Apache Developer News Desk

IBM Could Reinvent Java

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Interarbor Solution principal analyst Dana Gardner had a drink with IBM Software chief Steve Mills last week. He said Mills thinks that the Oracle-Sun deal will go through but that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is buying Sun because he doesn’t “understand the hardware business” and won’t get his money’s worth at the $9.50 a share Oracle is proposing to pay for it. Well, what else is Mills going to say; IBM supposedly walked on the deal.

Move Over BI, Here Comes PI - Performance Intelligence

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:30:00 EST

"As companies such as MySpace continue to expand the richness of their site, the big thing is trying to seek a higher level of customer experience by replicating "beyond capacity" in a test environment, so that a company can see what it is exactly that they will need when traffic surges to peak levels and beyond, so that they know the "risk points" of their own success," Tom Lounibos, CEO of SOASTA, told SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan in an interview with Cloud Computing Journal on the day that SOASTA announced a significant test of the newly launched MySpace Music Videos hub using the Cloud.

Virtualization Expo Call for Papers Deadline December 15

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:45:00 EST

Delegates will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure that all attendees leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization in their own corporate datacenter, on the desktop, and elsewhere. If you wish to submit a speaking proposal for the 8th Virtualization Expo, April 19–21, 2010, then you can do so right here

Main Power UPS Types, Specs and Buying Source

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:05:00 EST

UPSonNet, a consulting and Power Protection information source launched recently an Uninterruptible Power Supply Products Directory, which enables buyers to see at a glance main manufacturer's systems, explore specifications, compare and contact relevant professional suppliers.

Madoff Programmers Busted

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:15:00 EST

Two Madoff computer programmers who authorities say made the whole decades-long $65 billion Ponzi scheme possible were arrested Friday and brought up on criminal charges of conspiracy, falsifying the books and records of a broker-dealer and falsifying the books and records of an investment advisor. The SEC, which never tumbled to the ripoff before Madoff up and confessed last December, added civil charges.

Citrix Makes Virtual Desktops Enterprise Ready

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:00 EST

Citrix Systems today launched the new Citrix Ready Open Desktop Virtualization program to further accelerate large-scale enterprise virtual desktop deployments with Citrix® XenDesktop™. The Citrix Ready Open Desktop Virtualization program includes more than 10,000 products from over 200 vendors that have been validated as ready to deploy in production environments with the recently launched XenDesktop 4. The Open Desktop Virtualization program helps make virtual desktops a safe choice for enterprise-wide deployment by eliminating the guess work and ensuring customers that XenDesktop 4 has been tested to work with the software, hardware and services they already uses in their IT environments today. Products that have been verified to work with XenDesktop 4 include thousands of applications, servers, storage systems, backup solutions, client devices, printers, desktop peripherals, security products, desktop management software and systems management solutions.

Cisco, EMC, VMware & Intel Form Acadia JV

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:15:00 EST

Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North American Acadia captured in Longfellow's magnificent tear-jerker "Evangeline," although Cisco's new enemies IBM and HP may try to persuade users that it is.

Yahoo! Announces Open Source Distribution of Traffic Server at Cloud Expo

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, took its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing today, debuting an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services. Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and routing for an entire cloud computing stack. It follows the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop as another example of Yahoo!’s unprecedented commitment to open source cloud computing initiatives. Yahoo! has donated the Traffic Server code to The Apache Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator, and intends to build a robust community of developers around the open source Traffic Server. Shelton Shugar, senior vice president of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, will be discussing the new technology tomorrow at the Cloud Computing Expo.

4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Starts Today

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:10:00 EST

A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 130 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, opening today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs in the Cloud to Yahoo! Cloud @ Internet Scale.

Amazon Web Services Database in the Cloud

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing users to focus on their application and their business. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use. Also announced today, AWS has lowered prices and introduced a new family of High-Memory instances for Amazon EC2. To get started using Amazon RDS, and other Amazon Web Services, visit http://aws.amazon.com.

