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May. 16, 2012
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 How can businesses harness the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets?
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software, will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management is importa...May. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 588 |
 This article details 12 routines for a Windows Server 2008 user to accelerate the learning and adoption of Windows Server 2012 without the need of a touch device. It is intended for those who are familiar with the administration of Windows Server 2008 (or later) to become comfortable w...May. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 668 |
 There was a time, not so very long ago, when IT directors and chief information officers dismissed the Internet as something of a passing fad. Somehow though, things took off pretty well with the whole web thing didn't they? Mobile telephony has also grown to a level of dominance that ...May. 16, 2012 09:21 AM EDT Reads: 211 |
 Called “the biggest software company you haven’t heard of yet” by one of its shiny new backers, 10-year-old Qualtrics has gotten $70 million from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the VCs’ largest joint investment ever. It’s also the company’s first outside investment.
Reportedly...May. 16, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 802 |
 You knew this was gonna happen, right?
Facebook has repriced its IPO upwards from $28-$35 a share to $34-$38 a share giving it a valuation of $92 billion-$104 billion, a neighborhood more to its liking than the original $77 billion-$96 billion. The actual price won’t be set until Thur...May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 567 |
 Here we are less than three days before Facebook’s historic $100 billion IPO and General Motors or “people familiar with the matter” let slip to the Wall Street Journal that GM’s going to stop advertising on the social networking site because the paid ads are ineffective.
The big Ame...May. 16, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 713 |
 Compuware Corporation on Tuesday announced a deep transaction management solution for dynamic cloud and Big Data applications. The Compuware APM Spring 2012 Platform Release introduces new innovations in Compuware dynaTrace Enterprise that simplify performance optimization, operation a...May. 15, 2012 01:10 PM EDT Reads: 666 |
 The cloud has many benefits, but when it comes to application development, how does the cloud help enterprises and development teams create custom software and applications that end users actually care about? Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Uni...May. 15, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 825 |
 Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, on Tuesday announced the availability of their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications as an add-on for the AppHarbor .Net platform and for AppFog's PHP Fog PHP platform.
Xeround's add-on provides .NET and PHP developers using these platform...May. 15, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 455 |
 This sound familiar?
Mozilla is complaining that Microsoft is impeding its Firefox web browser from getting on the devices being designed to carry the unseen next-generation Windows for ARM chip, now officially called Windows RT.
RT, which has a Metro environment for tablets and pho...May. 14, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 997 |
 To answer this question we need to take a closer look at the requirements for a server system to be considered cloud ready and then investigate the different features of Windows Server 2012 that does or does not meet these requirements. May. 13, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 858 |
 One of the most powerful IT case studies I have read recently was the Microsoft one for their own in-house `Salesforce 2.0′ platform, what they call Infopedia. As detailed in the full white paper on this topic of Cloud 2.0, when it is applied to the sales activities of an organiz...May. 11, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,426 |
 With cloud adoption becoming a de-facto option for small and medium enterprises, large enterprises are relatively slower in their adoption of cloud. The main reason is that large enterprises have a very complex existing IT setup and no single offering from various cloud providers has y...May. 11, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,179 |
 IT exists to support the business - and in best-of-class IT departments, this truism is embedded deeply into the departmental culture.
Yet in so many cases, this self-evident truth gets lost in the mayhem of building, maintaining and supporting the myriad of complicated and brittle le...May. 11, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,071 |
 I talk to a lot of CIOs. I met with one recently who oversees the IT operation of a $6 Billion yearly entertainment-related company with about 7,000 employees. This top-notch exec was all about transforming a huge investment in existing IT infrastructure into a new dynamic, extensible...May. 10, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,267 |
 The rapid pace of technology adoption growth is driving application consumption. It impacts an ever-increasing spectrum of projects across IT organizations such as data center consolidation/expansion, application distribution, mobile workforce enablement, disaster recovery, backup and ...May. 10, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,107 |
 The PaaS competition heats up with Amazon adding ASP.NET support to its AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and MS SQL Server to the Amazon RDS offerings. This is a significant announcement from Amazon as it draws the battle lines with Microsoft which is aggressively positioning Windows ...May. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,075 |
 I occasionally get questions from clients who are using Agile and Scrum frameworks for software development.
Techniques and tools aside, it is often questions about the fundamentals of collaboration that seem to be getting in the team’s way.
