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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 Although I started with ColdFusion for application development, I did plenty brochureware sites with HTML. I believe the version was HTML 2.0 for IE 2.0. I lived in the browser world for years doing ColdFusion, ASP, and HTML sites. When winforms and Smart Client with web services emerg...May. 20, 2013 04:44 PM EDT Reads: 484 |
 Following my high-level write-up of Hadoop and Big Data, this article will present each of the components or projects that make up Hadoop with a technical description of each.
First, what is Hadoop?
Hadoop stores and processes large volumes of a wide variety of data that changes rapi...May. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,206 |
 This review covers both Core Java Volume I--Fundamentals (9th Edition) and Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features (9th Edition). Both books are part of the Prentice Hall Core Series.
I actually got Volume II first and liked it so much I ordered Volume I. I felt like I was missing the...May. 8, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,440 |
 The enhanced adoption of Cloud, Big Data, Mobility is causing more services to be developed and aggregated, hence there is a greater emphasis on Agile for service aggregation. Agile processes have specific methods to manage the rapid development cycles and changing requirements in appl...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,650 |
 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: 1,963 |
 Big Data – a large amount of information that comes in a variety of forms and constantly changes – has generated a significant amount of buzz in the business world, mostly around the implications for marketing. But there’s little attention paid to its potential impact on risk managemen...Mar. 13, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,784 |
 Analysis and insight on the famous four buzzwords in the IT world... Enterprise Mobility, Cloud Computing, BYOD and Unified Communication; how they complement, assist and disrupt each other; and the potential impact of the underlying forces in action on their future....
Cloud comput...Jan. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 4,530 |
 The NEBs level 3 certification is essential to keeping carriers services up and running during natural disasters and other catastrophic events.
The Network Equipment-Building System (or NEBS) is such a standard, attempting to force device builders to engineer their products to withst...Jan. 11, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,149 |
 The CSS3 Anthology by Rachel Andrews is subtitled instant CSS answers, how-to's, and examples. This subtitle clearly explains the goal of this book. The book consists of nine chapters. The first chapter is a quick review of CSS. The other chapters cover major topics such as text stylin...Jan. 10, 2013 10:15 AM EST Reads: 2,138 |
 Data is going up and data is going down. Its endless upward spiral to the cloud is being lauded as the platform and paradigm that we must now adhere to for future IT efficiency. At the same time, data is going down. It is being processed and (crucially here) it is being ‘analyzed’ at a...Jan. 7, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,135 |
 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: 4,011 |
 It is important to have a familiarity with the OSI 7 layer stack model when considering what type of traffic or devices can be load balanced. This knowledge is important because load balancing of traffic and, for that matter, devices is normally performed at Layer 2 (Data), Layer 4 (Tr...Dec. 31, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,151 |
 Like an automobile, a web application needs occasional maintenance and management over its life cycle. Although it doesn't need oil changes, it will probably need version upgrades. There may not be manufacturer recalls, but sometimes servers fail or hang. An application doesn't need to...Dec. 28, 2012 03:15 PM EST Reads: 3,521 |
 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: 2,653 |
 Wrapping up a year of impressive growth and product innovation, Gazzang, the Linux data security company, today made its 2013 predictions covering emerging trends in big data, the cloud and open source technology adoption.
“Buoyed by increasing adoption of and trust in cloud technolog...Dec. 28, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 4,020 |
 One of the things I look forward to most at Christmastime is the seemingly endless parade of predictions and year-in-review columns. You see them everywhere:
The Ten Best movies of 2012
2012: The Year in Bacon
Ten Brilliant, Surefire, Can’t-Miss Business Predictions for 2013
A Crys...Dec. 27, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,578 |
 I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large, innovative nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, databases, services and integration mechanisms. With the explosion of the Cloud and Mobile Cloud, the entre digi...Dec. 14, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,332 |
 For a company like Lafarge, the dispatching of trucks and materials is mission critical. So when the performance of IT applications supporting this function suffers, it’s bad for business.
