Red Hat to acquire Neural Magic
Network World
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Red Hat intends to democratize the power of AI through open-source-licensed models that can run anywhere.
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Stratoshark brings Wireshark-style analysis to cloud system calls
Network World
JANUARY 22, 2025
The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. This approach mirrors how Wireshark uses libpcap for network packet capture, creating a familiar architectural pattern for networking professionals.
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SAP publishes open source manifesto
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 27, 2024
It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects.
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Restricted Source Licensing Is Here
Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. Major software companies employ teams of full-time workers to write and contribute code to open source projects. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life. Even end user companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Capital One, etc.,
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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License
CTOvision
JANUARY 13, 2015
MapReduce Geo, or MrGeo , is a geospatial toolkit designed to provide raster-based geospatial capabilities performable at scale by leveraging the power and functionality of cloud-based architecture. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA' Government Solutions.
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EXL Code Harbor streamlines platform migration, data governance, and workflow assessment
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
But in many cases, the prospect of migrating to modern cloud native, open source languages 1 seems even worse. Greater integration and scalability: This modular architecture distributes tasks across multiple agents working in parallel, so Code Harbor can perform more work in less time.
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Navigate AI market uncertainty by bringing AI to your data
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 30, 2024
History suggests hyperscalers, which give away basic LLMs while licensing subscriptions for more powerful models with enterprise-grade features, will find more ways to pass along the immense costs of their buildouts to businesses. Business and regulatory requirements will also influence which platforms and architecture you pick.
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Introducing the GenAI models you haven’t heard of yet
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 16, 2023
Companies are looking at Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, Databricks’ Dolly, Amazon’s Titan, or IBM’s WatsonX, but also open source AI models like Llama 2 from Meta. Open source models are also getting easier to deploy. We feel that every hyperscaler will have open source generative AI models quickly.”
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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space. Many data science tools and base models are open source, or are based heavily on open-source projects. Then, in July, Meta’s Llama 2 came out, and this time, it was licensed for commercial use.
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Accenture — Nvidia deal: A first peek into the new world of genAI-centric strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 2, 2024
It will work with what Accenture describes as a “network of Accenture AI refinery engineering hubs serving 57,000 Accenture AI practitioners to open in Europe, Asia and North America, supporting large-scale operations, agentic architecture and foundation model development with Nvidia AI.” Llama is an open source offering from Meta.
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Microsoft expands Phi line with new multimodal models
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
has expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with the introduction of two new algorithms designed for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency: Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal. Microsoft Corp. Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal features Phi-4-mini is a text-only model that incorporates 3.8
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Hortonworks Named a Leader in Big Data Hadoop Distributions Report
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2016
Hortonworks is a rock when it comes to its promise to offer a 100% open source distribution. All of the technology built into HDP is an Apache open source project. For example, Hortonworks acquired XA Secure, a company with a commercially licensed security solution, and contributed the code to Apache as Apache Ranger.
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SiFive RISC-V cores and Microchip processors will power NASA's future space missions
TechSpot
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
NASA will soon perform a significant upgrade to the systems employed in its spaceflight computers, adopting the RISC-V architecture developed and provided under open-source licenses.
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Innovation in evolved architectures: How CSPs can successfully implement new business initiatives despite legacy systems and ongoing operation
TM Forum
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Based on open standards and with a clear separation of concerns it would allow for quick and flexible anticipation of upcoming innovations. API-first design and a microservice-oriented architecture offer the possibility to replace or combine individual modules as necessary to meet changing business requirements. telco suite.
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Getting your enterprise ready for the real AI
Network World
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The AI model providers (with one exception noted below) are also eager to promote licensing of their generative AI tools. About one-third progress along that path, but two-thirds say they now believe self-hosted AI should be based on an “open source” model. Ah, networks.
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15 must-try open source BI software for enhanced data insights
Dataconomy
MAY 10, 2023
Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.
