FOSS4G 2014 runs from Sept 8th-12th in Portland, Oregon this year. The conference brings to together developers and others in geospatial open source. This is an opportunity to participate in the rapidly growing open source […]
OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform. It is free and open-source software released under the terms of the Apache License and is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity. Oracle, now […]
About a year ago the Obama administration announced a Big Data Research and Development Initiative to focus on extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data. It included an initial investment […]
In a very recent post from two analysts, Peter Goldmacher and Joe del Callar, from Cowen and Co who attended Hadoop World, Cloudera’s annual conference, argue that data management is at a discontinuity, where a new […]
I blogged about an insightful article about open source business models posted by Mike Olson, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera. Mike Olson makes the case that there were very few successful large stand-alone open source […]
A very insightful article about open source business models was posted by Mike Olson, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera. By way of background Mike Olson was involved in Michael Stonebraker’s Illustra data base startup, which […]
At FOSS4G in Nottingham I was looking forward to hearing Peter Smart and Rob Hawkes talk about their ViziCities project which is intended to bring real world cities to life using open, big-data and open […]
At this year’s AGI GeoCommunity ’13 Conference in Nottingham, Laura Kinley gave a very germane presentation about her research on using crowdsourced data as a source of authoratative land cover data. Land cover data is […]