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 The IT debacle at RBS has highlighted the dependency large financial organisations (and other companies) have on their IT infrastructure. From what has leaked out into the press, the RBS issue relates to a piece of software called CA-7, used for mainframe batch job scheduling. When I ...Jun. 29, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 665 |
 Don’t ya love all the acronyms we have? So by now, you’ve probably heard that BYOD means Bring Your Own Device – a topic that is getting lots of press these days. The concept of allowing employees to use their own personal device, often mobile, for work related tasks. This ...Jun. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 615 |
#androidDev When an SSL enabled app isn’t, and how easy that is to implement. Remember the Maginot line and how powerful and defensive it was going to be… And then the Germans just bypassed it? Remember the West Wall, where the Allies were going to throw themselves against in the wani... Jun. 28, 2012 12:39 AM EDT Reads: 160 |
 CIO.com recently published its list of 9 open-source technologies to watch. Hadoop is first on the list, and second up is the R Project: R is an open source programming language and software environment designed for statistical computing and visualization. R was designed by Ross Ihaka ...Jun. 27, 2012 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,231 |
 Birds migrate in flocks, which means every individual has the support of others. IT often migrates alone – but it doesn’t have to.
“Lessons from Geese” pdf-icon has been around a long time. It is often cited and referenced, particularly with respect to teamwork and collaboration. The ...Jun. 26, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 956 |
Intelligent messaging platform's new feature to unlock richness and unique publishing capabilities of Diffusion for organisations running Java or .Net based applications20th June 2012 - Push Technology, an innovative technology and solutions specialist that focuses on pushing data beyo... Jun. 20, 2012 09:41 AM EDT Reads: 386 |
 Imagine Jim, who’s had a CT scan and then is diagnosed with a stroke at the hospital. Although the on-call neurologist is at another hospital, and outside the hospital system, he accesses Jim’s radiology images on his mobile device, in real time. Upon review, the doctor learns that Jim...Jun. 20, 2012 05:11 AM EDT Reads: 707 |
 Check out this really nice blog/tutorial on how to use Tiggzi to build a mobile app connected to cloud-based MongoDB, written by Ben Wen from MongoLab.Jun. 18, 2012 01:20 PM EDT Reads: 960 |
The advent of Cloud Service Brokers isn’t just about re-inventing the supply chain of IT services, although that of course is significant, but also because of the evolution in EA (Enterprise Architecture) design that it’s driving and the benefits this brings. Principally th... Jun. 15, 2012 07:26 AM EDT Reads: 595 |
Former JBoss Executive to Drive Growth and Momentum in EuropeWOBURN, MA and CLOUD COMPUTING WORLD FORUM, LONDON, UK - June 12, 2012 - CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Michel Goossens, former vice president EMEA for Red Hat (... Jun. 12, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 686 |
Tallinn, Estonia, June 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Plumbr, an Estonian Java tooling start-up company, today announced the general availability of its memory leak detector tool. The Plumbr tool is an automated performance consultant that can be plugged in to any Java application, allowing ap... Jun. 11, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 462 |
In our company it became a tradition to run an annual symposium on software development in New York City. This is a technical event with zero marketing, where our engineers are given an opportunity to share their experience gained while develping real-world applications. This year we’l... Jun. 9, 2012 09:37 AM EDT Reads: 570 |
Microsoft is all set to lock horns with Amazon in the Cloud. Microsoft announced Windows Azure in 2008 as a .NET Platform as a Service (PaaS) and since then they have been adding features to make it more appealing to Java and PHP developers. It has reached a point where Windows Azure h... Jun. 7, 2012 12:38 AM EDT Reads: 716 |
Java™ Developers Enjoy One-Click Access to Additional Cloud Services from within the CloudBees PlatformParis, France - June 6, 2012 - CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced the addition to the CloudBees Partner Ecosystem of sever... Jun. 6, 2012 07:48 AM EDT Reads: 627 |
 Scaling a startup from zero to $100M is 10% strategy and 90% execution. You’d never know that from reading the Web, because the advice you’ll find online is 90% related to strategy and 10% related to execution. This is the second post in a series that explores the challenges of scaling...Jun. 5, 2012 10:46 AM EDT Reads: 932 |
 Whew! That loud sigh of relief you hear reverberating from Silicon Valley is a reaction to the June 1st Oracle-Google ruling, which declared that APIs are not protected by copyright. While this case could be far from over – Oracle may appeal and force another $50 million round of litig...Jun. 2, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,636 |
For the past 12 years, KDNuggets has conducted an annual poll asking "What analytics/data mining software you used in the past 12 months for a real project (not just evaluation)". In this year's poll, R was the top-ranked data mining solution, selected by 30.7% of poll respondents. Mic... May. 31, 2012 07:37 PM EDT Reads: 653 |
Yesterday, I started teaching my regular online training to people who want to learn Java programming. This class is not a part of any University program neither it’s paid for by the Unemployment Administration. It’s an open enrollment class – people from various countries either... May. 31, 2012 12:26 PM EDT Reads: 312 |
 Here is further proof that “Consumerization of IT” (CoIT) is a reality. And, that has significantly altered the dynamics of technology adoption. Before I explain this shift, let us look at…
How experts explain technology adoption cycle
The accepted premise is that every new technolog...May. 30, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,285 |
