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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 There has been an increasing amount of commentary about the growing shortage of Information Security folks. While the reasons for this shortage are manifold and easily explained, that doesn’t change the fact that it exists. Nor the fact that natural sources may well be causing it to wo...Oct. 18, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 590 |
In a webinar today previewing Spotfire 5 (scheduled for release this November), TIBCO announced that it will include TERR: The Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R. TERR is a closed-source reimplementation of the R language engine, and not based on the GPL-licensed R project from the R Found... Oct. 17, 2012 05:59 PM EDT Reads: 119 |
It is a topic of fascination for me that the high-tech world just plain will not stand still. The changes in automotive technology over the last century, for example, do not match the changes in high tech over the last decade. In addition to the expected on-upsmanship that market leade... Oct. 17, 2012 03:03 PM EDT Reads: 236 |
Colorado Springs, CO, October 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- XTIVIA, Inc. will be attending Colorado Technology Association’s DEMOgala 2012 which takes place October 25, at the Sheraton Downtown Denver. This event will feature a combination of educational sessions, exhibits and on-stage ... Oct. 17, 2012 03:03 PM EDT Reads: 158 |
By RyanKamauff SAN CARLOS, Calif. — September 17, 2012 — MarkLogic Corporation, provider of the enterprise NoSQL database, today introduced MarkLogic® 6, a product designed to make it faster and easier for organizations to generate reliable, scalable and secure Big Data results. The pr... Oct. 17, 2012 02:27 PM EDT Reads: 128 |
 TIBCO is traditionally known for its leadership in integration and is now expanding into a number of new areas through acquisitions as well as building new capabilities. This post is to analyze their products based on attendance to their annual TUCON conference.
Making decisions in a...Oct. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,310 |
When you are going to monitor your engine, you probably try first to find some tool that can do it. Very likely, of course, that tool should be able to handle monitoring online and to notify you when the health of your engine is starting to go bad. There are already several well-known ... Oct. 17, 2012 10:18 AM EDT |
Colorado Springs, CO, October 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise open source portal platform, announced it has awarded XTIVIA, Inc. the 2012 Liferay “North America Partner of the Year.” This announcement was made at the 7t... Oct. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 132 |
 In case you are not familiar, degrees of separation refer to how you are connected to other people.
When you know somebody directly then you are a first connection, and you are a second degree of separation from people that they are directly connected to. The theory goes that via a mi...Oct. 17, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,455 |
The low-cost and efficient multiprotocol SoC thin client for Citrix HDX SoC and Microsoft's RemoteFX is now also certified for VMware View Reading, UK October 17 2012 - IGEL Technology, one of the world's leading manufacturers of thin clients, today announced the IGEL UD2-LX MultiMedia... Oct. 17, 2012 06:21 AM EDT Reads: 308 |
Vendors to test chipsets and products against service provider requirements 16 October 2012 - HGI, a world-leading organisation shaping the way IP services are delivered to the home, has announced that its 2012 test event will again be hosted by leading international testing and compli... Oct. 16, 2012 06:07 AM EDT Reads: 158 |
 When moving to the cloud, the four pillars become much less manageable. The amount “much less” implies depends a lot upon your cloud provider, and how you define “cloud”.
Put in simple terms, if you are suddenly struck blind, that does not change what’s in front of you, only your abil...Oct. 16, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,518 |
My previous post “The Degradation of Java Developers” sparked several interesting discussions. One of the major topics was if today’s developer has to know what’s going on under the hood of a particular framework. To be more specific, if Hibernate, a popular obj... Oct. 15, 2012 01:05 AM EDT Reads: 218 |
Berlin, Germany, October 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Pocketweb as award winning agency for app development and Rodata Group as specialist for logistics processes, mobile computing, Auto-ID and RFID announced a strategic partnership for integrated app/device solutions.
The partnership aims ... Oct. 14, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 418 |
When it comes to monitoring various applications, it is critical to define the key metrics to monitor, in order to get the precise picture of how your application is performing. That sounds easy enough, but the “simple” idea of defining key metrics is hard to implement in reality, beca... Oct. 12, 2012 11:24 AM EDT Reads: 277 |
 I’ve been to a few trade shows over the years and have noticed a change in the badges we wear at these events. These wear-for-a-week necklaces offer our name, company, job title and our affiliation to the specific conference – speaker, exhibitor and so forth. Some are high-tech also....Oct. 12, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 935 |
GridGain 4.3 incorporates many optimizations that significantly improve GridGain’s performance and memory footprint based directly on feedback from our largest deployments and is 100% backwards compatible with prior 4.x versions. The new features and performance… Oct. 11, 2012 07:21 PM EDT Reads: 268 |
Consilience International LLC is the developer of the Ideate framework.. Ideate is the first application development platform based on Web-style (REST) architecture. Consilience is developing exciting Artificial Intelligence software. Read more here in our introductory article. The lig... Oct. 11, 2012 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 475 |
On multiple occasions I was blogging about these legions of enterprise Java developers trained to use certain frameworks without understanding how things work under the hood. This morning I had chance to see it one more time after interviewing three job applicants in a row. Our consult... Oct. 11, 2012 02:03 PM EDT Reads: 721 |
 Escalators are an interesting first world phenomenon. While not strictly necessary anywhere, and taking more horizontal space than an elevator, they still turn up all over in most first-world countries. The key to their popularity is, no doubt, the fact that they move traffic much more...Oct. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,398 |
 The web has gone from integration via hypertext to integration via hyperdata.
