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20th National Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off

Network World

While Linux is considered by many to be more secure due to its open-source nature and because privileges are clearly defined, it still warrants security reviews, and this month's focus on cybersecurity awareness suggests that an annual review is more than just a good idea. To read this article in full, please click here

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

GeekWire

Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. EDB has more than 1,500 customers and over 750 employees. In addition to Great Hill, Bain Capital Private Equity is a major shareholder.

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Where have all the good databases gone?

SPF13

Those words were written in 2004 by Adam Bosworth, a veteren of Microsoft, Google and BEA. Open source products came to maturity (if you can call it that), but none improved on any of the challenges Bosworth outlines. The products that the database vendors were building had less and less to do with what the customers wanted. …

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

In the past few years open source has made Big Data accessible to the rest of us. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In the past fewyears open source software emerged enabling ‘us’ to handle BIG Data. .@ spf13 : “Moore’s Law applies to more than just CPUs.It also applies to data” #structureconf. How BIG is it?

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

In the past few years open source has made Big Data accessible to the rest of us. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In the past fewyears open source software emerged enabling ‘us’ to handle BIG Data. .@ spf13 : “Moore’s Law applies to more than just CPUs.It also applies to data” #structureconf. How BIG is it?

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Where have all the good databases gone? : spf13.com

SPF13

Those words were written in 2004 by Adam Bosworth , a veteren of Microsoft, Google and BEA. Open source products came to maturity (if you can call it that), but none improved on any of the challenges Bosworth outlines. The products that the database vendors were building had less and less to do with what the customers wanted.

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Ascent Index: Big Data

The Investing Edge

Of note, a Wall Street Journal piece on the recent buyout of Digg , one of the first social aggregation sites, explained that four years after being founded in 2004, Digg was valued at more than $160 million, but was sold last week for a mere $500,000. This turned out to be a killer.