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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 Concerns are raised every once in a while in the broader free and open source software community about freeloaders. The attitude expressed is that if you're getting the benefit of FOSS, you should contribute. Building a business on a FOSS project you don't own, whether you're providi...Mar. 18, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,249 |
 Two years ago, my team decided to extend our community portal to become “a real”APM Community where members (both commercial and free products) can go to find help and educational content on all topics regarding Application Performance Management (APM). The most critical pieces to that...Mar. 11, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,257 |
 It’s that time again – the New Year has arrived and everyone’s excited to start 2013 on the right foot. We’re ready to tackle the biggest projects, climb the tallest mountains, and make the biggest deals. Now all we need are the right tools to help us get the job done.
To make this ta...Jan. 19, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,664 |
 As the number of web users continues to rapidly increase, there is greater demand for web hosting services. As a result of this the UK market alone is becoming saturated, and the strain on energy resources is a major concern.
Web hosting providers are having to consider options to red...Jan. 15, 2013 07:45 AM EST Reads: 7,203 |
 I've recently been involved in several discussions that are variations on, "Which open source or free software license should I choose for my project?" Here is my way of looking at the large and growing collection of licenses in the wild. First let's make sure we all understand that I ...Jan. 4, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,880 |
 I recently blogged about making open source software, and the high level steps for how to think about the process. We started with the need for software to seed the discussion, the need for clear motivation as to why to publish as open source software, and then the structural requirem...Dec. 28, 2012 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,150 |
 The rise of Big Data and the monolithic systems that are now being built on increasingly cloud-based data models is a reality we cannot ignore.
This reality has popularized discussions relating to the core component mechanics of many firms’ IT stacks.
Key among these technologies i...Dec. 15, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,635 |
 In a tough economic climate everyone is looking for ways to cut costs without sacrificing performance. More and more small and mid-size businesses are realizing the benefits of business management software. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and other business management tools ...Nov. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,465 |
 A new survey about cloud computing explores the business growth opportunities for buyers and consumers of cloud services alike, with surprising findings about confidence and a high degree of ongoing experimentation.
The multi-year annual survey on the cloud market provides a springboa...Nov. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,762 |
 Was there some bias as to what got said on Twitter on the night of the debates?
Twitter needs to be able to handle large volumes and if they can’t, they cannot say that they are providing any accurate public barometer on something as important as a Presidential debate.
On the last ...Oct. 19, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,862 |
 The cloud is a commercial vehicle. This undeniable truth must now be accepted as a deeply entrenched truism by CIOs who are looking to manage the forward-looking growth of their technology architectures.
We can actually refine this statement further. The cloud is a commercial vehicle ...Sep. 24, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,906 |
 “To manage a private cloud infrastructure, we have focused our efforts on the challenges that face our customers when deploying a private cloud for their collaboration environment.”
How did you come to the private cloud approach?
Bystran: As you may know, we have had over 600 custome...Sep. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,275 |
 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: 2,776 |
 Change management is important for any Technology initiative and since many Cloud services focus on rapid deployments, this area is sometimes forgotten. The move to Cloud has not only technology implications but also business implications. Business processes and operations can be encap...Sep. 6, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,367 |
 Where will the cloud computing model of service-based virtualized computing resources for data storage and processing grow next? This is arguably the biggest question facing technology analysts today – and if we knew the answer we could all probably sleep a little more soundly.
Before...Sep. 4, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,215 |
 Exploring the uncharted territory of user behavior data in web "walled-gardens."
The uncharted territory of user behavior data based on what users do in such web walled gardens as Facebook was the focus of a "tweet jam" last week organized by The Open Group.
Some of the many notable ...Jul. 20, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,463 |
 On Saturday, April 28, the FCC released the full un-redacted report on Google’s Street View project. The report is only 25 pages long and can be found at the bottom of this post. I find the following tidbits particularly interesting: “ …Engineer Doe developed Wi-Fi d...May. 5, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,912 |
 Many organizations are starting to look at cloud computing as a universal solution, but there are many applications that cannot be considered unless the framework of cloud computing includes Timing as a Service (TaaS) as part of its fabric. Mission-critical applications require securit...Apr. 13, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,193 |
 Anybody who is considering a move to the Cloud knows that the greatest economic motivation for Cloud Computing is the pay-as-you-go, pay-for-what-you-need utility computing benefit, right? Deal with spikes in demand much more cost-effectively, the public Cloud service providers gush, s...Apr. 5, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,777 |
 Digital/web agencies have had a lot of evolution to contend with over the past decade. From the rise and fall of MySpace to the increasing popularity of Facebook, to tiny flash drives and 1TB portable hard drives... technology is evolving faster than firms could ever imagine.