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Bayer Crop Science blends gen AI and data science for innovative edge
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 23, 2024
Bayer Crop Science’s existing data science platform, built on a licensed platform dubbed Domino about 7 years ago, is running out of steam and needs to be replaced for the modern AI era, McQueen says. Bedrock’s catalog of gen AI models, for instance, includes open source and closed models from partners, such as Meta’s Llama 2.1
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Cloud native order management boosts speed, scale and operational efficiency
TM Forum
OCTOBER 26, 2021
How: A solution aligned with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture and Open APIs to achieve desired business outcomes. 40% decrease in licensing costs. High operating costs, due to licensing fees, and infrastructure and operations requirements affected HT’s competitiveness. Microservices architecture.
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Understanding Readium – Features, Architecture and Alternatives
Kitaboo
MAY 19, 2020
The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. Architecture of Readium. Download Now!
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Someone stop DeepSeek: Meet Janus-Pro-7B, another free AI model
Dataconomy
JANUARY 27, 2025
DeepSeek has unveiled yet another major contribution to the open-source AI landscape. Image: DeepSeek Analysts point to DeepSeeks consistent philosophy: keep it open-source, stay privacy-first, and undercut subscription-based rivals. Sessions typically take 7 to 14 days on large-scale GPU clusters (for both 1.5B
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48 Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Architectural compatibility means that apps can move freely from private to public and back, when needed. “We OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula all play on the open source front. Cloud Wars.
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Sesame’s AI voice is so real, it’s unsettling
Dataconomy
MARCH 5, 2025
Metas influence : The models architecture builds upon Metas Llama framework, integrating a backbone model with a decoder for nuanced speech generation. While Sesames CSM does not clone real voices, the possibility of similar open-source projects emerging remains a concern. license, allowing developers to build upon its work.
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AI agents will transform business processes — and magnify risks
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 21, 2024
For example, AI agents use open source intelligence to hunt for movie leaks and piracy across social media and the dark web. The company was paying half a million a year in license fees, says Joseph Ours, Centric’s director of AI solutions, and there was still a lot of manual work involved.
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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.
All Things Distributed
MAY 19, 2017
Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.
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The Best eBook Platforms for the Post-Readium Era
Kitaboo
JANUARY 8, 2020
Evident Point is one of the major contributors of Readium Architecture and Readium Web. The old ReadiumJS architecture would work on any HTML5 browser. Anyone can also use the Readium source code without a commercial license. It’s totally free and permissively licensed. Evident Point. The Future.
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Comparing X.509 Certificates with SSI
Phil Windley
MAY 28, 2021
I won't get into the details around how this is done securely, but you can read far more detail at The Architecture of Identity Systems if you're curious. Alice proves her name and date of birth using a verifiable credential representing her driver's license. The veracity of an X.509 The advantage of X.509 So, why do something new?
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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity? AppDeployer to Create and Sell
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Its software development kit makes it possible to write add-on modules that integrate with open-source, third-party and legacy systems. AppDeployer also is available as a licensed product for deployment in customers’ own clouds. AppDeployer leverages a platform engine licensed from Virtual Global.
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Are Transactional Relationships Enough?
Phil Windley
MARCH 21, 2022
In short, email was designed with the architecture of the internet in mind. Email is open —not necessarily open-source—but open in that anyone can build clients and servers that speak its core protocols: IMAP and SMTP. If Gmail went away, I could start running my own server again.
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Build your first MongoDB App in Ruby @ StrangeLoop 2013
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
The tutorial will cover the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. Querying your data: simple queries, geospatial queries, and text-searching. * Document * Open source * High performance * Horizontally scalable * Full featured MongoDB is a __ database. *
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Build your first MongoDB App in Ruby @ StrangeLoop 2013
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
The tutorial will cover the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. Querying your data: simple queries, geospatial queries, and text-searching. * Document * Open source * High performance * Horizontally scalable * Full featured MongoDB is a __ database. *
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Authentic Digital Relationships
Phil Windley
AUGUST 12, 2020
In his article Architecture Eats Culture Eats Strategy , Tim Bouma makes the point that the old management chestnut Culture Eats Strategy leaves open the question: how do we change the culture. Tim's point is that architecture (in the general sense) is the upstream predator to culture. This is their fundamental architecture.
