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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 Triggered by current expected load projections for our community portal, our Apps Team was tasked to run a stress on our production system to verify whether we can handle 10 times the load we currently experience on our existing infrastructure. In order to have the least impact in the ...Jun. 8, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,602 |
 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 |
 This is the third episode of the mini-series on e-commerce performance management. Our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market leader in manufacturing customized hats, did not achieve the expected sales increase with its new e-commerce site. It offer...May. 29, 2013 11:09 AM EDT Reads: 956 |
 In my recent article, "Five Steps to Improve E-Commerce Performance for Increased Sales: Introduction” I discussed problems encountered by our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market leader in manufacturing customized hats. The company quickly realiz...May. 28, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,623 |
 Cloud service providers store data all over the globe, and are constantly moving that data from one datacenter to the next for reasons as wide-ranging as cost considerations and redundancy requirements. Does this mean that the requirements outlined in varying data residency laws and pr...May. 19, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,994 Replies: 1 |
 Software-defined networks are all the rage these days – and why not? They offer the promised benefit of making networks far more agile and responsive to dynamically changing application requirements. Consequently, in theory, the entire networking-computing-storage-applications ecosyste...May. 19, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,710 |
 Service Component Architecture (shortly referred as SCA) is a technology for creating services from components. SCA is a set of OASIS standards and part of it is developed with the collaboration of vendors from open source community, referred as “OSOA” Open SOA. SCA helps to build syst...May. 18, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,747 |
 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: 2,342 |
 Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become a famous paradigm and also the bandwagon in the networking industry today. SDN is primarily considered to be a methodology or approach to solving some of the wider-known problems in the enterprise and service provider networking space. It’s ...May. 3, 2013 03:11 PM EDT Reads: 1,335 |
 OSGi is the latest component model to join the bandwagon of component models, which provides a platform for component oriented development and assembly. OSGi framework is a standards based platform whose specifications are provided by the OSGi Alliance (www.osgi.org, formerly OSGi was ...Apr. 26, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,670 |
 As the proliferation of data continues, traditional networking infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the world’s influx of information and data. Legacy networking technologies are in need of an overhaul and software-defined networking (SDN) has been touted as the response and th...Apr. 12, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,672 |
 A component is a reusable software entity. A component is a deployable piece of software that can be independently developed and maintained. In the previous article –Componentizing a Monolithic Application in Java, we discussed the need for componentizing applications to get the benefi...Mar. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,900 |
 A component is a reusable software entity that is developed and deployed independently. Component based software development has many architectural advantages. In the previous article Componentizing a Monolithic Application in Java, we learnt the need for componentizing applications fo...Mar. 3, 2013 02:15 PM EST Reads: 3,345 |
 Few, if any, information technology subjects have garnered more attention over the past two years than Big Data. It’s a savior. It’s evil. It’s the killer app of killer apps. And now, according to Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular, “Big Data Is Falling into the Trough of Disillusionment...Feb. 28, 2013 10:45 AM EST Reads: 4,244 |
 After you have secured your private electronic information using encryption and learned how to encrypt and digitally sign files for others, how do you extract the information and determine who encrypted the file? Asymmetric public/private key encryption allows you to decipher the infor...Feb. 22, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,476 |
 Identity management just isn’t what it used to be. Gone are the days when knowing who had access to what was simply enough. In today’s world of increasing government and industry regulation; networked communications and collaboration; and pervasive mobility, the requirements have funda...Feb. 21, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 4,128 |
 Now that you have the JavaScript skills that you need for using jQuery, you’re ready to learn jQuery. So, in this excerpt, you’ll learn a working subset of jQuery that will get you off to a fast start.
When you complete this section, you’ll have all the jQuery skills that you need fo...Feb. 19, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 5,663 |
 In today’s environment, information security is crucial for everyone. Security needs vary widely from protecting social security numbers to guarding corporate strategy. Information espionage can occur at all levels. A human resources employee or manager takes employee personnel files h...Feb. 11, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,338 |
 Component-oriented development has many architectural advantages. In spite of this, many developers tend to solve problems the monolithic way on the first go. This article demonstrates how a monolithic design can be modified to achieve component-based design. During this conversion pro...Jan. 28, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 4,993 |
 Let’s start with the basic question: What is the disruptor? The disruptor is a concurrency framework for Java that allows data sharing between threads. The age old way of coding a producer-consumer model is to use a queue as the buffer area between the producer and the consumer, where ...Sep. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,192 |
 Many years ago I prepared my first PowerPoint slide deck and used it as visuals in front of a small audience. Over the last twenty years I made tons of presentations on IT related subjects. In this blog I’d like to share with you a dozen rules I use while preparing my slide decks or sp...Sep. 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,682 |
 Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns. For example, in 2006, Joseph Bih introduced SOA in a research article as an in...Sep. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,168 |
 The term “Business Intelligence” and its acronym “BI” are so pervasive in today’s data-intensive lexicon that it’s a challenge to know just what to make of it. If you add in all the new trendy terminology such as business process management (BPM), data mining, data warehousing, busines...Aug. 14, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,251 |
 Some software developers have an impression that JavaScript is a second-league interpreted language with the main purpose of making Web pages a little prettier. The reality is different though. JavaScript is a powerful, flexible, dynamically typed language that supports object-oriented...Aug. 13, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,487 |
 In this article I will provide you an effective and optimized approach of Factory Design Pattern in Java.
