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Moving to the Cloud: The Road Ahead

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:04:00 EST

I hope it’s clear that today’s clouds are powerful resources that can be used to rapidly develop and deploy applications; they provide on-demand resources and true value. The challenges I outlined in configuration, storage, networking, and management really come into play when you try to integrate the power of the cloud with your existing infrastructure and processes. These challenges are centered on the fact that the cloud is separate from the data center – a problem that hits home when you want to utilize existing applications and rely on your existing services and infrastructure.

Command-Line Tool for Testing Web Services

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:18:00 EST

The free SOAPbox tool includes a command-line interface, called SR ("Send Request") which allows you to script the load-testing of a Web Service. You can use SR to send multiple requests to a Web Service, to simulate multiple clients, to connect through a HTTP Proxy, to send SOAP attachments to Web Services, and to vary XML message traffic. To learn about SOAPbox, press F1 on SOAPbox's install page and then check out the SR examples, or run SR -h from the command line.

Mobile SOA with Tuscany Android

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:30:00 EST

In Apache Tuscany, we have been experimenting with Google Android Platform to build Mobile SOA Applications, and we now have couple Android based samples that demonstrate a Android mobile application consuming SCA services available on the cloud. Store-android: A front end to our "Store Getting Started Guide" that consumes the catalog and shopping cart services and allow you to shop for fruits and vegetables. SCATour-android: A front end to the "SCA Tour" scenario that allows you to search for trips direct from your Android phone.

Data Loss Due to Missing or Corrupt DLL File

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:45:00 EST

Dynamic Link Library (DLL) is a file of code containing functions, which comes in use when needed by the executable program. DLL files are an important part of the Windows operating system and are required for appropriate system operation.

Lightweight SOA for Rapid SaaS Deployment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:00 EST

As part of its continual push to embrace state-of-the-art technology, EON Reality, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, is proud to join the ranks of top software architects of the industry at Microsoft's The Architecture Journal (October 2009) with their presentation on "Lightweight SOA for Rapid SaaS Development." In this presentation, EON Reality's Technical Director, Gabriyel Wong from Singapore explains the benefits of delivering 3D software as a service, challenges that his team faced when developing the EON Human community site and their approach to deliver a scalable solution by using a service-oriented architecture within a short turnaround time.

How to Tackle the Disastrous Effects of Hard Drive Damage?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST

A hard disk is a primary memory storage device that stores all the data of the system. It stores a large amount of data on an electromagnetically charged surface. Earlier, hard disks were used as a data storage device for general purpose computers.

Egypt Applies for First Non-Roman Web Domain

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

Now that ICANN has relaxed its rules on domain names in non-Roman characters, Egypt Monday became the first country to request a web address in Arabic script. .Egypt will be .masr but in Arabic script. The move is meant to open the Internet to all the folks largely in emerging markets who speak languages written in a non-Roman script such as Chinese and Korean.

Things Get Better; Dell Tanks Anyway

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

Dell’s fiscal Q3 profits plunged 54% to $337 million, or 17 cents a share, on revenues of $12.9 billion down 15%, but the company says demand is improving and, if looked at sequentially, revenues were up 1%. Wall Street expected it to show up with at least $13.2 in revenues. HP, by contrast, pre-announced its quarter last week flaunting profits that exceeded all expectations and raising its 2010 forecast.

AIR 2, Flash Player 10.1 in Beta

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST

Adobe’s AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux have been sent out to beta. Flash Player 10.1, advertised as the first “consistent browser runtime release of the Open Screen Project that will enable uncompromised web browsing of expressive applications, content and high-definition videos across the desktop and devices,” supports x86-based notebooks and should turn up on smartphones and other Internet-connected widgetry next year. It should eat less battery power and deliver better video playback. AIR 2 has enhanced support for mass storage devices and native application processes.

Galleon Doubled Down on ATI Ahead of AMD Buy

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST

According to an SEC filing the Galleon Group, the hedge fund charge with trading on insider information, double downed on ATI in 2006 to the tune of ~$125 million in shares and call options right before AMD bought it and was up 6.6% when AMD’s bid was disclosed. Galleon had a pipeline right to the top of AMD and of course this new revelation has raised more eyebrows. Regulators however have so far only charged misconduct with respect to AMD’s spin off of its plants and its taking on more investment.