Acer Trashes Dell

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Acer has come from behind to knock Dell off its perch as the second-largest PC vendor in the world, and Dell is still hurting from its loss to HP which claimed Dell’s old No. 1 title three years ago. Acer president Gianfranco Lanci just predicted Tuesday that Acer would dethrone Dell’s shipments over the next two quarters. He also thinks he can “breach the gap with HP” in terms of notebooks, netbooks and smartphones.

SOA World Magazine "Readers' Choice Awards" Voting Is Now Open

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON's SOA World Magazine announced today that the 2009 voting in its annual SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the "SOA in the Cloud" track at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. To vote for your favorite SOA products and services today - don't put it off, voting takes just a few seconds.

MuleSoft Kicks into the Cloud

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

MuleSoft, the web middleware concern, has released Tcat Server 6 R1, an enterprise-class web application server based on Apache Tomcat that now includes cloud deployment capabilities enabled in one click by a plug-in for Amazon EC2. Administrators can manage their server instances both in the cloud as well as behind the firewall from the Tcat Server console.

Ingres Gooses its Database

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:15:00 EDT

Ingres, the open source database company, claims it’s achieved more than 10x performance gains running data on Intel’s Nehalem chip, well, at least some data. The breakthrough was made by the VectorWise project, Ingres’ collaboration with VectorWise, a spin-out from the database research team at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), a Dutch research institute in mathematics and computer science, VectorWise has created a database engine that Ingres says taps the vector processing potential of modern microprocessors and makes the software faster by running multiple instructions simultaneously.

Ready To Bet the Farm Your Software Has No Hidden Material Defects?

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Cast your mind back a few weeks to when the American Law Institute (ALI), which has far more clout than it deserves, came up with its Principles of the Law of Software Contracts, a bit of insanity that both Microsoft and the Linux Foundation, rare-if-never allies, joined in protesting (see www.slideshare.net/markradcliffe/microsoft-linux-foundation-letter1). Their extraordinary alliance proved fruitless. The IT Privacy and eCommerce Committee of the Association of Corporate Counsels, which represents 4,000 in-house counsels, also broken into a sweat (www.slideshare.net/markradcliffe/acc-itpec-letter-and-discussion-points-...).

Ruby-on-Rails Apps Get Cloud Lift

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:30:00 EDT

Engine Yard, the Ruby-on-Rails doyen, is supposed to announce its Engine Yard Cloud platform today along with Flex, a cloud service plan for production-level Rails applications. The company says its Engine Yard Cloud leverages hundreds of man-years of experience in deploying, managing and scaling some of the world's biggest Rails sites and will put that know-how to work for businesses that want to run Rails on Amazon's EC2 public cloud. It automates the deployment and management of applications that fetch up to a million unique visitors a month. More and the company will advise shifting to its dedicated infrastructure.

FatWire Launches New Releases of Personalization and Analytics Products

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:45:00 EDT

FatWire Software, a web experience management (WEM) provider, has announced new releases of FatWire Engage 7.5 for personalization and FatWire Analytics 2.5 for web content optimization. In conjunction with the FatWire Content Server web content management platform, FatWire Engage and FatWire Analytics deliver targeted and optimized web content with a scale and sophistication that exceeds the needs of the largest global businesses. http://tinyurl.com/m2mswc

Cloudera Pushes Hadoop to New Level with Support for Amazon EBS

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company, has announced that the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop now supports running Hadoop on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) clusters with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) backed storage. Typically, Hadoop clusters on Amazon EC2 use local disks or Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). The Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop directly integrates the Hadoop File System with Amazon EBS.

SpringSource Acquires Hyperic

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:30:00 EDT

SpringSource, the company behind the ever-popular but free Spring Framework, the Apache-licensed Java framework used by half of the Fortune 2000, said Monday that it’s acquired most of the assets of Hyperic, the company with the equally popular and open source web application and infrastructure management software that SpringSource has been OEMing for a couple of years.

