Open source

Confluent CEO on why data in motion is now central to enterprise success This article is sponsored by:

Confluent was spun out of LinkedIn in 2014 and recently had a successful IPO. But CEO Jay Kreps is laser focused on the company’s core message: data in motion.

Working with data in motion at clothing brand Boden This article is sponsored by:

Boden is using Confluent as a way to drive Apache Kafka to support its digital transformation, says the company’s Head of Business and Enterprise Architecture

A tip of the hat to IBM's Red Hat strategy - building a worthy competitor to VMware and Microsoft This article is sponsored by:

Pivoting off of last week’s Red Hat Summit, a look at its edge announcements and how Red Hat contributes to IBM’s broader growth strategy.

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.

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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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