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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 With the end of year approaching, I find myself looking back at some of our new projects in the second half of 2012 and studying the commonalities. We remain focused on Fortune 500 companies where applications are global, complex, transactional and virtualized – where the need for anal...Jan. 2, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,571 |
 There are quite a few academic papers and products inspired by the vision of memory-centric DBMS. Most of modern databases serving business applications can already fit within large server RAM available today (2TB). DBMS are heading to memory centric designs and implementation.
Contem...Jan. 2, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,904 |
 Highlighting Mobile Carriers and LTE, Vitesse offers top five industry predictions for 2013. Vitesse’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Nuss and Director of Product Marketing Uday Mudoi shared their thoughts on what will be big in the coming year:
Carrier LTE deployments will double to...Dec. 31, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 2,581 |
 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: 3,495 |
 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: 3,832 |
 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: 4,295 |
 Evolving regulatory compliance requirements can be a major headache for the IT teams responsible for identity and access management (IAM). Sarbanes Oxley, the wide range of privacy regulations and other federal requirements, have transformed IAM from a problem that keeps the chief info...Dec. 27, 2012 06:11 AM EST Reads: 3,246 |
 Software developers and service providers need a period of usability testing before launch to find out how the product stands up in the hands of end users. An experienced QA team will ferret out bugs and identify major issues, but they won’t use your software like a customer will. The ...Dec. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,020 |
 Sparx has release a new version of Enterprise Architect. This tool is by far the best software engineering tool available on the market today. I have been using it as my primary tool for Enterprise and Software Architecture for years now. If you have never checked it out, now is as goo...Dec. 20, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,475 |
 The RESTful world distinguishes between resource state and application state, which is the state information the client maintains. And since hypermedia are the engine of application state, it makes sense that application state is more important to REST than resource state. After all, R...Dec. 17, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,371 |
 The rise of Big Data and the monolithic systems that are now being built on increasingly cloud-based data models is a reality we cannot ignore.
This reality has popularized discussions relating to the core component mechanics of many firms’ IT stacks.
Key among these technologies i...Dec. 15, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,271 |
 Personally, I’m more of a last-minute holiday shopper, but nonetheless, there I was being dragged out to the brick and mortar stores on Black Friday. Given that my role seemed to be limited to that of manual laborer (“Honey, can you carry all this for me?”), I had a lot of time to peop...Dec. 14, 2012 04:15 AM EST Reads: 2,178 |
 Most of us can probably still reference fellow employees (and quite a few managers) who passed the Internet off as nothing more than a passing fad as recently as the turn of the millennium.
The “modern” business procedures of 1999 were already pretty slick and refined and fax machines...Dec. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,707 |
 AIG International Group is among IT leaders who are improving performance of their services to deliver better experiences and payoffs for businesses and end-users alike.
Many organizations are now focusing more on the user experience and the business benefits and less on pure technolo...Dec. 12, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 2,223 |
 Embarcadero on Monday made generally available C++Builder XE3, which allows a common development effort to natively target Windows 8, Mac OS X and Intel clients.
The modern class of C and C++ tools are workhorses of PC applications development. And Objective-C tools have proven the r...Dec. 12, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,954 |
 Anyone who ever monitored or analyzed an application uses or has used averages. They are simple to understand and calculate. We tend to ignore just how wrong the picture is that averages paint of the world. To emphasis the point let me give you a real-world example outside of the perfo...Dec. 12, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 14,200 Replies: 1 |
 The aim of the Architecture Assurance is to provide collaborative architecture processes for assuring complete implementation of the technical solutions that are aligned with the business drivers of an enterprise in a timely environment. The effective sharing of the information across ...Dec. 8, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,679 |
 Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In the past, mobile played a smaller role in business applications, so performance issues and outages were less of a concer...Dec. 7, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 3,393 |
 SAP HANA promised to not just make databases dramatically faster like traditional business warehouse accelerator systems but instead speed up the front end, enabling companies to run arbitrary, complex queries on billions of records in a matter of seconds as opposed to hours. The vendo...Dec. 4, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,608 |
 Swarovski – the leading producer of cut crystal in the world – relies on its eCommerce store as much like other companies in the highly competitive eCommerce environment. Swarovski’s story is no different from others in this space: They started with “Let’s build a website to sell our p...Dec. 3, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 3,435 |
 Backup of enterprise information and associated data protection are fragmented, complex, and inefficient. But new approaches are helping to simplify the data-protection process, keep costs in check, and improve recovery speed and confidence.
