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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 Thanks to the great guys who help our customers with their application performance problems we can share some of their stories in this article. We hope you – responsible for application performance in your own organization – can leverage these findings in order to prevent these common ...Oct. 17, 2012 11:51 AM EDT Reads: 309 |
 Only a fraction of organizations will migrate to Agile methods completely and for all projects. The reality is, many types of projects are not well suited for Agile approaches for a variety of reasons. Some organizations run multiple projects across many departments and corporate entit...Oct. 17, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 569 |
 OSGi reduces complexity by providing a modular architecture for today's large-scale distributed systems as well as small, embedded applications. Building systems from in-house and off-the-shelf modules significantly reduces complexity and thus development and maintenance expenses. The ...Oct. 16, 2012 09:17 AM EDT Reads: 158 |
 If you are an IT manager, application owner, architect or developer in a corporation leveraging a mainframe, then today is a revolutionary day: Application Performance Management is now available end-to-end for the mainframe. Read about how this will drastically change the way we manag...Oct. 15, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,159 |
 What was that thing before the enterprise-level social network called? It was meetings, personal calls from salespeople or perhaps even the Christmas and summer party right? These “were” the various means that we used to talk with each other and our customers before we were connected o...Oct. 13, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,034 |
 How does the approach to performance / load testing extranet mobile applications change from testing other RIAs? In some ways, not much. Yes, the user activity for every mobile application will be unique, but the same goes for every web application. Different technology stacks, differe...Oct. 12, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 647 |
 BancVue creates the services that empower its customers to beat the giants in their field by better leveraging agile IT.
The first thing we wanted to do was to abstract the applications and the operating system from the hardware so that a hardware failure wouldn’t bring down our syste...Oct. 12, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 987 |
 Fundamentally, the client has no way of knowing anything at all about what’s really going on behind the scenes. The resource might be a file, a script, a container, an object, or some complicated combination of these and other kinds of things. There are two important lessons for the te...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,145 |
 A one-size-fits-all approach to network optimization and applications performance is no longer adequate.
New realities of delivering applications and content in the cloud and mobile era demand a more situational capability among and between enterprises, clouds, and the many popular en...Oct. 11, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 803 |
 Rapid and proactive containment of problems and breaches -- in addition to just trying to keep the bad guys out of your systems -- makes sense in today's environment.
A lot has changed in the past five years. Two key economic trends have really accelerated our security changes. First...Oct. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 794 |
 Cloud computing has changed the way we work. People and businesses can now access services, applications and infrastructure over the Internet, with lower costs, higher productivity and an enhanced user experience.
While cloud computing has revolutionized many aspects of business, its ...Oct. 5, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,609 |
 Don’t you just love spending millions of dollars to license a commercial ERP package? And then I bet you feel warm and fuzzy about hiring a bus-load of expensive consultants to come and tell you how to run your own business, following so-called ‘best practices’ built into an inflexible...Oct. 4, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,209 |
 It used to be so easy. The company needed more IT infrastructure, so you bought more components, built more technology, and scrambled to keep it all well oiled. Then along came the cloud and the world shifted under your feet – or perhaps more accurately, over your head. Suddenly they w...Oct. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
 What if the approach to infrastructure was one of a green fields approach or seamless migration to a pretested, pre-validated, pre-integrated, prebuilt and preconfigured product, i.e., a true Converged Infrastructure? What impact could that possibly have on the success of Visible Ops a...Sep. 30, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,178 |
 Healthcare services provider McKesson has transformed the notion of IT by recasting the role of IT. How pharmaceuticals distributor and healthcare information technology services provider McKesson has transformed the very notion of IT. We will see how a shift in culture and an emphasis...Sep. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,432 |
 Any on-premise or Private Cloud-based app that is subject to spikes in demand that existing infrastructure can’t handle should be able to benefit, so the argument goes. Unfortunately, however, Cloudbursting has a number of problems, making it challenging for even the most suitable scen...Sep. 30, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,288 |
 Consolidating data in an organized and highly accessible yet secure fashion is one concept many organizations are finding is helping increase productivity throughout the company. Unified storage, which is also referred to network unified storage (NUS), is a concept that the principles ...Sep. 29, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,112 |
 More than ever before, we are seeing cloud-based software and storage slowly becoming the benchmark. It simply cannot be ignored any longer; the concept is here to stay. Companies and certain growing industries that want to expand while also staying safe are turning to the cloud for co...Sep. 29, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,777 |
 The purpose of this article is to describe the steps involved in configuring Datapower services for the browser-based HTTP type requests. The commonly used methods for such requests are either the POST or GET HTTP method.
