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MariaDB Emerging as Default MySQL Option

After more than two years of development, the latest version of the Debian Project, a "universal" open-source operating system, was released over the past weekend. Organizers of the project also said the MariaDB server w Read more…

Welcome to the Open Analytics Era

The explosion in enterprise data is paving the way for expanding analytics strategies in business applications. The embedded analytics market is estimated to nearly double to 46 billion between 2016 and 2021, according t Read more…

RISELab Takes Flight at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley yesterday officially launched the RISELab, the successor to the highly successful AMPLab that produced superstar open source technologies like Apache Spark and Apache Mesos. There's no telling what, if any, R Read more…

Hiring Managers Worldwide Desperately Seeking Open Source Pros

It’s an open secret: if you have open source development skills the world is your oyster. The 2016 Open Source Jobs Report, released today by The Linux Foundationand Dice, a career site for technology professionals, Read more…

ODPi Defines Hadoop Runtime Spec; Operations Up Next

Today the ODPi issued the first set of documents that describes a standard distribution of basic runtime components for Hadoop, including YARN, HDFS, and MapReduce. Going forward, the organization is preparing a manageme Read more…

Why Google Open Sourced Deep Learning Library TensorFlow

Google last week open sourced TensorFlow, a new machine learning library used in deep learning projects. Even though the Web giant has just started using the software in its products, it apparently felt the need to donat Read more…

Hadoop Grabs the Spotlight at Teradata User Confab

Teradata and its customer are embracing Hadoop, the open source platform that's helping to redefine the field of big data analytics. But the tension between the analytic old guard and the big data upstart were palpable a Read more…

Five Ways Open Source Databases Are Best for Business

Today 78% of organizations run part or all of their operations on open source software, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2010. And according to ranking site DB-Engines, six of the top 10 databases are open source, Read more…

FDA Releases Medical Device Database

In an attempt to spur innovation and advance scientific research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a range of information related to the development and regulation of new medical devices. Under its " Read more…

Five Ways Open Source Databases Are Limited

Two of the reasons to deploy an open source database are cost and philosophy. Philosophically, the open source movement subscribes to the notion that having community-developed product creates a better product, and/or "c Read more…

Lockheed Martin, Data Vendors Team on Secure Spy Database

Geospatial intelligence is among the hottest and most data-intensive tools being used by U.S. military analysts to sweep up huge amounts of satellite and other sensor imagery. This highly classified data is often combine Read more…

8 New Big Data Projects To Watch

The big data community has a secret weapon when it comes to innovation: open source. The granddaddy of big data, Apache Hadoop, was born in open source, and its growth will come from continued innovation in done by the c Read more…

Hadoop Opportunity ‘Never Been Bigger’ Says Hortonworks CEO

Don't be fooled by the Hadoop naysayers, Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden told an audience at the Hadoop Summit yesterday. "The opportunity has never been bigger," he said. "We may never have an opportunity this big again in Read more…

Data Tools Aid Open Source Intelligence

U.S. intelligence agencies and the military are increasingly leveraging analytics platforms based on machine learning to sift through data sources like social media. In the vernacular of the Pentagon, these efforts are g Read more…

Why Pay for Analytics When Open Source Is ‘Free?’

The free analytics question comes up over and over again, especially as it pertains to open source analytic offerings. I don't think a day goes by when someone at a company doesn’t ask, "Why should I pay for analytics Read more…

How Open Source is Failing R for Big Data

At this year's UseR! conference in Los Angeles, John Chambers, the father of the S language and thus grandfather of the R language, noted that R was designed as an interface to the best algorithms. And indeed the R langu Read more…

A ‘Revolution’ for Open Source R Support

Revolution Analytics today debuted AdviseR, a new services offering for data scientists who need a little help coding in R. For $795 per person per year, R coders can get access to Revolution's R experts and knowledgebas Read more…

MapR Turns to Ubuntu in Bid to Increase Footprint

Last week, MapR and Canonical announced a partnership to make the MapR M3 free community edition of Hadoop available to Ubuntu Linux OS. As part of MapR’s drive to increase its footprint, the company has announced that it is turning to GitHub to release the source code for the free package. Read more…

Juneja: HPC, Cloud, and Open Source the Nexus of Big Data Innovation

It should come as no surprise that Intel is converging HPC, cloud and open source, said Intel's big data chief at the Strata 2013 conference this week. Read more…

Facebook Pushes Open Hardware Drive

Facebook's push into open hardware is going so well that they're preparing to open a 290,00-square-foot data center in Sweden stocked entirely with open sourced servers. Read more…

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