If you look back 20 years ago, we had heter...Dec. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,585 |
 Efficiency may be the most commonly used term in enterprise software marketing – that or “ensure.” And not without reason – efficiency is one of the key value propositions of most enterprise software, from collaboration tools, to productivity tools, to integration tools and beyond. At ...Nov. 30, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,410 |
 In the current world, data is continuously being generated across various layers of organizations and environment due to changes in the system states or due to the occurrence of new events. These changes in the state of the existing system can happen due to the arrival of a new order r...Nov. 29, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 6,174 |
 This book is the perfect size and the perfect depth for getting up to speed quickly with building Windows 8 Store Applications.
The book starts by introducing WinRT. This introduction includes a really nice history of how Microsoft got to where they are now. It starts with a look back...Nov. 26, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,137 |
 If you are looking for a hosting service with the intention of having a dedicated server, a managed dedicated server plan is your best choice. It’s the best hosting account due to the fact that you get instantly set up, automatic migrations are included, you get full technical and hard...Nov. 23, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,022 |
 Idera sets its sights on addressing server sprawl by allowing enterprises to back up all their servers, easily and economically.
Idera wants to make it practical to back up every server on the planet. With the release of its Server Backup 5.0 and new pricing structure, the company bel...Nov. 19, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,108 |
 Multi-tasking is not about doing two things at once in most circumstances, it's about effectively moving from one task to another. It was only fairly recently that I cracked the myth of multitasking, and found an attitude toward it that I am comfortable with.
These days, I see it th...Nov. 16, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,152 |
 The debate between data and information has been going on for quite some time. When people say “knowledge is power”, are they referring to data or information? Is knowledge different still? And how about “intelligence” where does that fit?
How can we go from data to information to kno...Nov. 16, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,520 |
 Quest Software has begun supporting BYOD -- even with the full blessing of IT, and this has had benefits far beyond just the users’ sense of empowerment.
The growing acceptance of bring your own device (BYOD) at enterprises comes with promise and perils.
We'll see how this has had be...Nov. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,467 |
 Service enablement of existing enterprise applications helps us to extend the functionality of enterprise applications to mobile devises. Service enablement framework is explained in the multi layered approach for mobile browsers and also for native mobile applications. Different ways ...Nov. 14, 2012 03:17 PM EST Reads: 2,132 |
 Businesses must exploit open collaboration advances in procurement and finance to produce new types of productivity benefits, say an industry analyst and Ariba executive.
And the benefits of improved data integration and the process efficiencies of cloud computing are additionally hel...Nov. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,926 |
 A CIO should not be concerned with buying technology from different silos and vendors but instead acquiring solutions that solve business problems. Long gone are the days when it was acceptable for a CIO to proudly boast the magnitude of their data centres and the large technology grow...Nov. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,644 |
 IT infrastructure today is in a state of continuous evolution. Recently we have witnessed several technology breakthroughs in the form of cloud computing, mobility, social networking, etc.
Cloud has become a reality in the enterprise world. Most organizations have tested cloud in th...Nov. 13, 2012 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,069 |
 An eCommerce site that crashes seven times during the Christmas season being down for up to five hours each time it crashes is a site that loses a lot of money and reputation. It happened to one of our customers who told this story at our annual performance conference earlier this mont...Nov. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,591 |
 BMC Software this week launched MyIT, an enterprise IT help desk solution that empowers employees to take more personal control over their IT services and to get the right type of help they need -- anytime, anywhere, from any device.
Frustration with company IT departments is a widely...Nov. 4, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 4,364 |
 Does the following situation sound familiar? From one minute to the other, your production servers grind to a halt, terse emails are complemented by equally hectic phone calls, and the first order of business is to get back up and running. After the dust settles, you’re usually left wi...Oct. 27, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,441 |
 Traditional Enterprise Database vendors often bring up the lack of professional monitoring and management tool support for NoSQL solutions. Their argument is that enterprise applications require sophisticated tuning and monitoring of the database in order to ensure a performant and smo...Oct. 27, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,537 |
 On my recent visits to Velocity, WebPerfDay and Apps World in London, Real User Monitoring (RUM) was the hot topic. That triggered my thinking about the differences between vendors. They all promise the same for a varying range of prices – from free to a couple thousand US dollars. Wha...Oct. 22, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,802 |
 Only a fraction of organizations will migrate to Agile methods completely and for all projects. The reality is, many types of projects are not well suited for Agile approaches for a variety of reasons. Some organizations run multiple projects across many departments and corporate entit...Oct. 20, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,097 |
 Thanks to the great guys who help our customers with their application performance problems we can share some of their stories in this article. We hope you – responsible for application performance in your own organization – can leverage these findings in order to prevent these common ...Oct. 20, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,618 |
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