JAVA Developer's Journal

This post is sponsored by The Business Value Exchange and HP Enterprise Services Back in the good old 1990s we were actually concerned with software application performance factors such as processing power clock speed along with system memory and storage. While memory is still a... (more)

The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series brings together three HP executives to explore the implications and business value from the Converged Cloud portfolio updates announced at HP Discover 2013 in Las Vegas. There's no hotter topic -- and nothing more to... (more)

A man walks into the doctor’s office. He hasn’t been feeling well. A virus has been floating around the office and the man feels he’s caught it. Doctor walks in, smiles and picks up the chart. He starts examining the man and as he writes a prescription advises he keeps sanitary an... (more)

I have a confession. I am Shadow IT. I am the guilty party operations and security love to hate because I expense tens of thousands of dollars in cloud services...every month. Truth be told, my team and I couldn't afford to wait in line for IT to provision the resources we needed... (more)

In Part 1 I talked about how there's nothing new about subscription services since they've been around for generations. Now I'll relent a little and admit that there is something new about many of the subscription services out there. What's new is what is no longer there. Tradit... (more)

Our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market leader in manufacturing customized hats, decided to expand its market reach with an e-commerce site where its potential customers could choose, customize and order hats online. TescaraHats used an APM... (more)

In a previous post we showed how we hooked up our blog's WordPress application with the new Compuware APMaaS offering. Since WordPress is a PHP application we use PurePath for PHP to monitor it. We highlighted that we got an alert about a response time violation on some of our bl... (more)

Railsware LLC, a premium software development consulting company, focused on delivering great web and mobile applications, announces it has published key Ruby technology monitoring plugins as an industry contributor to New Relic’s open SaaS platform, announced today in San Franci... (more)

In the course of IT history, many schemes have been devised and deployed to protect data against storage system failure, especially disk drive hardware. These protection mechanisms have nearly always been variants on two themes: duplication of files or objects (backup, archiving,... (more)

MetraTech Corp., a provider of Agreements-Based Billing, Commerce and Compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced that Achilles, a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of supply chain management services, has selected the MetraNet billing and settlement platform to suppo... (more)

For a while now I have been writing about how to analyze and optimize Hadoop jobs beyond just tweaking MapReduce options. The other day I took a look at some of our Outage Analyzer Hadoop jobs and put words into action. A simple analysis of the Outage Analyzer jobs with Compuware ... (more)

Big Data as we know it today is more aligned to the analytical processing of large quantities of data. All the predominant use cases identified by the Big Data product vendors are more aligned with analytical processing. For example one of the major use cases of Big Data is about... (more)

The personal cloud will be the main catalyst in bringing services otherwise unavailable to developing nations. While businesses have been deploying cloud technology for some time, it's only recently that personal cloud services have emerged. The rise of the personal cloud means ... (more)

"To be or not to be" is the famous opening phrase of Hamlet's well-known soliloquy in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet." In the soliloquy, Hamlet questions the meaning of life, and whether or not it is worthwhile to stay alive when life contains so many risks and hardships. He conclude... (more)

Site24x7 , the cloud infrastructure monitoring service from ManageEngine, today announced the launch of Site24x7 APM Insight, the industry’s first end-to-end web application performance monitoring service. Site24x7 APM Insight reinforces the proven Site24x7 website monitoring ser... (more)

It certainly has been a wild ride thus far for 2013 as we head into the second half.  Breaches, hacks, exposures, leaks, along with things like BYOD and SDN should make the next 6 months interesting.  From the many headlines in 2012, you’d think organizations would be locked down... (more)

Cloud computing is the game changer for the life sciences industry, according to an article on PharmaBiz.com. Globally, pharma majors are deploying cloud technology because it provides data security, compliance and transparency, according to Vikram Anand, associate vice presiden... (more)

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Who:   William Heinzman  Senior Software Engineer JNBridge (www.jnbridge.com) Heinzman has more than 20 years of experience developing manufacturing test, distributed job scheduling and IT software products. He currently develops ... (more)

In the best-selling book Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, authors Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris "found a striking relationship between the use of analytics and business performance...High performers (those who outperformed their industry in terms of ... (more)

Software defined networking (SDN) has been in the spotlight since its conception in recent years because of the revolutionary potential that this emergent technology has for the future of IT networking. SDN is like a testament to the changing times. It is a confluence of several ... (more)