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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 The saying “if it doesn’t exist on the Internet, it doesn’t exist”[1] is ringing truer every day. Nowadays, it is hard to imagine most businesses without an e-commerce platform, let alone without a web presence at all. Since e-commerce is becoming the new standard, e-commerce performan...May. 24, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,187 |
 On May 22, Ethernet – Robert Metcalfe’s ingenious invention –celebrated its 40th anniversary. As the global tech community celebrates this milestone for one of the world’s most transformative technologies, we take a look at its evolution from a printer-to-printer communication system a...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 618 |
 Complexity is the new reality of web and mobile applications with almost no new release going out without the addition of services and applications spread across many different companies. But the reality of this new interrelationship is still the same: If a third-party Internet outage ...May. 24, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 726 |
 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: 614 |
 Part 2 of a two part blog series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
Through observation, Fred notices that even...May. 18, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,380 |
 The last few years in IT have seen us move from a proactive to a reactive environment. For decades, the boundaries in communication technology were pushed by government, military and business needs. As technology improved and costs dropped, innovations were gradually adapted for the co...May. 16, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,099 |
 Here at AppNeta, we get to see a lot about how people build their web applications. From simple PHP scripts to heavily service-oriented Java clouds to monolithic Django apps, everybody’s product is architected a little differently. We’re still out to trace everything, and today I want ...May. 15, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 758 |
 We have all been getting used to the term Big Data by now. Despite varying definitions of what it is supposed to mean across a variety of computing platforms and use cases, we typically understand Big Data to refer to anything from “hundreds” of gigabytes for smaller organizations thro...May. 13, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 997 |
 The first law of change management is not to use change management. To be more precise, the first law of change management is not to use change management until you use configuration management first.
Okay so that might be a slightly sneaky way of making a point, but many change manag...May. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,187 |
 This morning Cognizant, the company where I work as an analyst, reported their earnings. In the earnings call Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza stated, "This year we expect to deliver about $500 million in SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) related services." That is a significant...May. 10, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,612 |
 Part 1 – of a two part series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
As a product manager at Netuitive, I’m often put...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,372 |
 Every young software business is different. Yet regardless of niche, competitive pressures or economic conditions, all startups face the same key issues. It’s possible to survive those hectic, early years as a bootstrapped business – even thrive during them. All you need is…
1) An ide...May. 9, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,607 |
 This week I read an interesting article titled, Mobile Phone Data Redraws Bus Routes in Africa. Seems the MNO (mobile network operator) Orange released 2.5 billion phone records (anonymised data) from 5 million phones for an exercise on how Big Data could be used to improve lives.
Th...May. 9, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,157 |
 I teach a lot of SMAC strategies workshops (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) around the world. Conducting these involves a lot of travel. I have been pondering these last few days just how much my travel experience has changed over the past decade.
I could continue. I research ...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 704 |
 I read the following question recently, "Are we acting strategically enough to matter?" I remember the question, because I believe it is so important for us all to answer. It is a question all IT and business people should be asking themselves!
In this picture of charging elephants,...May. 8, 2013 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 500 |
 Talent recruiting is undergoing a major shift with the introduction of Big Data, turning a traditional industry on its head.
Previously, recruiting was primarily conducted through open directories like Monster.com, where candidates were spammed according to keyword matches. Then the j...May. 6, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,353 |
 Back in the misty eons of time, it used to be easy to measure the performance of your application. You’d grab a stopwatch, load up your web application, and see what happend. If it was slow, you’d look at the mess of PHP, HTML and CSS you crammed into index.php and make sure that you w...May. 5, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,114 |
 A question that every online application provider will face eventually is: Does my application scale? Can I add an extra 100 users and still ensure the same user experience? If the application architecture is properly designed the easiest way is to put an additional server behind the l...May. 5, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
 I started my career as a Telecom Engineer for Rational Software in the load testing space back in the late ’90s, and when I look back on the last decade, there were enormous advances in the broader IT world including development methodologies, processing speeds, network speeds, mobile ...May. 3, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,998 |
 In this version of the book the author still starts off by answering the question, "Why do we need another C# book?". I was asking myself that very question when I turned to the introduction of C# 4.0 Unleased which was the first version of this book I read. He says "In short, what set...May. 3, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,071 |
 George Newstrom, head of Dell's federal government defense and national security business, outlines the evolution of information technology from mainframes and servers to "disruptive" technologies such as cloud computing and mobile devices.
