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Thursday, February 20th, 2014
GoGrid Wants to be Open Source Option to Amazon’s Cloud Databases
GoGrid CEO John Keagy says if an organization wants to use a true open source database, like MongoDB, Basho’s Riak, Hadoop or Cassandra, Amazon is not the place to go. “We want to be an open source alternative,” he says. “If you’re not worried about lock-in then use (AWS). If you’re an enterprise that wants […]
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Andy Rubin Offered Android to Samsung First; And They Laughed Just Two Weeks Before Google Snapped Android Up
Interesting tidbits: Rubin recounted his first meeting with Samsung’s executives by saying “You and what army are going to go and create this? You have six people. Are you high?’ is basically what they said. They laughed me out of the boardroom. This happened two weeks before Google acquired us.† Considering that there were actually […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
GoDaddy may go OpenStack
The company has been advertising to hire an engineering director who will “lead GoDaddy’s internal infrastructure-as-a-service project by adopting and contributing to OpenStack,†according to an ad posted to LinkedIn and the OpenStack Foundation website. The ad doesn’t offer much more detail and GoDaddy did not reply to a request for comment so it’s hard […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2014
After OpenStack, PayPal experimenting with public cloud
PayPal has spoken publicly and regularly about its private OpenStack implementation and recently said that 20 percent of its infrastructure runs on OpenStack. But it’s only a matter of time before PayPal starts running some of its operations on public clouds, said James Barrese, CTO of PayPal. “We have a few small apps that aren’t […]
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Friday, January 24th, 2014
Xolo Q3000 – high end phone at an affordable price.
A friend of mine was looking for a budget phone with a lot of features. While there are bigger brands which are more expensive, I came across Xolo Q3000Â which offers similar features at an affordable price. Here is what I liked about it: 5.7″ IPS Â full HD display – good if you like big displays […]
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
Intel’s SD Card size PC Edison runs Linux
Intel’s solution for next generation wearable technology is Intel’s Edison. SD card size computer is launched at CES. Features:Â Dual-core low-power 22nm 400MHz Intel Quark processor. Integrated Wi-Fi Bluetooth Runs Linux
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Friday, January 3rd, 2014
How South Korea became slave to Microsoft Internet Explorer
Other countries should take a leaf from here, and not do the same mistake. Once you select a proprietary technology, you are stuck for life! Some government decisions haunt the citizens of the country for a long time and the same is happening in South Korea right now. Thanks to a government decision made almost […]
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Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
The first supercapacitor-powered portable speakers are open source
Blueshift is the cool speakers that charges in 5 minutes and plays for 6 hours. Sam Beck is the guy behind Blueshift, an open source sustainable electronics business that is all about building cool stuff. Helium speakers are the company’s first product to market and will be the world’s the first supercapacitor-powered portable speakers. Not […]
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Salesforce going OpenStack?
You gotta love it when one vendor helpfully announces what another vendor’s plans. That’s what apparently happened Monday when Rackspace Chairman and co-founder Graham Weston was quoted in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO blog  saying that Salesforce.com would start running OpenStack’s open-source cloud technology. Read More: http://gigaom.com/2013/12/17/salesforce-com-will-adopt-openstack-says-rackspace/
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
India To Spend $3.9 Billion On Cloud Services By 2017
According to a new Gartner report, around $3.9 billion will be spent on cloud services in India from 2013 through 2017, of which $1.7 billion will be spent on software-as-a-service (SaaS). The overall public cloud services market in India is also set to grow 33.6% this year to touch $404 million, an increase of $101 […]
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Monday, December 9th, 2013
Android founder Andy Rubin’s secret Google project: building real robots
Rubin began as a robot engineer at lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss and had a brief stint at Apple as a manufacturing engineer before devoting his working hours to developing computers instead. However, robotics remained a hobby, with Rubin both building his own and amassing a collection of robots from Japan. The Android operating system’s name […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
OpenStack Keen On Indian Market
OpenStack, a non-profit organization promoting open source cloud computing software, wants to increase its presence in India. The organization has formed a three -pronged strategy—launching new products and features, tapping organizations deploying cloud computing, and training the vast channel base of its alliance partners who have a strong presence in the country. Mark Collier, COO, […]
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Monday, November 11th, 2013
What’s Most Important in Your Life?
This was shared by my friend Sudhir Pai, found it very inspiring and thought of sharing: What’s Most Important In My Life Put simply, what is most important in my life is cultivating the ability to help people be happy, and to relieve them of the suffering they experience. My No. 1 aspiration in life […]
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Friday, November 8th, 2013
Amazing OpenStack statistics from user survey
US Number 1 Country, India Number 2! Ubuntu No 1 OS. KVM Number 1 Hypervisor.
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Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Tax-funded software must be made open source
The administration of the Swiss canton of Bern has decided that, in principle, software developed by or for public administrations should be made freely available. Using open source software helps to reduce the canton’s dependence on software vendors and in the long-term will reduce ICT costs, the Bern administration writes on 23 October. It has […]
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Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
Indian Businesses Seem to be In Love with Cloud
Nearly 9 of every 10 (89 percent) respondents in India believe that Cloud Computing, or ‘as-a-service’ approach, is relevant to their organization. Nearly 8 of every 10 (79 percent) respondents in India say they currently have a cloud-related initiative in place within the organization, or are planning to implement cloud, or ‘as-a-service’ approach, in the […]
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Intel teams up with Arduino to promote open-source hardware community
Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich announced today that the world’s biggest chip manufacturer will collaborate with open-source hardware platform Arduino. Together, they will work to foster innovation in the “maker†and educational communities. Krzanich, speaking at the Maker Faire in Rome, Italy, also introduced the Galileo development board that will become the foundation of open […]
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Monday, October 7th, 2013
Paypal has rebuilt Netflix’s cloud-management system for OpenStack
Netflix has developed s Asgard, a web interface that lets engineers and developers manage their AWS infrastructure using a GUI rather than a command line. Netflix Asgard is open source. Paypal a big user of OpenStack has ported Asgard to OpenStack. Read More: http://gigaom.com/2013/10/02/paypal-has-rebuilt-netflixs-cloud-management-system-for-openstack/
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Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Disaster recovery in the Cloud
I have been thinking of why people should put their Disaster Recovery (DR) site in the cloud. This makes perfect sense, here is why. Typically a DR site cost as much as the primary data centers. This is because organisations need to replicate every component of their data center. Match every server with the same […]
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Friday, September 6th, 2013
Newkia the new Nokia ?
Former Nokia employees have got together to start Newkia, a company which plans to do what Nokia missed — Build an Android phone. Sounds like a great idea, since Nokia has very good engineers and one of the best hardware, what they lacked was good software. Read More.