That's w...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,740 |
 First came Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" and now we have the "#Jan25 Uprising" - the world's first revolution named for a Twitter hash tag. Calling it the "Twitter Revolution" misses the beauty of the hash tag itself, and besides what would one then call the upcoming social unrest in ...Jan. 31, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 10,697 |
 On the day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 12,000 for the first time since June 2008, it was impossible not to correlate the eloquence and optimism of President Obama's "State of the Union" speech on Tuesday night with the restoration of a sense of perspective and hope in ...Jan. 28, 2011 08:45 AM EST Reads: 13,093 |
 Cloud Computing has been flexing its muscles over the past week, much to the discomfiture of the American government and numerous other diplomats worldwide.
The ability for Julian Assange and his acolytes to keep the information flowing on the one hand, and to paralyze websites of ...Dec. 11, 2010 06:45 AM EST Reads: 6,942 |
 [This post originally appeared on Joseph Galarneau's blog and is republished here in Cloud Computing Journal by kind permission of the author.] When you visit Newsweek.com, the words you read started their journey milliseconds earlier from an Amazon.com datacenter somewhere in norther...Dec. 7, 2010 07:45 AM EST Reads: 14,936 |
 The signatories of the Open Letter reproduced below hold divergent views about WikiLeaks and its operations. But they are united in a determination to see WikiLeaks' Julian Assange treated fairly. It was published Tuesday and is addressed to the Prime Minister of Australia, the country...Dec. 7, 2010 03:10 AM EST Reads: 9,165 |
 WikiLeaks has lost its PayPal account.
The eBay unit stopped handling contributions to the renegade site late Friday
night citing unacceptable use.
Meanwhile, Sweden has issued a new arrest warrant for WikiLeaks leader
Julian Assange on allegations of rape, sexual assault and u...Dec. 4, 2010 01:20 PM EST Reads: 8,626 |
 Open source software is perfectly positioned to facilitate the massive overhaul that will be necessary to open up government data to the public. As consumers, this technology is already changing the way in which we go about our day-to-day lives. It powers maps on our phones and provide...Aug. 9, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,786 |
 I am glad that I switched over to Chrome. Otherwise it would have taken me lot more effort to go through the site created by Marcin Wichary and modified by Ernest Delgado.
If you want to get a feel of what is possible with HTML5 this is a good place to look at. Here is the link. (Yo...Apr. 26, 2010 02:05 AM EDT Reads: 5,823 |
 It is often said that becoming an entrepreneur is the modern-day equivalent of choosing to be a pioneer on the old frontier. Only people with certain strength of fiber decide to found companies. They tend to be forward thinkers by nature, natural born pathfinders.
But in age that lo...Apr. 25, 2010 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,282 |
 Cloud computing is a big economic, green and scalable gift to organizations around the globe. The New Year offers a great opportunity to re-think your IT strategy and see how the cloud can benefit your organization.
The day when IT leaders no longer have to worry about expensive int...Feb. 20, 2010 04:30 PM EST Reads: 8,587 |
 Information services businesses are grappling with an increasingly common problem that is all the more critical to them. The very business that they’re in – information delivery – has become harder and more expensive while the demand for it is growing on an exponential basis. TransUnio...Dec. 23, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 4,223 |
 I was again reading and reviewing Lawrence Lessig's work tonight. The man is so very articulate and his observations so compelling. If you haven't become a student of his work, please take my advice and give it a try here.
At the 200... Nov. 30, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 10,268 |
 Yesterday, 23 November 2009, an Atlas V rocket from the United Launch Alliance successfully launched the Intelsat 14 satellite (IS-14). Liftoff of the Atlas V occurred at 1:55am ET. The satellite separated successfully two hours later. Today we received word that the satellite̵...Nov. 25, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 5,198 |
 If you search Google Images for "Michelle Obama" (no quotes), the first image you'll see is a poorly photoshopped picture of her as an ape.
You'll also see a Google Ad on that page that links to Google's explanation of why such a blatantly racist photo is the top-ranked one at ...Nov. 25, 2009 07:30 AM EST Reads: 4,437 |
 One of the benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be efficiency, particularly in the utilization of compute resources. Over-provisioning of compute resources has long been one way in which IT combats the need for scalability and availability of applications but this often leaves a ...Nov. 25, 2009 04:15 AM EST Reads: 4,983 |
 In Apache Tuscany, we have been experimenting with Google Android Platform to build Mobile SOA Applications, and we now have couple Android based samples that demonstrate a Android mobile application consuming SCA services available on the cloud.
Store-android: A front end to our "S...Nov. 23, 2009 08:30 PM EST Reads: 6,577 |
 The mobile web's momentum continues unabated with Google's acquisition of AdMob and Apple's Shocking Numbers for iPhone app usage. The whole thing is reminiscent of the introduction of the IBM PC back in 1981(?). Brief memory lane diversion: I sold my first PC system in 1982 and it ran...Nov. 12, 2009 12:40 AM EST Reads: 5,559 |
 If you have spent any time online using social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook, you know they can be difficult to grow your network and add contacts. But even harder is the ability to extract your contacts once you have built up a reasonably sized network. None of the social network...Oct. 26, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,344 Replies: 2 |
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