Open source

Now don't laugh, but a slimmed-down, re-focused IBM might just evolve into an enterprise cloud powerhouse This article is sponsored by:

IBM's hybrid cloud strategy and a newly-re-focused company might create a compelling alternative to Microsoft and VMware.

For John Snow Labs, doing good with NLP is in their DNA (and yours) This article is sponsored by:

Too often, the AI startup field comes off as a VC-funded money grab. But commercial NLP healthcare player John Snow Labs is doing things differently. Their Spark NLP open source library includes support for 375 languages. Here's why their approach stands out.

Health practitioner hold laptop on drawn chalkboard

Should the power of the crowd be used to solve our social problems? This article is sponsored by:

According to new research from Nesta and The GovLab, the answer is yes. Which is why we need to encourage the growth of open source-powered ‘collective intelligence’

Open source groups spar over Google trademark initiative This article is sponsored by:

The new trademark initiative has caused a row in the open source community, but has Google picked up on a traditionally underrepresented area of IP?

Konica Minolta's progress to Postgres - curing the healthcare sector's database dependency on Microsoft? This article is sponsored by:

Konica Minolta moved from Microsoft to open source Postgres to underpin its radiography platform, a shift that saw the provider need to convince customers it was a sound one.

Customer momentum continues for MongoDB despite COVID-19 - and sometimes because of it This article is sponsored by:

COVID-19 didn't impact on MongoDB's Q1 growth as much as feared and the crisis fuelled some new use cases along the way.

Health researchers need better data - Talend joins the fight against Coronavirus with an open source ETL tool for COVID-19 data This article is sponsored by:

My first talk with new Talend CEO Christal Bemont hit on the surge in their cloud growth and their role in business transformation. But we kept coming back to the imperative of data quality - and that's exactly how Talend is pushing into the fight against COVID-19.

OpenAQ - Using open data to fight for better air quality across the globe This article is sponsored by:

OpenAQ collates data from air quality sensors around the world, making it accessible on a single platform for researchers and government.

DataStax shifts focus back towards the Cassandra community This article is sponsored by:

Under new executive leadership, DataStax is recognising that it’s future success will be community-led, not necessarily product led.

Greenpeace turns to open source to finish its web transformation This article is sponsored by:

New collaboration with Red Hat seen as key to delivering on the original idea of its new online identity- a global ‘engagement platform,’ Planet 4

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New Relic's Lew Cirne - observability platforms aren't optional if software matters to you (as the Iowa Democratic Caucus just found out...) This article is sponsored by:

If your organization takes its software seriously, then you need the kind of tech that New Relic has to offer, argues CEO Cirne on a bumpy day for the firm on Wall Street.

New Relic CEO Lew Cirne at Futurestack19

Three reasons why multi-cloud is back - and here to stay This article is sponsored by:

MongoDB’s Dominic Wellington explains why multi-cloud has come back into fashion. However, this time there are new rules that apply and as a strategy for IT decision makers, it’s not going anywhere...

NRF 2020 - Target's CIO on the tech secrets behind Target's transformation - build features customers love, and abstract your infrastructure This article is sponsored by:

The big theme of NRF 2020? Blurring the lines between digital and store. But to make that happen for customers, you better get the data - and the design - right. Target CIO Mike McNamara shares the tech approach behind Target's growth.