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By Tad Anderson  This book is the perfect place for an experienced developer to start with iOS programming. I say experienced developer because this book does a great job of showing you the basics of C and the Objective-C language, but if you don't understand the basics of programming, you are probably... Dec. 18, 2013 06:19 AM EST Reads: 11,111 | By Jim Potter  The pace of cloud growth and adoption remains inextricably linked to the pace of cloud education. Whether it’s due to security concerns being allayed or cloud definition confusion being reduced, the small- and medium-business space seems ripe for education-based growth. Add in the cont... Dec. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 6,896 | By Pradeep Prabhu  Agility means being able to change direction rapidly in response to a change in market conditions. As business increasingly moves to online and mobile interfaces, the agility of enterprise applications becomes a critical success factor. With the advent of the cloud, making applications... Dec. 16, 2013 09:30 AM EST Reads: 6,637 | By Elizabeth White  "Lanlogic has been around since 1995 and we focus on helping customers that are traditionally less technical and need someone who’s an IT consultant, a trusted business adviser, to help them evaluate their needs," explained Joe Foos, Director of Sales & Marketing at Lanlogic, in this S... Dec. 13, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 8,837 | By Vu Lam  It made headlines for all the wrong reasons when it launched on October 1, but things could have been so different for the HealthCare.gov website if only it had been tested properly before release. Users trying to enroll encountered all sorts of glitches, including very slow page updat... Dec. 12, 2013 08:09 AM EST Reads: 4,926 | By Andreas Grabner  Compuware APM is pleased to announce the latest update to our FREE Compuware/dynaTrace AJAX Edition which now also supports Firefox 3.6 until version 25 and also Internet Explorer 6 through 10 + Experimental IE11 Support. Download it for free from our AJAX Edition Download page.
To sh... Dec. 11, 2013 10:15 AM EST Reads: 8,999 | By Krishna Kumar  Agile project management and not just project management is the need of the hour. We've all heard about agile software development, and agile project management is a leaf out of the same book. Much like the former that follows an iterative approach towards software development, the lat... Dec. 10, 2013 11:15 AM EST Reads: 8,859 | By Dana Gardner  Growing trends such as BYOD will fuel the move to more pervasive use of identity and access management as a service, driven by the need for pervasive access and management and broader security concerns.
Business trends like bring your own device (BYOD) are forcing organizations to saf... Dec. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 9,363 | By Jessica Qiu  In the past, the data structure and business logics were so simple that one SQL statement was enough to achieve user's computational goal. With the rapid growing of information industry, users frequently find that they need to achieve the increasingly complex computational goals to out... Dec. 9, 2013 06:45 AM EST Reads: 4,998 | By Kevin Benedict  If you agree with the statement above (it's not mandatory), then what does it take to actually deliver on it? I believe this is where digital transformation and artificial intelligence comes into play. First, let's discuss digital transformation. Wikipedia's (one of my most favorite... Dec. 9, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 6,198 | By Adine Deford  AppZero, the fastest, most flexible way to move server applications, announced today its predictions for top Enterprise IT priorities as we head into 2014. Based on its research and work within the industry, AppZero declares modernization as the top priority for any Enterprise IT depa... Dec. 8, 2013 10:15 AM EST Reads: 6,195 | By Kevin Benedict  Believe it or not, a fair number of people like my workshops on mobile strategy. The problem though is a fair number don't. Why? Sometimes developers come into my sessions, stay for 15 minutes and then leave. They were expecting to learn how to develop mobile apps, or how to secure... Dec. 7, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 5,872 | By Elizabeth White  CloudEntr allows users to gain convenient access to all their web-based applications by authenticating just once with a unique log-in credential. With CloudEntr businesses are also able to smoothly transition from weak user-selected passwords to stronger protection, through complex pas... Dec. 6, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 6,187 | By Ignacio M. Llorente  The OpenNebula Project has just announced the nineteenth stable release of its widely deployed OpenNebula cloud management platform, a fully open-source solution for data center management and enterprise cloud computing. With a sysadmin-centric approach, OpenNebula is the open operatin... Dec. 5, 2013 09:16 AM EST Reads: 8,831 | By Tad Anderson  When I first started flipping through this book the diverse set of topics threw me for a loop. Then I read the introduction where the authors say, "This publication aims to provide development information on the intermediate-to-advanced topics that are otherwise not worthy of standalon... Dec. 5, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 11,650 | By Liz McMillan  Microsoft has recently made large business bets on recurring revenue models. That’s because offering goods and services on a recurring basis doesn’t just create incremental, new revenue; it is fast becoming the primary driver of revenue growth for many enterprises.
However, for compan... Dec. 3, 2013 09:45 AM EST Reads: 11,569 | By Lori MacVittie  One of the "rules" of application delivery (and infrastructure in general) has been that when scaling out such technologies, all components must be equal. That started with basic redundancy (deploying two of everything to avoid a single point of failure in the data path) and has remain... Dec. 3, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 4,713 | By Tad Anderson  This book is a great place to start with iOS 7 development. It is actually the first 13 chapters of what would have been Programming iOS 7 4th edition. The book Programming iOS 6 contained everything, but the book was getting too large to keep adding new material. This book now ends wh... Dec. 3, 2013 05:39 AM EST Reads: 7,603 | By Kevin Benedict  Companies don't want enterprise mobility. They want increased sales, lower expenses, better products, improved customer service and more profits. They want to be a survivor during this period of massive digital transformations. What do I mean by digital transformation? I mean the f... Dec. 2, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 7,993 | By Jamie Brenzel  The digital age has forced a kind of dependency never before seen, a dependency on our inbox. The mere thought of losing these emails is inconceivable where the thought of it leaves us with a sense of panic, one similar to losing our credit cards or house key. Unfortunately, the potent... Dec. 2, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 7,033 | By Hervé Servy  I was at the Velocity Conference in London last week. Of course, fish & chips is still a must eat, a double-decker is far more than a bus, and pea shooting is, as always, so… British!
