Make software great again: can open source be ethical and fair?

Make software great again: can open source be ethical and fair?

Is there a way to go beyond open source, and have ethical, fair software in a cloud-first world? This is what some people in the open source community think. In the 20 years since its inception, open source has turned out to be the most successful model for building software. The world today runs on […]

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The O word: do you really need an ontology? The Year of the Graph Newsletter: November / October 2019

The O word: do you really need an ontology? The Year of the Graph Newsletter: November / October 2019

How do you manage your enterprise data in order to keep track of it and be able to build and operate useful applications? This is key question all data managements systems are trying to address, and knowledge graphs, graph databases and graph analytics are no different. What is different about knowledge graphs is that they […]

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The best approach to managing Hadoop

The best approach to managing Hadoop

This week Linked Data Orchestration published another report on Big Data. The report is titled “The best approach to managing Hadoop” and is brought to you in collaboration with Gigaom and Zettaset. The report examines the 3 choices available for managing Hadoop and discusses the pros and cons for each one. Organizations leveraging on-premises Hadoop […]

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WSO2: Open Source Enterprise Application Integration in the Cloud

WSO2: Open Source Enterprise Application Integration in the Cloud

WSO2 is a notable Enterprise Application Integration & Cloud vendor. They are notable not just because of what they do, but also because of how they do it. WSO2 offers an integrated platform featuring an Enterprise Service Bus and solutions that span Identity, Governance, Business Process Management, API Management, Big Data Analytics and Cloud. And […]

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Hadoop World vendor announcements and impact on Accessibility, Scalability and Security

Hadoop World vendor announcements and impact on Accessibility, Scalability and Security

This week the world’s biggest event for all things Hadoop takes place, the Strata and Hadoop World conference. Vendors announce and showcase new releases and features in their offerings, and Gigaom covered the extensive array of news. Let’s try to decipher them and see their impact in terms of Hadoop distributions Accessibility, Scalability and Security. […]

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The evolution of Retail and what to do with your Big Data

The evolution of Retail and what to do with your Big Data

SPS Commerce is one of the biggest vendors in the retail domain. They act as a clearing house for retailers, connecting them with vendors. The recently published Gigaom report 2nd generation cloud architecture triggered their interest and we had a chat, and here are some of the thoughts and lessons on retail that came as […]

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Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 2: Impact and Delivery Enhancements

Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 2: Impact and Delivery Enhancements

Picking up from where we left off on the topics discussed in Gigaom webinar titled Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai, this week we cover  the impact of consumerization, globalization, and mobility on application delivery and the prioritization of potential delivery enhancements. The webinar addressed the following […]

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Mastering the business side of SaaS and IaaS

Mastering the business side of SaaS and IaaS

You probably know Gigaom and its expertise on, among other things, cloud. You probably know David Linthicum and Janakiram MSV as renowned cloud experts, and you may know myself from work we’ve done with Gigaom and Interworks as an up and coming vendor. Given that, you are most likely to be interested in our webinar […]

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