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Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true ...May. 16, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 632 |
 Overuse tends to a suck a phrase of meaning, and the same may be said of “collaboration”. As an executive, you’ve probably been inundated with articles on “collaboration software” and its business possibilities. But it seems to mean different things at different times. Sometimes it mea...May. 16, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 746 |
 I've been neglecting my blog, but just a quick note to mention that my latest talk at JavaOne, DSLs with Groovy, is posted up on Slideshare.
The talk's designed for someone with no significant Groovy experience (unlike most Groovy DSL talks), so if it's interesting to you, check it ou...May. 16, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,041 |
 Edward Burman recently sent me a very interesting email in response to my article about the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So I bought his 2003 book Shift!: The Unfolding Internet – Hype, Hope and History (hint: If you buy it from Amazon, che...May. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 691 |
 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: 1,126 |
 Of late patents around mobile technologies have been in the news. Four high profile news items are (1) Oracle suing Google for Java patent violation, (2) Apple and Samsung fighting each other in different parts of the world, Microsoft, Apple, Rim and others jointly buying Nortel patent...May. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,321 |
Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .025 – New Studio Edition Hosts: Matt Yonchak (@mattyonchak), Patrick Sayler (@psayler), Ian Gillespie,...Read More May. 11, 2012 02:49 PM EDT Reads: 524 |
In a blow to SAS's efforts to litigate competitor and low-cost SAS clone WPS out of existence, the European Union High Court has ruled that programming languages can't be copyrighted. SAS Institute (Cary, NC) had claimed that the WPS software — which allows users to process SAS data fi... May. 10, 2012 06:32 PM EDT Reads: 452 |
 It is a fact of modern life: We all run the risk of getting too distracted by our IT, especially IT connected to our social media. Today, for example, my priority is finishing a White Paper for a favorite client, and I promise I will do that, but I just saw this really cool clip on You...May. 9, 2012 08:38 AM EDT Reads: 575 |
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: 693 |
 At its annual user and partner Impact conference in Las Vegas this week, IBM announced a slew of new products, including new additions to its WebSphere applications family. There are also promises of better integration with software products from its … Continue reading →May. 7, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 931 |
 It is great to see more conversations and coverage around storage metrics that matter beyond simply focusing on cost per GByte or TByte (e.g. space capacity). Likewise, it is also good to see conversations expanding beyond data footprint reduction (DFR) from a space capacity savings or...May. 7, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,104 |
 In the mid-1990s, a Statistics professor at UNC reported an IT problem: he couldn't send email more than 500 miles away. He'd had geostatisticians plot the sites where emails could be sent successfully and where they bounced, and found they described a circle a radius slightly over 500...May. 6, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 581 |
O'Reilly Radar tracks technology adoption via its annual "State of the Computer Book Market" report. In the latest report of 2011 book sales (amongst all publishers), books about R show a 127% increase in 2011 over 2010: As a language specifically for data analysis, R isn't in the same... May. 4, 2012 02:29 PM EDT Reads: 253 |
 I’m a huge fan of context-aware networking. You know, the ability to interpret requests in the context they were made – examining user identity, location, client device along with network condition and server/application status. It’s what imbues the application delivery tier with the a...May. 4, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,445 |
Whenever a new technology appears, there is a short period of time where every body with an idea about branding want’s to “coin a phrase” or be the “first” to use a term. As much fun as I am sure all that may be, the problem is that when the technology le... May. 3, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 659 |
London, UK — May 3rd, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will ... May. 3, 2012 06:56 AM EDT Reads: 386 |
London, UK May 3, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to... May. 3, 2012 06:56 AM EDT Reads: 655 |
 The introduction of virtualization and cloud computing to data centers has been heralded as “transformational” and “disruptive” and “game changing.” From an operational IT perspective, that’s absolutely true.
But like transformational innovation in other industries, such disruption is...May. 2, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,151 |
 It’s unlikely there’s anyone in IT today that doesn’t understand the role of load balancing to scale. Whether cloud or not, load balancing is the key mechanism through which load is distributed to ensure horizontal scale of applications. It’s also unlikely there’s anyone in IT that doe...May. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,156 |
 This follows the first of a two-part series on my latest experiences with Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDD's) and Solid State Devices (SSDs). In my ongoing last momentus moment post I discussed what I have done with HHDD's and setting the stage for expanded SSD use. I have the newer HHDD'...Apr. 29, 2012 12:34 PM EDT Reads: 865 |
New Orleans, LA, April 28, 2012 --(PR.com)-- AstraQom, a Canadian voIP, Internet protocol communications provider and mobile applications development company, will participate in a media partnership with Techistan and DIDX to promote 2012 International CTIA Wireless Conference May 8 -... Apr. 28, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 757 |
 You probably recall years ago the old “Tastes Great vs Less Filling” advertisements. The ones that always concluded in the end that the beer in question was not one or the other, but both.
