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By App Man
Last week I flew into Las Vegas fully suited and booted in my big blue costume (no joke). I’d been invited to speak in a vendor debate on User eXperience (UX): Monitor the Application or the Network? NetScout represented the Network, AppDynamics (and me) represented the Application, an...
May. 16, 2012 02:13 PM EDT  Reads: 315
By Security Gateways
You may have heard this term recently and wondered what it meant. When it comes to security, everyone thinks of Firewalls, Proxies, IPS, IDS, Honeypots, VPN devices, email security and even Web security, but most people don’t think in terms … Continue reading →
May. 15, 2012 03:46 PM EDT  Reads: 456
By Scott Morrison
On May 15-16 2012, I will be at the Privacy Identity Innovation (pii2012) conference held at the Bell Harbour International Conference Center in Seattle. I will be participating on a panel moderated by Eve Maler from Forrester, titled Privacy, Zero … Continue reading →
May. 15, 2012 01:18 PM EDT  Reads: 161
By David Deans
As the role of cloud computing is growing around the globe, many CIOs and other senior IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure -- to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. A new international study by Cisco Systems...
May. 14, 2012 09:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,163
By Kevin Benedict
If companies have hesitated to develop a mobile strategy or mobile retail apps over concerns as to their value, this article on a report from ABI Research should send them straight to the phone calling the next available mobile developer. Here is an excerpt from the article, "The resu...
May. 14, 2012 06:27 AM EDT  Reads: 572
By Bob Gourley
There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing enti...
May. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,548
By Security Gateways
From a business standpoint, leaking sensitive information into your logs is not only bad, but could lead to compliance, liability, and risk disaster sooner than you think. While there are solutions, including DLP, out there to inspect the data traffic and … Continue reading ͛...
May. 11, 2012 12:38 PM EDT  Reads: 731
By David Deans
Government agencies are reportedly one of the primary benefactors of managed cloud services. According to the results from a recent market study by IDC, IT decision-makers across the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) found that 59 percent of public sector respondents are confident ...
May. 11, 2012 06:30 AM EDT  Reads: 959
By Business Wire
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), on Friday announced the expansion of SAP certified solutions on AWS including SAP Business All-in-One solutions for both Linux and Windows, and expanded certification for SAP Rapid Deployment solutions and SAP Business...
May. 11, 2012 03:01 AM EDT  Reads: 839
By David Smith
In yesterday's webinar, Revolution Analytics CTO David Champagne demonstrated how to integrate statistical graphics and analytic computations created using R software with a variety of third-party applications. In each case Revolution R Enterprise Server is running as a compute server ...
May. 9, 2012 07:42 PM EDT  Reads: 443
By Rizwan Mallal
Jack Vaughan interviewed Mamoon Yunus, CEO of Crosscheck Networks, at the Gartner AADI Event regarding prevalent deployment scenarios for SOA/XML Gateways (e.g.,
May. 9, 2012 02:39 PM EDT  Reads: 356
By Lori MacVittie
#cloud Whether it’s Hanlon or Occam or MacVittie, the razor often cuts both ways. I am certainly not one to ignore the issue of complexity in architecture nor do I dismiss lightly the risk introduced by cloud computing through increased complexity. But I am one who will point out abs...
May. 9, 2012 07:10 AM EDT  Reads: 171
By Jaime Ryan
Like many people in technical professions, I face the ongoing challenge of explaining my industry to non-technical friends and relatives. Acronyms generally provide the biggest challenges. Explaining that SOAP isn’t a beauty product genuinely took up a significant part of my life in 20...
May. 8, 2012 03:10 PM EDT  Reads: 702
By RealWire News Distribution
Epicor to Sharpen Its Next-Generation Epicor ICE Business Architecture with Windows Azure and SQL AzureEpicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, today announced a strategic alliance wi...
May. 8, 2012 12:58 PM EDT  Reads: 651
By RealWire News Distribution
Athens based INSS Ltd. (Innovative Solutions and Services Limited) has chosen to use Alaric Systems acclaimed Fractals fraud prevention solution and Authentic Payments switching technology to deliver services to financial institutions, telecommunications companies and other major corp...