Based in Paris, France, Lafarge is a provider of building materials, with more than $15 billion...Nov. 30, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,945 |
 The Cloud market is diverse and highly fragmented – typical of any market in its early stages. The broad range of cloud activities and the frantic pace of new products / services getting launched is driving the need to consolidate and unify cloud services for the end user and for the m...Nov. 30, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,115 |
 MySQL, just like other relational databases, is complicated. It can jam at any time jeopardizing your applications or business without notice. Most MySQL malfunctions are due to common mistakes. It is essential to avoid these mistakes, often hidden by configuration trap or workload, to...Nov. 28, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,063 |
 The Society for Information Management (SIM) recently released findings from its annual CIO survey that indicate CIOs around the world plan to commit more of their budgets on IT outsourcing in 2013 to boost productivity and reduce costs. Not surprisingly, cloud computing was cited as a...Nov. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,865 |
 We all know that since the early ‘90s, Internet usage has exploded. Buying online, booking a trip or communicating with friends and relatives are just a few examples of what all of us are doing every day. The continuous development of broadband connectivity has also made easy the growt...Nov. 16, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 3,814 |
 Since ZapThink wrote our ZapFlash on Cloud Brokerages in April 2011, the Cloud Brokerage marketplace has exploded. Or at the very least, the noise level involving such Brokerages has reached a fever pitch, which the vendors in the space want you to think is the sound of an exploding ma...Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,753 |
 This time of year, many companies are now in the process of conducting web load testing in advance of the holidays. In this article, you'll learn details on how a large online retailer conducted web load testing in advance of the holiday spike in traffic – and they're moving into the h...Nov. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,652 |
 With Strata, IBM IOD, and Teradata Partners conferences all occurring this week, it’s not surprising that this is a big week for Hadoop-related announcements. The common thread of announcements is essentially, “We know that Hadoop is not known for performance, but we’re getting better ...Nov. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,534 |
 There's been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies.
What I see driving it is three things. One is the advent of the cloud and mobile, which requires a lot of cr...Oct. 22, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,149 |
 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: 2,812 |
 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: 2,618 |
 Much has been written here, and in many blogs, about Cloud Adoption. However, most of this has focused on the tangible and critical pieces like technical architecture and operational considerations. This can’t be minimized in the least. However, in my work with both vendors and end cus...Sep. 20, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,706 |
 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: 2,599 |
 “Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “While cloud adoption remains in the early stages,” Weir conti...Sep. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,114 |
 There is something easy about emails. Emails give you time; time to confer, time to double-check, time to weigh up the pros and cons – time to respond. While fewer and fewer of us are picking up the phone to contact customer services, an increasing number are using public social media ...Aug. 21, 2012 04:55 PM EDT Reads: 1,614 |
 This book is much more than just a cookbook with a bunch of recipes in it. I have used plenty of cookbooks and they are never readable from cover to cover. I usually just familiarize myself with the recipes that are available, read the ones interesting to me at the time, and throw them...Aug. 20, 2012 11:27 AM EDT Reads: 2,085 |
 “Distributed computing (cloud) services are proving to be more universal, more scalable, and more economical as a pay-per-use model,” observed Jerry Miller, Vice President of Technology at CDNetworks, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Miller continue...Aug. 1, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,844 |
 We can probably all agree that the cloud computing service-based model of application delivery has received more than its fair share of hype, over-embellished hyperbole and hyper-cross-talk in the last few years. Surely now then we have come to a new plateau in cloud, i.e., the time fo...Jul. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,329 |
 The two primary commercial providers that signed on for the proprietary files systems – IBM and EMC (via partnership with MapR) – have retrenched.
As we’ve noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains intact. That either co...May. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,014 |
 With emergence of Big Data and Fast Data, energy shifted back to the data tier given the efficiencies of processing data big or fast inside the data store itself.
In its rise to leadership of the ERP market, SAP shrewdly placed bounds around its strategy: it would stick to its knittin...Apr. 12, 2012 04:13 PM EDT Reads: 2,074 |
 Much of the confusion over Cloud Computing comes from software and hardware vendors. After all, they’ve all had to scramble for a new Cloud value proposition once they realized that Cloud Computing would eventually doom the old way of selling their gear. For most such vendors, their Cl...Mar. 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,064 |
 WebSphere eXtreme Scale can be used in different ways. It can be used as a very powerful cache or as a form of an in-memory database processing space to manage application state or as a platform for building powerful Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) applications.Sep. 13, 2011 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,432 |
 "Enterprises everywhere are realizing the inherent benefits of running their core IT services in the cloud,” said Todd McKinnon, most recently VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com from 2003 to 2009, and now CEO of the on-demand identity and access management service, Okta.
"This shift ...Jan. 31, 2011 06:15 AM EST Reads: 16,149 |
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