Art of Defence (see previous CloudAve coverage), originally founded in Germany with offices at San Francisco, announced during the ongoing RSA conference that they are open sourcing the core of their distributed web application firewall (dWAF). The project called openWAF will help protect the web based applications in this cloud era. This is an interesting [...]
Couchbase – Consolidation Begins In Big Data Space
February 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the common comment from those watching the Big Data space is that there are too many projects that makes it too difficult to chose the right set of tools for the user needs. Well, the consolidation process has started with the merger of Membase (see previous CloudAve coverage), the company supporting open source [...]
OpenStack Bexar Release: What Makes It Interesting?
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week, OpenStack Project (see previous CloudAve coverage) announced the release of their second release codenamed Bexar. This brings OpenStack closer to production deployment and we can expect to see news about OpenStack deployments both from service providers and enterprise. This release not only marked some maturity in the code but the announcement also carries [...]
Jaspersoft Adds Big Data Support
January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Image via CrunchBase Jaspersoft (see previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based BI vendor, today announced support for big data sources for Business Intelligence reporting. They recently released a ramped up version 4 targeting embedded BI market. With today’s release, Jaspersoft support native reporting for Hadoop, NoSQL and Massively Parallel Processing Analytics Databases. In this [...]
Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond
January 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the beginning of this year, I wrote about my plans to divide my writings here into briefs, insights and research reports. My first report was supposed to have come up in the beginning of January but various reasons lead to delaying the completion. Even though it is a bit late now to talk about [...]
OpenERP offers Cloud Option To Their Customers
January 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
OpenERP, the open source ERP and business applications provider since 2005, today announced the new version of their offering giving customers choice between on-premise and SaaS options. The new version OpenERP v6, a major upgrade from the previous version that makes implementation and use of a comprehensive set of business applications (CRM, Purchase Management, Manufacturing, [...]
Looking Back 2010: OpenStack Offers Promise
December 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Looking Back 2010 is a series of posts I am planning for this week in which I will highlight significant cloud related events that happened in this year. Please keep in mind that these are my personal opinions based on my industry observations this year. My first pick is OpenStack project (see previous CloudAve coverage) [...]
Redhat Trying To Differentiate Themselves From Forks And Third Party Support Services
December 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
The beauty of Open Source is that the customers are not tied or locked into a single vendor. For example, customers can use any Linux distribution and take support from third party support services companies. Plus, anyone can take the source code of any open source software, do some customizations and offer it as a [...]
Importance Of Open Source In Mobile OS
November 15, 2009 By 1 Comment
This says it all and I don’t even have to do any explaining to emphasize the title of this post. As the sun set over the Silicon Valley last night, Google pushed the source code for Android 2.0 to the Android Open Source Project. Within two hours, the endlessly able Android community had it up [...]
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