http://www.talend.com/blog Talend Open Data Solution Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:19:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have just announced that Nick White has joined Talend as our new Chief Financial Officer. Nick has extensive, senior-level finance experience in start-up, medium-sized, and high profile hardware and software companies. He was most recently CFO of SpringSource, a VC-funded open-source company that grew to 160 employees, a $30M run ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/08/03/nick-white-new-addition-to-talend%e2%80%99s-executive-team/ A tweet by Lance Walter got me thinking: lancewalter: People like the Cloud's disruptive "pay-per-drink" model. Reaffirms my belief that great tech ideas are often conceived in bars. I replied quickly: ydemontcheuil: @lancewalter #opensource: "free as in free speech, not as free beer". #cloud: "pay per beer". You're right about bars. Can we ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/07/13/is-open-source-an-open-bar-in-the-cloud/ Half way into 2010, it's time to pause for a minute (but not more than a minute!) and look back at these past six months.  We have put out a press release summarizing the high points of this year so far. What does the press release say? Q2 was our twelfth consecutive ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/07/13/reflecting-on-the-first-half-of-2010/ French Minister of Budget François Baroin just launched the second phase of the “General Review of Public Policies” program, aiming to modernize the French administration and to cut public spending by €10 billion. 150 new measures [in French] have been adopted for the 2011-2013 period.  Most of these ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/07/06/a-cio-for-the-french-government/ On Tuesday, July 15, 2010 at 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern, 8pm CET) our friends at the Olliance Group, the organizers of the Open Source Think Tank, will be moderating a very exciting Webinar on best practices in open source procurement and support.  This Webinar will feature ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/07/05/enterprise-open-source-software-procurement-and-support-best-practices-upcoming-webinar-from-the-open-source-think-tank/ Earlier this week Talend announced native support for Hadoop, with immediate availability.  What does this mean? From the technical standpoint, it means that Talend’s solutions now include the capability to not only connect to Hadoop-based data sources such as HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File system) and the ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/07/01/tackling-big-data-with-hadoop-support/ The European Commission recently released its "Digital Agenda", one of the 7 initiatives it launched to help alleviate the economic crisis and prepare the EU economy for the challenges of the next decade: "Europe needs a new action plan for making the best use ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/06/03/interoperability-the-fight-goes-on/ Time flies, it's already been over two weeks since the Gartner Summits (Business Intelligence, MDM & Enterprise Architecture) in Las Vegas.  But I said I would blog on these events, so here we are! I was impressed to see how busy these three events were. Gartner asks for a lot of ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/05/03/reflecting-on-the-gartner-summits/ Latest Talend online community, the Talend Channel on YouTube is your source of information on open source data management. Its diverse content includes: Interviews from Talend executives Discussions with partners and open source visionaries Demonstrations of Talend's open source data management solutions Among the most recent videos posted, check out: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VV1gaKPqgY[/youtube] Bertrand Diard, Talend's Co-Founder & ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/04/27/did-you-check-the-talend-channel-on-youtube/ In the software industry, April is traditionally a busy month for conferences and shows.  This April did not fail the tradition, since Talend participated into: The Enterprise Intelligence Summit by Teradata in Berlin SugarCon, the SugarCRM user conference in San Francisco Gartner MDM Summit in Las Vegas Cloud Computing Expo in New York IRM's Master ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/04/26/busy-month-for-conferences/ CIOs point of view on open source is clearly evolving. Four years ago, the word on the street was that open source solutions were insecure, riddled with amateurish support, and we were hearing that the viability of OSS companies was a wild bet at best… Of ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/03/08/the-evolving-cio-mind-on-open-source/ Our friends at Aberdeen, a leading industry research firm, are currently running a survey on the use of open source technologies for BI deployments. They feel that many CIO's are compelled to evaluate open source business intelligence as a way to reduce their costs, and they are ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/03/02/an-interesting-survey-on-open-source-business-intelligence/ Informatica recently announced the Informatica Marketplace - "the destination for buyers looking for data integration solutions."  Informatica developers will be able to sell Informatica-related assets on this marketplace. Looks like a community to you?  For Informatica, it means leveraging the work of their users ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/02/12/when-proprietary-vendors-discover-the-power-of-community-but-get-it-wrong/ Talend enters a new market and everything changes - literally.  Last week, we introduced the first open source MDM solution and one week later the market landscape has undergone substantial consolidation with the two leading pure play MDM vendors being bought by larger companies. Last spring as we were considering an ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/02/05/welcoming-open-source-mdm/ In hindsight, it’s easy to say that 2008 didn’t start very well, but most of us didn’t realize it until mid-September when Lehman Brothers became the first domino in a spectacular crash that has been likened to 1929. We found ourselves entering a recession, which has ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2010/01/18/the-view-from-2010/ Banana republic? Communist regime? Fascist regime? Which descriptor suits best Wikipedia? In any case, don’t be a dissident. Or you may just disappear. Wikipedians don’t like dissent. In August 2007, a courageous dissident (ShawnRog) wrote an article on Talend Open Studio. And then in August ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2009/12/21/the-totalitarian-wikipedia-regime/ In a smart IT world, clients would cheer when a price drop was announced. But in our glass-half-empty world, customers only show joy when they hear that a price increase has been postponed! This is the sad reality of the proprietary IT universe. "SAP Announces Delay ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2009/12/14/an-endangered-species/ Some will say "it’s about time".  I won’t.  Although I’ll admit that I was impatient to see the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration been released.  It’s finally out, and well worth the wait. But before getting into more details, I want to set some points straight. Last year, ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2009/11/30/gartner-recognizes-open-source-as-enterprise-data-integration/ I recently read the results of a survey by Computer Weekly and ResearchNow Business. The Computer Weekly IT Panel was launched in April 2009 and comprises almost 4,000 IT professionals working in a range of organization types, size, and business sectors. These results confirm the growing adoption ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2009/11/20/open-source-continues-to-conquer-but-always-conveys-the-same-platitudes/ US Department of Defense recently released a memo, “Clarifying Guidance Regarding Open Source Software (OSS)”. As FederalComputerWeek notes: this memo "puts open-source software on the same level as commercial software and urges DoD agencies to evaluate it on an equal basis with proprietary offering."Jay Liman, ... http://www.talend.com/blog/2009/11/17/open-source-twenty-four-years-later%e2%80%a6/