451 Research has today published a report looking at the funding being invested in Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL database-related vendors. The full report is available to clients, but non-clients can find a snapshot of the report, along with a graphic representation of the recent up-tick in funding, over at our Too Much Information blog.
Topics for this podcast:
*Continuent extends MySQL replication to Oracle Database
*CFEngine updates server automation software
*Devops moving mainstream
*Neo Technology integrates with Spring
*451 CAOS report from Hadoop World
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Cloudera raises $40m. Accel announces $100m fund. Rackspace takes OpenStack private. And more.
# Cloudera raised $40m in series D funding and announced a partnership with NetApp around its NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop.
# Accel Partners launched a $100m Big Data Fund to invest in Hadoop- and NoSQL-related vendors.
# Rackspace launched Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition, based on OpenStack.
# Quest Software released Toad for Cloud Databases – Community Edition.
# Splunk launched Splunk Enterprise for Hadoop to provide integration between Splunk and Apache Hadoop.
# Continuent announced supported MySQL-To-Oracle replication with Tungsten Replicator.
# Hadapt announced early access for Hadapt 1.0, combining Hadoop with relational databases.
# StackIQ announced the immediate availability of Rocks+ 6.
# MapR Technologies and Lucid Imagination announced a strategic partnership.
# Cloudera formed a strategic partnership with Karmasphere.
# EnterpriseDB announced Postgres Plus Connector for Hadoop.
# SCO Group, or what’s left of it, asked the US District Court for the District of Utah to reopen its litigation against IBM.
# Abiquo announced version 2.0 of its self-service cloud configuration and management software.
# Ian Skerrett reported on John Swainson’s key success factors for open source strategies.
# Gorilla Logic announced FoneMonkey for Android,
Appcelerator raises $15m. Hortonworks launches Data Platform. And more.
# Appcelerator raised $15m in a third round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat.
# Modo Labs closed a $4m investment from Storm Ventures and New Magellan Ventures.
# Hortonworks launched its Hortonworks Data Platform Apache Hadoop distribution, as well as a new partner program. Eric Baldeschwieler put the announcements into context.
# Pentaho announced the latest release of Pentaho Business Analytics.
# DataStax announced the general availability of DataStax Enterprise and DataStax Community Edition.
# NYSE Technologies announced that it has open sourced its Middleware Agnostic Messaging Application Programming Interface, now called OpenMAMA.
# Bacula Systems announced the appointment of Frank Barker as its new CEO.
# Florian Effenberger provided an update on the status of the Document Foundation, while Document Foundation founder Charles H. Schultz compared LibreOffice to the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring.
# Oracle proposed the contribution of JavaFX into OpenJDK as a new project called “JFX”.
# Open source graph database provider sones was declared insolvent.
Topics for this podcast:
*Opscode Chef extends to Windows for more enterprise devops
*Black Duck continues growth, gains new funding
*Cloudant expands NoSQL database focus, customers
*New open source Web server and vendor Nginx arrives
*The downside of Microsoft’s Android dollars
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Microsoft: “more than half your Android devices are belong to us”. And more
# Microsoft claimed that more than half of the world’s ODM industry for Android and Chrome devices is now under license to Microsoft’s patent portfolio following its agreement with Compal Electronics.
# Hadapt expanded its board of directors and confirmed its $9.5m series A funding round.
# Appcelerator entered into an agreement to acquire the Particle Code mobile gaming and HTML5 development platform.
# Jaspersoft and IBM are working together to combine InfoSphere BigInsights with Jaspersoft’s full BI suite.
# Karmasphere announced its new Hadoop Virtual Appliance for IBM InfoSphere BigInsights.
# Neo Technology launched Spring Data Neo4j 2.0.
# Opscode extended Chef, Hosted Chef and Private Chef to provide infrastructure automation in Windows environments.
# Sourcefire announced plans to support Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
# Percona added support for MySQL Cluster.
# Avere Systems partnered with Nexenta Systems to combine Avere’s FXT Series of appliances and Nexenta’s NexentaStor open source ZFS technology.
# The Qt project is now up and running.
# Zed A Shaw explained why he has licensed Lamson under the GPL.
Red Hat’s $136m acquisition of open source storage vendor Gluster marks Red Hat’s biggest buy since JBoss and starts the fourth quarter with a very intersting deal. The acquisition is definitely good for Red Hat since it bolsters its Cloud Forms IaaS and OpenShift PaaS technology and strategy with storage, which is often the starting point for enterprise and service provider cloud computing deployments. The acquisition also gives Red Hat another weapon in its fight against VMware, Microsoft and others, including OpenStack, of which Gluster is a member (more on that further down). The deal is also good for Gluster given the sizeable price Red Hat is paying for the provider of open source, software-based, scale-out storage for unstructured data and also as validation of both open source and software in today’s IT and cloud computing storage.
This is exactly the kind of disruption we’ve been seeing and expecting as Linux vendors compete with new rivals in virtualization, cloud computing and different layers of the stack, including storage (VMware, Microsoft, OpenStack, Oracle, Amazon and others), as covered in our recent special report, The Changing Linux Landscape.
