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Red Hat Extends JBoss with Open Source BPM

Red Hat is extending JBoss up the middleware stack with a new business process management suite that gives organizations advanced decision and process automation capabilities.

Mar 4, 2014 6 mins

BPM Systems Open Source

Facebook Open Sources Thrift Protocol … Again

After more than six years of internal development of its branch of the cross-language framework that powers its internal services, Facebook has released that branch to open source and hopes to work with the Apache Thrift community to incorporate the

Feb 20, 2014 3 mins

Enterprise Architecture Open Source

7 Tech Acronyms and Abbreviations That Need to Go Away

IT is full of shorthand. (Hey, there's one example.) Many abbreviations and acronyms have become standard terms in tech, if not everyday language. But some terms just need to be retired.

Feb 19, 2014 4 mins

Agile Development Mobile Device Management Retail Industry

MapR’s New Hadoop Distribution Promises No-Risk Upgrade

MapR's latest Hadoop distribution includes support for Hadoop 2.2 with YARN, but is also backward compatible with the MapReduce 1.x scheduler, promising organizations a risk-free upgrade path to the latest Hadoop architecture.

Feb 17, 2014 5 mins

Big Data Open Source

7 Reasons Not to Use Open Source Software

Businesses of all sizes embrace open source software and the benefits it can bring. Sometimes, though, choosing proprietary software makes better business sense. Here are seven scenarios when it pays to pay for your software.

Feb 11, 2014 6 mins

IT Strategy Microsoft Office Office Suites

Is ‘Smart Lighting’ Right for You and Your Home? (Connected by TCP Review)

Controlling the lights in your home using a smartphone or tablet sounds like a novel idea, but is it really worth the investment to get "connected?" CIO.com's Al Sacco answers that question and more in this hands-on review of the Connected by TCP hom

Feb 10, 2014 9 mins

Small and Medium Business Smartphones Wi-Fi

U.S. CIO Urges Feds to Fail Fast, Not Fail Big

Taking a page from the private sector, federal CIO Steve VanRoekel calls for a more agile, iterative approach to government IT projects.

Feb 10, 2014 4 mins

Agile Development Government Government IT

Red Hat and Hortonworks Expand Strategic Big Data Alliance

The two partners are working to make it easier than ever to bring Hadoop into the enterprise with an open hybrid cloud model and improved customer support collaboration.

Feb 10, 2014 4 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Open Source

How Mobile Developers Can Win Customers’ Trust

Many of today's mobile and Web applications collect personal data. This makes plenty of users pause before downloading. To ease user's minds -- and to help developers demonstrate that they have legitimate reasons for collecting that information -- My

Feb 5, 2014 6 mins

Consumer Electronics Mobile Device Management Privacy

23 Signs Your Cloud Project May Be in Trouble

On many an old map, unknown territories were marked, 'Here be dragons!' Sure, it's actionable, but it's not very informative. Centuries later, do we have the same problem with software project management? Here's how to slay the dragons that threaten

Feb 5, 2014 6 mins

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