SYS-CON White Paper: Secure Apache Web Server with thawte Digital Certificate

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:30:00 EDT

This guide from thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. This guide also looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.

BlackSun Deploys Cloudmark Authority for Apache SpamAssassin

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:00:00 EST

Cloudmark has announced that BlackSun, a provider of Web hosting services, has deployed the Cloudmark Authority plug-in for SpamAssassin. The Cloudmark plug-in, alongside BlackSun’s existing Apache SpamAssassin implementation, delivers higher message filtering accuracy and performance, as well as enhanced protection against spam, phishing and viruses for BlackSun’s more than 30,000 email subscribers. BlackSun’s existing filtering solution wasn’t able to stop the evolving spam and virus attacks, resulting in strain on system administrators, customer support teams and end users. BlackSun needed a new solution that would offer more advanced spam filtering and higher accuracy, while remaining in control of its local resources. BlackSun chose the Cloudmark Authority plug-in for SpamAssassin due to its integration into any existing SpamAssassin environment and its high accuracy. As a result, BlackSun was able to deploy the solution in less than an hour. This almost-instant integration meant that BlackSun customers could immediately take advantage of enhanced messaging protection and quickly saw a reduction in spam and malware making its way into inboxes. With the Cloudmark Authority plug-in deployed, BlackSun’s filtering accuracy has improved to almost 99 percent with near-zero false positives. Further, more than 85 percent of all messages being filtered are now identified as spam and are blocked before it impacts customers, resulting in a subsequent increase in customer satisfaction and dramatically reduced customer support inquires.

Microsoft Contributes Code to Apache

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

Microsoft has kicked in software code to the great Apache open source project, specifically its Project Stonehenge, which is bent on building sample applications using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Stonehenge wants to inculcate best practices in developing SOA-based interoperable applications. Microsoft made a $100,000 donation to Apache last year.

Web Services Using ColdFusion and Apache CXF

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:59:00 EST

Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world. With the maturity of the specifications, Web Service technology, with its power of interoperability, is now the major enabling technology of SOA, which is being adopted by more and more enterprises to build their application integration infrastructure.

Review of 2008: A Developer's Perspective

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:55:00 EST

The year that's just ended was a terrific one for the proliferation of new technologies and frameworks. I have been hearing a lot about the following technologies in the year 2008: mashups, cloud computing, domain modeling, Eclipse - especially Equinox, Single Sourcing, and EclipseLink.

The Future of Enterprise Software

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:00:00 EST

It's no secret that open source has turned into a market force, which is giving enterprise software some tough competition. The same can be said for SaaS businesses, which are steadily eating into the market share of the established on-premise players. While it could easily be assumed that ultimately SaaS and open source will battle each other for dominance of the software business, I don’t think that’s likely.

JetBrains Introduces a New Paradigm

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:00:00 EST

JetBrains has announced the beta version of their new product – Meta Programming System, or MPS. Meta Programming System, a new concept in the software development environment, implements the Language Oriented Programming paradigm. After several years of research and development, JetBrains has released its Beta version now, targeting 1.0 for early 2009.

Appcelerator Secures $4.1 Million

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:22:00 EST

Appcelerator has secured $4.1 million in Series A funding, led by Storm Ventures. Appcelerator will use the proceeds to further advance and extend the functionality of its Open Web platform that allows applications to be easily built and deployed as a rich Web application, a native desktop application, or a mobile application. Using Appcelerator's SDK and Titanium, developers can reduce costs and realize productivity gains by leveraging an Open Web platform and an existing set of web skill sets, ultimately allowing developers to spend more time developing applications and getting them to market and less time building homegrown development platforms.

Appcelerator Brings Web Applications to the Desktop with Titanium

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:06:00 EST

Appcelerator has announced the public preview release of Appcelerator Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common set of Web technologies. Titanium allows developers to use standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to develop applications that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser, or the mobile device.

