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 Moore's Law states that computer system performance/price ratio will double every two years. And that was very much my expectation when Good Data started using Amazon Web Services almost 2 years ago. But I had to wait until today to see Moore’s Law at work: Amazon announced 15% d...Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 641 |
 I have been so busy getting ramped up on GoodData that I haven’t had a minute to post here in over a week. On Friday, I am headed out toOct. 28, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 535 |
 There is little doubt that cloud computing is big news, but who is gaining your mind share? Amazon, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com, have been in the news recently with a number of announcements. So many that I’ve been attempting to track them by creating specific journals for each. Our ...Oct. 28, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
 Randy Bias of CloudScaling.com has posted a 5-minute scene-setting presentation about Cloud Computing. He mentions an example where one company subdivision had such a long lead-time to get delivery of a server from another subdivision of the same company, they went to an outside provid...Oct. 27, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 620 |
 As part of a workshop at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), former colleague Leigh Dodds prepared an interesting diagram on the ways in which resources comprising the Linked Data Cloud are currently licensed.
For various reasons, I was unable to make it ...Oct. 27, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 775 |
 Perhaps by now, after you have read the:- Cloud Computing, in Plain English, to IT Directors, VP's, CIO's and CEO's - Oct. 26, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,036 |
 Applications support plug-ins for many reasons: could be to extend an application, to support features yet unforeseen, to reduce the size of an application or could be others. All in all, to make the product itself more powerful and easier to use. That’s the reason Moyea Software relea...Oct. 22, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 560 |
 Moyea HD Plugin is one of the useful plugins that used to extend the capabilities of Moyea Web Player- a handy Web FLV Player creator. It enables users to add an HD Button onto web FLV player which customized with Moyea Web Player, so that player users can start or close HD (High Defin...Oct. 22, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 504 |
 So far, there are up to 10 useful plugins available for Moyea Web Player to extend its capabilities and to meet various demands of its customers. The new V2.1.1.5 Moyea Web Player comes out exactly with optimized plugin applications to serve the goal better.Oct. 22, 2009 02:05 AM EDT Reads: 496 |
 The Four Pillars of Successful Management DevelopmentPillar 3: Structure You are choosing a management development programme for yourself or others in your organisation. Of all the factors you take into consideration – the cost, Oct. 15, 2009 11:11 AM EDT Reads: 370 |
 The thing that Dave and I both took away from PeopleSoft is that you have to stay on top of innovation, and that's what Workday is doing. We are innovating where the large ERP vendors have stopped.Oct. 14, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 745 |
 This November, I am presenting at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 West. I welcome any opportunity to speak about my favorite subject: cloud storage, and how the cloud storage segment is providing a viable road map for how to create a profitable cloud comp...Oct. 14, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,030 |
 Okay, maybe it's petty and I'm just tooting my own horn, but I found this old article I wrote for Upstream CIO's October issue (written in July '05). In rereading this article today, I surprised myself how aware I was of the forthcoming Cloud & SOA convergence.
The popularity o...Oct. 14, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 903 |
 Those of us that are part of SOA-related projects where traditional business analysts (BA) are involved often find ourselves frustrated by the incongruence between the analyst’s approach to requirements gathering and the SOA design. The problem arises because SOA models functionality ...Oct. 9, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 761 |
 I’ve always liked the power of CAML because it allows me to create so much in SharePoint without ever having to write a line of code. However, there really isn’t enough examples out there, so I like writing posts like these that focus on doing something very specific with a li... Oct. 9, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 721 |
 This year's International SOA Symposium should be an event to remember. The emphasis on Next Generation SOA topics has resulted in a lot of sessions focused on service technology and practice innovation. The co-located Cloud Symposium not only ended up expanding the overall scope of th...Oct. 7, 2009 04:58 PM EDT Reads: 454 |
 I’ve been working with InfoPath again lately since I’ve been working with Document Information Panels and I thought I would share another quick tip today. Observe the following .UDCX file. <?xml ve... Oct. 6, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 711 |
 Terrific post by Euan Semple (responding to a post by Stowe Boyd) about why he does not love the phrase "Enterprise 2.0": "...it's too narrow, too corporate and too managerial!" The name will work itself out, as names do. I have problems with entire "2.0" meme — I like that it ...Oct. 5, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 496 |
 Remember the xSP era where X was I for ISP (Internet Service Provider) or M for Managed Service Provider (MSP) or S for Storage Service Provider, part of buzzword bingo? That was similar to the xLM craze where X could have been I for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), D for Data L...Oct. 2, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 479 |
 In the sample I'm going to illustrate in this series of blog posts, I'm going to create a customer service helpdesk application. There will be a single workflow at the core of the application - the customer issue workflow. A customer calls complaining that their widget is completely, h...Oct. 1, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 854 |
