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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

OrecX, maker of open source voice recording technology, expands its partnerships, customer base.....

The Severed Fifth album--music backed by open source concepts--is downloadable now.....

Funambol announces Lion Sniper localization program and record mobile open source growth.....

Bluenog's unconventional open source strategy.....

Experimental version of Firefox supports MacBook multi-touch gestures.....

 



Cloudera's Biz Model: Supporting Hadoop

clouderaWe've covered Hadoop on a few occasions here at OStatic. Sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation, Hadoop is a software framework able to take advantage of huge clusters of computers to produce fast results for queries and more, by breaking them into parts. Yahoo makes extensive use of Hadoop for its search features. Now, as Valleywag is reporting, a veteran of Bear Stearns and Facebook is one of the folks behind Cloudera, a business focusing on supporting Hadoop deployments.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Open source technology is helping young IT workers get a foot in the door.....

Hadoop: When grownups do open source.....

Why Ubuntu just might succeed.....

Open Health Tools gets its first big donation.....

Mozilla's Firefox wins the Who's the next open source idol crown at LinuxWorld.....



HP, Yahoo and Intel Leverage Hadoop for a Compute Cloud

After dragging its feet, Hewlett-Packard is stepping up with an answer to cloud computing by inking a partnership with Intel, Yahoo and three universities to create a cloud computing testbed. The cloud will comprise six physical locations where mostly HP servers containing between 1,000 and 4,000 mostly Intel cores will run Apache Hadoop. Hadoop is the open source infrastructure for taking advantage of huge clusters of computers to produce fast results for queries. It's behind much of Yahoo's search, as we covered here. Today, GigaOm offers complete analysis. Check it out.


Is Microsoft Going to Acquire Powerset?

While it's still only a rumor, VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset for over $100 million--apparently to be announced next month. Powerset's search technology uses the open source cluster-based technology Hadoop, which provides fast answers to queries by using the resources of many computers. We wrote about both Hadoop and Powerset here, and got to hear from Powerset's Chad Walters. Based on what I saw Chad demonstrate, and Microsoft's need to catch up in search, I won't be surprised if this rumor is true.


OSS Developers and the Road Less Traveled

Is it a wise career move for software developers and asipring ones to establish a concentration on open source development tools and applications? Amanda McPherson argues that it is, especially since more and more corporations are using OSS platforms and applications. I tend to agree, although as is true with all investments made toward career advancement, it's wisest to tread carefully. In particular, expertise with platform software, especially emerging platform software, looks to have more and more market value.



Live Blog Event: Meet Hadoop's Stars

If you read this blog regularly, you're familiar with an ultra-important open source project, sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation: Hadoop. Hadoop is a software framework able to take advantage of huge clusters of computers to produce fast results for queries and more. Thursday night, in San Francisco, GigaOm held a meet-and-greet with stars from the Hadoop project, and stars who benefit: Doug Cutting, head of Hadoop; Eric Baldeschwieler, VP of grid computing at Yahoo; Larry Heck, VP of search and advertising sciences at Yahoo; and Chad Walters, director of engineering at Powerset. OStatic staff live blogged from the event from 6pm on, Pacific time. Check out what the Hadoop stars had to say.

 



Opinion: Shakeups Ahead for Yahoo!, EMC and Hadoop

By Raj Bala

Trends in data storage and server computing are changing rapidly, and there are some unexpected shakeups to come, with open source implications. Hardware continues to get cheaper. Bandwidth isn?t quite free yet, but it?s hardly expensive. High-quality open source software now abounds in enterprise data centers, but grid computing solutions remain half-baked and hardly commoditized.

These trends are all behind why I think Yahoo! and EMC are set for a future technology collision, given their respective philosophies--and open source is too.