Unlike most of the rest of the universe, ...May. 9, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 812 |
 For years, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets in an enterprise. The current wave of cloud services can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT, with the potential for significant cost savin...May. 9, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,331 |
 In a world of ever-increasing demand for performance vs cost, the importance of optimizing infrastructure utilization is critical. With today’s easy access to extremely high-performance hardware and the overabundance of management software, it is easy to “over subscribe” either acciden...May. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,854 |
 The application release lifecycle is unnecessarily complex, manual and time-consuming and its cumbersome nature is putting businesses in a position of weakness. This one very critical process determines how fast a business can deliver products to market and yet is complex, error-prone ...May. 8, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,443 |
 The elastic resources offered by cloud computing have created an exciting opportunity for applications to handle very large workloads. However, writing applications that span an elastic pool of virtual servers creates huge challenges for developers. How can these virtual servers easily...May. 8, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 931 |
 Community cloud services are services that are shared by multiple members of a community. They centralize the functions and can provide specific mission requirements. The mission requirements can be related to specific policies and compliance. Community clouds leverage the benefits of ...May. 8, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 788 |
 A growing throng of Open Compute Project (OCP) disciples converged on Rackspace headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, this week to overturn the established sixty-year-old EIA 310-D rack standard inherited from railroad signaling relays and telephone switching and in its place substitute ...May. 7, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,502 |
 The US Department of the Interior has moved its e-mail business to Google, which sued when the agency gave Microsoft a five-year $59.3 million cloud-based e-mail contract in 2010 claiming the department’s research was “stale” and Microsoft’s security wasn’t certified for government use...May. 7, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,328 |
 Elemental Design Patterns are the underlying core concepts of programming and software design that have remained described.
This book is a book I wish I had 15 years ago to help me put the basics of programming into their proper context. Learning how to make use of patterns over the y...May. 7, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,333 |
 First, let’s make it clear what an endpoint is. In Microsoft’s world this term represents any client computer, server, or laptop in an organization. Forefront Endpoint Protection is a line-of-business application developed by Microsoft to provide defense against viruses, worms, and oth...May. 7, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 665 |
 The most enjoyable part of my job at AppDynamics is to witness and evangelize customer success. What’s slightly strange is that for this to happen, an application has to slow down or crash. It’s a bittersweet feeling when End Users, Operations, Developers and many Businesse...May. 6, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 886 |
 Enterprises want to mix the best of their own data centers with private and public cloud services without compromising security and uptime. Making internal information assets available to work across private and public clouds requires a management layer that can stitch together dispara...May. 5, 2012 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,487 |
 It's frustrating that business users will often articulate about IT and the enterprise technology architect, but more frequently in an environment where one of the major ERP vendor products like SAP or Oracle Business Suite have been invested in. I am talking about the general disregar...May. 4, 2012 02:52 PM EDT Reads: 520 |
 In my previous article for PowerBuilder Developer’s Journal (Vol. 18 issue 8), I gave a sneak preview of some of the things we were working on for PB15 Classic. This is a closer look at one of them – Tabs and Docking in MDI Windows.
Recall that in the article we mentioned adding two n...May. 4, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 936 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Concentric Cloud Solutions, a provider of new cloud computing, content acceleration, and cloud voice solutions for businesses, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in...May. 4, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 949 |
 Please hold your skepticism, keep an open mind, go through the following points and only then pass a judgment on my prediction that “three years down Windows Phone would have overtaken Android."
The UI is different but very well designed for mobile and tablet. The same view is express...May. 3, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,743 |
 In what FOSS Patents calls the “most anticipated German patent ruling ever,” the Mannheim Regional Court Wednesday gave Motorola Mobility the permanent injunction it was looking for against Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Xbox and they might be using those things...May. 3, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 895 |
 Traditional middleware is not suitable for the Cloud; it’s simply too complex and it doesn’t provide a pay-per-use charge model.
In their general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ash Massoudi, CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology, and Sandy Zylka, VP Products & Techn...May. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,262 |
You may start hearing voices from Microsoft Azure. Do not send for an exorcist.
The new strategic alliance between Twilio and Microsoft make this possible by aligning Twilio's Cloud-based telephony (voice and messaging services) with Microsoft Azure Cloud.
You may recall...May. 3, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 892 |
 A transition from a traditional infrastructure-focused deployment model into a cloud-friendly, cloud-ready, cloud-enabled and service-centric delivery vehicle in enterprise IT is imminent, if not already happening. IT is no longer about servers, networks, and storage; instead IT is abo...May. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,607 |
 With so many cloud offerings in the marketplace, how are you supposed to understand the differences, let alone pick the right ones to meet your specific needs? And while many of your applications may be a good fit for "the cloud," how will you evaluate which cloud offering will be the ...May. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,784 |
 Has the world changed more between now (2012) and 1962 that is the last 50 years or the 50 years prior to that (1962-1912)?
Wait a minute! What does this have to do with “Consumerization of IT”?
Believe me, there is a connection – just hold your skepticism – humor me – and read on!
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 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: 1,116 |
