Tag: open source
Pandemic Boosting Open Source Adoption
It turns out that economic downturns are good for open source software adoption, a new vendor survey finds. The open developer community was already thriving when the pandemic whacked the global economy at the beginni Read more…
New Open Source App: Data Science Education
The principles underpinning open source software development that are transforming the digital economy are now being extended to new sectors such as education, where proponents hope to leverage the collaborative approach Read more…
Datastax Launches Tech Support for Open Source Cassandra
DataStax today unveiled Luna, a new technical support plan aimed at users of open source Apache Cassandra. Executives with the company say the support plan will diversify DataStax’s revenue stream and tap into a new ec Read more…
It’s Time for MLOps Standards, Cloudera Says
Just as operational standards have been established for data management via DataOps, the industry needs to create open standards for machine learning operations, or MLOps, according to Cloudera, which today unveiled a ca Read more…
Cloudera Commits to 100% Open Source
The old Cloudera developed and distributed its Hadoop stack using a mix of open source and proprietary methods and licenses. But the new Cloudera will be 100% open source, just like Hortonworks, its one-time Hadoop rival Read more…
Google Extends Olive Branch to Open Source Tech
Google Cloud today announced strategic partnerships with seven prominent providers of big data technologies that will bring those vendors' solutions to the Google Cloud Platform as managed services. The move appears desi Read more…
Here’s What Doug Cutting Says Is Hadoop’s Biggest Contribution
Apache Hadoop isn't the center of attention in the IT world anymore, and much of the hype has dissipated (or at least regrouped behind AI). But the open source software project still has a place for on-premise workloads, Read more…
War Unfolding for Control of Elasticsearch
Amazon Web Services on Monday announced that it's partnering with Netflix and Expedia to champion a new Open Distro for Elasticsearch due to concerns of proprietary code being mixed into the open source Elasticsearch pro Read more…
Keeping the Big Picture In Sight at H2O World
SriSatish Ambati, the CEO of H2O.ai, had just taken the stage at H2O World in San Francisco yesterday morning. His keynote had barely begun, but Ambati clearly had something to get off his chest. "Time is the only non-re Read more…
Data Startups Continue to Draw Suitors
Leading technology companies continue to snap up big data startups spawned by open-source technologies. The latest example is Microsoft’s deal to acquire open-source database specialist Citus Data. In a separate dea Read more…
Congress Opens Floodgates with Data Law
If, as many now suspect, open source is becoming less open, there was a bit of good news for open-source advocates at the end of 2018 when Congress approved legislation ensuring that unclassified government data remains Read more…
Cloud Backlash Grows as Open Source Gets Less Open
Are cloud providers freeloading on free and open software? That question is casting a shadow on the growth potential of cloud computing as vendors like Confluent, MongoDB, and Redis Labs put new restrictions that prevent Read more…
What Does IBM’s Acquisition of Red Hat Mean for Open Source?
At first glance, IBM's surprise announcement that it plans to buy Red Hat for $34 billion looks like a victory for open source, which has been a huge driver of innovation in the IT market for decades. However, recent mov Read more…
AI Enlisted to Secure Apps
An application security testing specialist is adding automated verification to its app scanning platform. WhiteHat Security said this week the addition of AI-enabled verification to its application security testing fr Read more…
Open Source is Now a Big Data Service
Open source technologies continue to make headway across a range of industries undergoing digital conversions. The big data sector has of course led the way with a growing list of Apache Foundation projects ranging from Read more…
Python Gains Traction Among Data Scientists
Data scientists have a growing range of options when choosing analytical tools, and a new survey of tool preferences reveals a roughly even split in preferences among the three leading programming languages. In its an Read more…
Transfer Learning Project Looks to Reuse Training Data
A new open source project seeks to simplify the use of a machine learning framework called “transfer learning” in which the ability to accomplish one task can be applied to subsequent tasks. Transfer learning spec Read more…
Does Open Source Boost Security? Hortonworks Says Yes
Organizations are best served security-wise if they favor and adopt open source technology -- especially enterprise open source -- over proprietary alternatives, according to Hortonworks. However, not everybody agrees th Read more…
Databricks Open Sources MLflow to Simplify Machine Learning Lifecycle
Databricks today unveiled MLflow, a new open source project that aims to provide some standardization to the complex processes that data scientists oversee during the course of building, testing, and deploying machine le Read more…
DataTorrent, Stream Processing Startup, Folds
DataTorrent, the startup behind the Apache Apex stream processing engine, unexpectedly closed its doors last week. Guy Churchward, DataTorrent’s president and CEO since February 2017, confirmed the shutdown in a rep Read more…
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