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

Survey: PHP Still Going Strong

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

With the growth of development platforms like Ruby on Rails and Node.js you might be temped to think that demand for the by now old school language PHP might be starting to decline. But judging by a survey of PHP developers conducted …

Cloud Foundry Adds Automated Deployment Feature: Manifests

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

The team behind Cloud Foundry, the open source platform-as-a-service developed by VMware, added new application deployment feature called “manifests” to the Cloud Foundry command line tool (VMC). Manifests are YAML documents that contain a list of input commands. “With this manifest document, …

DachisGroup Launches Social Media Monitoring SaaS

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Social business consulting firm DachisGroup today announced its social media monitoring tool called Social Performance Monitor. It’s the firm’s first subscription service and another example of how service companies are expanding to productize services and own more intellectual property. Social Performance Monitor …

Oracle Releases Big Data Appliance with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today Oracle is releasing Oracle Big Data Appliance, which was first announced Oracle Open World last fall. Also, today Oracle announced that the appliance will include the Cloudera Distribution Including Hadoop and Cloudera Manager. Oracle also announced a set of connectors for …

Analyst: Linux Will Eat Oracle Solaris’ Lunch in 2012

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

According to a survey of over 165 server professionals conducted by the 451 Group, 67% are planning to spend more on databases and data warehousing with Red Hat and 55% are planning to spend less with Oracle in 2012 compared to 2011. …

Where Systems Integrators Fit in the Future of Enterprise Open Source

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

A few months ago Karl Flinders at Computer Weekly asked whether systems integrators were slowing the adoption of open source in the UK government. Flinders wrote about how even though open source would seem like an attractive option for cash strapped agencies, …

Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot, a DevOps Deployment Tool Written in Node.js

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Today Rackspace announced that it is open sourcing Dreadnot, a tool for automating and monitoring deployments with support for multiple regions. The project, which was heavily influenced by Etsy’s Deployinator, was built in Node.js and is used in production at Rackspace by …

Cloudant Plans to Shift Focus to Apache CouchDB and Merge Features from BigCouch

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

The drama regarding the future of Apache CouchDB is winding down and looks to have a happy ending. Following Couchbase’s announcement that it is discontinuing its own distribution of CouchDB, Cloudant announced that it is now in the process of merging its …

More IT Firms Piling on the Consulting Bandwagon

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Earlier today I looked at Tata Consulting Services’ cloud ambitions. But as Suparna Goswami Bhattacharya writing for DNA India points out in a story on the development of the international consulting market, the real action may be in Indian BPO companies encroaching …

Consulting and the Cloud in India

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

We’ve been writing about how traditional service providers, such as Accenture, have been starting cloud hosted services to keep up with the changing IT world. This is a trend that extends around the world, including to business process outsourcing (BPO) providers. According …

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Latest from Klint Finley

Survey: PHP Still Going Strong

Cloud Foundry Adds Automated Deployment Feature: Manifests

Oracle Releases Big Data Appliance with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop

Analyst: Linux Will Eat Oracle Solaris’ Lunch in 2012

Where Systems Integrators Fit in the Future of Enterprise Open Source

Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot, a DevOps Deployment Tool Written in Node.js

Cloudant Plans to Shift Focus to Apache CouchDB and Merge Features from BigCouch

More IT Firms Piling on the Consulting Bandwagon

Consulting and the Cloud in India

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