Platform one saw mainframes and terminals hi...May. 3, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,174 |
 When you look at the database market, it’s a virtual jungle out there. Those of us in the industry 15 years ago can look back and remember when we only had the option to use a relational database from Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft or IBM. That was pretty much it if you were planning to bui...May. 2, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,846 |
 A long time ago, before gray hairs appeared on my head, I was an IT manager. My title was B2B E-Commerce Manager for a computer manufacturer. I remember sitting in long meetings discussing how successful Dell Computer was with their just in time manufacturing and just in time supply ...May. 1, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,273 |
 I have Google's Blogger app on my iPhone and iPad mini. I can write articles for publication from anywhere with an Internet connection, but are they read, are they shared? That is our subject for today.
One of the biggest growth areas involving mobility is mobile marketing. If your...Apr. 29, 2013 01:22 PM EDT Reads: 966 |
 Our fundamental unit of performance data is the trace, an incredibly rich view into the performance of an individual request moving through your web application. Given all this data and the diversity of the contents of any individual trace, it’s important to have an interface for under...Apr. 26, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,448 |
 TTNET, the largest internet service provider in Turkey, with six million subscribers, significantly improved applications deployment while cutting costs and time to delivery.
What was the situation there before you became more automated, before you started to use more software tools?...Apr. 26, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,448 |
 Many software vendors, analyst and journalist are overusing the term “Data Governance” in today’s complex business and IT environments. However, it has become one of the primary goals and drivers for data-related IT projects while at the same time being one of the most difficult to def...Apr. 26, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,817 |
 In mobile app development, we're seeing a major philosophical split between the "nativists" (running directly on the device hardware) and the "virtualizers" (with their scripting and interpretive layers and containers).
Both enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) know the...Apr. 25, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,668 |
 I’m excited to announce a new feature to TraceView – the Data API.
In a nutshell, the Data API exposes all of those high-level metrics you’re collecting in TraceView over REST, formatted as JSON. Now you can take that data, jam it into your own system and do whatever you need to make ...Apr. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,100 |
 I would invite anyone in an IT department buried in demand for mobile apps to first take a look at Google Enterprise, before trying to develop everything yourself. There are many mobile capabilities already available in the Google world which are free to individuals and available free...Apr. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,321 |
 I started in the web performance industry – well before Application Performance Management (APM) existed – during a time when external, single page measurement ruled the land. In an ecosystem where no other solutions existed, it was the top of the data chain to support the rapidly evol...Apr. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,727 |
 A few weeks back webserver request queueing came under heightened scrutiny as rapgenius blasted Heroku for not using as much autotune as promised in their “intelligent load balancing”. If you somehow missed the write-up (or response), check it out for its great simulations of load bala...Apr. 19, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,031 |
 In my research on companies that are transforming themselves by adopting an integrated SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) strategy, I came across a recent blog article by the CIO of Woolworths Limited, Dan Beecham. I will share some excerpts from it here.
Woolworths is an Aus...Apr. 18, 2013 01:44 PM EDT Reads: 1,663 |
 Abstractness is a measure of the rigidity of a software system. Higher the abstraction, lower the rigidity (or greater the flexibility) and vice versa. And the stability is a measure of tolerance to change as in how well the software system allows changes to it without breaking it. Thi...Apr. 18, 2013 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,542 |
 I was a little wary of this book when I first saw it. No real specific red flag came up, just the general thought of yet another TDD book that magically unlocks agility.
The author caught me by surprise as I started to read the book. He starts off with the way we need to change our vi...Apr. 17, 2013 09:26 AM EDT Reads: 634 |
 IT departments within companies are seeing the growth of a more complex IT environment fueled by growing user demands for more flexible and productive solutions. The growing desire of users to have instant access to their IT services from any device at any given time – combined with IT...Apr. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,670 |
 There is little argument at this point that the mass adoption of mobile technology and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies by enterprises is a true business technology revolution. At the core, the catalysts driving this revolution are the vast array of mobile devices leveraging soa...Apr. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,712 |
 This book is THE book for the database beginner. It thoroughly covers design principles and process, and it covers them in depth.
The book is broken into four parts, Part I: Relational Database Design, Part II: The Design Process, Part III: Other Database Design Issues, and Part IV: A...Apr. 12, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,284 |
 We have been blogging about the same problems and problem patterns we see while working with our customers over the past few of years. There have always been the classic application performance landmines in the areas of inefficient database access, misconfigured frameworks, excessive m...Apr. 11, 2013 03:25 PM EDT Reads: 1,900 |
 Agile is not easy and implementing Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is not easy. I think my favorite part of the book is that the author realizes that, and also has a realistic perspective on what it takes to successfully use agile processes and DDD.
The book starts out with a really nice o...Apr. 10, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,173 |
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