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 Now we have a Eucalyptus' Private Cloud installed and running on our premise, and it remained kinda of an artifact in our data-center for sometime. So I thought why has not someone written anything about how make to make Elasticfox work with Eucalyptus. But there were quite a few point...Nov. 17, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 398 |
 Thanks to Nicholas Carr everyone loves to talk about Cloud Computing as electricity and how we are transitioning from own power-stations to central grid. After a lot of discussions about “the cloud”, it occurred to me recently that there is a far better model to make cloud idea easy to...Sep. 26, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 994 |
 As the IT operations continue to evolve and transform the business towards agility and adaptability to ever changing rules of marketplace, the efficiency of any IT operation is of paramount significance. The phrase ‘time to market' has a completely new meaning in today's dynamic busine...Sep. 26, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,230 |
 Following on from my last post, Securing Applications on the Amazon Elastic Cloud, One of the biggest questions I often see asked is “Is Amazon EC2 as a platform secure”? This is like saying is my vanilla network secure? As you do to your internal network you can take some steps to ma...Sep. 24, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,111 |
 With IP networks taking on many new challenges from VoIP, rich multimedia and other high-bandwidth consuming and high-priority applications, SMBs need to be sure the network connectivity between their business and Cloud Computing provider is protected with controls for reliable Interne...Sep. 23, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,317 |
 Within a few short months, we have seen a whirlwind of change across the government IT industry landscape. The appropriation of $7.2B for broadband Internet access nationwide, the launching of USASpending.gov, the appointment of Mr. Vivek Kundra as the nation’s first ever Federal Chief...Sep. 18, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,820 |
 This article describes a method to use a perl debugger on trigger scripts without advanced interprocess debugging tools.
Using a perl debugger with a V4.x server side trigger launched by the server is very difficult and encounters two known obstacles:
The server will fire the tri...Aug. 1, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,657 |
 Is ESB just an expensive integration hub or is there more to the story than we heard… In the beginning, the ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), was marketed as much more than an integration technology. While the core of an ESB is certainly about connectivity between serv... Jul. 17, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,203 |
 I plan to make this the first of a series of articles that discuss the new features in PowerBuilder 11.5, which was released late last year. Of course, they won’t be the first articles we’ve run on the topic, as we ran an article on the new Code Access Security features back even befor...May. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,483 |
 This is a blog that proposes five distinct ways in which cloud computing solutions can strenghten the efforts of development and test teams within an enterprise.Apr. 15, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,872 |
 Application servers, those dependable workhorses that run most enterprise Java applications, are rarely a hot topic of conversation these days. As a technology category, the application server appears to be fairly “established” and that the focus has moved elsewhere in the stack, but a...Apr. 11, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,236 Replies: 1 |
 Those with virtualization skills are in high demand right now. That makes them just as difficult to retain as it is to find and hire them. Indeed, as virtualization becomes more important to enterprise IT, those who understand VMWare, and other virtualization technology, as well as u...Apr. 8, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,462 |
 You have perhaps heard that while we were on vacation Linux file system ace and convicted wife killer Hans Reiser took the cops to where he had buried her body. Two days later when Reiser was supposed to be sentenced to 25 years to life for first decree murder the judge disclosed that ...Jul. 24, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,407 Replies: 1 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 26,841 Replies: 6 |
 One of the beauties of Linux from a business point of view is that it doesn't require the 'latest and greatest' hardware to run properly. This means you can increase the return on investments (ROI) for legacy hardware. As I'll show in this article, as in the case with virtualization, t...Mar. 12, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,525 |
In order to describe itself as an 'open source' company, need a company merely be 'a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company' - or does it have to be one that lets users feely download, compile, and use the software in question? Where is the dividing l... Mar. 1, 2007 05:00 AM EST Reads: 81,125 Replies: 18 |