Whenever there are two ostensibly competing technologies attempting to solve the same problem, w...Apr. 27, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,166 |
 NAB kept me totally away from all the interesting online discussions last week. It’s too late to respond to @JoinToigo’s tweet (we’d call this Figs after Easter in Dutch), but I thought I’d share my thoughts in a bit more than 140 characters.
The short answer is no … but a better answ...Apr. 27, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,192 |
 Does Knowledge = Power? At first glance the answer seems to be obvious – yes knowledge is power. After all we live in the knowledge economy. Most of us are knowledge workers. We have graduated from the industrial age to the information age. Knowledge is considered as the key asset of a...Apr. 23, 2012 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 720 |
3 Million Iranian Bank Accounts Disclosed Iranian ATM’s are dispensing PIN and Password changes instead of money this week following the public disclosure of three million bank account details by an Iranian security researcher. While the disclosure of these accounts is unfortunate, wh... Apr. 20, 2012 03:48 PM EDT Reads: 666 |
Paris, France, April 18, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Essential Summarizer comes in a wide range of software and solutions, to figure out instantaneously multilingual contents and create an automatic summary for efficient reading.
Essential Summarizer produces automatically a summary with a set... Apr. 18, 2012 11:59 AM EDT Reads: 661 |
In May, I’m flying to Kiev, Ukraine to participate in a Java conference there and this won’t be the only conference I’ll be going to this year. For software developers the ability to attend a major professional conference is a valuable perk given by their employers. OK, all expenses a... Apr. 18, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 355 |
 The IT Dog is waggin’ his tail today with this one. I love progress and the SSD revolution is certainly pushing the storage industry forward on many fronts. New products with SSD in every segment of the IT data chain from the server side SSD to SSD raid storage. SSD capabilities has...Apr. 18, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 986 |
 Taking advantage of cloud-hosted resources does not require forklift re-architecture of the data center. That may sound nearly heretical but that’s the truth, and I’m not talking about just SaaS which, of course, has never required anything more than an Internet connection to “integrat...Apr. 18, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,207 |
CloudBees Extends Its Support for the Jenkins Community with Enterprise Plugins to Help Manage Large Numbers of Jobs, Backup Jenkins to the Cloud, Detect Wasted Minutes, Unify Credential Management and Diagnose File Error ProblemsLondon UK and PARIS, FRANCE - April 17, 2012 - CloudBees... Apr. 17, 2012 05:38 AM EDT Reads: 595 |
Just got an email from a person who calls himself a Senior Java Developer. Two out of five pages were devoted to describing his skills. Below is an extract from the Skills section: Java 2 (J2EE, J2SE) rich operational experience JDBC 2.0. rich operational experience EJB considerable o... Apr. 16, 2012 02:06 PM EDT Reads: 366 |
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: 609 |
Now that we've gone over some Groovy basics, it's time to switch back to writing in the Java language, and talk about how to run Groovy programs inside your Java programs. Like most general purpose programming languages, there's more than one way to do things in Groovy, and that's nev... Apr. 14, 2012 06:37 PM EDT Reads: 368 |
Princeton Jct, NJ, April 13, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Rapid Protect announces a major update of its award winning mobile applications and the web service platform. Rapid Protect applications are designed to address the growing need of security, safety and collaboration for individuals and bu... Apr. 13, 2012 07:10 AM EDT Reads: 1,180 |
 RFC 1945 – “Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0” – was published in May 1996. In June of 1999, RFC 2616 – “Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1” was published. In the ensuing 13 years there has been no substantial changes to the HTTP standard. None. Nada. Zilch.
Even as the siz...Apr. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,730 |
People with Macs don’t have to worry about computer viruses. Well, that’s not true, but it’s what most people thought until last week, when a nasty Trojan called Flashback infected about 600,000 Macs worldwide. Flashback is a form of malware designed to grab password... Apr. 13, 2012 03:01 AM EDT Reads: 428 |
 So what about vendor or technology lock in?
So who is responsible for vendor or technology lock in? When I was working in IT organizations, (e.g. what vendors call the customer) the thinking was vendors are responsible for lock in. Later when I worked for different vendors (manufactur...Apr. 12, 2012 09:01 PM EDT Reads: 904 |
 What could very well differentiate IBM PureSystems from those of other competitors is to take what their partner NetApp has done with FlexPods combing third-party applications from Microsoft and SAP among others and take it to the next level. Similar to what helped make EMC Centera a s...Apr. 12, 2012 09:01 PM EDT Reads: 928 |
 Yet for another generation who may not yet be future IBM followers, fans, partners or customers, there could be a sense of something new and revolutionary with the PureFlex and PureApplication systems (twitter @ibmpuresystems).
In between those two groups, exist others who are either ...Apr. 12, 2012 09:01 PM EDT Reads: 1,056 |