Brown, IBM Unveil Multimillion-Dollar Supercomputer

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

Brown University and IBM today announced the opening of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization. The supercomputer is the most powerful computational system in Rhode Island and will be used by researchers statewide to tackle "grand challenges" affecting Ocean State residents in climate change, education, energy and health.

MindTouch Introduces New Cloud-Based Business Platform

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:45:00 EST

"The more I look at what they've done, the more I realize they've built a business platform more than a technology platform," said Sam Ramji, Vice President of Strategy at Sonoa Systems, as it was announced today that MindTouch, the open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, has today extended its popular enterprise collaboration platform to the cloud.

Chrome Netbooks a Year Off

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST

Google says it’s working with a bunch of unidentified “top OEMs” to create a Chrome notebook based on a Google hardware reference architecture that will hit market around this time next year in time for the holidays. It expects the widgets to change the basic computing model by transferring everything to the cloud. Google accepts that such a device won’t suit all use-cases but it should suit those, particularly youngsters, who spend most of their time on the web, to a “T.”

Halifax's DIME closes deal to roll lifestyle screen network in Atlantic Canada chain drug

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:37:00 EST

Toronto, Montreal and the Kitchener-Waterloo region (home to BlackBerries) have a lopsided amount of the activity going on in the digital signage sector, but there's absolutely stuff shaking elsewhere. If you subscribe to Google Alerts you see the daily release from PEI-based ScreenScape --- nice product but enough with the carpet-bombing PR, guys. Anyway, there are other things shaking down east, as well, including news of a rollout in an Atlantic Canada drug chain called Pharmasave.

WANdisco's Agile Software Development

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST

WANdisco announced that an increasing number of its customers are implementing Subversion MultiSite and Subversion Clustering to support agile practices across their large distributed development organizations. At the core of agile software development is constant collaboration between developers and continuous build integration. These customers found that a centralized server or even a proxy-server architecture was unable to effectively support agile software development with Subversion.

Open-Xchange Announces Agreement with Nexen

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST

Latest from Open-Xchange is this announcement about an agreement with Nexen-Alter Way Hosting in France to offer hosted e-mail and collaboration. This on the heels of Dotster, announced last week, and Versatel, NameCheap earlier this year. Now, Open-Xchange is used by more than 15 million people worldwide.

WaveMaker 6.0 SaaS-enables Web Apps in Minutes

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Until today, web developers creating SaaS apps have been faced with an ugly choice: use proprietary development platforms like Force.com or build an open solution from scratch. WaveMaker released the first open cloud development platform. WaveMaker 6.0 is a visual development platform that runs in a browser. WaveMaker makes it ridiculously easy for anyone to prototype, develop and customize great looking web applications.

OK Labs Appoints Atish Gude to Board of Directors

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:00 EST

Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) announced the appointment of Atish Gude to the company's Board of Directors. A seasoned mobile broadband executive, Gude brings more than a decade of strategic telecommunications experience to the OK Labs Board. Most recently, Gude served as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Clearwire Corporation, a leading provider of advanced high-speed Internet services to consumers and businesses. With his strong mobile operator background, Gude's director role reinforces OK Labs' comprehensive, end-to-end vision of the mobile/wireless ecosystem, from handset software to operator services to the end-user experience.

Custom Electronic Product Design

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:46:00 EST

From Atom to Multicore Processors, Orchid Technologies can design a custom Intel Architecture solution to meet your specific requirements. Orchid's Core2 Quad Processor board is feature packed. Designed for ruggedized operation in a small air-cooled package, our Core2 Quad Processor design is alone in its class. Critical to the success of any custom Intel Architecture design is the Embedded Controller. Orchid has developed and ported numerous Embedded Controller designs. These designs, based on Renesas 2117 and Renesas 2472 H8 processors offer ACPI, PS2 Keyboard, and Power Sequencing services.

New iGuard with Optical Fingerprint Scanner

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:46:00 EST

Now there's a new model of the popular device iGuard for access control and time attendance and management. LM520-FOSC (the new model) has an optical scanner of the latest generation that guarantees an excellent reading of the fingerprint. Customers already in possession of an iGuard with fingerprint scanner have the option to buy the kit to upgrade their model of iGuard with optical fingerprint scanner.

Breakthrough in Text to Speech Technology

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:20:00 EST

The IVO Software company, in cooperation with Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the largest British charity organization, is introducing two English speaking voices, based on revolutionary IVONA Text-to-Speech technology. They will be set up in products and services provided by RNIB to more than two million visually impaired persons.

OK, Now Imagine Distributed Data Grids in the Cloud

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:30:00 EST

Having pushed the boundaries of modern technology, ScaleOut Software, the distributed data grid start-up, can now link distributed data grids at different locations into a single logically coherent grid. Seems a simple thing but it’s been illusive and ScaleOut says it’s the first to manage it. So now with its widgetry developers can migrate data across geographies seamlessly without having to replicate it site-to-site.

Cloud Computing Fuels Rapid Growth for Cycle Computing

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:00 EST

Cycle Computing, providing proven, secure and flexible high performance computing (HPC) and open source solutions in the cloud, today announced that the increasing enterprise demand for HPC and cloud computing is fueling its rapid expansion across industries. Cycle helps cutting-edge companies across market segments, including Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Varian Inc. in the pharmaceutical and life sciences space, to create their own supercomputers for unparalleled freedom and flexibility, faster time-to-market, increased productivity and reduced IT spend.

Cross-Platform Data Migration

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

This article provides a step-by-step approach to cloning the DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) across platforms and describes the usage of DB2 utilities that help to accomplish the task. There is no direct support in DB2 UDB for cross-platform backup and restore operations. It means one cannot simply take a backup of your DB2 UDB running on the Windows operating system and restore it to DB2 UDB running on the Linux operating system.

Panasas and Cray Certify Powerful, Easy-to-Manage Supercomputing Solution

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:00:00 EST

Panasas today announced that it has collaborated with Cray Inc. to certify Panasas storage with the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer. For organizations wanting to harness supercomputing power without the complexity of traditional computing clusters, the combined solution delivers exceptional performance with the ease of use and seamless integration of a workstation.

British Airways Selects Progress Software SOA Solutions

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:01:00 EST

Progress Software Corporation has announced that British Airways (BA) will use its portfolio of SOA solutions as a key part of its travel program to upgrade its IT systems. This will extend to the end of 2014 and will revolutionize travel by integrating over 600 different electronic systems and processes involved in getting BA passengers in the air.

Fixing Your B2B Website

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST

As a PR pro, I am often asked to review and comment on existing websites. In many cases, a company has just plunked down thousands of dollars on a website makeover only to find the results disappointing (at best). No wonder. Websites are often designed and created by HTML or PHP experts, not marketing pros. The [...]

Markets Are Networks

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

I gave a keynote at theCanadian Marketing Association's Marketing Week conference in Toronto a couple of days ago. It was a new talk, and I tried to structure it carefully. I've gone through my slides, and here's an extended summary of what I said (or meant) in this 35-minute ...

The Four Stages of SOA Governance

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:45:00 EST

For several years now, ZapThink has spoken about SOA Governance "in the narrow" vs. SOA governance "in the broad." SOA governance in the narrow refers to governance of the SOA initiative, and focuses primarily on the Service lifecycle. When vendors try to sell you SOA governance gear, they're typically talking about SOA governance in the narrow. SOA governance in the broad, in contrast, refers to IT governance in the SOA context. In other words, how will SOA help with IT governance (and by extension, corporate governance) once your SOA initiative is up and running?

The Triumph of the Ho-Hum SOA

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:45:00 EST

If you’ve followed the arc of the SOA revolution, you might have expected the current moment to be one of great fanfare and proclamations of success. SOA (was supposed to have) arrived! SOA (was supposed to be) an accepted standard for software development and enterprise architecture. Yet, as we have seen, the naysayers appear to have had their day. SOA is DOA, we are told again and again.

MontaVista Sells Out Cheap

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:45:00 EST

In a move reminiscent of Intel and Wind River, Cavium Networks, maker of specialty ARM and Mips processors, is buying MontaVista Software, the embedded Linux shop, for $50 million and it’s only paying $16 million in cash. The rest is stock. MontaVista, however, took in at least $93 million since it started 10 years ago from folks like Siemens, US Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures, NEC, IBM, Sony, WR Hambrecht, Samsung, Infineon, China Development Industrial Bank, Intel, Panasonic, Toshiba, Yamaha and RRE Ventures. A lot of those guys were MontaVista customers along with major accounts like Cisco, Dell, HP, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent and NTT DoCoMo.

Midmarket ERP Solutions Comparison Guide

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST

The ERP Comparison Guide shortens the time needed to purchase ERP software for companies looking to get 2009 off to a successful start! Begin accurately controlling costs, inventory and revenue forecasts in 2009.

Intel to Industry: Nothing’s Changed

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Despite agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, which sounds like an admission of guilt, Intel claims it’s done nothing wrong and never did – and such a position is memorialized in the 20-page deal it signed with AMD Wednesday. Intel CEO Paul Otellini claims it would have been improvident for Intel to risk losing the complex, nuanced AMD antitrust case that was supposed to go trial in March.

Tech Data Opens Symantec Solutions Center

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:31:00 EST

Tech Data Corporation a leading IT products distributor announced the opening of the Symantec Solutions Center at its worldwide headquarters in Clearwater. The facility — the latest addition to Tech Data’s 6,000-square-foot solutions center — is a state-of-the art learning environment providing access to all the Symantec solutions sold by Tech Data. Newly constructed, the center is open and available for resellers to introduce their employees and end-user customers to Symantec’s security and data-protection solutions.

The Hollywood Reporter Taps Meebo to Increase Traffic

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:00 EST

Meebo, the company that enables real-time social interactions, today announced that The Hollywood Reporter, a Nielsen Business Media property, will integrate the Meebo Bar into The Hollywood Reporter’s destination website, www.thr.com. Seth Sternberg, founder and CEO of Meebo, Alex Boyce, Online Director with Nielsen Business Media & Entertainment Group, and Nikki Hamedani, Senior Digital Marketing Manager with Nielsen Business Media & Entertainment Group, will demonstrate the new functionality at Meebo’s industry event tonight in San Francisco, CA.

First look: Christie's MicroTiles

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:18:00 EST

I had an invite to go see the new MicroTiles display technology announced this week by Christie Digital. They did a soft-launch of the product for environmental (as in rooms, not trees) design people at a function in New York.

Disclaimer - I am doing some writing for them

I had not seen it until now, and the technology is very impressive. The seams all but disappear and the shapes are really interesting. The event had a strong Canadian touch as the technology comes largely out of the Waterloo, Ontario office of Christie and most of the stunning content that was done was by Montreal's Arsenal Media. The gesture technology that was demo'd was by another Montreal company, Float 4. Content was also produced by UK-based AMiGO and NY's Show and Tell.

This really does change the display game in some environments, though the MSRP price per cube is north of $3K right now, so this stuff will turn up flagship installs, not in corner stores. Mass production would change that.

I took some pix, and also grabbed a couple from Christire's Facebook page.

Pervasive Data Quality

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:15:00 EST

Overcome the obstacles that keep data quality solutions tactical, departmental, and unsustainable. Learn how to drive pervasive data quality throughout your organization to all stakeholders, projects, domains, applications, and geographies.

Collaborative Data Integration

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

When business requirements align with IT delivery, your company works faster, cheaper, and smarter. This white paper shows how Informatica 9 helps the business and IT collaborate to support critical data quality and data integration initiatives.

Tyler Technologies Wins $1.6 Million Multi-Solution Contract

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:18:00 EST

Moore County has contracted for several of Tyler's Munis revenue applications, including North Carolina Tax and Motor Vehicle Billing. Additionally, it has selected the Web-based Citizen Self Service application, which provides citizens with the capability to pay tax bills online. For assessment software, the County has chosen Tyler's iasWorld solution, a fully integrated system that includes CAMA (computer aided mass appraisal), assessment administration, and inquiry & appeals tracking.