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Persistence, Programming, and Picos
Phil Windley
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
After all, developers have had the idea of layered architectures and separation of concerns hammered into them. Fuse had a microservice architecture even though it was built with picos and programmed with rules. The pico engine is an open source project licensed under a liberal MIT license.
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Comparing X.509 Vertificates with SSI
Phil Windley
MAY 27, 2021
I won't get into the details around how this is done securely, but you can read for more detail The Architecture of Identity Systems if you're curious. Alice proves her name and date of birth using a verifiable credential representing her driver's license. The veracity of an X.509 The advantage of X.509 So, why do something new?
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98 Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service
All Things Distributed
JULY 20, 2015
Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables. The agent is written in Go, has a minimal footprint, and is available on GitHub under an Apache license. Amazon ECS’ architecture is designed to share the state of the cluster and allow customers to run as many varieties of schedulers (e.g.,
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Llama 3: Everything you need to know about Meta’s latest LLM
Dataconomy
APRIL 24, 2024
Meta made its new Llama 3 LLM open-source and you can run it locally with Ollama. By making Llama 3 open-source, Meta has unlocked a wealth of potential for businesses of all sizes. Ollama provides a platform for running open-source large language models such as Llama 2 on local systems. What does Ollama do?
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KubeCon 2018 Day 1 Keynote
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 11, 2018
This leads Noorali into a high-level description of some of the features planned for Helm v3, which will move to an entirely client-side architecture (no more Tiller, yay!). Chart Museum, an open source Helm chart repository server, also recently released an update. Helm v2.12.0 (the
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Ten Reasons to Use Picos for Your Next Decentralized Programming Project
Phil Windley
JULY 26, 2021
Picos are hosted on the open-source pico engine. Picos provide an architectural model for trillion-node networks where literally everything is online. Picos provide a cloud-native (internet-first) architecture that matches the application architecture to cloud model. Picos use a substitutable hosting model.
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59 Technology Short Take #37
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2013
A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of All good stuff, thanks Mike!
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KITABOO seamlessly integrates with Moodle to deliver high-end content
Kitaboo
JULY 25, 2022
The popularity of Moodle lies in the fact that it is flexible, open source, and free to download. White-label your content: KITABOO is a fully customizable white-label LMS with perpetual IPR, based on open-source robust Moodle-based architecture. What is Moodle?
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ePUB.js vs Readium.js – A Detailed Comparison of 2 ePUB Readers
Kitaboo
JUNE 15, 2021
As a comprehensive reference system for ePUB that promotes digital publications for the Open Web, ePUB.js is an open-source Javascript library that allows any web page to easily render ePUB documents on any device with a modern browser. Suggested Read: Understanding Readium – Features, Architecture and Alternatives.
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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem
Phil Windley
AUGUST 20, 2019
When you hand your driver’s license to the bartender to establish your legal age, we would be surprised if she could remember all the detailed information it contains, like your address, and do that for every patron she encountered. Messaging —the architecture must support messaging between the parties to those relationships.
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Unleashing the Power of a Security Data Lake
SecureWorld News
APRIL 3, 2023
Scalable architecture. At the same time, the licensing models for information security tools are based on the number of users. This leads to a steep hike in license costs. They are easily expandable and secure, relying on established security measures like other conventional storage systems. Therefore, SDL must provide scaling.
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Is Sovrin Decentralized?
Phil Windley
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Vitalik gives a great breakdown of different types of decentralization, listing architectural decentralization, political decentralization, and logical decentralization. But the architecture (no infrastructural central point of failure) and politics (no one controls them) of Bitcoin are decentralized. The code is open source.
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Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 14, 2017
The popular open source container registry project, Harbor , has released a new version (version 1.2). The series provides an introduction and overview of licensing (part 1), a review of architecture and hardware recommendations (part 2), an overview of data availability (part 3), and a discussion of fault domains (part 4).
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