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 When it comes to analyzing your web application’s performance, TraceView has already instruments a wide spectrum of Java components, such as application servers, frameworks and JDBC connections, all with the convenience of simply including TraceView Java agent jar in your JVM. However,...Jun. 19, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 419 |
 The explosion of mobile devices, e-commerce and "The Internet of Things" is introducing massive amounts of new data into our ecosystem. Some companies ignore this data for all but the most tactical explorations, but others are revolutionizing entire industries by recognizing the value...Jun. 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 530 |
 Cloud is typically approached as a combination of virtualized or bare metal infrastructure. At this stage of the game, to think about cloud is to think at some level about virtualization. Businesses are also looking at some form of orchestration. And the underlying hardware – CPU, RAM,...Jun. 17, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,480 |
 Appcara, an innovator in cloud application management solutions, is using next week's Cloud Expo New York to spotlight technology advances for simplified launching and managing of large, distributed Hadoop workloads into both private and service provider clouds through the use of new c...Jun. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,043 |
 Hadoop is delivering on its promise to provide Big Data analytics for enterprises at a fraction of the cost of proprietary MPP systems. The combination of industry-standard hardware and open source software is the key combination behind this success.
In his session at the 12th Intern...Jun. 8, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,112 |
 In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Chris Swenson, Director, Platform Operations at WebMD Health Services, and Ilya Musayev, a CloudStack Contributor at The Apache Software Foundation, will explain how the most common enterprise setups of bare metal and some virtuali...Jun. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,081 |
 The Open Group is planning a tweet jam around what it calls Platform 3.0 issues -- big data, cloud computing, the consumerization of IT and other current trends.
Over recent years a number of technologies -- cloud, mobile, big data, social -- have emerged and converged to disrupt the ...Jun. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 807 |
 In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tony Shan, who was one of the key drivers inside IBM for the cloud reference architecture, and also helped coin "Cloud Engineering," will discuss lots of valuable best practices and lessons learned in designing cloud architecture and...Jun. 3, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,383 |
 Over the past two decades relational databases have been most successful in serving large scale OLTP and OLAP applications across enterprises. However, in the past couple of years with the advent of Big Data processing, especially processing unstructured data coupled with the need for ...Jun. 2, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,326 |
 While nearly 90 percent of business and IT leaders agree that big data can be useful in making intelligent business decisions, only one-third of companies have implemented big-data initiatives.
Furthermore, more than 50 percent of survey respondents said that they had only lukewarm s...Jun. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,335 |
 BigData (and Hadoop) are buzzword and growth areas of computing; this article will distill the concepts into easy-to-understand terms.
As the name implies, BigData is literally "big data" or "lots of data" that needs to be processed. Lets take a simple example: the city council of San...May. 31, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,849 |
 Splunk, the software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Hortonworks, the Hadoop Big Data distribution start-up, have allied so organizations can get operational intelligence using open source Apache Hadoop.
Their pact means that data can be moved between Splunk Ente...May. 28, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,685 |
| The IT industry is nothing if not a breeding ground for an infinite variety of acronyms and neologisms. Alongside cloud computing today sits the term Big Data, which of course we understand to mean “that amount” of data which a traditional database would find hard to compute and proces... May. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,954 |
 New technologies allow schools, colleges and universities to analyze absolutely everything that happens. From student behavior, testing results, career development of students as well as educational needs based on changing societies. A lot of this data has already been stored and is us...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,536 |
 In the coming years, big data will change the way organisations and societies are operated and managed. Big data however, is not the only trend that will impact significantly how organisations operate. Another major trend at the moment is gamification. Gamification will change the way ...May. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,303 |
 Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that dat...May. 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,517 |
 I'd like to address a recent blog post in CloudTweaks titled, "Cloudera Not Cutting It With Big Data Security." The author makes a number of very salient and valid points about Hadoop security… or lack thereof.
Indeed the Apache Hadoop platform, which includes HDFS and MapReduce and o...May. 17, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,065 |
 Adding more memory to your JVMs (Java Virtual Machines) might be a temporary solution to fixing memory leaks in Java applications, but it for sure won’t fix the root cause of the issue. Instead of crashing once per day it may just crash every other day. “Preventive” restarts are also j...May. 10, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,341 |
 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: 1,512 |
 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: 2,134 |
 Master Data Management (MDM) is a very important data governance aspect in enterprises whereby MDM enables the development of a "Single Version of Truth." MDM establishes Single Version of Truth by providing common descriptions for enterprise-wide entities.
