By David Smith In a blow to SAS's efforts to litigate competitor and low-cost SAS clone WPS out of existence, the European Union High Court has ruled that programming languages can't be copyrighted. SAS Institute (Cary, NC) had claimed that the WPS software — which allows users to process SAS data fi... May. 10, 2012 06:32 PM EDT Reads: 452 |
By David Smith Ph.D candidate in sociology Ethan Fosse just switched from Stata to doing 100% of his analysis with R. His reasons? If you want to do Bayesian analysis or graph modeled coefficients (or work with complex data structures more generally), then R is much easier than Stata due to the objec... May. 7, 2012 12:53 PM EDT Reads: 324 |
By Bob Gourley The Analysis Intelligence site provides open source analysis and information on a variety of topics based on the the temporal analytic technology and intelligence analysis tools of Recorded Future. Shortly after the release of 175 pages of documents from the Combatting Terrorism Cente... May. 6, 2012 10:05 PM EDT Reads: 350 |
By David Smith The open-source RHadoop project makes it easier to extract data from Hadoop for analysis with R, and to run R within the nodes of the Hadoop cluster -- essentially, to transform Hadoop into a massively-parallel statistical computing cluster based on R. In yesterday's webinar (the repla... May. 3, 2012 06:14 PM EDT Reads: 304 |
By Bob Gourley There is no excuse for the abuses we are learning about at GSA. We should all be bothered by the waste, fraud and abuse and I hope the government moves fast to correct the failures of leadership evident in these problems. Something else should bother us. The bad apples at GSA who eithe... May. 2, 2012 10:58 AM EDT Reads: 575 |
By AccuRev Communications It’s 1998. I’m just starting my job at Rational Software, supporting ClearCase. During my training and through my first few months handling customer issues, I developed a deep understanding of the complexities of SCM and the heavy-handed centralized control that ClearCase provided its ... May. 1, 2012 10:19 AM EDT Reads: 305 |
By David Smith Information Age recently published a feature article devoted to the R language, "Putting the R in analytics". Says author Pete Swabey: Already popular in universities, there are signs that R is finding increasing adoption in the enterprise. This promises to lower the barriers of entry ... Apr. 30, 2012 07:08 PM EDT Reads: 359 |
By Reuven Cohen I'm hosting solo this week and our guests are Ben Kepes from Diversity Limited and Reza Malekzadeh from Nimbula. Ben chats about the infrastructure and tech industry in New Zealand and how that ties to the opportunity in emerging markets while Reza tackles a discussion of the open sour... Apr. 30, 2012 09:24 AM EDT Reads: 492 |
By Hurricane Labs Open Source Licensing – Demystified? By: Steve McMaster I’m not sure how many of your listen to our podcast, but...Read More Apr. 19, 2012 01:20 PM EDT Reads: 585 |
By PR.com Newswire Sunnyvale, CA, April 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- LAYERZngn today announced the availability of CPlane OpenTransit, the newest member of the CPlane Framework family of infrastructure automation products. CPlane OpenTransit is available on a controlled-release basis to service providers and s... Apr. 18, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 784 |
By RealWire News Distribution CloudBees Extends Its Support for the Jenkins Community with Enterprise Plugins to Help Manage Large Numbers of Jobs, Backup Jenkins to the Cloud, Detect Wasted Minutes, Unify Credential Management and Diagnose File Error ProblemsLondon UK and PARIS, FRANCE - April 17, 2012 - CloudBees... Apr. 17, 2012 05:38 AM EDT Reads: 595 |
By Tad Anderson Finally someone has put the most important software architecture practices into words. Within this book lies the concepts that are the heart of true agility. Without a modularized architecture, any decent size project can not achieve agility. I have seen so many agile projects flop bec... Apr. 15, 2012 06:04 PM EDT Reads: 609 |
By Bob Gourley More complete, effective, and efficient information and IT sharing across the Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) is a leading goal for the Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Office (DS), which recently released its strategic vision ... Apr. 14, 2012 10:21 AM EDT Reads: 699 |
By Bob Gourley We have a lot of news on the mobile front this week; This is unsurprising given that the mobile sector is expanding so fast that some have taken to calling today the “Post-PC Era”. We all know very well that it’s not over yet, but it’s exciting to see such prolific changes in our day-... Apr. 13, 2012 01:19 PM EDT Reads: 707 |
