We’ve seen the rise of open source software in the enterprise and also beyond the IT industry, but the real keys to openness and its advantages in today’s technology world — where efficient use of cloud computing and supporting services are paramount — exist in open application programming interfaces, or APIs.

Open source software continues to be a critical part of software development, systems administration, IT operations and more, but much of the action in leveraging modern cloud computing and services-based infrastructures centers on APIs. Open APIs are the new open source.

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OSSCube has now one more Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop. Rakesh Kumar has become the Cloudera Certified Developer through the CCDH, the industry's only certification for software developers on Hadoop. He passed the Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop exam after going through a rigorous training program.

Rakesh is also a MySQL certified DBA and Cluster DBA and has trained several engineers for Zend Certification Examinations.

Tags: ClouderaHadoop

OSSCube has now one more Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop. Rakesh Kumar has become the Cloudera Certified Developer through the CCDH, the industry's only certification for software developers on Hadoop. He passed the Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop exam after going through a rigorous training program.

Rakesh is also a MySQL certified DBA and Cluster DBA and has trained several engineers for Zend Certification Examinations.

Tags: ClouderaHadoop

First of all, I wish you a happy new year.
Many things happened last year, it was really exciting to be involved in the MySQL ecosystem.
I hope this enthusiasm will be increased this year, up to you !

To start the year, I propose the MySQL[plus] Awards 2011
It will only take 5 minutes to fill out these polls.
Answer with your heart first and then with your experience with some of these tools or services.

Polls will be closed January 31, so, vote now !
For “other” answers, please,  let me a comment with details.

Don’t hesitate to submit proposal for tools or services in the comments.
And, please, share these polls !

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, …

Here are some of the fake O'Reilly book covers I mentioned in a prior post.  These have been optimized for use as black & white Kindle screensaver wallpaper images.  If you haven't done so already, you can install a Kindle screensaver hack with a couple of downloads. 

Update: I've embedded a slideshow from PicasaWeb, but it requires Flash.  If you don't see it you can click on the links below to go directly to PicasaWeb.

• Kindle hacks:  …

The MySQL Cluster product team is always interested to see new and innovative uses of the database. Last week, a team of students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden blogged about their use of MySQL Cluster in creating a scalable and highly available HDFS Namenode. The blog has received some pretty wide coverage, but was first picked up by Alex Popescu at the myNoSQL site

There are many established use cases of MySQL Cluster in the web, cloud/SaaS, telecoms and even flight control systems – you can see those we are allowed to talk about publicly …

The MySQL Cluster product team is always interested to see new and innovative uses of the database. Last week, a team of students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden blogged about their use of MySQL Cluster in creating a scalable and highly available HDFS Namenode. The blog has received some pretty wide coverage, but was first picked up by Alex Popescu at the myNoSQL site

There are many established use cases of MySQL Cluster in the web, cloud/SaaS, telecoms and even flight control systems – you can see those we are allowed to talk about publicly …

Talend delivers v5. Zentyal raises series A. The TCO of OSS. And more.

# Talend announced version 5 of its data integration suite, adding business process management capabilities via an OEM relationship with BonitaSoft. Yves De Montcheuil explained the name changes in version 5.

# Zentyal closed a series A venture capital funding of over $1m by Open Ocean …

Rapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.

# Rapid7 secured $50m in series C funding.

# Microsoft confirmed that it is ditching its Dryad project in favour of Apache Hadoop.

# Arun Murthy provided more details of Apache Hadop 0.23.

# The Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT Designer projects are now fully open source.

# openSUSE released version 12.1.

451 Research has today published a report looking at the funding being invested in Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL database-related vendors. The full report is available to clients, but non-clients can find a snapshot of the report, along with a graphic representation of the recent up-tick in funding, over at our Too Much Information blog.