Deal Radar swings back towards open source with Webtide, a company that provides open source server and communications components of the Internet: Jetty, an open source Java web container, and Cometd, a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus from the Dojo Foundation. Webtide provides customized packages of these components for form factor, subscription deployment support, and subscription development
I last discussed ecological data centers in my interview with Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea, who is changing the physical structure of servers and data centers in order to cut energy use. Today’s Deal Radar highlights a different aspect of green computing, processor optimization, with a discussion of Blacksburg, Virginia-based EnergyWare. This early stage pre-revenue
Appirio was founded in October 2006 by Narinder Singh and Glenn Weinsten to help companies integrate Software-as-a-Service (Saas) solutions. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company has a strong advantage because of its partnerships with Google and Salesforce.com. A cloud integrator with a focus on cloud applications working well together, Appirio ‘practices what it preaches’