An Introduction to Ant

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:15:00 EST

Writing shell scripts to automate the build and deploy process for ColdFusion applications is not very much fun. The Jakarta Ant project is an open-source, cross-platform alternative that makes it easy to automate the build and deploy process.

rPath to Advise Practical Cloud Adoption at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

rPath has hit the road to promote the graduated adoption of cloud computing technologies. This follows a podcast interview published on Friday during which Billy Marshall, rPath co-founder and chief strategy officer, speaks with a leading industry pundit about the importance of a managed approach to enterprise application virtualization. This week, Marshall will speak at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2008 West, which takes place November 19-21, 2008, at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA.

The Cloud Comes This Week to San Jose

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST

A round-up of the many themes and topics of interest to infrastructure architects, developers and IT managers featuring at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference is expecting a record turnout of senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, communications and networking specialists, and directors of infrastructure.

RightScale to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EST

Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken’s two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover:

Virtualization Technologies and the Manageability Challenge

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:27:00 EST

Virtualization technologies are being adopted in every corner of the enterprise, from server hardware to user data. In general, virtualization increases flexibility, but complicates manageability, security and access. Traditional management suites, originally designed for physical assets, tend to be less effective in virtual environments and with virtual assets. Add the growing trend toward consumerization in the enterprise, and the challenges grow. A new approach to endpoint management is required, one that recognizes that the end-user environment is of primary concern, not the underlying infrastructure, be it physical or virtual. Streaming is an established virtualization technology that can provide both the user context and the just-in-time endpoint configuration required to effectively and efficiently secure and manage the endpoints.

What Does Obama Revolution Mean to Cloud Computing?

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST

The technology blueprint of President Elect Barack Obama, if implemented as promised, bodes well for the future of Cloud Computing. Let me consider some of the Barack Obama's Technology proposals and explain how it is relevant to the success of Cloud Computing. This is not a political post but rather an analysis of President Elect Barack Obama's policies and how it might help Cloud Computing. Please feel free to discuss the policies instead of politics in the comments.

Aptana Delivers Cloud Computing Solution

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Aptana has announced the general availability of Aptana Cloud, an online service that integrates with Eclipse software development tools to enable hosting, scaling and managing Web applications in "The Cloud." Aptana Cloud provides an end-to-end solution for deploying, scaling, staging, managing and monitoring your Web sites and Internet applications.

Twelve Things You Didn't Know About Jetty

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:15:00 EDT

In the past couple of years, interest in Jetty has surged. Jetty is an open source Java-based web and application server and servlet container, but what else do you know about it? To commemorate the 12th anniversary of Jetty, here are 12 things that might surprise you

IBM's Got Its Head in the Clouds

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid computing, Web Services, virtualization and utility computing. IBM calls its initiative Blue Cloud - like it could have another name - and claims it's a 'game-changing model for Internet-scale computing,' providing customer with just the right size computer power while at one and the same time being 'green' as well as 'self-healing and self-managing' based on open standards and Linux. Lordy, if this thing was a cute guy with money, it would be every mother's dream.

Microsoft’s Appeasement Party Strikes Again

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:48:00 EDT

Like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft is now suddenly a platinum sponsor of that open source touchstone, the Apache Software Foundation, and has pledged its $100,000 check. The move was announced Friday at the Open Source Convention in a speech by Microsoft senior director of platform strategy Sam Ramji, who described it as an endorsement of the “Apache Way.”

ApacheCon US 2008 to unite Open Source advocates, users and developers in New Orleans

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:15:00 EDT

ApacheCon US 2008, the official conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will hold this year?s event in New Orleans on November 3-7, 2008. ApacheCon brings together users, developers, vendors, and speakers to discuss groundbreaking Open Source practices and issues, with updates of developments from The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It offers educational presentations, hands-on training sessions, and networking opportunities.

SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo: Themes & Topics

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:00 EDT

From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan.