10 products that big tech companies have open-sourced recently

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	10 products that big tech companies have open-sourced recently Major tech companies have been making more frequent gifts of code to the open-source community of late. Take a look at 10 of the most noteworthy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attunity Managing Rapid Data Growth: A Trial By Fire Hose Is your data growing out of control? The bad news is that you've got your work cut out for you when it comes to capturing and exploiting that data. Learn More In this Issue Usability is the secret sauce that's fueling Docker's growth More Black Friday 2015: Verizon data freebie, Amazon starts early, Newegg boasts of 5,000 deals FAA to drone owners: Get ready to register to fly Google hires VMware co-founder as cloud chief, aiming for enterprise adoption INSIDER IT shops will pass the cloud tipping point in 2016, survey finds What is SaaS? Well, neither S stands for Sexy I, robotic farmer Happy 30th birthday, Windows: What we've loved through the years How VMware's Diane Greene will help Google capitalize on a massive cloud opportunity WHITE PAPER: SAS Institute Inc Self-Service Analytics Gone are the days when you could afford to rely on reports that took days or even weeks to build and required technical skill to create and understand. It's risky to even think that you can run a competitive business if you can only send traditional, static reports to an executive sitting behind an office desk. Learn More Usability is the secret sauce that's fueling Docker's growth Docker, the company behind the open-source container technology of the same name, has been growing rapidly as more businesses rush to adopt its wildly popular technology. But while containers are the new hotness in development these days, they actually aren't totally new. Docker is standing on the shoulders of giants, thanks to the technology underpinning Docker's products that it didn't invent, said Marianna Tessel, the company's senior vice president of engineering. Read More More Black Friday 2015: Verizon data freebie, Amazon starts early, Newegg boasts of 5,000 deals While it might seem as though all the big retailers and tech vendors have exhausted their Black Friday 2015 marketing schemes, a few more came to light this week. Read More FAA to drone owners: Get ready to register to fly While an actual rule could be months away, drones weighing about 9 ounces or more will apparently need to be registered with the Federal Aviation Administration going forward. The registration requirement and other details came form the government's UAS Task Force which was created by the FAA in last month and featured all manner of associates from Google, the Academy of Model Aeronautics and Air Line Pilots Association to Walmart, GoPro and Amazon. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Cloud, Collaboration, and Communication A recent survey of IT professionals conducted by Slashdot Media asked four key questions about their plans for collaboration and communication and the importance of different factors when undertaking such efforts. Here are the results of that survey. Learn More Google hires VMware co-founder as cloud chief, aiming for enterprise adoption VMware co-founder Diane Greene will oversee all of Google's cloud businesses, including its Cloud Platform and Apps productivity suite, the company announced. Greene, who has been on the company's board of directors for three years, took the position as the technology giant agreed to acquire Bebop, a stealthy startup that she co-founded. Read More INSIDER IT shops will pass the cloud tipping point in 2016, survey finds Despite the persistence of security concerns, companies are moving a variety of IT and business operations to the cloud at a steady pace. Indeed, on average, IT leaders expect slightly more than half of their IT environment to be cloud-based by the end of 2016. (Insider Story) Read More What is SaaS? Well, neither S stands for Sexy NextView Ventures partner David Beisel summed up the newly renamed Boston Innovators Group's gathering that he organized on Thursday night as 'a very SaaSy night' and he was right. #BIG1 #Boston Innovators Group David Beisel #nextview #seaport @districthallboston excellent startup festTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Attunity Navigating Hadoop Data Lakes In this eGuide prepared by Gartner Research, we explore the use of Hadoop data lakes. Hadoop data lakes have become increasingly more prevalent in the IT landscape because they support data scaling and accessibility. However, introducing Hadoop into an existing architecture can be a challenge. Learn More I, robotic farmer Scientists at Bosch's Deepfield Robotics division, in partnership with the German food and agriculture department, Osnabrück University, and Amazone, an agricultural machinery manufacturer, have built a robot called BoniRob that can perform the one job I have always wanted a robot to be able to do: Weed my garden. Actually, this device couldn't weed my garden, BoniRob is pretty big (roughly the size of a Fiat 500) and my garden is too small and too complex for the robot to move around easily. Nope, BoniRob is described as an "[adaptable] multi-purpose robotic platform" and the weeding part of it is a bolt-on module. Read More Happy 30th birthday, Windows: What we've loved through the years Love it or hate it, Windows has exerted the single largest influence on one of the most important pursuits in human history. From its floppy disk origins to today's automagic updates from the cloud, Windows has found its way into every pore of personal computing. And on the eve of its 30th anniversary, Microsoft's flagship shows no signs of slowing down -- regardless of whether you like where it is going. Read More How VMware's Diane Greene will help Google capitalize on a massive cloud opportunity VMware co-founder Diane Greene, recently appointed as the head of Google's cloud business, adds operating responsibility to her role on Alphabet's board of directors. Greene's new title will be SVP of Enterprise Businesses. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a blog post last night that Google would acquire bebop, a cloud computing software development company founded by Greene, for an undisclosed amount. Read More
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