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Splunk startup competitor Logz.io has been rolling out new tools and new projects on the back of its seemingly healthy venture funding injections, which came in last year. The log analysis firm has ...

As part of a continuing set of analysis posts dedicated to examining major developments across the major (and some lesser) open source Linux distributions, we consider 2017 at open German ...

Computer Weekly Open Source Insider continues its analysis and deconstruction of major open source distros this month with a series of personal conversations inside Red Hat. Stormy Peters, senior ...

Automated software container security company Twistlock claims to be passionate about open source contributions. Company CTO John Morello points out that all too few firms actually contribute with ...

Facebook doesn't usually make technical headlines unless the social site is being criticised over the implementation of its algorithm structure and questioned over whether it is unfairly promoting ...

The Linux operating system (OS) will turn 30 in the year 2021. We know that Linus Torvalds first penned (typed) his work plans for what turned out to be Linux on a Usenet posting as follows: "I'm ...

Reports of Java's death have been greatly exaggerated -- said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is. The Java language and platform may have been (in some people's view) somewhat ...

Every company is now a software company, this much we know to be true. If we accept this new truism, then a camera company must be a software company… or at least it must be a digital camera ...

Professor Giovanni Vigna has been lauded as the world’s fourth most influential researcher in cyber security and is the founder of Lastline, a malware protection company. He is responsible for ...

It's time for a little open source history. The 'open source' label itself was created at a strategy session held by members of the group that we now call the Open Source Initiative (OSI) on ...

In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy Steamhaus weighs up the pros and cons of using OpenStack over other public cloud platforms. ...

Barely even featuring as an item on its press room pages, news has filtered out this week of Czech virus deerstalking firm Avast releasing its machine code decompiler RetDec to open source. The ...

Open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) company Hazelcast has joined the Eclipse Foundation - and it has done so for a reason. Hazelcast’s primary focus will be on JCache the Eclipse MicroProfile ...

It’s that ‘wonderful’ time of year, when people all across the land exchange presents, meal invitations and predictions for what the open source landscape might look like in the months ahead ...

Open source cross-platform developer and graphic designer focused user interface specialist Qt (now known as the Qt Company) has this month come forward with Qt 3D Studio. Emanating from its ...

Mozilla is on a mission… and it’s a mission designed to ‘empower’ software application developers with tools to help create more STT apps. STT you say? Yes, that would be speech-to-text ...

Hang on - a conference preview in 2017, are we not done on events season already? Well yes, developer conferences do actually happen in January, if you’re Alresco Software they do. Alfresco is an ...

The Linux Foundation has released its entire 2018 events schedule. The nonprofit organisation insists that it maintains a mission focused on the 'creators, maintainers and practitioners' of open ...

Online transportation company Uber has released its open sourced Pyro - a homegrown probabilistic programming language that has been developed internally. As many readers will know, a probabilistic ...

Are developers making the most of containers, or are they [just] treating them like virtual machines? Could the dawn of cloud-native software application development herald a new era when ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider column written by Tim Mackey in his capacity as technology evangelist for open source applications and container management & ...

American telecommunications mainstay AT&T is working with Indian multinational IT and networking technology firm Tech Mahindra to build an open source Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog has reached 1000 posts since starting in June 2010. This very short post is intended to convey a heartfelt thank you to all the firms (and their ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

Cloud application marketplace company Wireline is working with open source blockchain project developer Qtum The new union is intended to provide a conduit to consuming microservices at [web] scale ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

If you live in Singapore and have started using the newly-minted parking.sg app developed by the government to pay for street parking at public car parks, you may have noticed something in fine ...

Everybody is loving that thing we're all calling machine learning aren't they? Splunk wants to make it mainstream, several other firms want to demystify it (or probably democratise it... or both) ...