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Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5. HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years. The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today. In this weekly update on HTML5 we report ... Apr. 3, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 116 |
Gunnar Peterson and Ken van Wyk are running a Mobile Application Security Triathlon in NYC for three days (hence "Triathlon") starting on 29 April. Apr. 2, 2013 06:47 PM EDT Reads: 103 |
 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is proving itself to be a major player in the virtualization marketplace. With each new release, the technology offers more robust features, greater control, increased flexibility and more. One of the key factors in how well Red Hat Enterprise V...Apr. 2, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 717 |
 Last week, there have been few important feature releases from Amazon. Apache CloudStack proudly announces its graduation to Top Level Project. There were also some new releases from StackMob, Scalr and Appcelerator.
Here’s a quick sum up of Cloud happenings over the last week.
To...Apr. 2, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,260 |
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DHS CIO Spires put ‘on leave’ – “FedScoop has learned that Department of Homeland Security’s Chief Information Officer Richard Spires has been put on immediate ‘on leave’ status with no further ... Apr. 1, 2013 10:34 AM EDT Reads: 472 |
By Ryan Kamauff “The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) offers Secure Technology Application eXecution (STAX), a new DISA Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud computing solution, to the Department of Defense (DoD). STAX provides quick and secure development, testi... Apr. 1, 2013 08:41 AM EDT Reads: 306 |
At Kaazing, we have been experimenting with using a smartphone as a remote control for quite some time now. Those familiar with our demos may have seen our Zing-Pong demo (which is a “Pong”-style game using smartphones to control the … Continue reading → Apr. 1, 2013 03:31 AM EDT Reads: 702 |
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Appeon Corporation releases Appeon Mobile Beta #3
Appeon Mobile Bet Mar. 31, 2013 12:49 PM EDT Reads: 288 |
 One of the primary reasons node.js is currently ascending in the data center is because of its core model: event-driven, non-blocking processing.
Historically, developers write applications based on connections and requests. It's blocking; it's not asynchronous; it's not fire and forg...Mar. 29, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 799 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the second (looking at S3) in a three part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part I ...Mar. 28, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,568 |
By Bob Gourley We have previously written about Recorded Future, a fast moving startup delivering predictive signals from the noise of the web. Recorded Future provides a blog that captures several exemplars of their capability and its applicability in many mission areas. One mission a... Mar. 27, 2013 02:16 PM EDT Reads: 673 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the first (looking at EBS) in a three part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part II...Mar. 27, 2013 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,422 |
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Four simple steps to protect the US from hackers – Gartner is forecasting an additional 8% cyber spend by firms in 2013, already. As well, the barrier to entry for hacking has been lowered (as Matt and I discusse... Mar. 27, 2013 10:57 AM EDT Reads: 537 |
 It's interesting - and almost amusing - to watch the circle of technology run around best practices with respect to performance over time. Back in the day caching was the ultimate means by which web application performance was improved and there was no lack of solutions and techniques ...Mar. 27, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 853 |
 It's the "do not disturb" sign on the hotel door....
I admit it. I'm guilty of using self-referential definitions when discussing the topic of programmable networks. Somehow, while trying to define what a programmable network is, I end up using the term "programmable".
Because that s...Mar. 26, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 893 |
 A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud.
When AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to conduct an internal survey of thei...Mar. 26, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,618 |
Colorado Springs, CO, March 26, 2013 --(PR.com)-- XTIVIA, Inc., a Liferay Platinum Partner and the 2012 Liferay North America Partner of the Year, is a proud Silver Sponsor of the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013, Booth 411, taking place in San Diego, CA on Apr... Mar. 26, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 319 |
In recent years, the emergence of massive-scale internet companies in entertainment, ecommerce and search has led to new approaches to operations and application management. Technology innovations are leading the way to the future of application performance management, one that represe... Mar. 22, 2013 06:55 PM EDT Reads: 375 |
 MaaS (Model as a Service) sets a new concept to order and classify data modeling design and deployment to the Cloud. MaaS changes the way to move data to the Cloud because allows to define data taxonomy, size and contents. Starting from data model design, MaaS might guide the DaaS (Dat...Mar. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,297 |
 It sure seems like 0-Days are now an every day occurrence. Headlines containing, ‘breach,’ ‘attack,’ ‘hack,’ ‘vulnerability,’ ‘passwords,’ ‘compromised,’ and ‘you’ are commonplace in the media these days. Typically a 0-day is described as a threat or an attack on a (previously) unkn...Mar. 21, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,145 |
 It's been a while since I posted here, but it's not because I'm not working on NetWeaver IDM or writing. I've been doing a lot of the former and a bit of the latter. In order to help promote the growth of a NW IDM technical knowledge base, I've been posting most of my IDM specific th...Mar. 20, 2013 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 820 |
When you are hiring a third party web developer you need to consider several things so I’ve attempted to prioritize the things you will want to ask in this list. These are in no particular order of importance. The answers … Continue reading →The post Top Web Application Sec... Mar. 19, 2013 06:21 PM EDT Reads: 1,059 |
 How do you eat an elephant? Simple – cut it into small pieces at eat one piece at a time.