Need for MDM in Big Data Pr...May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,870 |
 Infor, the software company where former Larry Ellison lieutenant Chuck Phillips went after he was bounced out of Oracle to make room for ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd, is working on a Big Data initiative called Sky Vault that will leverage its own ION Business Vault and Amazon’s Redshift gussie...Apr. 30, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,687 |
 Over the last couple of months I have been talking to more and more customers who are either bringing their Hadoop clusters into production or have already done so and are now getting serious about operations. This leads to some interesting discussions about how to monitor Hadoop prope...Apr. 29, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,259 |
 Big Data has made a huge splash in the enterprise world, but the legal and risk management implications are seldom discussed. It’s critical for businesses to assess these issues and develop a proactive strategy to protect the enterprise from costly errors.
Corporate policies and regu...Apr. 27, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,997 |
 Hibernate is one of the most used ORM Java frameworks out there. It is really simple to use, just add few annotations and you’re ready to go. However, it is also really easy to experience strange behaviors and bugs if you don’t respect Hibernate’s best practices. That’s why at Tocea we...Apr. 26, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,645 |
 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce, intents to sponsor a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) to facilitate public-private collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and tec...Apr. 25, 2013 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,209 |
 Last week, I presented Caching Up and Down the Stack at the Boston Web Performance meetup. It was great to get the chance to present to the 60+ people who came out for the talk. Unsurprisingly, many of the people there knew a lot about caching in all of the different levels I touched o...Apr. 25, 2013 12:02 PM EDT Reads: 1,657 |
 Big Data start-ups are like ants at a church picnic. They’re everywhere and they’re getting fed.
Guavus, which is focused on tier-one communications service providers and has kept a low profile for the past seven years, has just raised another $9 million, which makes a whopping $87 m...Apr. 22, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,232 |
 The Hadoop framework and SSD technology augment cloud data systems ranging from analytics to on-line transaction processing (OLTP) to data warehousing. The resulting balance of processing, networking, SSD storage, and Hadoop optimization results in improving Big Data sort responsivenes...Apr. 15, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,872 |
 Federal agencies spent close to $4.9 billion on Big Data resources during fiscal year 2012 and that number could grow to $5.7 billion in 2014.
Research firm Deltek estimates federal big data spending will grow to $7.2 billion by 2017 as agencies strive to handle ever-increasing volume...Apr. 11, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,613 |
 Enterprises can't close their doors just because integration tools won't cope with the volume of information that their systems produce. As each day goes by, their information will become larger and more complicated and enterprises must constantly struggle to manage the integration of ...Apr. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,964 |
 Xyratex, the UK data storage house that spun out of IBM in a management buy-out 20 years ago, is now a strategic supplier to AMD, which picked the Brit’s OneStor Modular Enclosure as a building block for its Big Data and storage-intensive solutions.
The Xyratex widgetry has been opti...Apr. 4, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,671 |
 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: 4,042 |
 If you’re not convinced the hype around Big Data is entirely justified, consider the following statistics: in the time it takes an average person to read this article, 72 petabytes of data (that’s 72 x 1015 if you’re counting) will have been added to the global information pool. Each h...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,397 |
 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has made CloudStack, which it took in as an incubator project a year ago, a Top-Level Program (TLP).
That’s supposed to mean that Citrix, which donated the IaaS OpenStack rival to Apache after acquiring it from Cloud.com in 2011, doesn’t have much...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,493 |
 The term Big Data is going to become a key part of the forward-looking business technology debate among informed, proactive and ICT savvy executives. But what's really driving the growing demand for meaningful solutions?
While most companies are collecting, storing and analyzing data,...Mar. 30, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,181 |
 Technology has been taken over by the Cloud. Putting it in simple terms, ‘Cloud’ is the new meme used to describe nirvana from clogged up computers and saving files directly to the internet. So how does it work?
Essentially, instead of saving files to a hard disk or using software on ...Mar. 29, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,308 |
 After two years in development and six months in private beta, Platfora, the native in-memory Business Intelligence (BI) platform for Hadoop, has gone on sale.
The widgetry is meant to put business users directly in touch with Big Data and eliminate the need for complex and expensive...Mar. 28, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,974 |
 Move to the cloud, save some cash. So says a pair of recent surveys from CDW and Rackspace.
Companies that move IT capabilities to the cloud are saving money and growing profits, which are then put back into the business to increase headcount, boost wages and drive innovation, accordi...Mar. 28, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,571 |
 inovex GmnbH has just announced its partnership with C12G Labs to support the deployment and operation of OpenNebula-based enterprise cloud infrastructures, and the automation and migration of legacy systems. With OpenNebula as their software platform, inovex experts can set up cloud i...Mar. 24, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,073 |
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