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An Arab Spring For IT

— Change in the air. It’s palpable. Those of us in the technology world are witnessing a transformation: a buyer-led revolution in how information technology is both produced and consumed. Smartphones and tablets are upsetting the PC order; social applications are impinging on traditional “workforce productivity” ...

Feb 04 07:00:56 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Free, Cloud-Based Word Processor Zoho Writer Shows Promise

— Zoho Writer is an online (with offline and syncing functionality) word processing application that offers a nice amount of functionality, especially given the limitations of the Web as a platform for productivity tools. After creating a free account with Zoho, you can access Zoho Writer. It looks a lot like most word p...

Feb 03 09:47:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cloud Computing News»

Advanced Load Balancing For Developers. The Network Dev Tool

— It has been a while since I wrote an installment of Load Balancing for Developers, and now I think it has been too long, but never fear, this is the grad-daddy of Load Balancing for Developers blogs, covering a useful bit of information about Application Delivery Controllers that you might want to take advantage of. Fo...

Feb 03 06:54:59 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Cloud Needs Application Architects to Understand IaaS

— Application development has been moving in the direction of platform abstraction. That is, the need for developers to have detailed knowledge of the infrastructure that the application was being deployed on was becoming less important with increasing sophistication of the application platform for which they were develo...

Feb 03 04:30:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Stop Buying Database Licenses: You Have All the Capacity You Need

— Any organization that has deployed a business application has experienced the joy of procuring database licenses. Most database software licensing models are based on the quantity and type of compute processing cores in the underlying database server – the more cores in the processor and the more processors in the se...

Feb 03 03:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

CareCore National uses Nexus 1000V and VSG to secure virtual data center applications

— Cisco has just released a customer case study ( PDF ) of CareCore National , a 1200 person healthcare insurance company located in South Carolina. [...]

Feb 02 09:32:31 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

News: VMTurbo Delivers First Application Aware Service Assurance Solution

— VMTurbo has broken new ground by delivering the first application aware automated service assurance solution for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. This is the first solution that takes advantage of the dynamic nature of these platforms and their control API's to actually ensure something (through...

Feb 02 01:58:26 pm GMT / The Virtualization Practice»

Cloud Management: The Agentless Approach

— Automating the deployment and runtime management of large application deployments running on multiple cloud resources across various cloud providers is a challenging problem. Managing remote resources is not a new problem the big difference is that in cloud the resources are added and removed dynamically and at a...

Feb 02 10:15:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

The Cloud API is Pseudo-Consolidation of Infrastructure

— It’s about operational efficiency and consistency, emulated in the cloud by an API to create the appearance of a converged platform In most cases, the use of the term “consolidation” implies the aggregation (and subsequently elimination) of like devices. Application delivery consolidation, for example, is used ...

Feb 01 01:00:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Like Cars on a Highway.

— Every once in a while, as the number of people following me grows (thank you, each and every one), I like to revisit something that is fundamental to the high-tech industry but is often overlooked or not given the attention it deserves. This is one of those times, and the many-faceted nature of any application inf...

Jan 31 09:31:38 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Vulnerability Assessment with Application Security

— The longer an application remains vulnerable, the more likely it is to be compromised. Protecting web applications is an around-the-clock job. Almost anything that is connected to the Internet is a target these days, and organizations are scrambling to keep their web properties available and secure. The ramifications ...

Jan 31 04:04:16 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Synacor Files For IPO, Acquires HTML5 Cloud OS Carbyn For $1.1M

— Online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solution Synacor filed its amended S-1 today for an IPO looking to raise $75 million. The filing revealed that this month Synacor acquired Carbyn, an HTML5 operating system that lets users put their files, applications and more in the cloud and access them f...

Jan 31 02:27:42 am GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Performance in the Cloud: Business Jitter is Bad

— #fasterapp #ccevent While web applications aren’t sensitive to jitter, business processes are. One of the benefits of web applications is that they are generally transported via TCP, which is a connection-oriented protocol designed to assure delivery. TCP has a variety of native mechanisms through which delivery ...

Jan 30 12:46:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

F5 Friday: Goodbye Defense in Depth. Hello Defense in Breadth.

— #adcfw #infosec F5 is changing the game on security by unifying it at the application and service delivery layer. Over the past few years we’ve seen firewalls fail repeatedly. We’ve seen business disrupted, security thwarted, and reputations damaged by the failure of the very devices meant to prevent such catastr...

Jan 27 12:45:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

News: VMware vCenter Operations Suite 5.0 Now Available

— The delivery of vCenter Operations 5.0 to the market by VMware represents several important milestones in Operations Management for virtualized environments. The tight integration with vSphere and the integration of the Integrien analytics with real time configuration change detection and application mapping put a nail...

Jan 25 05:25:29 pm GMT / The Virtualization Practice»

ICSA Certified Network Firewall for Data Centers

— The BIG-IP platform is now ICSA Certified as a Network Firewall. Internet threats are widely varied and multi-layered. Although applications and their data are attackers’ primary targets, many attackers gain entry at the network layer. Internet data centers and public-facing web properties are constant targets for ...