A friend shared a recent C|Net article discussing the use of 404 error pages to feature missing children notices. Following links leads to a European effort to integrate information about missing children i...Oct. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,277 |
By RyanKamauff Here’s today’s top tech news and stories. MarkLogic announced on Monday the availability of version 6 of their database - the NoSQL database now includes support for Java, JSON, and REST. “MarkLogic 6 also adds new analytics capabilities, business intel... Oct. 10, 2012 01:10 PM EDT Reads: 546 |
It’s been a week since we hosted AppJam Americas, our first North American user conference in San Francisco. With myself as master of ceremonies, and a minor wardrobe malfunction at the start (see video at the end of this post), the entire day was a huge success for us and our customer... Oct. 9, 2012 11:03 AM EDT Reads: 844 |
It’s pretty amazing working a booth at one of the world’s largest Java conferences as an application monitoring vendor. You get to hear hundreds of opinions on managing java performance, along with stories from users of competing products and their mixed experiences. What was cle... Oct. 8, 2012 06:28 PM EDT Reads: 147 |
In my previous post, I discussed the example program that I wrote to exercise the things I've described so far. Today I'll discuss what the DSL will actually look like - as with most programming tasks, designing your DSL before implementation is almost always advised.
There are a coup... Oct. 6, 2012 04:05 PM EDT Reads: 212 |
 Not that I need to tell you, but there are several things in your network that you could have better control of. Whether it is consistent application of security policy or consistent configuration of servers, or even the setup of network devices, they’re in there, being non-standard.
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 Although self-service -together with elasticity, pooling/sharing, etc. - is a defining attribute of cloud computing, many of the companies expressing an interest in cloud computing do not seem to be aware of that.
In fact, when asked: who do you expect to provision your services to th...Oct. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,490 |
After spending three days at JavaOne I’m happy to report that Java remains the most stable and reliable platform.There are some new additions to the language and the JVM that will make Java more complicated. I’m talking about Nashorn, Jigsaw, Lambda, and Modular Java. IR... Oct. 4, 2012 06:09 PM EDT Reads: 931 |
 A coworker and I put a couple pieces of open source software (OSSEC and Snort) together to respond to certain types of automated attacks we were seeing in our IDS (we use Snort in this case). Prior to this, an engineer would manually respond to alerts by logging into our firewall and b...Oct. 4, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,586 |
 Emergence is good, but…
…it takes time, and
…under some circumstances it may not happen!
If you have been there … done that … then you don’t have to wait for your application architecture to emerge over several iterations. You can use your past experience to nail it down at the begi...Oct. 4, 2012 05:08 AM EDT Reads: 299 |
ASSET 8, CONNECT 8 and OPTIMA 7 are Supported and are Ready to Run on Oracle Exadata Database MachineLeatherhead, UK - 4th October 2012 - AIRCOM International today announced that ASSET, CONNECT and OPTIMA have achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). T... Oct. 4, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 544 |
Austin, TX, October 04, 2012 --(PR.com)-- LightPointe, the number one manufacturer of point-to-point Gigabit capacity FSO wireless bridges, and Pulse Supply, a Value Added Distributor, are exhibiting the latest generation of optical wireless bridges at the ITEXPO show in Austin, Texas... Oct. 4, 2012 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 333 |
My very first programming language was BASIC. But the first time I ever thought I could do this for a living was when I discovered LOGO. While the language itself didn't interest me in particular, I was fascinated by Turtle Graphics.
If you're unfamiliar with Turtle Graphics, it's a ... Oct. 3, 2012 03:22 PM EDT Reads: 206 |
 Why active-active is not best practice in the data center, and shouldn't be in the cloud either.
Last time we dove into a "Load Balancing 101" discussion we looked at the difference between architected for scale and architected for fail. The question that usually pops up after such ...Oct. 3, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,765 |
 Making the most of your virtualized environment means monitoring performance and making changes to optimize performance. The fact is that there are a number of things that can hamper performance in a virtualized environment, and if you’re not looking at all of them you can find yoursel...Oct. 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,290 |
 You may think that the worldwide economic downturn has negatively impacted most CIO's budgets, but so far that hasn't been the case. According to the latest market study by IDC, worldwide IT spending remains on course to grow by 6 percent this year in constant currency, that's only sli...Oct. 3, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,080 |
 Recently, I’ve been working closely with a number of large enterprise clients who have already gone or will soon go live with Layer 7 solutions at the core of mission-critical infrastructure. I’ve observed that, in the API Management space, proof of concept and initial projects often f...Oct. 2, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 797 |
Disclaimer. This blog is not an attempt to list all news and announcements that made at JavaOne 2012 – you can find plenty of transcripts online. It’s a very subjective (a.k.a. not objective) and opinionated representation of what I feel being here today. The morning after ... Oct. 2, 2012 01:59 PM EDT Reads: 634 |
San Francisco, Calif - October 2, 2012 - CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). By attaining Gold Level membership, Oracle has recog... Oct. 2, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 773 |
By BobGourley The press release below caught my eye since it highlights a use case where real time access to terabytes of data is providing mission critical support to a commercial firm. Similar use cases exist in many other enterprises including the federal government. The solution us... Oct. 2, 2012 09:21 AM EDT Reads: 367 |
