CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment. By Bob Gourley.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

Whats inside VergeIO and where its deployed While the ESX hypervisor is at the core of the VMware virtualization platform, VergeIO is based on the open-source KVM hypervisor. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Data Center 195

Network World

MAY 23, 2024

OK, but how do you square all of this “vendors are the axis of evil” stuff with this point: 379 of that same group, in the same period, said that over the last several years, they’d purchased a larger percentage of their technology from their dominant vendor? Why would a smart vendor buy a company whose product(s) are open source?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

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Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 214

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Daniel Li , partner at Madrona Venture Group, which first appeared in his weekly newsletter The DL. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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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. Can you blame them? Moreover, organizations can create more guardrails while reducing reputational risk.

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Data Dell Open Source Applications 306

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

If you can improve your tool, I’ll move you to the higher-paid group. For example, CIOs on a budget can reduce generative AI costs by using open-source models, such as OpenAI and Lambda, which can be accessed from various marketplaces and offer several advantages, says Bern Elliott, a distinguished analyst at Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Some of the best data scientists or leaders in data science groups have non-traditional backgrounds, even ones with very little formal computer training. Data science teams make use of a wide range of tools, including SQL, Python, R, Java, and a cornucopia of open source projects such as Hive, oozie, and TensorFlow.

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Data Open Source Analysis Big Data 350

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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Open Source Training Licensing Enterprise 246

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The essence of the deal: the creation of a new business unit, called the Nvidia Business Group, which will use an Accenture AI Refinery platform with agentic AI that leverages the full Nvidia AI stack. Service providers (such as Accenture) are not known for building products that you license and pay for. A boutique?

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Strategy Open Source Enterprise Enterprise 337

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

The aim being, according to a report in The Register , “to make it easier for enterprises to migrate VMware-based workloads to the cloud while allowing them to re-use on-premises license investments.”.

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Vmware Disaster Recovery Cloud Licensing 246

CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

LPTA Vs. Best Business Value – With Shared Services and Pay-Per-Use licensing, LPTA decisions will be judged on business metrics such as business impact, network efficiency and real-time reporting as part of a new evaluation paradigm. Business Case for Open Hybrid Cloud Management Platforms (geobrava.wordpress.com). Related articles.

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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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Big Data Open Source Report Data 150

Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Of that group, only 105 even thought they knew what that would involve, and only 47 were confident. The AI model providers (with one exception noted below) are also eager to promote licensing of their generative AI tools. To say we’re in the infancy of in-house AI is clearly accurate. Why is this such a challenge?

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Training 397

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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Microsoft Licensing Hardware Open Source 73

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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Open Source Software Software Business Intelligence 71

CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2014

3) Cloudera (100% Apache-licensed open source CDH is the only distribution that offers batch processing, interactive SQL, interactive search, and role-based access controls. I just spent time with a large group of them yesterday briefing them on how to make the most of their CTOvision Pro subscription.

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Big Data CTO Enterprise Enterprise 325

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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Data Engineering Open Source Development 252

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

billion in 2022, derives roughly 30% of its business from its markets, trading, and exchange business — and about 40% from software sales and licensing. Not just the technology group.” The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6 That’s because, says Peterson, Nasdaq’s tech stack is the best exchange software out there. “As

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

An SSE vendor should have a strategy for taking their customers on the complete SASE journey,” says Mauricio Sanchez, research director at Dell’Oro Group. Most enterprises have longstanding relationships with a group of established vendors that turn up regularly on any short list of prospective candidates for new products and services.

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Security WAN Vmware Network 417

TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Who: Croatia’s Hrvatski Telecom, part of the Deutsche Telekom group, and Prodapt. How: A solution aligned with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture and Open APIs to achieve desired business outcomes. 40% decrease in licensing costs. 40% decrease in licensing costs. 40% better productivity.

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Cloud Architecture Devops Licensing 130

The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

Hacking group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, and has demanded that Nvidia make its drivers open-source if it doesn’t want more data leaked. We request that NVIDIA commits to COMPLETELY OPEN-SOURCE (and distribute under a foss license) their GPU drivers”.

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Open Source Groups Licensing Analysis 75

Vox

JULY 28, 2023

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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Open Source Research Tools Google 98

GeekWire

MAY 11, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Madrona Venture Group investor Aseem Datar met with about 30 startups in the past week — and all pitched AI tools. Engineers may be tempted to use AI-generated computer code to boost productivity, but this can pose ethical and legal risks when it’s too similar to existing open-source code, Moses said.

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Enterprise Enterprise Engineering Open Source 133

The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

According to an affidavit shared online by the Huffington Post , federal agents tracked down an individual named Stephen Chase Randolph using crowdsourced images from the riots (including those shared on Twitter by a group known as SeditionHunters ). Image: FBI Affidavit via The Huffington Post. Image: FBI Affidavit via The Huffington Post.

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Open Source Licensing Report Tools 99

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

More recently, regulators have been scrutinizing deals between tech giants and smaller startups that are structured as “ reverse acquihires ,” which include hiring company founders and licensing technology. OctoAI’s investors include Tiger Global Management; Addition; Madrona Venture Group; and Amplify Partners.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 23, 2012

The open-sourced OpenStack.org effort. The open-sourced CloudStack.org effort, newly affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation. Already, Amazon has licensed its API to Eucalyptus (see James Statens blog "Has Amazon Solved Its Private Cloud Dilemma?" Burton Group blog. Are Allegiances Forming?

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Cloud Vmware Data Center Virtualization 180

Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Often, multiple groups of responders also mean huge amounts of. response groups, all well-intentioned, simply don’t speak the same. auspices of NCOIC, NJVC led a group to reenact the 2010 Haiti earthquake response using cloud technology to create playbook for multi-national. servers or acquiring licenses.

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Cloud Budget Applications Tools 182

Vox

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

While people 40 to 69 were the most likely to say they’ve lost money to these scams, reports of these scams are up across all age groups, according to the agency. And that’s what these scammers are taking complete advantage of,” Kathy Waters, who founded a group called Advocating Against Romance Scammers, told Recode.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Last fall, a group of anonymous copyright owners sued Open AI and Microsoft , which owns the GitHub software platform, for allegedly infringing on the rights of developers who’ve contributed software to GitHub. Other times, the engines will also license data, like Meta and OpenAI have done with the photo library Shutterstock.

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Engineering Licensing Microsoft Open Source 98

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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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. Popular Pages.

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Cloud Software Development Applications Government 99

Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 30, 2005

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The heart of professional services strategy | Main | Best books of 2005 » What is the future for newspapers? newspapers showing a circulation drop of 2.6% for weekdays (after falling 1.9%

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Trends Network Media Social 84

The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

And a lot of it’s just going to be open source — which I fully support: the sharing of science, the sharing of data, the sharing of models. And then, if you were to search for toxicity datasets, there’s a large number of open-source tox datasets. Photo by Rahman Roslan/Getty Images.

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Chemicals Open Source Research Conference 145

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

One notable aspect of Mistral 7B is its open-source nature, released under the Apache 2.0 license By using software licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, for example, end users are guaranteed a license to any patents covered by the software. license By using software licensed under the Apache 2.0

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 17, 2021

It's estimated that, 85% of modern applications are made up of third party components, and those third party components may include the free and open source software or commercial off the shelf software developed by external individuals or organizations. Overall code vulnerabilities can be divided into three distinct groups.

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