BUT…
…is it really that simple?
When you have a large software project it is too simplistic to assume that all you need to do is to decompose the problem to individual manageable chunk which ca...Mar. 19, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 743 |
 Red Hat continues to press into the cloud computing marketplace with each new service offering. OpenShift Online, for example, is Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution. For more than a year and a half, OpenShift has served literally thousands of applications running on a vari...Mar. 19, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,201 |
 Amazon continues to add more features to make AWS more appealing to enterprises and developers. Also, Rackspace has announced the launch of Rackspace Cloud Backup and introduced new features on Rackspace Open Cloud Servers.
Here’s a quick summary of cloud happenings over the last week...Mar. 19, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,475 |
It’s been about 12 years since I last scripted in PHP. I pretty much paid my way through college building PHP websites for small companies that wanted a web presence. Back then PHP was the perfect choice, because nearly all the internet service providers had PHP support for free if you... Mar. 18, 2013 12:01 PM EDT Reads: 277 |
ISVs and channels told: "disrupt or be disrupted" and "don't exploit client relationships" [London, 15 March 2013] ISVs and their partners face a unique set of pressures, IT Europa's European ISV Convention heard this week in London. It is clear that new routes to market are providing ... Mar. 16, 2013 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 934 |
 According to a Wall Street Journal article today by Rachael King and Steven Rosenbush, the market for new databases serving Big Data reached $1.22B last year and is expected to more than double by 2014 (according to research firm Wikibon). That is quite impressive.
Since relational da...Mar. 15, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,240 |
 Seagate has announced that it reached a milestone of having shipped 2 billion hard disk drives (HDDs), something that is round stores data that keeps growing. As part of their announcement, Seagate has a good info graphics and facts page here going back to 1979 when it was founded as S...Mar. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,329 |
Over the past several weeks I’ve been working on some content I’m excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android developer’s perspective. Through the course of the series you... Mar. 14, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 508 |
by Joseph B. Rickert It is difficult to imagine that there is anyone on the planet with an internet connection and a desire to learn something new who has not at least looked into taking a massive open online course (MOOC). Last Fall, in an 11/4/12 article, the New York Time declared t... Mar. 14, 2013 12:34 PM EDT Reads: 366 |
 I came across an article discussing NoSQL and partition tolerance - The NoSQL Partition Tolerance Myth. I may not entirely agree with the author.
But what most NoSQL systems offer is a peculiar behavior that is not partition tolerant, but partition oblivious instead.
No argument here...Mar. 14, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,456 |
 An LTE-enabled Cadillac? Driving (and parking) will never be the same again…
I explain what’s new from behind the wheel of GM’s new connected car at Mobile World Congress.
Actually, the only thing 4G won’t accelerate is the driving speed of the LTE-enabled Cadillac, which will hit th...Mar. 14, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 870 |
 It is interesting, talking with people about what they read, and seeing how what they read is reflected in their daily lives. Even the occasional reader of this blog would not be surprised to find that I spend some amount of time with my nose buried in epic fantasy books and military h...Mar. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,530 |
 Consolidating data centers has always made sense. Having the data securely tucked away into well-managed data centers has got to improve performance and even cyber security. It will also require fewer of those really smart, well-trained (expensive) system administrators to keep things...Mar. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 818 |
 I’ve been working with a number of companies lately on their API strategies. People seem to recognize that having an API is modern day necessity, but they’re not sure how to get started. Since APIs are viewed as a technical innovations, responsibility for rolling them out is frequent...Mar. 12, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,234 |
 The cloud world seems to have been received some interesting announcements and offerings over the last week. There were some new feature releases and price offerings from Amazon.
Microsoft has announced some important updates to Windows Azure Mobile Services. Plus, Cloud Foundry has...Mar. 11, 2013 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
 In my 20 years in the technology industry, I've found that there are three types of product/service strategy discussions that companies (vendors) have:
"Our new product/tool will change the world." - Occasionally this happens, but more often that not it's just a feature that could...Mar. 11, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 917 |
 "The unexamined life is not worth living," said Plato. There's no doubt he was on to something. The observation, from Plato's Apology, is a recollection of the speech Socrates gave at his trial...and for all that Socrates may have lived a little before Tim Berners-Lee and knew nothing ...Mar. 11, 2013 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,905 Replies: 1 |
