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The Open Network podcast is all about open source, open core, open standards and open ideas. Each episode features an interesting personality with their take on open. Hosted by Alan Shimel, Managing Partner of The CISO Group and Network World open source blogger, Open Network will keep you abreast of the open world.

Alan talks with Steve Hanna, an engineer for Juniper Networks and the co-chair of the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) group at the Trusted Computing Group. With the TCG undertaking the task of bringing order to the chaos of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, Hanna talks with Alan about interoperability and what the TCG is up to (19:34).

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Alan talks with Dave Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud, about competing cloud standards, integrations and platforms. Jilk gives an update on what the market is seeing around OpenStack, CloudStack, AWS, VMware and more (19:11).
Alan sits down with the founders of the first two winners of the Magnificent 7 open source awards. Claudio Guarnieri from Cuckoo Sandbox and Anthony Desnos from Androguard talk about their malware analysis tools, as well as their connection to the Google Summer of Code (SOC) project. They also chat …
There has been a not-so-silent debate about the security profile of the NoSQL database products. The dramatic rise of NoSQL has led some critics to say that security has been neglected. In this podcast, Alan Shimel talks with Dwight Merriman (CEO and founder of 10Gen, the makers of MongoDB), James …
Alan sits down with Alon Girmonsky from Blazemeter to discuss the QA testing market, open source, SaaS, the cloud and load performance testing. Blazemeter, a cloud based on the open source Jmeter testing tool managed by the Apache Foundation, recently announced closing a $1.2 million series A round, led by …
Wendy Nather, director of research for enterprise security at The 451 Group, has written that many organizations exist "below the security poverty line." That is, they do not have the resources, both financially and human, to satisfy their security and compliance needs. Can open source security projects provide "the meat" …
Alan sits down with Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase, to discuss the company's new funding, its commitment to the open source movement and the general state of the NoSQL and Big Data market. Wiederhold chats about what's driving the red hot market for big data and NoSQL, and what he …
About a month ago at the RSA conference we went from having little in the way of open source solutions for web application firewalls to two of them. We previously looked at IronBee the open source WAF project from Qualys and Ivan Ristic. Today we speak with George Hess, CEO …
Two of the leaders in the NoSQL world (and big supporters of open source) announced a merger today. Membase, which powers massively scalable applications like those from Zynga, is merging with CouchOne, the makers of CouchDB. The new company will be called Couchbase. Alan chats with James Phillips, co-founder of …
Alan talks with Brian Gentile, the CEO of open-source BI company Jaspersoft. Like so many open source projects, open source BI is finding a welcome home in the cloud. Many of Jaspersoft’s customers have been using the solution in the cloud for some time now, and Brian talks about Jaspersoft's …
State of the CMS: 2011 Dec. 20, 2010
Alan chats with some of the thought leaders in the open source CMS space. Shaun Walker, CTO and co-founder of DotNetNuke (left); Todd Barr, VP of Marketing at Alfresco (middle); and Kathleen Reidy, analyst at the 451 Group (right), discuss the state of the CMS market, and why there are …
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of the DuckDuckGo search engine, has started a movement asking companies that have profited from their use of open source to set up a voluntary tithe to contribute back to the community. Weinberg talks with Alan Shimel about “giving back to the community”, which should be …
After nearly 30 years of ruling the roost, relational databases are having to share their turf with their non-relational cousins. The biggest and best of these "NoSQL" databases are open source. Alan Shimel chats with James Phillips, co-founder and SVP of products of Membase, one of the most successful NoSQL …
The ability to use motion-capture technology for state-of-the-art video used to be the sole domain of big budget movie studios and inventive and aspiring film makers like George Lucas. Now the Open MoCo project and Dynamic Perception are bringing motion capture to the masses. Designing both open source hardware and …
Alan talks with Matt Jonkman, the CEO of Emerging Threats Pro and leader of the Open Information Security Foundation (OSIF). Matt has led the development of Suricata, a next-generation, open-source IDS engine. With Emerging Threats Pro releasing a commercial rule set for both Suricata and Snort, some eyebrows have been …
In this episode, Alan is joined by fellow Network World contributor, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, SVP and co-founder of Nemertes Research. Andreas shares how he has led Nemertes moving its IT infrastructure to a cloud-based model by utilizing some of the great open source tools available. Anyone thinking of moving to …
Two guests join Alan for this podcast. First is Robin Schumacher, director of product strategy for EnterpriseDB and Selena Decklemann, PostgreSQL major contributor. Topics include the major new release of PostgreSQL and some of its exciting new features; the future of an Oracle-owned MySQL, Java One and the state of …
Alan is joined by Steve Lesem, CEO and President of Mezeo, a cloud storage provider. Steve and Alan talk about the epidemic of APIs that has broken out to allow cloud providers to talk to each other. Which one will rule the roost? There are some big names and lots …
Levementum has built a thriving practice by implementing and customizing open source enterprise applications. Alan speaks with their co-founders, Doug Guilbeau and Geoffrey Mobisson about how working with open source gives them the ability to customize much more so than any closed system ever could. Business is thriving for the …
Like Walter Cronkite, Mitchell Ashley and Alan play "You Were There". With all of the hullaballoo lately around the open source IDS wars between Sourcefire and OSIF, we thought it would be cool to give people some historical perspective on this from two people who were there. Back when we …