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 This is an industry trends and perspective piece about big data and little data, industry adoption and customer deployment.
If you are in any way associated with information technology (IT), business, scientific, media and entertainment computing or related areas, you may have heard b...Oct. 28, 2012 02:34 PM EDT Reads: 491 |
By BobGourley Terracotta Inc is widely known for their in-memory solutions enabling enterprise applications to scale, rapidly, including an ability to make dramatic improvements to application speed. They are also known for their support to the community through low cost licenses, supp... Oct. 27, 2012 07:34 PM EDT Reads: 300 |
 As mentioned in Part I of this series, cloud technology has introduced a viable alternative to the practice of creating secondary sites for disaster recovery (DR), promising to save IT organizations hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in infrastructure and maintenance. Wh...Oct. 27, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,317 |
 On Monday, Amazon Web Services — the leading provider of cloud services — suffered an outage, and as a result, a long list of well-known and popular websites went dark. According to Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, the outage started out as degraded performance of a...Oct. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,598 |
 In the second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2011-2016), Cisco forecasts global data center traffic to grow fourfold and reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016. The company also predicts global cloud traffic, the fastest-growing component of data center traffic, to grow six...Oct. 26, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,351 |
 It’s interesting as a parent watching your kids grow up and learn how to do things for themselves. I have 2 boys ages 6 and 7 and they often amaze me and confound me. There are times when I think they are absolutely brilliant and other times where I think that significant amounts of re...Oct. 26, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 762 |
INTRODUCTION There are a variety of ways to implement proxying capabilities for web servers. As Apache is the most popular web server, we will try to implement proxying on it. Everyone who knows Apache well, probably knows that Apache implements proxying capability for AJP13 , FTP, CON... Oct. 25, 2012 08:55 AM EDT Reads: 240 |
 Today’s data center infrastructure has to be more agile than ever before. It needs to increase efficiency while increasing agility, and providing more and more services.
Having an agile infrastructure lets you change how IT operates. It lets you adapt to growth – even unexpected growt...Oct. 24, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 832 |
By RyanKamauff Here are the top tech news and stories for the day. Amazon had a big outage in North Virginia on the 22nd - This outage affected Reddit, Pinterest, Airbnb, Foursquare, Minecraft and more. As we rely more on the cloud to deliver services, then we will have to find ways ar... Oct. 23, 2012 03:38 PM EDT Reads: 780 |
 Open Data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at the most, to the requirement for attributes and sharealikes (Open Software Service Definition – OSSD). As a consequence, Open Data should create value and might have a positive impact in ma...Oct. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,288 |
Patented Innovations in LANDesk Management Suite and Security Suite enable IT to Maximise User Productivity while Reducing Cost, Complexity and RiskLONDON - Oct 23, 2012 - LANDesk Software, a global leader in integrated systems and asset management, endpoint security, end-to-end mobili... Oct. 23, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 404 |
 A new report from analyst firm Gartner forecasts that IT organizations will spend $232 billion (US) on hardware, software and services related to Big Data through 2016. Some key findings from the report: $5.5 billion in new software sales will be driven directly by demands for new big ...Oct. 23, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,295 |
 Military science has a simple mechanism utilized at almost every level of both tactical and strategic thinking: Pin the enemy down with a distraction (a feint or an actual attack, either way), and then hit them where they’re not looking. This maxim has worked very well from squad level...Oct. 23, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 979 |
By BobGourley Maven is a widely used project management tool. It is an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation which maintains a comprehensive project page at maven.apache.org Thetus is a company providing advanced analytical capabilities including model enabled analysis... Oct. 23, 2012 06:11 AM EDT Reads: 435 |
 Nearly everyone has played musical chairs – as a child if not as an adult with a child. When that music stops there's a desperate scrambling to pair up with a chair lest you end up sitting on the sidelines watching the game while others continue to play until finally, one stands alone....Oct. 20, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,087 |
By RyanKamauff BigMemory Go is Terracotta’s free version of the BigMemory Max application that allows in-memory database up to 32GB on your application server. BigMemory Max can run across multiple servers to scale as large as you need. to BigMemory Go leverages the existing indu... Oct. 19, 2012 06:23 PM EDT Reads: 352 |
 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. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,417 |
 Gartner offered a list of 10 key trends in infrastructure that will affect IT and data centers over the next several years. While some of those trends might seem a little far-fetched, there are several that catch the eye.
Here are some of the top trends Gartner sees in the coming year...Oct. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,585 |
 Whether bees or Martians, science or science-fiction, the notion of a hive mind is one that pops up frequently within the realm of psychology, philosophy, theology, science and, last but not least, technology. A hive mind is one that has a collective memory, sharing information from th...Oct. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,325 |
 BYOD or Bring Your Own Device has moved from trend to an permanent fixture in today’s corporate IT infrastructure. It is not strictly an IT issue however. Many groups within an organization need to be involved as they grapple with the risk of mixing personal devices with sensitive info...Oct. 19, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 953 |
It was hard to imagine this book getter any better than it already was. I guess that was because I never expected so many changes. This is the most I have ever seen a new edition of a book change. If you own the second edition, you will definitely want this new one. It is almost like a... Oct. 18, 2012 05:05 PM EDT Reads: 424 |
If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase “We used to throw hardware at performance issues”–well, I wouldn’t be writing this blog; I’d be sitting on a beach somewhere in Hawaii, retired with millions in the bank and suffering from an addiction to... Oct. 18, 2012 01:35 PM EDT Reads: 412 |
Apple has a way of aggressively simplifying life for its users. This time, it’s vastly cutting down on their Java habit. After a string of security vulnerabilities in Oracle’s ubiquitous program, Apple’s latest Java update released on Tuesday strips the program out of users’ browsers o... Oct. 18, 2012 01:08 PM EDT Reads: 214 |
 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: 1,196 |
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: 365 |
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: 333 |
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: 466 |
 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: 1,554 |
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 Reads: 555 |
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: 422 |
 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: 2,929 |
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: 628 |
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: 223 |
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: 316 |
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: 555 |
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: 354 |
 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: 1,238 |
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: 309 |
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: 574 |
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: 936 |
