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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 BMC Software this week launched MyIT, an enterprise IT help desk solution that empowers employees to take more personal control over their IT services and to get the right type of help they need -- anytime, anywhere, from any device.
Frustration with company IT departments is a widely...Nov. 4, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 1,290 |
 Cloud computing continues to hold a great deal of promise for a variety of business and personal implementations. A lot of buzz has been generated this year with regards to the potential of cloud-based applications and web services as well as a few recent developments that highlight th...Oct. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,263 |
 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. 20, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,322 |
 Automattic, the hosting company for WordPress.com servers, knows the future is now. They have 123 people that operate like self-employed workers, taking advantage of cloud and mobile apps to communicate across 26 countries and 94 cities. Everyone works from home. Here are six trends dr...Oct. 18, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,902 |
 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: 1,882 |
 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: 1,440 |
 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: 1,363 |
 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: 1,582 |
 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: 1,663 |
 Because of the efforts of people like Steve Souders, John Resig, Sergey Chernyshev, Paul Irish, ... a lot has changed when it comes to optimizing web site performance. Browser and Application Performance Vendors built tools to make Web Performance Optimization easier than ever before. ...Sep. 15, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,900 |
 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: 3,078 |
 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: 1,097 |
 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: 7,855 Replies: 3 |
 Let’s start with the basic question: What is the disruptor? The disruptor is a concurrency framework for Java that allows data sharing between threads. The age old way of coding a producer-consumer model is to use a queue as the buffer area between the producer and the consumer, where ...Sep. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,918 |
 Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns. For example, in 2006, Joseph Bih introduced SOA in a research article as an in...Sep. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,650 |
 NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management...Sep. 2, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,491 |
 Undoubtedly one of the key reasons for so many innovations happening in the information technology space is consumerization. While some feel that consumerization has reached the tipping point, consumers (and businesses as well) are still looking for newer avenues to do things more intu...Aug. 27, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,879 |
 We have entered the “Age of Big Data” according to a recent New York Times article. This comes as no surprise to most organizations already struggling with the onslaught of data coming from an increasing number of sources and at an increasing rate. The 2011 IDC Digital Universe Study r...Aug. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,322 |
 Java architect certification training lab is an interactive learning and assessment material for OCMJEA (formerly SCEA) certification, developed and published by EPractize Labs. The exam kit provides enough study notes and practice questions with brief explanations for the certificatio...Aug. 11, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,837 |
 Today’s information technology era is driven by software providers of all shapes and sizes. On the one hand we have big or very big providers who have established themselves through very sophisticated business models and ecosystem channels they have invested in for a long time. Tried a...Aug. 9, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,381 |
 We’ve all been there — it’s Friday night, 11PM and the system you just deployed doesn’t work. There’s a bug. Your manager just hung up. You phone your friends to tell them that you’re not going out tonight. You start thinking: Why didn’t QA catch that. Now management is going to add mo...Jul. 21, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,410 |
 This post describes a prototype implementation of a simple PAAS built on the Hadoop YARN framework and the key findings from the experiment. While there are some advantages to using Hadoop YARN, there is at least one unsolved issue that would be difficult to overcome at this point.
H...Jul. 18, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,640 |
 For many years, companies collected data from various sources that often found its way into relational databases like Oracle and MySQL. However, the rise of the Internet, Web 2.0, and recently social media began an enormous increase in the amount of data created as well as in the type ...Jul. 6, 2012 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,831 |
 The Datapower appliances support the use of the FTP protocols for message transport. The purpose of this article is to present number of common use case scenarios for FTP polling, illustrating correct configurations of the device to support the use case.
The use case scenarios are as ...May. 30, 2012 03:18 PM EDT Reads: 2,681 |
 Everyone in IT knows Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years (sometimes 18 months). Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who first noted the trend in 1965, Moore’s Law...May. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,966 |
 The irony about cloud computing in the higher education environment is that most schools have already been using it to some extent but may not even realize it.
