Mirantis & Google on Kubernetes & OpenStack

Mirantis is a firm that calls itself a "pure-play" OpenStack company.
It has a new initiative...
Chef: a recipe for cloud data automation & migration with Microsoft

Chef and Microsoft's Azure team have joined partnered to provide automation platform technology and DevOps expertise.
Google Perfkit: a ‘living benchmark’ for evaluating cloud

Google has launched PerfKit (perfect software development kit - geddit?) an open-source cloud-benchmarking tool that.
Microsoft: big data analytics for everyone

Microsoft has its Build 2015 software application development conference almost within its sights now -- as such, its programmer portals are currently gleaming like a new START button.
Concurrent: 2015 is “show me the money year” for Hadoop

Field engineering veep at Concurrent, Inc Supreet Oberoi says that "2015 is the 'show me the money year' for Hadoop" -- his firm offers an application development platform for big data applications. The following text is all...
A new open source big data framework

MapR and Mesosphere are announcing a new open source big data framework (called Myriad) that allows Apache YARN jobs to run alongside other applications and services in enterprise and cloud datacentres. What is Apache YARN?
Apache Hadoop YARN (Yet Another...
Nice kitty: MongoDB 3.0 (with Tiger Inside)

The open source cross-platform document-oriented database company MongoDB has reached version 3.0 this month.
The new iteration sees significant changes in its storage layer performance and scalability.
Microsoft open sources .NET ‘execution engine’

Microsoft has released the open source code for CoreCLR to GitHub.
CLR denotes: Core Common Language Runtime (CLR)
RoboVM: Java development on Apple iOS & Android

Trillian Mobile and LodgON have partnered to create mobile applications for the iOS and Android operating systems.
CoreOS Linux: it’s how Google, Facebook & Twitter run at scale

CoreOS is a new lightweight Linux distribution that has been re-architected to provide features needed to run what its development team labels as "modern infrastructure" stacks for what are usually clustered deployments.