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Cloudera and Capgemini have partnered to deliver new Big Data analytics services and tools based on Apache Hadoop.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 brings more efficiency, longer support and enhanced VMware support to Red Hat's open source enterprise cloud computing offering.

SolidFire's all-SSD storage solutions provide performance boosts of more than 200 percent for MongoDB NoSQL deployments, according to Yahoo benchmarking.

The IRS has rejected a tax-exempt application from the Yorba open source software project, setting a precedent that could affect organizations from Mozilla to the Linux kernel to Red Hat.

A survey of data scientists from database vendor Paradigm4 suggests that Hadoop and Spark are not as useful for sophisticated Big Data analytics as a non-expert might think.

MapR, which provides Big Data solutions based on open source Hadoop, has received $110 million in a new financing round led by Google Capital. Apache Hadoop vendor MapR has received the blessing—and financial backing—of Google (GOOG), whose investment fund, Google Capital, led the latest, $110 million financing round for the Big Data company.

The Linux Foundation and its partners have released the first version of Automotive Grade Linux, the open source platform for use inside connected cars.

Red Hat has introduced a new certification for cloud-management solutions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform through the OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network.

Canonical has worked hard to integrate Ubuntu Linux with IBM's POWER8 servers to strengthen its OpenStack cloud and Big Data position. If Ubuntu Linux is to prove truly competitive in the OpenStack cloud and Big Data worlds, it needs to run on more than x86 hardware. And that's what Canonical achieved this month, with the announcement of full support for IBM POWER8 machines on Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu Server.

ownCloud Community Edition 7, the latest version of the open source private cloud infrastructure, offers a new web interface and innovative server-to-server file sharing between private clouds.

Competition surrounding OpenStack in western Europe is heating up. OpenStack vendor Mirantis has opened a new office in Grenoble, France, to strengthen its position in the open source cloud computing market in western Europe. Red Hat acquired eNovance last week, another OpenStack specialist with roots in the same country.

CloudPhysics has added a new tool called Storage Analytics to its Big Data analytics platform to analyze cloud-based virtual storage infrastructure. Big Data analytics have converged with massive cloud storage in Storage Analytics, a new part of CloudPhysics's software-as-a-service (SaaS) data analytics platform, on the same day that the company announced $15 million in additional funding.

Pentaho 5.1, the Big Data analytics platform, offers enhanced integration with the open source MongoDB database, R and Weka integration and full Hadoop YARN support.

The website for Canonical's Ubuntu Linux operating system has received several enhancements tailored for Chinese speakers, Ubuntu cloud users and others.

Mirantis has announced a new, upper-level OpenStack open source cloud computing training and certification offering.

Google's BoringSSL, a fork of the open source OpenSSL software for encrypting Web data, will spread the open source community's resources thinner.

Red Hat has acquired eNovance to enhance its OpenStack implementation and integration resources for open source enterprise cloud computing.

Predictive analytics provider RapidMiner has acquired Radoop, a Hadoop Big Data analytics vendor.

A new survey from database vendor Tesora found that businesses large and small are deploying OpenStack for private clouds.

Public cloud computing and Big Data analytics have converged in a new partnership between MemSQL and GoGrid designed to simplify the orchestration of MemSQL's in-memory distributed database system for business intelligence. MemSQL and GoGrid are both invested in high-performance Big Data computing. MemSQL's platform leverages in-memory storage to speed both real-time and historical data analytics, while GoGrid tailors to customers interested in Big Data-oriented hosting solutions that include SSD storage, large amounts of RAM memory and dedicated servers.