Open source

Huawei pitches first Disaster Recovery service for OpenStack This article is sponsored by:

At the Huawei Cloud Congress, the company launched what it claims is the first OpenStack-based cloud Disaster Recovery service. Martin Banks casts a quizzical eye over the claims.

Spark outpacing Hadoop? Survey says yes This article is sponsored by:

Databricks survey of Spark usage provides insights into an open source platform that supports multiple languages and use platforms. This is very promising for the future of big data and streaming analytics.

Rackspace – titan or tweenie of tomorrow? This article is sponsored by:

Not big enough to bash Amazon, and perhaps already too big to be a specialist CSP focused on a few business sectors, Rackspace may find itself in the middle of several stools and not quite able to sit on any of them.

Rackspace re-invention brings slow public cloud revenues This article is sponsored by:

Rackspace turned in a profit as part of its continued re-invention. But there are bumps in the road that are slowing down its transformation.

Virgin America pledges Netflix-in-the-air wifi speeds This article is sponsored by:

Virgin America's used wifi as a competitive differentiator for years, but there's more to come, says CEO David Cush.

Paris Cloud Week - retour vers le futur! This article is sponsored by:

Paris Cloud Week kicked off yesterday. Chris Middleton provides a personal assessment of the opening keynote event that went back to the future.

EnterpriseDB bids to get Oracle users off the RAC This article is sponsored by:

How about an open source alternative to upgrading Oracle Applications, especially when that upgrade path means moving to RAC? EnterpriseDB reckons it can oblige.

Should SAP open source HANA? This article is sponsored by:

On and off back channel discussions about open sourcing SAP HANA come back into view as IBM gets with the open source theme.

The NoSQL and Hadoop disruptive open source dividend This article is sponsored by:

Open source technology has arguably become mainstream, especially in modern databases like NoSQL and Hadoop based systems. They are unlocking huge value.

Certification takes Databricks one step closer to the big money This article is sponsored by:

Databricks announces certification as the next evolutionary step in its growth. And yes - it matters.

SAP HANA gets some Spark from Databricks This article is sponsored by:

Databricks certifying SAP to run Spark? Wow - that's one for the books which opens up interesting questions around SAP HANA, where it goes, how it fits and the future of development in a mixed open source, closed source world.

Alteryx and Databricks team up to simplify and accelerate Hadoop analytics This article is sponsored by:

Alteryx and Databricks plan to democratize the building of Hadoop analytics using SparkR. This is a good move at a time when even the smallest businesses are generating or consuming vast amounts of data.

Dutch greetings card firm goes open source to cut database licensing costs This article is sponsored by:

When the board of directors at the Dutch online greetings card company balked at investing in yet another Oracle database license, development manager Jan van der Veen went in search of an entirely fresh approach.