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Talend Survey Explores Big Data Market; Human Resources Still the Biggest Challenge

Everyone is doing big data, or least it would appear so from the forums, blog posts and media articles currently appearing on the Web. But big data solutions are expensive and require investment in human resources and technology, which not every enterprise has the resources to do. So how widespread is big data adoption? Open source integration specialist, Talend went to the market to find out and came back with some interesting results.

Hortonworks Brings Open Source Big Data Hadoop Platform To Microsoft's Windows

Further evidence that big data is going mainstream is the announcement from Hortonworks that its Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDPW) is available in beta, making it the first Apache Hadoop distribution that is available for both Windows and Linux.

Who the Hadoop is Hortonworks and What Have They Just Done?

hortonworks.jpgIf you haven’t yet heard much about Hortonworks, the youngest of the three primary commercial vendors that develop, distribute and support Enterprise-grade Apache Hadoop, pay attention.

IBM New Enterprise Software Offers Social, Mobile Integration

IBM may be an old technology firm, but lately the company has been busy making sure it offers products that help organizations support the latest trends in enterprise technology. The company has announced a new set of integration offerings designed to help businesses easily connect their applications to all types of emerging content.

nginx Continues Its Rise to the Top of the Web Server Market

nginx Continues Its Rise to the Top of the Web Server MarketWe reported in January that open source webserver nginx was gaining adoption and had managed to surpass Microsoft IIS in the number of active sites. Netcraft has released its April web server survey and it seems nginx’s market share is continuing to rise.

Microsoft Releases Second Preview of Hadoop-Based Service for Windows Azure

Microsoft Releases Second Preview of Hadoop-Based Service for Windows AzureThe Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure capacity is expanded by four times.

Apache Promotes Social Media Mashup Platform Apache Rave

apache-logo.pngSocial media may be a standard for modern communication, but the technology standards behind our defacto interaction mechanism leave a lot to be desired. However, the team over at the Apache Software Foundations (ASF) are taking a step in the right direction. ASF has promoted social media mashup platform, Apache Rave, to a top-level project after a year in incubation.

Pentaho Extends Big Data Support to Cassandra

Pentaho is continuing its efforts to make big data a first -class citizen in business analytics. In October of last year, the open source business analytics provider began its efforts to comprehensively embrace big data by adding support for Hadoop and a few other NoSQL data sources. Now the company is going a step further.

Pentaho Updates Kettle to Handle Big Data, Moves Platform to Apache

Open source business intelligence provider, Pentaho, has announced a new version of its ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) platform Kettle. Pentaho has updated Kettle with features to support big data and moved the project to Apache.

Out With IBM's Lotus Symphony, In With Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition

Out With IBM’s Lotus Symphony, In With Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition IBM Symphony appears to have arrived at the end of the road. It’s not exactly unexpected, given the moves in productivity and collaboration space. According to Ed Brill, Director of Messaging and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, the release of Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is likely to be the last release of the free productivity suite.

Hippo Leads Efforts to Create Web Experience Management Standards

Hippo Leads Efforts to Create Web Experience Management Standards OASIS, the open standards consortium, announced a new charter and technical committee, which will be led by David Nuescheler, VP and CTO of Customer Experience Management at Adobe, that will work toward creating web experience management standards. Hippo, along with a number of other open source vendors also plays a lead role in the effort. Adobe, Liferay, Magnolia, Nuxeo, Jahia, OpenText and SDL are also represented on the OASIS Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) Technical Committee.

Oracle Brings Out Big Data Appliance

The Oracle Big Data Appliance incorporates Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) with Cloudera Manager and an open source distribution of R.

Open Source Web Server nginx Passes IIS in Popularity

nginxlog.PNGThe web server market has been stable for ages. Year after year, open source darling Apache HTTP server takes first place by an impressive margin and Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) takes the silver. Well, it looks like things are changing.

The Stream of Changes Continue: Adobe Donates Flex to Apache

adobe-logo_2009.gif Let’s hope they have an excellent change management team at Adobe. This month they have slashed 750 full-time positions, killed the mobile version of Adobe Flash Player, acquired an Internet video advertising company and changed strategic direction to focus on digital media and marketing, and it’s just the middle of the month. Now, they’ve decided to donate the Adobe Flex Software Development Kit (SDK) and BlazeDS to the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Announces Toolkit for Content Detection and Analyisis

The Apache Software Foundation announced Tika v.1, an embeddable toolkit for content detection and analysis five years in the making.

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