1. For the testing purpose create a loopback pass-through XML F...Sep. 29, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,019 |
 One does not typically draw associations between manufacturing, wilderness hikes, the theory of constraints, and the management of information technology solutions. In this discussion we take a look at how applying some of the long-held techniques for optimizing manufacturing processe...Sep. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,263 |
 Using technology to break down corporate silos within IT is not a new concept, but seeing it in action is a testament to the power technology has to transform business. One area of IT that is currently undergoing such a transformation is network security operations. Over the past few y...Sep. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,257 |
 The server monitoring process is a constant control after a server’s operation in order to detect all the failures in time, and to create charts of the servers’ loading level to configure the optimal device’s working scheme.
If a datacenter supports cloud computing, server monitoring ...Sep. 27, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,291 |
 Enterprise Framework service in Datapower environment is a service implementation to minimize the exposure of ports and their configuration on firewall.
All services running inside the Datapower need to be installed on the appliance IP address and on the port. As the number of servic...Sep. 26, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,393 |
 The end result of this ongoing specialization trend is that selecting the right product won’t get much easier. It used to be that when you needed a software product, you could consider the big suites or the smaller specialists, rank them according to quality and price, and make your se...Sep. 26, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,836 |
 Now that the World Wide Web has taken over bricks-and-mortar shops as the primary medium through which to sell a product or service, there's never been a better opportunity for anyone, regardless of financial or business background, to set up their own e-commerce store.
While bank loa...Sep. 23, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,519 |
 It’s become increasingly clear that Big Data, and the tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing it, are transforming the business landscape. McKinsey released a report in 2011 that projects 40 percent growth in global data generated per year. This is all well and good, but more...Sep. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,174 |
 Business Process Management solutions enable business people to quickly and easily capture their business goals as models that can be instantly turned into intelligent, automated processes. No or minimal software development, and no wait for IT resources.
The Business Process Manageme...Sep. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,914 |
 Being 'green' has never meant so much to businesses, no matter what their industry. On one hand there are benefits to be reaped from the practicalities of going green - reducing overheads, waste, and other respective day-to-day savings. On the other hand is the notion of corporate soci...Sep. 19, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,121 |
 Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) represents a complete preintegrated platform offering for the development and operation of general purpose business applications. A fully preintegrated and standardized platform - offered in a multitenant mode as a managed service - means much less manual e...Sep. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,736 |
 Driven by large-scale government initiatives as well as private investment, cloud computing has become a hot growth area in China. Named a ‘Strategic Emerging Industry’ in the government’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011 – 2015), cloud computing is slated to become a primary force in the Chi...Sep. 17, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,821 |
 Load and performance testing web applications will allow you to determine whether or not your deployment will require a clustered environment. When the test results show that the current throughput is restricted by the capacity of the server but target workloads are not yet met, this i...Sep. 17, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
 In the recent release of '2012 Hype Cycle Of Emerging Technologies,' research analyst Gartner evaluated several technologies to come up with a list of technologies that will dominate the future . "Big Data" related technologies form a significant portion of the list, in particular the ...Sep. 13, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,787 |
 Let’s start with some acronym disambiguation.
The term CMS can be used to denote Content Management Systems, Content Management Services, Change Management Systems or Configuration Management Systems in IT alone. Let alone the Calcutta Mathematical Society (it does exist, we checked)...Sep. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,291 |
 Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings, based in Tel Aviv, both satisfied current requirements and built a better long-term enterprise architecture, illustrating the multiplier effect of value and capabilities from IT transformation efforts.
One of the things that’s interesting to me is...Sep. 12, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,397 |
 The book is very complete and in-depth, with nearly 275 pages of well researched analysis on data virtualization’s history, present and future. It is targeted at a wide range of readers including BI and information management specialists, data architects, database administrators, appli...Sep. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 942 |
 The good news about the Big Data market is that we generally all agree on the definition of Big Data, which has come to be known as data that has volume, velocity and variety where businesses need to collect, store, manage and analyze in order to derive business value or otherwise know...Sep. 10, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,094 Replies: 3 |
 As cloud computing technologies and offerings mature and evolve in its services to customers, one common consumer use will be that of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
My earlier articles have touched on the various models, risks, security and forensics at several levels. There ...Sep. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,850 |
 The core realization behind Cloud-Oriented Architecture (COA) is that everything is potentially part of the Cloud. There’s nothing in the NIST definition of Cloud Computing that requires Cloud resources to live in data centers, after all. We don’t mean to say that mobile devices are in...Sep. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,710 |
 Thinking cloud is thinking application-centric. Organizations utilize public cloud offerings because they want to focus on their revenue-generating applications rather than managing infrastructure. And from there we already can draw the significance of Application Performance Managemen...Sep. 7, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,889 |
 The Agile Manifesto places customer collaboration over contract negotiation with a keen focus on a highly skilled, motivated team in constant interaction with the product and the customer at every phase of the project. As a result of this collaborative, customer-centric view, Agile req...Sep. 6, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,387 |
