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NIST Releases Cloud Computing Roadmap
The government should establish common cloud computing products and services standards so agencies can easily shift their business to a new provider if their current vendor isn't meeting their needs, a government technology reviewer said Tuesday. Read More »
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NRO Readies Open Source Cloud For Launch
In a move toward a more efficient National Reconnaissance Office, analysts for the agency operating the nation's spy satellites are on the verge of getting their information through a top-secret open-source cloud environment housing intelligence data. Read More »
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NSA's Big Data Platform Faces Enterprise Test
Accumulo, the data storage software developed by the National Security Agency, has taken another step toward the enterprise market. Sqrrl, the startup launched by former NSA technologists to commercialize Accumulo, has teamed up with Apache Hadoop provider Hortonworks to combine their technologies. Read More »
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ODK Team Releases ODK Tables Alpha
The ODK Team is pleased to announce the alpha release of ODK Tables. Read More »
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Open Access 2.0: Access To Scholarly Publications Moves To A New Phase
What publishing does well — traditional publishing, that is, where you pay for what you read, whether in print or online — is command attention. This is not a trivial matter in a world that seemingly generates more and more information effortlessly, but still has the poor reader stuck with something close to the Biblical lifespan of three score and ten and a clock that stubbornly insists that a day is 24 hours and no more... Read More »
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Open Innovation at the Open Source Junction
Over the last couple of years OSS Watch has run a series of three events called the Open Source Junction (OSJ). These events aimed to bring together academia and the commercial sector to foster communication, collaboration and open innovation... Read More »
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Open Invention Network Surpasses 3,000 Members
Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, announced today that more than 3,000 organizations have joined its community and granted the OIN license to fellow members. To put this milestone into perspective, in only two years, OIN has increased the size of its community by 50 percent. This indicates the growing importance of open source software (OSS) and is an acknowledgment that patent non-aggression is a vital tenet of the open source community.
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Open Source Cloud and Middleware Company WSO2 Attracts $20 Million in Funding
WSO2 today announced that it has closed a $20 million funding round led by Pacific Controls, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, and joined by Toba Capital. The investment comes in the wake of increasing demand for WSO2’s comprehensive, open source middleware platform for building, integrating, managing, securing and analyzing companies’ APIs, applications, and Web services—on-premises, in the cloud, on mobile and IoT devices.
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Open Source Cloud Platform OpenStack Gains Momentum
Rackspace, in partnership with NASA, began its efforts to create an open source platform for the cloud back in 2010. Unlike other standards efforts that were already underway, OpenStack provided actual software providers with the ability to create their own cloud products. Since that time, dozens of companies, like Dell, IBM, and Cisco, have joined the effort to create a common cloud infrastructure... Read More »
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Open Source ERP xTuple Awarded “NextGen” Status At SIIA’s All About The Cloud Conference
Software Industry’s principal trade association embraces open source and adds xTuple Enterprise Resource Planning to prestigious “Top Ten” list of 2013 Innovators Read More »
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Open Source Has Changed Everything
In today's world of increasingly connected homes, connected machines and connected devices, any IT leader who can't grasp an open source mindset is doomed to fail. Read More »
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Open Source OpenStack ARMs the Cloud
...OpenStack now has the support of major IT vendors including Cisco, HP, Dell, AT&T, IBM, Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE. And while OpenStack has been an x86-based technology for the entire length of the project's history, that is now set to change.
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Open Source OpenStack Cloud Platform Turns 3
Leaders of OpenStack didn't expect the success they currently enjoy. Read More »
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Open Source Option Wins WA Cloud Deal
The Western Australian Institute for Medical Research will today take ownership of a private cloud solution built almost entirely of open source technologies to prepare for an influx of researchers over the coming weeks. Read More »
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Open Source Power For Small Business In 2014
The biggest impact that open source software offers small business in 2014 takes place in the cloud. Open source software powers the cloud—where you can take advantage of both hosted software and services, and hosted IT infrastructure (e.g., servers). We're already used to hosted services such as Web and mail hosting. They're convenient and cheap, and they prevent headaches. Read More »
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