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A survey from 2nd Watch of cloud adoption plans for businesses in the United States shows that many see major value in integrating the cloud into digital sales and marketing, but obstacles are preventing rapid adoption.

Marvell has made KinomaJS, a Java platform for building apps for embedded devices, including IoT electronics, available under an open source Apache 2.0 license.

Red Hat (RHT) entered the cloud consultation and support services market in a major way this week with the launch of its Cloud Innovation Practice, which introduces cloud setup and architecting solutions that go far beyond those provided with the open source giant's software products.

The founder of the Symple PC, an $89 computer that runs Canonical's Ubuntu Linux 14.04 and is built from recycled hardware, envisions the device as a key part of VAR services.

Progress Software's Rollbase platform for cloud-based app development has been certified for Helion, HP's OpenStack distribution.

Juniper and Canonical have partnered on Contrail Cloud Platform, an OpenStack-based SDN and NFV solution for carriers that is based on open standards, according to the companies.

The release this week of Docker's Machine, Swarm and Compose orchestration tools will help protect against vendor lock-in on the open source containerization platform, Docker says.

The Symple PC, a planet-friendly computer that ships with Canonical's open source Ubuntu Linux OS and costs only $89, is now on sale.

Canonical has announced partnerships with Microsoft, Amazon, Texas Instruments and others related to IoT and Snappy Ubuntu Core, the transactionally updated variants of the open source Ubuntu Linux OS.

Red Hat's partner program for ARMv8-A chips is expanding and should soon begin delivering open, certified, standards-based ARM software solutions to the Linux and open source community, the company says.

More people than ever are contributing code to the Linux kernel, more of them are professionals who are paid to do it and more of them are women. That's according to the latest survey of development trends for the open source operating system from the Linux Foundation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, the latest edition of the company's open source cloud computing platform, is based on OpenStack Juno.

SUSE Enterprise Storage, the latest offering from the open source vendor, introduces a new distributed, scale-out storage solution to the market, based on Linux and Ceph.

Hitachi plans to acquire data analytics and business intelligence vendor Pentaho for at least $500M, the largest big data acquistion to date. What's big data analytics worth in monetary terms? Hitachi gave a clue this week with news that it intends to acquire business intelligence company Pentaho for a sum rumored to range between $500 million and $600 million.

Sisense and Simba have partnered to integrate MongoDB, the open source, NoSQL database platform, into Sisense's business intelligence and data analytics suite. Hadoop has made lots of big data headlines by now. But in a reminder that it is only part of the open source big data story, Sisense and Simba partnered this week to deliver data analytics via MongoDB, the open source NoSQL platform, which is increasingly importance in production big data use.

Cloud hosting provider SingleHop has unveiled new security tools, with a special focus on anti-DDoS features, to add extra data protection and security to its users. Managed cloud hosting provider SingleHop hopes to stand out from the pack with new security tools that outsource data protection and DDoS-attack mitigation to the cloud. Its solution, Shield Plus Advanced Security, debuted this week.

DH2i has introduced a management platform for containerized apps running on Microsoft Windows in a way similar to those for Docker apps on Linux. Containerized virtualization à la Docker remains one of the hottest topics in the open source and Linux worlds in the new year. But DH2i expects containers to become a major part of the Microsoft Windows server ecosystem, too, and has launched a new container management tool for the proprietary platform.

The OpenDaylight Project, an open source collaboration for software-defined networking, has announced a 2015 summer internship program.

ESET's DESlock+ for iOS, which the security vendor is distributing through its channel partner program, adds email, attachment and SMS text encryption to iOS devices.

DataStax has acquired Aurelius, maker of the Titan graph database, to add graph database capabilities to its big data platform, which is based on Cassandra, the NoSQL open source distributed database.