Day: September 30, 2014

Matchstick, the Firefox OS-based Chromecast competitor, launches on Kickstarter for $18

Matchstick wants to take on Chromecast with a dirt-cheap dongle that is more open than Google’s streaming stick, and promises developers more powerful hardware. Remember that Firefox OS-based streaming stick we first told you about in June ? It debuted on Kickstarter on Tuesday under the product name Matchstick , and it’s priced to pick…

Big telecom companies band together to form open-source project for network functions virtualization

Companies like Cisco, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks along with the Linux Foundation are hoping that the Open Platform for NFV Project will develop a standard for NFV, a network architecture concept that calls for all aspects of networking to be virtualized. Big-name telecom providers and networking manufacturers, like Brocade and Cisco, have joined together…

Open NFV Group Uncloaks Its Platform Plan

The Linux Foundation today made its long-awaited formal announcement of the Open Platform for NFV Project , promising to deliver a carrier-grade, open source reference architecture as a means of speeding up NFV deployment. The group’s initial focus will be on developing the NFV infrastructure and virtualized infrastructure management, two key pieces not already under…

Flexera Software/IDC Report Reveals Enterprises Fleeing the Perpetual Software Licence Model Due to Shrinking Budgets in Favour of Alternative Models

Ironically, ‘shelfware’ is rampant with 96 percent of organisations wasting money on un-used softwareMaidenhead, U.K. – September 30, 2014. Enterprise software spending is being squeezed, and as a result organisations are looking for better ways to align software costs to value. This is the conclusion of a new Flexera Software 2013-14 Key Trends in Software…