May. 8, 2012 06:15 AM EDT  Reads: 170
By Avi Rosenthal
I recently read a TechCrunch article titled: The Rise of Big Data Apps and the Fall of SaaS written by Raj De Datta. I do agree with the prefix. As far as the suffix is concerned, I can only explain why Raj De Datta's opinion is wrong. I usually tend not to agree with statements ...
May. 7, 2012 06:45 AM EDT  Reads: 754
By RealWire News Distribution
Reading, UK and Bangalore, India: 4th May 201251Degrees.mobi, the leading provider of device detection and web optimisation solutions, has expanded its portfolio to include PHP. The PHP scripting language is powerful and flexible, making it a popular choice for web site developers. Aro...
May. 4, 2012 06:33 AM EDT  Reads: 484
By Hovhannes Avoyan
In this article in the optimizing .NET code series, we’ll discuss “Iteration and Looping”. Non-optimized code within loops can lead to performance issues, ranging from increased memory consumption to CPU exhaustion. This section summarizes guidelines that will improve iteration and loo...
May. 3, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 553
By Kevin Remde
Yes, I’m back (finally) with another in my series of expanded-answers to questions I have received during TechNet Events and IT Camps I’ve facilitated. But for these next blog posts I’m going to have a little fun by actually showing you the written question. Great question. Windows...
May. 2, 2012 12:39 PM EDT  Reads: 219
By David Smith
Information Age recently published a feature article devoted to the R language, "Putting the R in analytics". Says author Pete Swabey: Already popular in universities, there are signs that R is finding increasing adoption in the enterprise. This promises to lower the barriers of entry ...
Apr. 30, 2012 07:08 PM EDT  Reads: 366
By RealWire News Distribution
OverviewIT services provider Softwerx wanted to offer Cloud services to clients. The company worked with Rise, a firm that specializes in infrastructure-as-a-service, to develop its Cloud services. With the help of Rise, Softwerx reduces client's IT costs and tailors services to their ...
Apr. 30, 2012 05:42 AM EDT  Reads: 340
By Security Gateways
Since the growth of APIs “hockey-sticked” around 2005, the proliferation of web-based APIs has spanned every industry and vertical from e-commerce to map services to enterprise. APIs like that of Twitter, Amazon, and Netflix garner billions of API calls every … Continue reading &...
Apr. 27, 2012 04:56 PM EDT  Reads: 320
By CloudCommons 2012
Venture capitalists devoted $6.9 billion in 2011 to cloud startups, which is an increase of 68% over 2010, according to this InformationWeek article. Author Patrick Houston recommends that enterprises develop a rigorous process for vetting IT cloud tools and vendors now to prepare your...
Apr. 27, 2012 03:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,489
By RealWire News Distribution
Global fraud prevention company, Alaric International (www.alaric.com), has announced the launch of Fractals FIH (Fraud Integration Hub), the first system to combine multiple internal and external data sources to combat online fraud. The real-time system, which is designed to protect o...
Apr. 26, 2012 06:23 AM EDT  Reads: 372
By Security Gateways
Prior to the release of Intel’s XEON processor E5-2600, Intel Expressway Service Gateway (also available as McAfee Services Gateway under the McAfee Cloud Security Platform Suite) was already providing superior performance and value. However, with the record breaking E5-2600 R...
Apr. 24, 2012 03:41 PM EDT  Reads: 243
By RealWire News Distribution
Consumerize Any IT Service - Physical, Virtual or Cloud - with Independent IT Service Catalog for ServiceDesk ITSMSERVICE DESK UK - Apr, 24, 2012 - Biomni, the pioneer of User-Centric Enterprise Service Catalog and Request Fulfillment solutions, today announced integration with Service...
Apr. 24, 2012 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 643
By Hovhannes Avoyan
In our last article we discussed guidelines for optimizing Threading. In this article we’ll look at best practices for using asynchronous calls. Asynchronous calls are non-blocking meaning when you call a method asynchronously, the calling thread returns immediately and continues execu...
