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Accelerating NFV through open source software collaboration – Video

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Accelerating NFV through open source software collaboration
This video contains an interactive panel discussion with the following industry leaders who have come together to collaborate and build a carrier-grade, open source platform for NFV. Sandra...

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Broadleaf eCommerce Solutions Now Provided by Ness Technologies in European Markets

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 19, 2015

Broadleaf Commerce, the open source software provider for building customized eCommerce solutions, is proud to announce its partnership with world-class software integration and development company, Ness Technologies. As a global services company, Ness has provided innovative solutions for major brands, including British Airways and Pfizer. Ness will now be a global reseller of the Broadleaf framework, focusing on servicing the Eastern European market.

Partnering with Broadleaf Commerce provides our team with streamlined access to the Broadleaf enterprise eCommerce framework. We look forward to utilizing one of the most advanced, cost-effective eCommerce platforms on the market, states Martin Kult, VP of Ness Technologies. With over 50 client software labs, we bring together world-class talent and leading technologies - fostering our commitment to continuous innovation. We look forward to bringing Broadleafs technology into our core eCommerce offerings. Ness encompasses the engineering, platform, and analytics expertise required to facilitate eCommerce business improvements.

Ness works to help companies to find new ways to build and retain loyalty with customers by continually delivering better services, experiences, and content, states Brad Buhl, COO of Broadleaf Commerce. Ness Technologies now has the ability to use the Broadleaf framework to offer clients full user support from front-end to back-end, as well as complete technical documentation. The partnership will enable users to experience Ness software development services starting from requirements and systems analysis, architecture, and design, through development, testing, migration, and deployment.

Ness will be a comprehensive reseller of Broadleaf, with an initial focus on established market verticals currently serviced by Ness throughout Eastern Europe. Ness will also extend engineering experience through configuration and installation support as products roll out to users. For more information about the Broadleaf eCommerce framework, please visit: http://www.BroadleafCommerce.com

About Ness Technologies Ness is a privately held company with over 5,000 employees. Ness collaborates and co-innovates with more than 500 clients in 20 countries across North America, Europe and Asia, including Fortune 1000 and Software 500 organizations. Ness offers a seamless multi-shore delivery model, operating Technology Innovation Centers in India, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Israel and the U.S. Ness serves key vertical markets that include Education, Media and Publishing, Financial Services, Utilities and Manufacturing, Travel, Transportation, Entertainment, Retail, Sports, Software and High-End Technology. For more information, visit: http://www.ness.com/

About Broadleaf Commerce, LLC Broadleaf Commerce is the owner of an open-source eCommerce framework targeted at facilitating the development of enterprise-class, commerce-driven sites by providing a robust data and services model, a rich administration platform, and specialized tooling that takes care of core commerce functionality providing the framework for companies such as The Container Store, Pep Boys, and Vology. For more information, visit: http://www.broadleafcommerce.com.

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Testing – Best Practices in Open Source World – FOSSAsia 2015 – Video

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Testing - Best Practices in Open Source World - FOSSAsia 2015
Speaker: Amita Sharma, Red Hat Description: 1. How to contribute in improving quality of open source software 2. How to create test harness for open source software. 3. How to alter your software...

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Open source Sirius virtual assistant gets Google funding

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Virtual, personal assistants seem to be the rave these days on mobile, from the big ones like Siri, Cortana, Google Now, and most recently BlackBerry Assistant, to the little known apps and services scattered throughout app markets. So it isn't surprising that we're hearing about another one called Sirius, a not so subtle play on Siri perhaps, but this software, and we can't call it product yet, hailing from the University of Michigan is a bit different. For one, it is open source software. And quite surprisingly, it has the financial support of Google.

Sirius isn't shy about acknowledging its likeness to those big three (or four) virtual assistants, so it is a bit interesting that Google would support it. Then again, it may actually even benefit from it in the long run, given Sirius' open source nature. Also, being more of a research project than an actual product, Sirius isn't exactly a direct competitor to Google Now, much less a commercial rival.

While Sirius does have speech recognition like the others, it does have a few unique features. For example, it also has image recognition, which would allow users to feed it an image or take a photo from their smartphone and ask Sirius questions about the photo. It sounds somewhat like Amazon's Firefly service, but one that's not limited to simply recognizing an object but also deriving related information about it based on user questions. It also features text recognition so that it can crawl through, for example, Wikipedia entries in search for answers.

But Sirius' real character is its openness. Research project head Jason Mars compares it to how Linux is the open source Windows, so to speak. The bottom line is that users and developers will be able to take Sirius apart and learn from it, improve it, and customize it to their own needs, something you will never be able to do with Siri, Cortana, or Google Now. Especially not at source code level. Sirius itself stands on the shoulder of giants, utilizing other open source software for its own functionality. Image recognition, for example, is OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision), while its Question and Answer system utilizes OpenEphyra. Unlike Siri and the others, however, Sirius so far has been tested to work on the Ubuntu Linux desktop only, but could soon expand to other operating systems as well as mobile platforms.

The promise of an extensible, customizable, and open source intelligent virtual assistant seems to appeal to more than just Google. DARPA as well as the National Science Foundation seem to also be on board. The source code, as well as instructions to build Sirius, can be found on Github.

SOURCE: Sirius VIA: Motherboard

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SanDisk announces open source commitment with Ceph contributions

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SANDISK HAS ANNOUNCED a series of open source projects for the Ceph platform based around its flash products.

The company plans to make a series of optimisations to Ceph's software-defined storage, allowing object, block and file storage to be presented as a single distributed computer cluster.

The news follows the company's announcement of the Ceph-powered scale-out flash array InfiniFlash last week as a half terabyte 1U flash array designed with cold-to-tepid storage use in mind, managed through RESTful API, Swift and S3 API.

The INQUIRER'sanalysis of InfiniFlash pointed out its green advantages as an upcycled, low energy, low footprint product.

Nithya Ruff, director of the SanDisk Open Source Strategy Office, said: "Open source software is a critical building block for many of the key markets in which we operate, from mobile and embedded, to enterprise, hyperscale and cloud.

"Since joining the Linux Foundation, SanDisk has built a sizeable development team to enhance and optimise open source platforms to be 'flash-intelligent,' resulting in better performance, efficiencies, capacities and overall total cost of ownership for customers.

"SanDisk is one of the largest contributors to the Ceph software platform and will continue to work on further OSS innovations in partnership with the community.

SanDisk has been working with Ceph on its aims to be distributed without a single failure point, with exabyte scalability and high availability. So far, SanDisk's efforts have resulted in a 10x improvement for block reads and a 2x improvement in object read flows when Ceph is used in a flash environment.

This is the latest addition to SanDisk's open source contribution portfolio which includes flash optimisations for Android stack, Linux Kernel, Android Real Path Storage, SCST and enterprise applications including Cassandra, MySQL and Hadoop.

All these contributions are aimed at improving the usability of flash storage in the respective environments.

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