Jan 24 01:46:02 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

The API is the Center of the Application (Integration) Universe

— #mobile #fasterapp #ccevent Today, at least. Tomorrow, who knows? Some have tried to distinguish between “mobile cloud” and “cloud” by claiming the former is the use of the web browser on a mobile device to access services while the latter uses device-native applications. Like all things cloud, the marketin...

Jan 23 12:42:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Live Webcast: Simplified, Anywhere, Applications Access with Oracle Secure Global Desktop

— If you are involved with end user applications in your organization, you've probably come across the following hurdles: People want to work from home, and they might even be against installing VPN software. People want work on various machines, not just their work issued...

Jan 17 05:06:11 pm GMT / Oracle's Virtualization Blog»

The Ascendancy of the Application Layer Threat

— #adcfw Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Ta...

Jan 17 01:19:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Will Windows Phone Take Off In 2012?

— Microsoft has two updates planned for its mobile platform next year, and its application store has a lot of apps. Will it spur sales?

Dec 29 02:17:00 pm GMT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

The Cloud and the Great Data Center Race

— In the same way that the rise of the Internet led to the enterprise web (web-enabled enterprise applications) the public and private cloud is driving IT to new modes of operation, most of which demand more agility, more capacity and an even keener focus on operating and capital expenses. This profound tension -betw...

Dec 28 08:23:07 pm GMT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

Move Data Closer To Apps

— The future of location-based storage tiering will be dependent on vendors being able to orchestrate movement of active data closer to the application.

Dec 21 08:11:00 pm GMT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

Building an Application upon Riak - Part 1

— For the past few months some of my colleagues and I have been developing an application with Riak as the primary persistent data store. This has been a very interesting journey from beginning to now. I wanted to take a few minute and write a quick "off the top of my head" post about some of the things we le...

Nov 21 01:13:16 am GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Protecting Mission Critical Workloads

— The wide-scale embracement of virtualization still has not convinced some companies to run their mission-critical workloads in this manner. To ensure mission-critical workloads are available in a virtualized data center demands meticulous attention to application performance requirements, resource utilization, and othe...

Nov 17 04:01:04 pm GMT / Virtualization - RSS Feed»

A final thought from The Wisdom of Clouds

— As the cloud market matures, James Urquhart changes companies and changes his focus from infrastructure to applications. It's time to say goodbye...

Nov 02 11:57:52 pm GMT / The Wisdom of Clouds »

The SaaS Aggregation Benefit Mirage

— In this service oriented on-demand world I’ve been running into something again and again lately that I’ve found interesting and a bit annoying.To start, imagine I’m going to build an application that uses two 3rd party services on-demand. We’ll just call them service A and service B and s...

Oct 07 12:47:22 am GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

WEBINAR: How and When to Use The VMware Hybrid Cloud

— Determining which applications are cloud ready and which need to stay in your datacenter can be difficult. You will need to be able to address each workload's unique infrastructure, security and performance requirements to choose which cloud offering is best for your respective applications. With an array of public a...

Sep 20 08:53:00 pm GMT / BlueLock»

Stop Staring at my Polyglot!

— I received an interesting comment/question via my blog recently. It went a bit like this... I’m developing a distributed cloud application but my developers are pushing back on me for having a polyglot database strategy. What should I do? I won’t get into exactly what it is they are doing ...

Sep 04 08:40:56 pm GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Do Cloudfoundry and OpenShift have a Future?

— I am wondering if Cloudfoundry and OpenShift will become success stories (like Amazon Web Services). The idea of an open source application serving platform sounds intriguing, however, the community pages are somewhat deserted and documentation is poor… After downloading the Cloudfoundry source code, it looks mor...

Aug 03 06:36:39 pm GMT / Cloudy Times»

Welcome VGBuilder to the world!

— Build custom apps + deploy them to your cloud host of choice -- straight from the command line. The first applications using VGBuilder are live already and there are more in works.This Cloud Native Application Development toolset was created out of a genuine need for a big project about a year ago ...

Aug 03 04:53:55 am GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Google Megastore: The Data Engine Behind GAE

— Megastore is the data engine supporting the Google Application Engine. It’s a scalable structured data store providing full ACID semantics within partitions but lower consistency guarantees across partitions. I wrote up some notes on it back in 2008 Under the Covers of the App Engine Datastore and po...

Jan 09 06:38:39 pm GMT / Perspectives»

Gwtissandra: GWT + Hector + Cassandra

— A Twitter Clone Clone I built a toy application (Gwtissandra) to better understand Cassandra’s data model and new features of Cassandra 0.7, such as secondary indices and flexible schema updates. Gwtissandra is basically a GWT/Java port of Twissandra, a Twitter clone clone, so to say. The main parts that Gwtissan...

Nov 23 03:51:02 pm GMT / Cloudy Times»

Keeping the lights on

— Having spent years running 24×7 internet-facing production systems, I find that the monitoring element of an application delivery environment is often the last item to be addressed and built outside of the application delivery architecture. As we continue to build our application delivery infrastructure in the clo...

Nov 03 06:15:08 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

Learn how Nth Generation Reduced server sprawl

— Learn how Matthew Weiner, Project Manager from Nth Generation was able to reduce server sprawl and focus IT support on business critical applications while providing the flexibility to grow his business and contain future costs.

Jun 14 12:19:00 am GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

Gamification Of Enterprise Applications

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Jan 01 12:00:00 am GMT / cloud computing»

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