As you know theFactory Method Pattern or popularly known as the Factory Design Pattern is one the design patterns under the category of "Creational Design Pattern". The basic prin...Jul. 21, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,626 |
 Consumers are continuing to adopt multiple connected devices and video content is expected to reach more than 70 percent of global traffic. This growth and the increased reliance on wireless networks is putting stress on existing 802.11a/b/g/n networks. As a result of this high usage, ...Jul. 18, 2012 01:51 PM EDT Reads: 2,661 |
 This article gives you an inner insight into the design of a better singleton design pattern. In this article you will be able to learn how break a singleton design if it not designed properly. It will help you to follow the best practices adopted in the industry.
A few days ago when ...Jul. 18, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,910 |
 Most people agree that our technology is getting smarter, but most don’t realize just how smart. Sure, they know their smartphones have GPS capability and their smart appliances are capable of improving efficiency, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In reality, smart technology is...Jul. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,037 |
 Open source software has probably been the biggest driver of complex software solutions in the last decade. Access to a large variety of quality, peer-reviewed software has accelerated product development, reduced product introduction intervals and lowered the costs for producers of so...Jul. 9, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,879 |
 For many years, companies collected data from various sources that often found its way into relational databases like Oracle and MySQL. However, the rise of the Internet, Web 2.0, and recently social media began an enormous increase in the amount of data created as well as in the type ...Jul. 6, 2012 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,811 |
 Business processes manage the operational flow of business and when optimized achieve cost containment and flexibility as they need to be efficient and able to adapt to changing business conditions. The art of planning and implementing process management requires all the best cross-fun...Jul. 6, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,340 |
 If you look at some of the headline-making breaches of the past few years, they all occurred at large companies with highly dynamic and complex computing environments. Securing these environments is impossible to do without automation, which is why so much of the innovation in IT secur...May. 5, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,650 |
 There will always be a threat from malware - malicious software that is designed to steal or corrupt data on computers. Malware affects everyone from security services to silver surfers, and when it isn’t checked it can wreak havoc.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what size your busines...May. 4, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,515 |
 A recent article in Government Computer News raised the topic of FISMA reporting, specifically describing the “pessimism” of many USG agencies over meeting the September 2012 deadline for “using continuous monitoring to meet Federal Information Security Management Act reporting require...May. 4, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,686 |
 Design patterns are one of the most successful advances in software engineering, by any measure. The history of design patterns is a strange one though, and somewhere along the way, much of their original utility and elegance has been forgotten, misplaced, or simply miscommunicated. Th...May. 1, 2012 01:28 PM EDT Reads: 3,763 |
 As utilities shift to smart meters and more customer-oriented systems under new government-mandated Smart Grid initiatives, they will quickly face the need to handle billions of real-time energy utilization transactions. In this new energy arena, the high volume, low-cost model of M2M ...Apr. 30, 2012 03:50 PM EDT Reads: 2,052 |
 In his book The Art of Action (2011), Stephen Bungay identifies three gaps that frustrate the ability of organizations to translate plans into actions that lead to desired outcomes. He calls them the knowledge, alignment and effects gaps. Here, I wish to reflect on Bungay’s perspective...Apr. 16, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,943 |
 This article introduces the concepts of Component Oriented Development and Assembly (CODA) using the OSGi Service platform with an example application. The article starts with an introduction to software components, elaborates with an example application, followed by an overview of the...Apr. 10, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,309 Replies: 1 |
 When we aren’t fighting crime, taking over the world, or enjoying a good book by the fire, we here on the eEye Research team like to participate in the Any Means Possible (AMP) Penetration Testing engagements with our clients. For us, it’s a great way to interact one-on-one with IT fol...Apr. 5, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,146 |
 Any application you pick up, there are some issues – big or small. There will be copy-paste code, mistakes, algorithms which could have better thought through. But what distinguishes an antipattern from these normal errors is that like patterns these antipatterns are recurring througho...Mar. 13, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,728 |
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