Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

Amazon Challenges Its Open Source Progeny with Hosted DynamoDB Service

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

In 2007, Amazon.com published a paper on its distributed datastore Dynamo, which the company uses to power its e-commerce site. The paper inspired several open source NoSQL projects, including Apache Cassandra, BigCouch (soon to be merged into Apache CouchDB) and Riak. But …

Why So Many DevOps Tools Are Written in Node.js

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

If you’ve been following the growth of either DevOps or Node.js you may have noticed the number of deployment, monitoring and automation tools being created in Node.js. One of the most recent example is Dreadnot, a deployment automation tool created by RackSpace …

RainStor Runs Its Database Natively on Hadoop

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today RainStor announced that it is releasing a version of its database that runs natively on Apache Hadoop called RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop. This will enable users to query data stored in Hadoop using both SQL and MapReduce. Also, thanks …

Open Source “Splunk for Security” Company AlienVault Hires HP Fortify Team

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today AlienVault, the sponsor company of the open source security intelligence tool OSSIM, announced that it has hired former HP Fortify team members Barmak Meftah and Roger Thornton. Meftah, who was VP of software security products at HP, is joining AlienVault as …

Former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com as EVP of Emerging Markets

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today Salesforce.com announced that former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra is joining the company as EVP of emerging markets. As the first ever CIO of the US federal government, Kundra was a proponent of both cloud computing and open data. …

Splunk May Be Valued at $1.2 Billion. Still Lots of Opportunity for Consultants.

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Word in Silicon Valley is that Splunk, which has filed its S-1, may be valued at $1.2 billion says SiliconAngle founder and CEO John Furrier. The S-1 is a sign that a company will soon file for an IPO. You can find …

Evolution of Agile: From Development Teams to the Whole Organization

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Forrester has a new report titled Navigate The Future Of Agile And Lean. It looks at the progress from the early days of the agile methodology as a tool improving development team productivity to its current state as an approach that’s changing …

Jaspersoft and Red Hat Launch Business Intelligence PaaS

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft today announced its BI platform-as-a-service. The service will first be available on RedHat OpenShift and will enable developers take take advantage of Jaspersoft’s software for building customer BI applications. OpenShift can run both on-premise or in …

IBM and DachisGroup Team-Up for Social Business Consulting

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

IBM announced today announced a new services practice focused on social networking in the enterprise, plus a partnership with social business consulting firm DachisGroup. The announcement follows the launch of DachisGroup’s social media monitoring softare-as-a-service. IBM will offer training, certification and strategic …

Apprenda Launches Free (As in Beer) Version of Its On-Premise .NET PaaS

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Apprenda, the makers of an on-premise .NET platform-as-a-service, released today a free (as in beer) version of its software called Apprenda Express. The move follows the addition of .NET support to Cloud Foundry last month. Cloud Foundry is a VMware backed (with …

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Latest from Klint Finley

Amazon Challenges Its Open Source Progeny with Hosted DynamoDB Service

Why So Many DevOps Tools Are Written in Node.js

Open Source “Splunk for Security” Company AlienVault Hires HP Fortify Team

Former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com as EVP of Emerging Markets

Splunk May Be Valued at $1.2 Billion. Still Lots of Opportunity for Consultants.

Evolution of Agile: From Development Teams to the Whole Organization

Jaspersoft and Red Hat Launch Business Intelligence PaaS

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