Dries Buytaert [twitter:Dries] , the founder of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia, is giving a Berkman lunch talk about building and sustaining online collaborations. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. O... May. 29, 2012 03:09 PM EDT Reads: 781 |
Milton Keynes, UK 29th May 2012 - Azurati has today launched SharePoint2Go, which provides secure mobile SharePoint on any smartphone or tablet for enterprise users. SharePoint2Go is a cloud-based service that is designed to address the barriers or concerns organisations may have about... May. 29, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,037 |
I’ve recorded this video about IT career based on my last week’s talk at the Java developers conference in Kiev, Ukraine. This is not a technical presentation, so anybody can listen to it. You may not agree with what I say, but hey, it’s my today’s opinion form... May. 25, 2012 03:04 PM EDT Reads: 711 |
NAO: A humanoid programmable robot with a mind of its own. This little robot (57 cm) may have big plans to walk into the life of every human being. Created by Aldebaran Robotics with the launch of Project NAO in 2004, this robot has slowly been gaining popularity in the technological w... May. 25, 2012 01:49 PM EDT Reads: 752 |
 Healthcare data security has been around for a long time, but as cloud computing gains more and more traction, healthcare providers as well as healthcare software vendors, would like to use the cloud advantages and migrate healthcare data, or run healthcare software from a cloud infras...May. 25, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,070 |
 Introduction The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition beginning with version 5.0, supports JMX 1.2 and JMX Remote API 1.0, which is now the official JMX reference implementation. It includes significant monitoring and management features which can be divided into three broad categories. May. 25, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,336 |
Enterprises are more and more dependent on their specialized internal Line of Business (LOB) applications than ever before. Naturally, the more software they leverage on-premises, the more infrastructure they need manage. It’s frequently the case that our customers simply can’t scale u... May. 23, 2012 05:11 PM EDT Reads: 538 |
 The Verge and other outlets are reporting from the federal courtroom in San Francisco that a jury deliberating the patent-infringement phases of the Oracle-Google trial over Java has come back in favor of Google. The claim had concerned patents in Java that Oracle had accused Google of...May. 23, 2012 04:06 PM EDT Reads: 919 |
Last week I spent three days in Kiev, Ukraine participating in a new but rapidly growing Java conference titled JEEConf. During the first two days I was running two hands-on classes: one on JavaScript and another – “Intro to Java EE 6″. The one-day class “JavaScript f... May. 23, 2012 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 596 |
Recently, we have been talking a lot about JMX – especially about using the Monitis JMX Agent to monitor your JBoss server. As I mentioned in my previous post, in JBoss 6.x and earlier versions, the JMX web console and the JMX connector do not require authentication. This obvious... May. 22, 2012 09:59 AM EDT Reads: 724 |
 Is IBM a globally integrated enterprise focused on worldwide collaboration or is it an organization which is rotten to the core?
Do you think that Samuel Palmisano (IBM CEO who retired last year) built IBM into the world’s leading information technology company or has he destroyed alm...May. 22, 2012 02:38 AM EDT Reads: 1,187 |
An interview with Revolution Analytics CEO Dave Rich was published this week by BeyeNetwork. During the interview, Dace was asked about how the statistical modeling platforms have changed over the decades: People have been doing statistical modeling and predictive analytics for 50 year... May. 18, 2012 03:37 PM EDT Reads: 953 |
Lately there has been lots of noise about “Real Time” Big Data. Lots of companies that associate themselves with this term are generally in analytical space and to them it really means “low-latency” for analytical… May. 18, 2012 02:34 PM EDT Reads: 439 |
Monitoring application performance is simple…as long as the application and the deployment architecture are also simple. The mystery appears as the complexity of the application architecture grows and begins to span from an isolated Java or .NET silo into a … Continue reading &#... May. 18, 2012 11:59 AM EDT Reads: 657 |
 It’s really easy to quantify some of the costs associated with a security breach. Number of customers impacted times the cost of a first class stamp plus the cost of a sheet of paper plus the cost of ink divided by … you get the picture. Some of the costs are easier than others to calc...May. 18, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,742 |
 Okay – this is easy… or is it?
Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true ...May. 18, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,480 |
 Overuse tends to a suck a phrase of meaning, and the same may be said of “collaboration”. As an executive, you’ve probably been inundated with articles on “collaboration software” and its business possibilities. But it seems to mean different things at different times. Sometimes it mea...May. 17, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,501 |
Please see below the findings from Kaspersky Lab's Q1 2012 spam report. The main topics that emerged during the last quarter included the increase in spam during the holidays, mass mailings, malicious attachments and the distribution of phishing attacks.Holiday seasonThe first quarter ... May. 16, 2012 06:40 AM EDT Reads: 795 |
 I've been neglecting my blog, but just a quick note to mention that my latest talk at JavaOne, DSLs with Groovy, is posted up on Slideshare.
The talk's designed for someone with no significant Groovy experience (unlike most Groovy DSL talks), so if it's interesting to you, check it ou...May. 16, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,438 |
 Edward Burman recently sent me a very interesting email in response to my article about the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So I bought his 2003 book Shift!: The Unfolding Internet – Hype, Hope and History (hint: If you buy it from Amazon, che...May. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,263 |
