Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! It is widely accepted that large enterprises will start cloud deployment via "private cloud" - that is to say, inside their firewall. But what kind of early applications will these be? Imagine you are the head of manufacturing at a Fortune 500 company running an Oracle Manufacturing application and multiple other source systems. You need to know critical production information instantly, several times a day. And you are moving around constantly. You have an iPad and just a touch gives you those critical nuggets of information. This is advanced analytics using the private cloud. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Another example is Project Management, where many moving parts are involved. Again, using touchscreen devices like the iPad you can visualize all aspects of the projects at any instant and a... (more)

Next-Generation Content Delivery: Cloud Acceleration

It would be an understatement to say that this past decade belongs to the Internet. Starting primarily as a research tool, the Internet has now infiltrated every aspect of life - there is very little today that users do not, or cannot, do online. Moreover, new ways to leverage the Internet to personal and professional advantage arise every day. Evidently, all this progress has had an insidious side-effect - user expectations regarding website performance have sky-rocketed over the years. People expect websites, video and audio to load faster than ever before; otherwise, they los... (more)

IBM’s Dustin Amrhein to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! Face it, setting up Java EE application environments can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and highly variable process. A cloud computing approach to Java EE application environments can address these problems and more. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dustin Amrhein, Technical Evangelist for Cloud Technologies at IBM, will describe how the IBM WebSphere test organization utilizes a cloud computing solution to enable the construction, deployment, and maintenance of Java EE application environments for testing purpose... (more)

Exploring Persistence Settings - Part 5

In Part 4 I discussed the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse and how it allows you to view, create, and manage JPA entity relationships. The Entity Editor provides a centralized view of all entity relationships, allows you to modify entity properties, and allows you to navigate between the object model, mapping associations, and database schema layers. In Part 5, I will explore persistence settings. The persistence.xml file defines the context for JPA persistence. In this step, you will use the JPA Persistence Configuration Editor to explore the persistence.xml file for your JPA... (more)

Top Ten Performance Problems

For your reference, we've compiled a list of the Top 10 Performance Problems as we have seen them over the years when working with our clients. I hope this list is enlightening – and I’ve included follow-up links to the blogs to help better understand how to solve these problems: #1: Too Many Database Calls The problem we see the most are too many database query per request/transaction. There are 3 specific phenomena to witness: More data is requested is than actually required in the context of the current transaction, e.g.: requesting all account information instead of those tha... (more)