By PR.com Newswire Princeton Jct, NJ, April 13, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Rapid Protect announces a major update of its award winning mobile applications and the web service platform. Rapid Protect applications are designed to address the growing need of security, safety and collaboration for individuals and bu... Apr. 13, 2012 07:10 AM EDT Reads: 1,180 |
By Kevin Benedict
The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News W... Apr. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,026 |
By RealWire News Distribution Sport Relief 2012 attracted record numbers of donations totalling over £52 million, incorporating more than 300,000 donations and peaking at an incredible rate of 149 payment transactions per second. Based on a highly scalable and resilient cloud computing solution that is proven ... Apr. 12, 2012 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 667 |
By PR.com Newswire Cheyenne, WY, April 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Denver based application development and cloud integration company, Firm Interactive, has selected Green House Data for their cloud hosting services. Additionally, Firm Interactive has entered into a channel partner program agreement with the ... Apr. 11, 2012 03:49 PM EDT Reads: 685 |
By David Weinberger The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — AKA “The Agency Elizabeth Warren Was Born to Lead” — has announced that its software will be open source, with rare exceptions for security, although “… we believe that, in general, hiding source code does not make the software safer”. The CFP... Apr. 10, 2012 12:35 PM EDT Reads: 290 |
By RealWire News Distribution HGI boosts top-level Asian representation by appointing NEC and NTT to the board10 April 2012 Telecom Italia's Luca Giacomello has been voted in as the new Chairman of the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) during the organisation's first meeting of 2012. The new board has confirmed that th... Apr. 10, 2012 10:04 AM EDT Reads: 617 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan Today I want to share with you some ideas about Web Oriented Storage System (WOSS) monitoring on databases and will use Riak as an example. I won’t be discussing here what’s meant by ”web oriented” or “storage system”, I am assuming that you are alr... Apr. 9, 2012 11:03 AM EDT Reads: 719 |
By Kevin Benedict
Thanks for reading "What's New in HTML5!" This is a series of articles that I publish each week to keep track of developments around HTML5 for the enterprise mobility market.
I speak to enterprise mobility vendors, developers and consultants daily, and many of them advocate ... Apr. 5, 2012 07:32 PM EDT Reads: 1,298 |
By Gilad Parann-Nissany Porticor announced it has joined the Red Hat Innovate program, and will be now be able to access the openness and collaborative nature of open source communities and enjoy the benefits of Red Hat software. Porticor plans to offer a new end-to-end cloud data security based on Red Hat. B... Apr. 4, 2012 01:37 PM EDT Reads: 802 |
By PR.com Newswire Seattle, WA, April 04, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Foodista.com (http://www.foodista.com/), the recipe, cooking, and food news source, and Zephyr Adventures (http://www.zephyradventures.com/), organizers of the Wine Bloggers Conference, announced today the results of their first State of Food B... Apr. 4, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 503 |
By AccuRev Communications AccuRev released for general availability today the first Git integration that seamlessly bridges the world of commercial tools and open source software configuration management. AccuRev’s Kando, an enterprise security and compliance platform for Git, which was released in beta in Janu... Apr. 3, 2012 01:44 PM EDT Reads: 709 |
By Gilad Parann-Nissany Porticor®, the leading cloud data security company delivering the only cloud-based data encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud by ensuring customer keys are never exposed, today announced it has joined the Red Hat Innovate™ program, enabling Porticor to leverage the powe... Apr. 3, 2012 08:26 AM EDT Reads: 809 |
By Cloud Ventures  What Is OpenNebula ?
It is cloud management solution – industry standard open source cloud computing tool to manage the complexity and heterogeneity of distributed data center infrastructures.