Apr. 23, 2012 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 678
By Alex Forbes
Now that Agile development is mainstream and each day more teams are migrating from Waterfall to Agile development, it's important to understand how this methodology shift impacts testing teams. This blog is the first in a series of blogs where I will break down the common challenges t...
Apr. 23, 2012 07:30 AM EDT  Reads: 703
By Lori MacVittie
Five of the top six services critical to cloud are application delivery services and available with F5 BIG-IP. The big news at MMS 2012 was focused on private cloud and Microsoft’s latest solutions in the space with System Center 2012. Microsoft’s news comes on the heels of IBM’s l...
Apr. 21, 2012 10:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,260
By Bob Gourley
Today’s data isn’t just in one warehouse nor is it in one format. Data is no longer silo’ed in perfectly structured relational databases, but rather unstructured across the broader internet. Thus, traditional ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) architectures do not apply. ...
Apr. 20, 2012 07:51 PM EDT  Reads: 675
By CloudCommons 2012
Watch CloudViews Unplugged Watch the latest edition of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News Rackspace will offer a...
Apr. 20, 2012 03:15 AM EDT  Reads: 1,053
By PR.com Newswire
Sunnyvale, CA, April 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- LAYERZngn today announced the availability of CPlane OpenTransit, the newest member of the CPlane Framework family of infrastructure automation products. CPlane OpenTransit is available on a controlled-release basis to service providers and s...
Apr. 18, 2012 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 794
By Kevin Remde
This is great… Today Microsoft announced that there will be three (count ‘em.. 3) editions of Windows 8 when it goes on sale – presumably later this year.  “Wait a sec…only three?  Didn’t Windows 7 come in 6.. or more?” Yep.  Three.  Brandon LeBlanc writes on the...
Apr. 17, 2012 11:03 AM EDT  Reads: 298
By RealWire News Distribution
Vote for specialist data centre operator shortlisted in the Datacentre Service Provider of the Year category London, UK - 16 April 2012 - Infinity, today announced it has been shortlisted for a Datacentre Solutions Award in the Datacentre Service Provider of the Year category. The entr...
Apr. 16, 2012 04:15 AM EDT  Reads: 172
By Tad Anderson
Finally someone has put the most important software architecture practices into words. Within this book lies the concepts that are the heart of true agility. Without a modularized architecture, any decent size project can not achieve agility. I have seen so many agile projects flop bec...
Apr. 15, 2012 06:04 PM EDT  Reads: 616
By Cloud Ventures
A recent article “Put Your Test Lab In The Cloud” outlined the pros, cons and considerations you must take into account when talking about hosting test labs in the cloud. Using the cloud for this purpose is not necessarily a new idea, and it’s one that certainly makes a lot of sense; R...
Apr. 13, 2012 05:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,601
By CloudCommons 2012
HP announced its HP Converged Cloud based on a ‘hardened’ version of OpenStack software, targeting hybrid enterprise deployments and pushing for a common architecture across private and public clouds as well as traditional data centers. To learn more about the components of the offerin...
Apr. 12, 2012 06:46 AM EDT  Reads: 1,236
By RealWire News Distribution
Sport Relief 2012 attracted record numbers of donations totalling over £52 million, incorporating more than 300,000 donations and peaking at an incredible rate of 149 payment transactions per second. Based on a highly scalable and resilient cloud computing solution that is proven ...
Apr. 12, 2012 04:30 AM EDT  Reads: 667
By Ted McLaughlan
The role, impact and usefulness of the "Solution Architect" (i.e., "SA" to the "Enterprise Architect" or "System Architect") has been clarifying for several years across the IT Consulting community, particularly given the increasingly complex nature of SOA, Cloud-centric and Multi-Plat...
Apr. 11, 2012 11:56 AM EDT  Reads: 839
By Kevin Benedict
Motorola Solutions and ClickSoftware are organizing an enterprise mobility lunch event in Atlanta, GA on April 26th from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM (see details).  I have the honor of being asked to speak at this event.  If you are in the area I would love to meet up and discuss e...
Apr. 10, 2012 11:32 AM EDT  Reads: 584