 The latest consortium on the technology scene, the OMA’s mission is to foster the successful use of web data services and enterprise mashup technologies and the adoption of an open language that promotes enterprise mashup interoperability and portability. This is a high priority for mo...Oct. 1, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 673 |
 I won’t argue the private cloud comment. Really, I won’t because what’s important is the reminder that cloud isn’t the only way to realize operational efficiencies in data center architectures. This is important because not all applications are going to be able to move to “cloud” – whe...Sep. 29, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 673 |
 I think we're facing an inflection point for desktop virtualization, fueled by the pending Windows 7 release, pent-up refresh demand on PCs generally, and the need for better security and compliance on desktops. Call it a trend – and not just a virtual one. Akamai Technologies is the l...Sep. 29, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 654 |
 Landing page testing: The primary objective of landing page testing is to predict the behavior of your audience given the specific content on the landing page that they see. You will collect a limited sample of data during your test, summarize and describe it, and predict how p... Sep. 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 338 |
 Infrastructure 2.0 requires collaboration. Collaboration requires the ability to communicate. The ability to communicate requires integration. But how that integration will happen may shape the future of infrastructure and network architecture. |
 Back in the day when I was actually allowed to write code for customers the pat answer to any code being returned from QA because of problems was a flat “but it works on my machine.” Alright, alright, I’ll be honest; it wasn’t flat at all, it usually a plaintive whine. This... Sep. 24, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 525 |
 Have you ever wanted to create a site collection off the root of your site at a path such as (/MySiteCollection), only to find a screen that looks like this? ...Sep. 23, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 790 |
 Over the past few years I’ve been helping a lot of government clients design and implement architectures for information-sharing. When it comes to information-sharing one of the most important aspects is the relationships in the data being shared because it’s those relatio...Sep. 23, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 595 |
 The round of applause that greeted the suggestion that Ken Cron be promoted from Interim CEO to full CEO of Computer Associates International (renamed as CA as one of the first action items by John Swainson) left a smile on the face of Chairman Lewis Ranieri at the company's annual sha...Sep. 22, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,475 |
 BI always has merit, and in a downturn it's even more relevant, because we are really less tolerant of being able to make mistakes. We have to execute with even greater precision, and that's really what BI helps us do. The explosion of information from across the Web, from mobile devic...Sep. 21, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 842 |
 Isolation of resources in “the cloud” is moving providers toward hosted data centers and away from shared resource computing. Do we need to go back to the future and re-examine mainframe computing as a better model for isolated applications capable of sharing resources? Sep. 21, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,296 |
 What should CIOs make as priorities in the short, medium, and long terms? How can they reduce total cost, while modernizing and transforming IT? What can they do to better support their business requirements? In a nutshell, how can they best prepare for the new economy?Sep. 18, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,025 |
 There’s more than one way to address the rapid rate of change in infrastructure supporting a dynamic environment. We spend a lot of time talking about how software and systems and standards are the ultimate solution to addressing the rapid rate of change in the ass... Sep. 18, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,234 |
 There are plenty of Enterprise Architects who see the connection between Business Process Management and Service-Oriented Architecture initiatives, and who have pulled them together into "BPM enabled by SOA" efforts. This synergy, however, is not automatic, and requires some hard work...Sep. 18, 2009 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 683 |
 The main topic of this week and the most fundamental component of the cloud is infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This component refers to all the elements of delivering a Web-based service including servers, Internet connectivity, transport routing and sometimes higher-level function...Sep. 15, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,389 |
 The Open Group is leading some of the top efforts to make cloud benefits apply to mission critical IT. To learn more about the venerable group's efforts I recently interviewed Allen Brown, president and CEO. Standards and open access are increasingly important to users of cloud-based s...Sep. 14, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 751 |
 What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can... Sep. 11, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,170 |
 Quite often people wonder where a Solution Architect fits within the TOGAF Framework and it is not obvious that there is a single answer. I suggest we look first at a generic profile for a Solution Architect. Companies such as Oracle, Cisco, SAP and others have roles called Solution Ar...Sep. 9, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,072 |
 A load balancing algorithm can make or break your application’s performance and availability It is a (wrong) belief that “users” of cloud computing and before that “users” of corporate data center infrastructure didn’t need to understand any of that infrastructure.... Sep. 9, 2009 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 967 |
 The most dangerous pitfall of the SOA platform-centric approach to SOA: because it depends upon integration middleware, it succumbs to the issues with middleware that SOA was meant to address, namely the lack of agility and the increasing costs of integration over time. Basically, you'...Sep. 4, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 891 |
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