While the deal makes perfect sense for both Red Hat and for Gluster, it also has implications for the white hot open source cloud computing project OpenStack. There was no mention of OpenStack in Red Hat’s FAQ on the deal, but there was a reference to ongoing support for Gluster partners, of which there are many fellow OpenStack members. OpenStack was also highlighted among Gluster’s key open standards participation along with the Linux Foundation and Red Hat-led Open Virtualization Alliance oriented around KVM. Sources at both Gluster and Red Hat, which point to OpenStack support being bundled into Red Hat’s coming Fedora 16, also reiterated to me Red Hat is indeed planning to continue involvement with OpenStack around the Gluster technologies. I suspect Red Hat is looking to leverage Gluster more for its own purposes than for OpenStack’s, but I must also acknowledge Red Hat’s understanding of the value of openness, community and compatibility. Taking that idea a step further, Gluster may represent a way that Red Hat can integrate with and tap into the OpenStack community by blending it with its own community around Fedora, RHEL, JBoss, RHEV and Cloud Forms and OpenShift.
The deal also leads many to wonder whether or what may be next for Red Hat in terms of acquisition. We’ve long thought database and data management technologies were areas where we might see Red Hat building out. This was also the subject of renewed rumors recently, and we believe it might still be an attractive piece for Red Hat given the open source opportunities and targets around NoSQL technologies such as Apache Hadoop distributed data management framework and Cassandra distributed database management software. We’ve also believed systems management to be a potential place for Red Hat to further expand. Given its need to largely stay within open source, we would expect targets in this area to include GroundWork Open Source, which joins Linux and Windows systmes in its monitorig and management, and Zenoss, which works with Cisco and Red Hat rival VMware in monitoring and managing systems with its open source software. Another potential target that would increase Red Hat’s depth in open source virtualization and cloud computing is Convirture, which might also be an avenue for Red Hat to reach out to midmarket and SMB customers and channel players. Red Hat was among the non-OpenStack members we listed as potential acquirers when considering the M&A possibilities (451 subscribers) out of OpenStack.
Given its recent quarterly earnings report and topping the $1 billion annual revenue mark, Red Hat seems again to be bucking the bad economy. We’ve written before in 2008 and more recently how bad economic conditions can be good for open source software. Red Hat is atop the list of open source vendors that suffer as traditional, enterprise IT customers such as banks freeze spending or worse, fail. However, the company’s deal for Gluster is yet another sign it is thriving and expanding despite economic difficulty and uncertainty.
You don’t have to just look at Red Hat’s earnings or take our word for it. On Jim Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ this week, we heard Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst praised for Red Hat performance and traction where most companies and many economists are throwing the blame: financial services, government and Europe. Cramer credited Red Hat for a ’spectacular quarter’ and allowed Whitehurst to tout the benefits of the Gluster technology and acquisition, particularly Gluster’s software-based storage technology that matches cloud computing. It was quite a contrast to the news out of Oracle Open World, where hardware was a focal point.
Red Hat acquires Gluster. Adobe acquires PhoneGap. Oracle does Hadoop. And more.
# Red Hat agreed to acquire Gluster for approximately $136m in cash. Red Hat CTO Crian Steven explained why.
# Adobe announced its agreement to acquire Nitobi, creator of PhoneGap.
# Oracle unveiled its Oracle Big Data Appliance, including Apache Hadoop and Oracle NoSQL database.
# ODF 1.2 has been approved as an OASIS standard.
# Univa announced the general availability of Univa Grid Engine 8.0.1.
# MPSTOR released Orkestra, a new cloud services platform based around OpenStack.
# Nuxeo announced the availability of the Nuxeo Integrated Development Environment.
# Mike Olson blogged about the nature if the Apache Hadoop community.
# Oracle previewed multi-site clustering support in MySQL Cluster.
# Opscode released new Opscode Chef Cookbooks for deploying and automating core components of the latest version of OpenStack.
# The OpenNebula Project announced the third major release of its OpenNebula Toolkit.
# IBM donated code from its Project Blue Spruce to the Dojo Foundation’s Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb).
Topics for this podcast:
*Cloud M&A potential around OpenStack
*Oracle’s commercial extensions for MySQL
*Puppet Labs rolls out Enterprise 2.0, hosts PuppetConf
*Basho bolsters Riak distributed data store in NoSQL race
*Our latest special CAOS report, ‘The Changing Linux Landscape’
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Microsoft’s Android revenue. Tizen formation. And more.
# As Microsoft announced its latest Android-related patent agreement with Samsun, Goldman Sachs estimated that the company will make $444m in revenue from Android patent deals for fiscal year 2012.
# LiMo Foundation and The Linux Foundation announced the formation of Tizen to develop a Linux-based device software platform.
# Karmasphere raised $6m in a series B round of funding, led by new investor Presidio Ventures.
# Citrix Systems announced the availability of XenServer 6.
# 10gen announced the general availability of MongoDB Monitoring Service, a free monitoring service for the MongoDB database.
# Percona announced the release of Percona Server version 5.5.15.
# Hortonworks became a Gold sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.
# The developers behind PhoneGap have applied to contribute their open source mobile development framework to the Apache Software Foundation.
# Piston Cloud Computing is set to launch its PentOS enterprise operating system for the cloud and put OpenStack on a memory stick.
# The Free Software Foundation announced the re-launch of its Free Software Directory.
# Rhomobile announced availability of RhoConnect 3.0.
# Nokia is reportedly working on a new Linux-based operating system for mass market phones called Meltemi.