OpenNebula is a fully open-source management toolkit for on-premise Infrastructure as a S... Apr. 3, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,388 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan HBase is a distributed, NoSQL, open-source database, initially conceived as an open-source alternative to Google’s proprietary BigTable. Originally, HBase was part of the Hadoop project, but was eventually spun off as a subproject. Given this legacy, it is not surprising that mos... Mar. 28, 2012 09:50 AM EDT Reads: 1,066 |
By RealWire News Distribution Unprecedented European growth of 410 percent in 2011 generates industry recognitionLondon, UK - 28th March 2012 - Nexenta Systems, the world's leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, has won 'Most Improved Company of the Year' at the Network Computing Awards. It a... Mar. 28, 2012 06:16 AM EDT Reads: 547 |
By RealWire News Distribution Dell's specialist data centre distribution partnership with Magirus extends from continental Europe to UK BRACKNELL, UK - Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider, has announced today that it has become a specialist distributor of Dell's data centre solutions in the UK. The de... Mar. 28, 2012 05:49 AM EDT Reads: 576 |
By Hurricane Labs Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .021 – Jury Duty Edition Hosts: Bill Mathews (@billford), Matt Yonchak (@mattyonchak), Patrick Sayler...Read More Mar. 23, 2012 04:39 PM EDT Reads: 416 |
By Bob Gourley The Exhibitor List for the 2012 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference is up at http://www.ncsi.com/dodiis12/exhibitor_list.html Many of the firms there are technology firms, which is why this is one of the great events of the year. The text below is based on the current exhibitor list. This eve... Mar. 22, 2012 09:57 AM EDT Reads: 1,792 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan  This is the third blog post in a series of blog posts about open source Content Management Systems (CMS). You can find the first two parts here (Part 1) and here (Part 2) .
In the last article in this series we covered Xoops, Seotoaster, e107, Concrete5, and Typo3, five leading Conten... Mar. 22, 2012 09:20 AM EDT Reads: 2,521 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan It’s a useful reminder that statically compiled code still matter. Just to name a few, Chrome, Firefox, MySQL, MS Office, and Photoshop are highly optimized software that many of us are using every day. Python, as an interpreted language, is not oblivious to this fact. Python alo... Mar. 21, 2012 07:48 AM EDT Reads: 627 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan February was the birthday of one of the most important Free&Open Source projects: the Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”), very often simply called Apache, or Apache webserver. The project was started 1995, and since April 1996 has become the most popular webserver on the Inte... Mar. 19, 2012 06:49 AM EDT Reads: 632 |
By Adrian Bridgwater The Raspberry Pi is almost ready for market and the manufacturers are reportedly taking a healthy number of pre-orders for the ultra-low price single-board computer designed to fuel interest in programming at school level and beyond.
Adrian Bridgwater Mar. 15, 2012 09:49 AM EDT Reads: 615 |
By Cloud Ventures DR sites are typically built as an exact replica of the primary site. Application and database software is installed on DR site and sits there mostly unused, waiting for a disaster to happen. DR site is very expensive proposition than only large companies are able to afford. Amazon AWS... Mar. 13, 2012 07:49 PM EDT Reads: 641 |
By Bob Gourley The White House Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren just announced that the President has selected the relief for Aneesh Chopra. A hearty congrats to Todd Park! Todd is an incredibly mission-focused technologist with an enthusiasm that is absolutely co... Mar. 9, 2012 02:19 PM EST Reads: 557 |
By RealWire News Distribution Magirus offers full build-to-order Cisco UCS B200-Series offering and launches new UCS B-Series Demo Lab for European resellers STUTTGART, Germany - Magirus, one of Europe's leading IT solution providers, announced today that it has achieved a new, high level of certification to 'build... Mar. 8, 2012 11:14 PM EST Reads: 922 |
By Bob Gourley Another valuable pannel at the DC Cloudera Day was Todd Lipcon’s look into Hadoop management software Cloudera Manager available through Cloudera Enterprise. Cloudera is in the business of making Hadoop, the open source Big Data storage and analysis platform, easier for enterpris... Mar. 7, 2012 01:36 PM EST Reads: 782 |