Openlogic News & Articles

Enterprises have increasingly embraced open source as a part of their technology portfolio. Despite the growth, some leaders are still hesitant about “officially” endorsing open source options. There are fewer support options, more unknowns and an almost complete absence of magic quadrant style analysts’ reports to guide decision-making. Open source solutions provider OpenLogic may be changing that. The firm has released a new, detailed finding about enterprise open source trends in 2011.

In the GRC this week, Symantec and the Ponemon Institute have put a figure on how much data breaches are costing companies and offer an online tool for calculating your risk, OpenLogic is worried about software compliance in Android and iPhone/iPad releases, Kroll opens a document review center, while McAfee opens a data storage center with added security in the UK.

This week in the GRC space, there were significant releases from both EMC and IBM’s new acquisition OpenPages. Compliance vendor Compliance 360 looks ahead in 2011 to how the directors of major corporations will react to GRC over the year, and open source OpenLogic reports record sales driven by its new open source compliance offering.

Early January and the GRC space is already moving. Dell has just expanded its IT portfolio by buying security provider Secureworks, OpenLogic offers agile development governance, LiveOffice looks at cloud security for email and there are software upgrades from Unisys and Bridgeway.

With all the raz-ma-taz around the release of SharePoint in May, and the rush to SharePoint deployments, many enterprises forgot to ask themselves whether they should deploy it. There are also possible GRC issues for open source GPL licenses, new research shows.

Open Source Enterprise CMS vendor Nuxeo (news, site) is trying to make it easier for anyone interested in using its technology stack to bring those dreams to reality -- from top to bottom.

Today's announcement of the partnership with OpenLogic (news, site) is designed to help various organizations and system integrators looking to deploy Nuxeo ECM system to have a one-stop shop for Professional Services and Customer Support.

We know too well that PS and support is where de trop of your budget will be spent, even if you’re still in the pink haze of the illusion that open source is free or cheap.

Colorado-based OpenLogic, an enterprise open source solutions vendor, has just announced the availability of OpenLogic Discovery, a software tool that helps companies take inventory of open source software already installed on their computer systems.

That’s right, already installed. Do you know what’s sitting on your systems?