Articles by Author -- Alolita Sharma

Zmanda Recovery Manager is an easy-to-use yet comprehensive backup and recovery solution for MySQL databases at the top of every DBA’s wish list.

In email interviews with Chander Kant, CEO and cofounder of Zmanda, and Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of Engineering and cofounder of Zmanda, Alolita Sharma discussed all things ZRM, open-source backup and growing an Open Source community.

In this article we’ll focus on one of the most popular cloud computing solutions today, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and walk through the development of an open source mashup for EC2.

With the advent of Web 2.0 and Software as a Service, cloud computing has come into vogue. Cloud computing has become synonymous with providing services anywhere anytime with the basic requirement being access to the internet.

A review of some current state-of-the-art digital TV tuner cards, focusing on how well they support digital television in Linux. Over-the-air television broadcasts in the US will convert to all digital in February 2009. So, it was exciting to switch over to digital TV on my desktop.

Raven Zachary is research director for Open Source at the 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company headquartered in New York. As a community activist, Zachary is also a key organizer of BarCamps in the US. Alolita Sharma talks to Raven Zachary about the trends he sees as a key industry analyst and as an active community organizer in the open source world.

Virgin Airlines recently launched a ‘geek-friendly’ service for the US market. And it has many Silicon Valley geeks wishing they were on-board.

Silicon Valley is chock-full of Web 2.0 startups today. And these startups are using open source big-time.

Alolita Sharma recently attended the first ever iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco. 400 developers, artists, users and technology innovators had assembled together to hack and invent cool ways to use Apple's new gadget. She had a chance to talk with one of the key organizers of this event, William Hurley. "Whurley", as he is affectionately known, is an open source die-hard and leader in the "BarCamp" movement, redefining the way technology conferences are held. Here's what he had to say.

Ubuntu has caught the attention of the world. What makes Ubuntu so popular? Is it technology, is it community or is it just Mark Shuttleworth's charisma that brings Ubuntu its name and fame. In this interview Mark talks about Ubuntu in the global IT landscape, upcoming technology features, software patents, and what Ubuntu is doing in India.