Four Steps to Creating an Effective Open Source Policy
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
March 2012-
Creating an open source policy is not a trivial matter. OSS management spans multiple areas of responsibility, and the requirements and points-of-view of each of these areas must be included and reconciled if the policy is to be successful. As such, Olliance has identified four specific steps to creating an effective open source policy: <br><br>
Identify key stakeholders <br><br>
• Obtain an organizational commitment <br&...
Open Source as a Catalyst for Innovation and Cultural Change featuring Yahoo
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
March 2012-
Fact: Open source is a fundamental part of many of the world's leading development organizations, and is often credited with enabling and enhancing innovation. But how do open source and the community model of development impact organizational structure and culture? <br><br>
Join us on this webinar to hear a senior executive from Yahoo! Share his experience and perspective on leveraging the positive business and network effects of open source while ...
The 7 Myths of IP Risk: The Real Exposure Issues with Open Source Software
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
November 2011-
Open Source Software (OSS) is widely recognised as providing significant technology, innovation and business benefits to software development organisations, but it is not without associated challenges and risks. <br><br>
In this complimentary whitepaper, we address the intellectual property (IP) risks that developers, development managers and c-level managers must take into account when developing and distributing software created with OSS. We also discuss a number of common myths surrounding OSS that ...
Governance Fast Start: 5 Keys to Effective Open Source Governance
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
November 2011-
Gartner predicts that through 2014, no more than 50% of open-source investments by mainstream IT organizations will yield consistent long term TCO advantages over alternatives. The reasons include the lack of a governance program to filter, audit, track and manage open source assets in the enterprise. In the same study they recommend -leveraging third-party commercial service and support to establish service-level agreements (SLAs) for OSS. <br><br>
The credativ Group and Black Duck ...
Open Source at AOL: Driving Innovation and Corporate Success
[ Source: Black Duck Software ]
November 2011-
Open source has taken its place alongside many critical closed source technologies as a core piece of the global IT ecosystem. In addition to the traditional advantages of utilizing open source technologies, companies are gaining significant organizational benefits through its collaborative and transparent nature. Open source today is not just used as a way of "doing technology", but of developing core products and energizing customer, partner and employee relationships. <br><...
2011 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study
[ Source: Actuate ]
October 2011-
A new era of Business Intelligence is unfolding with users buying and deploying BI either with or without cooperation from IT. Because of this shift, users now have many choices and need to make the best decision when it comes to BI features, functionality and price. Stay up to date on the ever-changing BI market by reviewing the findings of the 2011 Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study. Howard Dresner, report author and ...
Forrester Wave: Open Source Business Intelligence
[ Source: Actuate ]
October 2011-
Open source software and BI are two related market segments where Forrester sees
continually increasing interest and adoption levels. BI specifically continues to be one of the top priorities on everyone's mind. <br><br>
Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open source versions that carry license and/or support cost, 2) ...
Smarter Collaboration Solutions
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2011-
Cloud-based solutions from IBMare helping organizations around the globe - in banking, telecommunications, retail, government, educationand more - leverage the power of the cloud to collaborate both inter-nally and externally.<br><br>
IBM is helping them increase productivity and lower costs, while creating a security-rich data environmentthat is available when and where it's needed. IBM's depth and breadth of experience in data center management provide theconfidence that security, availability and reliability ...
Social Networking Site Accelerates Network Performance
[ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011-
myYearbook, an innovative and rapidly growing social media site, must manage the extraordinary demands caused by the explosive growth in traffic.<br><br>
To do so, its engineers need to stay ahead of the curve on the deployment of leading edge technologies which both meet its current performance demands, but also provide headroom for growth.<br><br>
Learn how myYearbook upgraded its infrastructure to improve network performance.
How to: Accelerate Web 2.0 Application Performance
[ Source: Solarflare Communications ]
August 2011-
Memcached is a widely deployed distributed database caching technology implemented by tens of thousands of Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Salesforce.com, Wikipedia, and Craigslist. Memcached accelerates dynamic web applications, and is an important part of many social networking and big data infrastructures.<br><br>
Discover how Solarflare's 10GbE technology accelerates user access to Web 2.0 and learn how to improve the efficiency of the infrastructure to provide a better ...