Ian Berry, an executive engineer and co-founder of BitLeap, is the creator of the open source “Cacti” project, in use by thousands of organizations worldwide. He was instrumental in developing LeapServ, a Linux-based open source network backup appliance that remotely manages data backup and recovery.
Learning how to solve existing problems is one of the keys to developing a
successful product. Learning when to turn to the open source community to
facilitate innovation is another quality that more and more companies are
beginning to realize. The BitLeap story provides a real-world example of how
new companies can innovate with open source and thereby create something new
and useful.
As the founder of the popular open source Cacti project, BitLeap co-founder
Ian Berry understood the merits of open source software. Hear how BitLeap
incorporates open source to deliver cost-effective backup services.
First of all, interacting in the open source community comes with
responsibility. Of course there's the responsibility of abiding by open
source license stipulations and pub... (more)
Ian Berry, an executive engineer and co-founder of BitLeap, 
Vincent Kadar
Jill Starr
Christophe Dufourmantelle
Hovhannes Avoyan
Josh Powell
Pawel Plaszczak
Bob Little
Shai Quest
Bob Snyder
Jacques Durand
