Recent Open Source Analysis
Data, systems management or devops likely to drive Red Hat's next deal
The company continues to expand based on RHEL, JBoss and its efforts in IaaS and PaaS, and is an active acquirer. So what's next for the open source poster child?
TDM / Acquirer IQ, 7 Dec 2011
Jay Lyman
CloudLinux grows customers, partners for cloud control-panel play
The company has leveraged service provider demand for Linux not being met by the enterprise players, but where does it stand now that large Linux vendors are competing for these customers and the cloud?
MIS / Market Development, 5 Dec 2011
Jay Lyman
Red Hat pushes OpenShift PaaS for deeper enterprise Java, mobile development
The company's OpenShift PaaS has been updated with enhanced Java application lifecycle and mobile software development support as both application development and management in the cloud continue to evolve.
MIS / Market Development, 30 Nov 2011
Jay Lyman
Puppet Labs' series C funding of $8.5m includes Cisco, Google, VMware
MIS / Analyst Note, 29 Nov 2011
Jay Lyman
Hadoop World 2011 – practical considerations for exploiting big data
There was plenty of excitement and hype regarding 'big data' at Hadoop World 2011, but also practical and pragmatic consideration about how to make the most of a big opportunity.
MIS / Spotlight, 18 Nov 2011
Matt Aslett
With reorganization and Ubuntu refresh, Canonical bets on cloud, mobile
The popular Ubuntu Linux desktop and server OS is getting enterprise, cloud and mobile enhancements as it goes through some growing pains, and Ubuntu vendor Canonical is striving for greater paid use.
MIS / Market Development, 18 Nov 2011
Jay Lyman
SUSE sets itself apart with continued Linux fight, new markets, OpenStack
In a push for its popular enterprise Linux server OS, SUSE – now a division of Attachmate Group and independant from Novell – focuses on strengthening and extending to OpenStack.
MIS / Market Development, 17 Nov 2011
Jay Lyman
MapR cites growing interest in differentiated Hadoop distribution
The company emerged earlier this year with a distribution of Apache Hadoop that added proprietary components for high availability and file system access, among other things. The company is beginning to gain customer traction.
MIS / Market Development, 16 Nov 2011
Matt Aslett
Big money for 'big data'
This year has seen an enormous increase in funding for Hadoop- and NoSQL-related vendors. With Accel Partners launching a $100m Big Data Fund, expect the trend to continue into 2012 and beyond.
TDM / Sector IQ, 14 Nov 2011
Matt Aslett
Continuent extends its MySQL replication to Oracle Database
The data-replication and cluster management specialist has launched a new offering supporting real-time data migration from MySQL to Oracle Database.
MIS / Market Development, 9 Nov 2011
Matt Aslett
CFEngine takes agile configuration and automation to sysadmins, enterprise
Newer server configuration and automation frameworks may be getting more attention, but CFEngine is unique in its datacenter history and maturity.
MIS / Impact Report, 8 Nov 2011
Jay Lyman
Hortonworks launches Data Platform distribution of Apache Hadoop
MIS / Analyst Note, 1 Nov 2011
Matt Aslett
NoSQL database vendor sones enters bankruptcy administration
MIS / Analyst Note, 31 Oct 2011
Matt Aslett
Neo Technology improves Spring framework integration
Graph database specialist Neo Technology has improved its integration with the Spring development framework with the launch of version 2.0 of the Spring Data Neo4j project.
MIS / Market Development, 28 Oct 2011
Matt Aslett
NGINX positions open source Web server for cloud computing, customer growth
Web infrastructure software company NGINX says it is poised, with funding and technology, to serve enterprise and service-provider demand for its high-performance, scalable Web server, particularly in cloud computing.
MIS / Impact Report, 27 Oct 2011
Jay Lyman
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