GitHub has open-sourced “Boxen,” an automated way to manage newly unboxed Macs for developers. The one-command automation tool promises that a developer can be hacking on GitHub within 30 minutes. The tool follows a trend to offer developer-ready laptops. Dell has developed a laptop built specifically for developers called Project Sputnik. The laptop is now […]
Posted on February 16th, 2013 by admin
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The idea of the open cloud has different meanings. There are open infrastructure groups that are working toward federating clouds at the infrastructure level. These are groups such as OpenStack and Cloudstack, two of the most well-known efforts to help companies build their own clouds. And then there are the hosting providers who serve the […]
Posted on January 31st, 2013 by admin
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League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Games title has more hours logged than World of Warcraft and Minecraft. With that kind of scale, Riot Games faced some challenges that any company experiences when they have that kind of load in […]
Posted on January 26th, 2013 by admin
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More hardware will open up — it’s inevitable. Hardware in the data center is no exception. As Tim O’Reilly said in his keynote at the Open Compute Summit, innovation in the data center is critical for keeping up with the Internet’s pace of innovation. A first step is opening the hardware so people can hack […]
Posted on January 25th, 2013 by admin
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“Open” this, “open” that: It seems like everything is “open” these days. Well hello, people, Bill Gates’ gravy boat has run aground. It’s time to get out the Starship and fly in those open clouds. Hokey? You bet your SaaS this is hokey. But come on, take a look at what happened last week at […]
Posted on January 19th, 2013 by admin
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Bill.com is opening the data behind the business with a new application platform powered by open APIs for third-party developers. The new platform allows developers to integrate native apps with Bill.com’s software so finance professionals can access more information from individual customer transactions in real time. The new application platform gives third-party developers access to […]
Posted on December 15th, 2012 by admin
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The Open Data Institute, a UK-based incubator and promoter of open-data businesses that was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee and artificial intelligence pioneer Nigel Shadbolt, is today announcing its first international investment. The Omidyar Network, the investment firm co-founded by eBay’s Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, is putting $750,000 towards the ODI. The money comes […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2012 by admin
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The Vagrant open-source project has morphed into a startup, backed by Hashicorp, a new startup that will further build out the tool designed to manage the complexities of modern development within a virtual environment. Hashicorp’s founder, Mitchell Hashimoto, is the co-creator of Vagrant, which he has managed since 2010. He said in an interview the traction […]
Posted on November 28th, 2012 by admin
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Open source fear mongering is still a reality. But in today’s world, it is nuanced with the belief that an open enterprise means open APIs. They are not the same and should not be confused. The issue surfaces more now that RESTful APIs have become the chosen way to exchange information through applications. They turn […]
Posted on October 1st, 2012 by admin
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At LinuxCon and CloudOpen this week, attendees are being bombarded with cloud, cloud, cloud. Most of the cloud goings-on revolve around OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service project started by Rackspace and NASA. Today SUSE announced their SUSE Cloud product, which is a commercially supported version of OpenStack integreated with SUSE Linux. Red Hat has an […]
Posted on September 4th, 2012 by admin
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