By Bob GourleyThe following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being established for dramatic positive change in the f...
Luke Melia (CTO) and Maria Seidman (CEO) of Yapp Recently we had the pleasure of sitting down for an extended and insightful chat with Luke Melia, Co-Founder and CTO of Yapp. Yapp has been experiencing some incredible growth, and Luke shared his thoughts on a number of related topic...
by Thomas Dinsmore On April 26, SAS published on its website an undated Technical Paper entitled Big Data Analytics: Benchmarking SAS, R and Mahout. In the paper, the authors (Allison J. Ames, Ralph Abbey and Wayne Thompson) describe a recent project to compare model quality, product c...
Luke Melia, Co-Founder and CTO of Yapp Recently we had the pleasure of sitting down for an extended and insightful chat with Luke Melia, Co-Founder and CTO of Yapp. Yapp has been experiencing some incredible growth, and Luke shared his thoughts on a number of related topics, includi...
Non, il ne s’agit pas d’annoncer une catastrophe économique qui ferait que les entreprises arrêteraient d’investir en Informatique. Il s’agit au contraire d’une excellente nouvelle pour des dirigeants, les directeurs financiers et les informaticiens : la grande majorité des «......
This weekend I was at LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, Wa. I had the opportunity to see a lot of interesting talks. Here’s the talk I gave LinuxFest NW 2013: Hitchhiker’s Guide to Open Source Cloud Computing . Abstract: Imagine it’s eight o’clock on a Thursday morning and...
Chicago, IL, April 27, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Braindigit announces the release of SageFrame 2.1, an enhanced version of SageFrame2.0. SageFrame is a highly extensible CMS, that helps users build their sites, and builds them to perfection. SageFrame is an open source CMS that is released un...
By Bob GourleyI really hope to see you at the 7 May 2013 Cloudera Session in DC. This event is loaded with lessons learned, advice and information you can use to reduce risk in your big data solution deployments.  Here is more from our last post on the event. Check out the agenda and t...
I'm happy to announce the very first release of my latest Erlang open source project, jerg, a JSON Schema to Erlang Records Generator.The objective of this project is to be a build tool that parses a rich domain model defined in JSON Schema (as specified in the IETF Internet Draft) in ...
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full April edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Now Available: Revol...
Fort Washington, PA, April 25, 2013 --(PR.com)-- ListenLogic, a pioneer in advanced social intelligence for leading corporations, has commissioned the publishing of Social Business Intelligence: Reducing Risk, Building Brands & Driving Growth with Social Media (hardback, 191 pgs, ...
Capgemini partners with Acquia to provide Drupal cloud services and expertise for its clients in the U.K.London, 25 April 2013 - Acquia, where great digital experiences begin, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Capgemini Digital Services, Capgemini UK plc's new ...
While Eclipse IDE is not the best one for JavaScript developers, it’s the most popular IDE among enterprise Java developers. If an enterprise Java developer needs to start developing in JavaScript, the first question comes to his/her mind is “Can I stay with my familiar Ecl...
Organisations Honoured for Achievements Using Perforce's Version Management SoftwareWOKINGHAM, UK (April 24, 2013) - Perforce Software today announced the winners of its inaugural Versionary Awards for customer innovation. Elite organisations were recognised for their excellence in app...
We are pleased to announce that Revolution R Enterprise Release 6.2 is available to new subscribers today. This new software release from Revolution Analytics includes a number of key new features: Support for open source R 2.15.3, the latest stable release of R. Since Release 2.14.2, ...
Push Technology has a flexible and innovative solution to deliver data to any device in the market London, 24 April 2013: Push Technology, an innovative provider of real-time data-on-demand communication software, Diffusion™, today announced it has been included as a "Cool Vendor...
By Ryan KamauffOn 4 April 2013, Carahsoft sponsored the Third Annual Government Big Data Forum. This post is the third in a series that seeks to capture key elements of the forum and keep the dialog going. This post focuses on panels. The first panel was Infrastructure Needs and Capabi...
Geeksphone, the smartphone OEM startup based out of Madrid, put the first Firefox OS developer phones on sale early Tuesday morning, offering the Keon for $119 and the more powerful Peak for $194. Both devices are the first hardware to be offered with Firefox OS on board, and both devi...
This post is authored by ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein. When we talk to IT teams who are considering ExtraHop, there’s often a discussion about scalability. People are skeptical, and rightfully so. Many monitoring vendors sell the dream of real-time, off-the-wire transaction analysis. I...
The results from the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey are in — thanks to everyone who contributed by completing the survey. You can read an overview of the results here, or see the detailed breakdowns in the slides at the end of this post. For me, one of the most interesting nuggets f...
Gainesville, VA, April 18, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Veteran owned Synergetic Associates, LLC announced today significant progress in their OpenStack automated installation project targeted at achieving greater adoption and use for the struggling open source community Cloud Infrastructure As ...
We’re looking for developers who’d like to work with on server-side OSGi Java, client-side Javascript/CSS/HTML5, and MongoDB database back end applications.  (See opentaps 2 framework.) If this sounds like as much fun to you as it does to us, please contact us right away!  ...
By very popular demand, the Big Data briefing team that packs events coast to coast is returning to DC for a day of sessions that will provide lessons learned from real-world deployments of Big Data solutions. Come hear from engineers who contribute code to  the open source projects ar...