Gmail is one example. Yahoo Mail is another. The fact is web-based applications, which many schools rely on for daily commun...May. 9, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,771 |
 Modularity plays an important role in software architecture. It fills a gap that has existed since we began developing enterprise software systems in Java. This chapter discusses that gap and explores how modularity is an important intermediary technology that fills that gap.
There a...Apr. 26, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,255 |
 Businesses can be transformed, sometimes through new leadership, sometimes through new market realities or business relationships. But perhaps the easiest way, for IT at least, to transform the business is by enabling the business to evolve from a data silo’d organization to a data-cen...Apr. 16, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,065 |
 Cloud computing has found its way into many organizations as business leaders and IT departments look to capitalize on the many benefits that cloud offers. As your company considers moving all or part of its IT operation to the cloud, a key decision is whether to rely on public cloud, ...Apr. 5, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,866 |
 The open source landscape has evolved into a complex maze of licenses and business models. To make matters more confusing, any simple meaning of the phrase “open source” has become lost amid a sea of ambiguous and arcane terminology. As a result, many software developers fail to recogn...Apr. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,533 |
 Tomcat is a widely popular lightweight application server. When securing Tomcat web applications, Valve, JAAS and Filter are used in various scenarios. The challenges for developers are when to use each of these methods and how to integrate them together if more than one method is chos...Aug. 14, 2011 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,755 |
 I recently used the framework by Craftsman Spy and must say it was really exciting. This framework is very useful for JDBC logging.
Craftsman Spy is an open source and free framework for JDBC logging. It is a JDBC driver implementation. You can download it from http://zer0.free.fr/cra...Jun. 25, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,221 |
 Open source developers and communities operate in a similar fashion as venture capitalists and technologists in Silicon Valley. Open source communities share the same merits: participation, collaboration, communication, interaction, and innovation.
The World Is Flat author Thomas Frie...Apr. 6, 2011 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,985 |
 Alois Reitbauer explained in detail how dynaTrace continuously monitors several thousand URLs and uploads the performance data to the public ShowSlow.com instance. More and more of our dynaTrace AJAX Community Members are taking advantage of this integration in their internal testing e...Jan. 7, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 6,021 |
 Architectures such as MapReduce and Hadoop are good for batch processing of big data, but bad for realtime processing.
Big data is creating a massive disruption for the IT industry. Faced with exponentially growing data volumes in every area of business and the web, companies around t...Oct. 15, 2010 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,115 |
 Cloud computing is one of the emerging paradigms in today’s computing world. One of the main advantages of migrating to the cloud is its elastic nature. Elasticity allows dynamic provisioning and de-provisioning of resources according to the application’s workload requirement.
In a t...Sep. 22, 2010 06:26 AM EDT Reads: 11,910 |
 A web server plays an increasingly important role in the computing world as the world has shifted away from traditional stand-alone desktop computing to Internet's Client-Server and its variants based computing paradigm. Almost everything on networks is consumed either by using web ser...Sep. 21, 2010 02:22 PM EDT Reads: 5,443 |
 I just can't help but share more technology forecasts for 2010, as it is January 1, 2010. Dan Grabham and the team from TechRadar put together some quality thoughts and I've included some of those and others below.
First, let's address mobile phones during 2010. "It's the beginning ...Jan. 2, 2010 02:00 PM EST Reads: 7,244 |
 In today’s technology-dependent enterprise environment, the efficiency of most business processes depends directly on the effective performance of the IT infrastructure. Almost every single activity - from servicing a customer to shipping purchased products - is dependent upon one or m...Dec. 13, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 8,968 Replies: 1 |
 This article describes a method to use a perl debugger on trigger scripts without advanced interprocess debugging tools.
Using a perl debugger with a V4.x server side trigger launched by the server is very difficult and encounters two known obstacles:
The server will fire the tri...Aug. 1, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,628 |
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