LG Electronics, Electrolux Join Smart Grid

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:15:00 EST

HomeGrid Forum is a global, non-profit trade group promoting the International Telecommunication Union's G.hn standardization efforts for next-generation home networking. HomeGrid Forum promotes adoption of G.hn through technical and marketing efforts, addresses certification and interoperability of G.hn-compliant products, and cooperates with complementary industry alliances. For more information, visit www.HomeGridForum.org. The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) is a leading industry association that promotes advanced technologies in homes and buildings in North America. The organization is supported by an international membership of nearly 400 companies involved in the design, manufacture, installation and retailing of products relating to home automation and building automation. Public organizations, including utilities and government, are also members. CABA's mandate includes providing its members with networking and market research opportunities. For more information, visit www.caba.org.

Eastern Europe (Micro)Stock is rising up

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:33:00 EST

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Survey Results Confirms Security Dominates the SaaS Market

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:01:00 EST

The webcast, which took place on November 5, featured Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, and Greg Olsen, director business development, Sendmail, Inc., who revealed data results from two recent studies, conducted by Osterman Research. Both studies underscored the idea that “security dominates the SaaS market today.” During the webcast, the speakers elaborated on what functions will most likely be outsourced in the future, noting basic email security functions such as, anti-spam, bulk email, anti-virus, and anti-malware as the most likely candidates.

HP To Buy 3Com

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:45:00 EST

HP is going to buy 3Com, which has been for sale forever, for $2.7 billion in cash, making it HP’s fourth-largest acquisition ever and giving Cisco a comeuppance for treading on HP’s server toes. HP says that the acquisition will make it number two in networking behind Cisco, which dominates the space. It will also give HP what Cisco wants – edge-to-data center solutions. It remains to be seen how IBM responds to a shuffled deck.

Is ESB Mandatory for SOBA?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:15:00 EST

Deploy ESB if you really need integration solution for your Service Oriented Business Application.

Indian Social Security System to Use NComputing Virtual Desktop

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:45:00 EST

NComputing Inc. announced that it has won a massive computerization contract from Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) alongside Wipro for deploying 31,000 NComputing virtual desktops in ESIC offices and clinics across the country. ESIC will use 31,000 NComputing thin-client workstations and vSpace Virtualization Software to outfit all ESIC offices and clinics with state-of-the-art green IT systems. ESIC is the Indian Government Chartered insurance and healthcare organization delivering Social Security benefits to employed individuals and their families. It provides health insurance and delivers medical care through over 2,200 facilities across India.

Developing Strategic Content

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:15:00 EST

I’m going to ask you a few questions. No answers today. Just questions you may want to answer for yourselves. How will you know that the content you are providing is the appropriate content for your prospect base? What skills do you need to have in addition to the ones you already have, to ensure that the [...]

Google Wave Finds Exegete

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

Someone has volunteered to try to explain what the heck Google Wave is. Whether it was worth her time remains to be seen. See http://completewaveguide.com/.

iPhone’s Got 100,000 Very Lonely Apps

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

There are now 100,000 Apple iPhone/iPod apps – obviously some of the loneliest apps in the world – and two billion downloads. Apple’s App Store is now open in 77 countries. It started 16 months ago with 500 apps. By the way, Fortune has named Steve Jobs “CEO of the Decade.” The magazine’s piece on Jobs says he twice considered taking Apple private – once on Larry Ellison’s dime – or financing Larry arranged – and later in a leveraged buyout by Silver Lake Partners.

Thieves-Spotting Technology Moves to the Cloud

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:15:00 EST

Uniloc USA, which is good at identifying network devices, has launched WebAnchor, extending its physical device recognition technology to the cloud. The widgetry includes a physical, tangible identifier for online services and SaaS applications such as business applications, banking, financial services and social networking sites and should cut down on fraud, phishing and identity theft. Uniloc figures it’s easier to lock out the machines the bad guys are using than try to keep up with all the phony avatars they keep inventing.

EC-Oracle Standoff Degenerates to Name Calling

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST

The European Commission Tuesday responded in kind to Oracle’s contention that its decision to potentially block Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun because of MySQL – whose revenues are barely a rounding error in Oracle’s books – shows “a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics.” The EC dismissed Oracle’s argument that “MySQL is open source, it cannot be controlled by anyone. That is the whole point of open source” as “facile and superficial.”