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Making The Most Of Open-Source Forensics Tools

TheOpenAnalyst — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:46:00 +0000

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 and open-source tools.

While your CFO might love the price of these tools, it may be difficult to “sell” them to your IT management. Most IT executives want someone to point a finger at when a product breaks, and many want 24×7 support. While some of the free and open-source tools do have ties with a company that can be paid for support, most do not.

Tech Insight: Making The Most Of Open-Source Forensics Tools – Forensics/Intrusion-prevention – DarkReading

Cloudera open source start-up offers Hadoop cloud software for ‘mere mortals’

TheOpenAnalyst — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:22:00 +0000

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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, a former VP at Oracle and now CEO and co-founder of Burlingame, CA-based Cloudera, in a briefing with Betanews.

Cloudera open source start-up offers Hadoop cloud software for ‘mere mortals’ | IT Systems News – Betanews

Greenplum Claims Breakthrough in Data Loading

TheOpenAnalyst — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:55:00 +0000

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 to eliminate those darn bottlenecks usually associated with mainstream data loading.

Greenplum Claims Breakthrough in Data Loading | Open Source Magazine

Open-Source Leaders Speak Out on TomTom Case

TheOpenAnalyst — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:42:00 +0000

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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 the Open Source Definition and is the CEO of a stealth-mode startup named Kiloboot, said: “The products in question incorporate Linux, and at least one of the seven patents involved concerns a Linux kernel implementation rather than TomTom’s own software. Is this Microsoft’s first direct salvo against Linux?”

Open-Source Leaders Speak Out on TomTom Case

Red Hat & Microsoft Temporarily Cage Their Fire-Breathing Dragons

TheOpenAnalyst — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:07:00 +0000

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 they’re going to support each other’s operating systems as guests on each other’s current virtualization schemes. Windows Server will be supported on Red Hat’s transient Xen virtualization and Red Hat 5 will be supported on Microsoft’s Hyper V widgetry.

Red Hat & Microsoft Temporarily Cage Their Fire-Breathing Dragons | Open Source Magazine

Open-source chief optimistic about proprietary support

TheOpenAnalyst — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:23:09 +0000

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 practical advice on interoperability between proprietary and closed-source software.

Open-source chief optimistic about proprietary support | The Register