But away from these classic London cultural elements, at Velocity I heard more and more about perform... Dec. 2, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 5,852 | By Kevin Benedict  One of the mega-trends I write often about is the merging of the physical with the digital and the resulting impact on businesses. A key element of this trend is the association of geospatial or location data with events, tasks, projects, processes, assets and resources. I asked my c... Dec. 2, 2013 05:45 AM EST Reads: 7,204 | By Ignacio M. Llorente  This is the fifth entry in a blog post series explaining how to make the most out of your OpenNebula 4.4 cloud. In previous posts we explained the new multiple datastore system with storage load balancing, the enhanced cloud bursting to Amazon features, the multiple groups functionalit... Dec. 1, 2013 05:45 AM EST Reads: 6,576 | By Cynthia Dunlop  A dangerous environment, an unknown frontier, a lack of resources, the pursuit of something greater than themselves—yes, software development teams face some great challenges while aspiring to achieve prodigious goals that (they hope) will benefit the organization for years to come. No... Nov. 27, 2013 02:30 PM EST Reads: 5,847 | By Liz McMillan  Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance. Find out the best way to implement a virtualization solution to allow you to do more with less and free up IT ... Nov. 27, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 7,904 | By Elizabeth White  In this whitepaper, ESG covers what to look for in a virtualization protection solution as well as whether to consider the merits of a separate solution for protecting one’s virtual environment, compared with using a unified solution that offers comparable virtualization protection cap... Nov. 27, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 5,669 | By Cynthia Dunlop  Why be thankful for service virtualization and simulated test environments? Because it helps you test earlier, faster, and more completely.
To reduce the risk of business interruption in today's interconnected systems, organizations need to test across a complex set of applications, s... Nov. 25, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 6,327 | By Kevin Benedict  If a massive herd of elephants were charging at you from 20 meters away, would taking a small step forwards or backwards improve your safety? NO! In many situations it seems that is how companies are approaching mobile strategies. They are staring massive marketplace transformation i... Nov. 25, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 6,715 | By Patrick Carey  In September, Google experienced a services disruption that affected nearly a third of Gmail users. As you’d expect, it generated quite a bit of news. Such outages are fairly infrequent, but even Google struggled to resolve it. The Google status dashboard during that outage simply said... Nov. 25, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 6,716 | By Bruce Backa  How many kinds of files are in use in your organization? Fifty? A hundred? More?
Wrong. There are only two kinds of files: active files and inactive files. (I admit it was a trick question.) Users create a file – a spreadsheet, an image, an invoice, etc. As long as the file is being ... Nov. 25, 2013 07:45 AM EST Reads: 6,365 | By Ignacio M. Llorente  As you may know, OpenNebula's approach to cloud bursting (that is, its hybrid cloud model) is quite unique. The reason behind this uniqueness is the transparency to both end users and cloud administrators to use and maintain the cloud bursting functionality.
The transparency to clou... Nov. 25, 2013 05:45 AM EST Reads: 7,685 | By Sellers Smith  Tests are an investment in the quality of any given system. There’s always a cost to build, run, and maintain each test in terms of time and resources. There’s also a great deal of value to be extracted from running the right test at the right time. It’s important to remember that for ... Nov. 23, 2013 05:00 PM EST Reads: 7,874 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise applications to the cloud, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AppZero, the fast, flexible way to... Nov. 22, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 7,456 | By Adine Deford  With Windows Server 2003 end of extended support approaching, companies are faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. Join Microsoft and AppZero for an informative webinar on upgrading production applications from WS2003 to WS2012 or Windows Azure. AppZero's one-step ... Nov. 21, 2013 12:30 PM EST Reads: 6,371 | By Adine Deford  AppZero, a fast, more flexible way to move server applications, announced on Monday a collaboration with Microsoft in which Microsoft is recommending AppZero for moving a variety of applications from Windows Server 2003, which reaches the end of extended support in July, 2015, to Micro... Nov. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 9,076 | By Pat Romanski  SOA Software is adding a new product, Intermediary for Microsoft, to its portfolio for Microsoft-based APIs and SOA services. Built entirely on the Microsoft platform, the Intermediary for Microsoft runs as an independent network management point and acts as an SOA and API intermediary... Nov. 21, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 5,917 | By Atchison Frazer  Faced with competitive pressures demanding increased IT agility, Line-of-Business (LOB) managers have been increasingly relying on virtualized infrastructures to accelerate deployment of critical application workloads. Server virtualization has rapidly become the default platform for m... Nov. 20, 2013 11:30 AM EST Reads: 7,155 | By Aaron Louis  If you want to implement an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, then you will undoubtedly have to answer a lot of questions before you can be sure that the system will run smoothly. But before anything, you should ask a simple question about deployment. Will you need to host you... Nov. 19, 2013 09:50 AM EST Reads: 10,433 | By Kevin Benedict  My good friend J.D. Axford, a civil engineer and hero of all ducks for his wetlands work, sent me a very interesting (if you are into GPS tracking, GIS, mobile technology, artificial intelligence, accelerometers, etc.) article he wrote on how the physical is meeting the digital in the ... Nov. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 6,410 | By Cynthia Dunlop  How Parasoft Service Virtualization helped Comcast increase the scope & accuracy of performance testing, slash testing costs and cut downtime by 60%.
There were two primary issues that led Comcast to explore service virtualization. First, we wanted to increase the accuracy and consist... Nov. 18, 2013 07:15 AM EST Reads: 7,153 |
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