BoxTone’s Brian Reed: Securing Android for the Enterprise
- Jul
- 16
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
BoxTone’s enterprise mobility management platform is designed to bring Android security up to levels better-suited to the rigors of the business workforce, but in making Android enterprise-hardened, the company left Android’s open source trappings intact. As part of that EMM platform, BoxTone delivers its service in three categories of functionality.
read moreKaltura’s Zohar Babin: Video Power to the People
- Jul
- 09
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
In a world of mostly proprietary video platform developers, success for an open source startup requires very sharp cutting-edge technology. For Kaltura, part of the secret has been making sure that competitive edge is never dulled by settling for being just good enough. Adding a dual-license option often makes the difference between a free download and real sale.
read moreConcurrent’s Chris Wensel: The Open Source Path Is a Rocky Road
- Jul
- 02
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
Big Data and open source software may be the next great unholy alliance in computing’s current promised land, but open source is a broken business model that needs a better vehicle for supporting projects such as programming suites that build database applications. So argues Chris Wensel, founder and CTO of Concurrent. Wensel started the company in 2008 to focus on the open-source Cascading Project.
read moreEnterpriseDB’s Ed Boyajian: Pinching Pennies the Open Source Way
- Jun
- 25
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
Does it make good business sense to migrate corporate database software from costly proprietary platforms to free open source solutions or low-cost commercial open source replacements? The answer is a no-brainer, said EnterpriseDB CEO Ed Boyajian. Founded in 2004, EnterpriseDB began on a quest to disrupt the database stranglehold of proprietary database products.
read moreZenoss’ Alan Conley: Doing the Dynamic Infrastructure Dance
- Jun
- 18
- Posted by Jack M. Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
A thin line between traditional IT monitoring and management services and monitoring real-time operations divides what Zenoss offers its customers and what other vendors provide. The IT monitoring space is becoming more crowded with proprietary and open source software solutions. Zenoss, according to Chief Technology Officer Alan Conley, offers a uniform platform that extends its reach.
read moreGentoo Creator Daniel Robbins: Making Linux Free and Flexible
- Jun
- 11
- Posted by Jack Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
Open source software is a passion for some and a business for others. Daniel Robbins was driven by a need to make Linux better than he found it. Robbins created two Linux distros: Gentoo and Funtoo. He created Gentoo Linux during his time as a systems administrator. Funtoo, meanwhile, is a project that Robbins created to extend the technologies for Gentoo.
read moreNeo Technology’s Emil Eifrem: ‘Cloud Is the New Open Source’
- May
- 21
- Posted by Jack Germain
- Posted in Exclusives
Graphs are everywhere. You find them on websites adding social capabilities. Telecommunications companies use graphs to personalize customer services. Innovative bioinformatics researchers, and other organizations are adopting graph databases to model and query connected data. Neo Technology has pioneered graph databases since 2000.
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