Making The Most Of Open-Source Forensics Tools
Network forensic solutions come in many different shapes, sizes, and price ranges, but in the end they all have the same goal: recording activity on the network. As IT budgets tighten with the economy, it might be time for your organization to take a closer look at a do-it-yourself approach to forensics that leverages free [...]
Cloudera open source start-up offers Hadoop cloud software for ‘mere mortals’
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Well backed Silicon Valley start-up Cloudera has now released a free, private cloud-oriented distribution of a Linux software environment first built by major Web enterprises for “big data.”
“Hadoop offers capabilities for capturing, storing and analyzing data that are unmatched. But it’s something that enterprises have shied away from until now,” said Michael Olson, [...]
Greenplum Claims Breakthrough in Data Loading
Greenplum, the high-end open source database house and friend of Sun – so it’s gotta be nibbling on its nails wondering whether it’s lost a channel – has some sexy new technology to accelerate data loading for companies stressing under exponential data growth.
It’s called MPP Scatter/Gather Streaming or SG Streaming for short and it’s supposed [...]
Open-Source Leaders Speak Out on TomTom Case
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Now that Microsoft has leveled a lawsuit against TomTom in what many see as a shot across the bow at Linux and open-source software, open-source experts such as Bruce Perens and Jim Zemlin are weighing in with their views of the situation.
In a piece written for Datamation, Perens, who created [...]
Red Hat & Microsoft Temporarily Cage Their Fire-Breathing Dragons
Red Hat and Microsoft, about as virulent a pair of enemies as has ever existed, threw a leash over their fire-breathing dragons long enough on Monday to announce a cooperative pact forced on them by their mutual users – folks who may be holding back from committing to virtualization ahead of a truce.
The companies say [...]
Open-source chief optimistic about proprietary support
The incoming president of an alliance of open-source companies hopes he can persuade big-name proprietary ISVs to join rivals in his group to further interoperability.
Recently named Open Solutions Alliance president Anthony Gold told The Reg that his goal is to take the two-year-old organization to the “next level” by turning it into a destination for [...]