Symantec has announced an agreement with IBM that provides for the delivery of Symantec high availability, storage management, and backup products for the Linux on POWER platform by the end of 2006. These solutions will help clients consolidate Linux applications on the IBM System p pl... Jun. 7, 2006 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,884 |
 Multidimensional tagging, a key component in social sharing sites, can potentially help enterprises manage large stores of information. In this article, I'll examine the ways that multidimensional tagging will be implemented using Open Source tools.May. 21, 2006 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 12,702 Replies: 1 |
 Linux and other Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enjoy a reputation for ubiquitous use in educational settings. While FOSS openness and low acquisition costs resonate with the approach and needs of academia, it's proving difficult to establish a clear adoption trend. Certainly ther...Apr. 21, 2006 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,324 Replies: 2 |
Absoft Corporation announced the new Absoft Roll with IntelR Software Products for Platform Rocks. The new Absoft Roll provides software developers with the best compilers, debuggers, math and message passing libraries, and advanced performance tuning and optimization tools for compil... Apr. 5, 2006 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,156 Replies: 1 |
 There are some computing systems that require high availability. Telecommunication systems are a good example. They require 24 hours a day and 365 days a year service availability and their downtime should not exceed five minutes per year and that includes hardware and software upgrade...Mar. 18, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 11,970 |
 After building a number of clusters from the ground up -including one that made it to the Top500 Supercomputer list - I decided to try a service that many vendors now offer - having a system racked and stacked at the factory then shipped to us. Such a service saves a huge amount of tim...Mar. 17, 2006 08:15 AM EST Reads: 21,659 Replies: 4 |
 The global mobile phone market is enjoying explosive growth. With annual unit sales in the hundreds of millions, Gartner analysts estimate that by 2009 the worldwide installed based will top 2.6 billion mobile handsets. For the Linux and Open Source segment of the IT industry, such num...Feb. 21, 2006 01:15 PM EST Reads: 18,262 Replies: 2 |
 In a market that is defined by today's tight IT budgets, saving on software licenses can mean the difference between financial failure and success for a software development project. While our corporate clients use commercial-grade application servers, we sometimes find ourselves in a ...Feb. 5, 2006 12:45 PM EST Reads: 20,658 Replies: 1 |
 Albert Einstein defined success as 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. Although he had no inkling about the emergence of Linux Clusters for High Performance Computing (HPC), his words ring true for designing, building, and managing compute clusters.Oct. 20, 2005 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 21,781 Replies: 2 |
 Enterprise IT departments face significant challenges in building applications that tie together heterogeneous business functions and data from a range of existing systems and applications. Existing portal applications are too rigid and inflexible to adapt to changing business requirem...Sep. 3, 2005 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 22,022 |
 At first glance, you might think accounting systems are the main type of software that keep you using Windows systems. QuickBooks, Peachtree, Microsoft Money, and Quicken all run on Windows, and not directly in Linux. These programs have certainly captured the market for financial soft...Aug. 12, 2005 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 37,514 Replies: 1 |
 Most organizations provide their users with the ability to print, store, and access files on network servers. Accessing and saving files to network drives and printing to shared network printers is probably something administrators don't spend much time thinking about unless it's to he...Jul. 13, 2005 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 25,984 Replies: 1 |
 In Part 1 ('Why Are You Waiting?', Vol. 2, issue 9), I discussed the business and technical considerations in migrating Microsoft IIS Web servers to Apache on Linux. Now, I'll address those who've decided that migrating to Apache on Linux is the way to go for their organization and sho...Jun. 25, 2005 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 25,307 Replies: 1 |
 Linux has come a long way, quite quickly over the past couple of years. It has moved from a system usable only by those willing and able to spend time installing, configuring, and re-configuring again to systems that are sold by a wide variety of distributors, some of which have specia...Jun. 14, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,529 |
 In the past 18 months, mobile phone manufacturers in Asia and elsewhere have introduced over a dozen handset models based on Linux, and before the end of 2005, you can expect to see a dozen more smart and feature phones announced and shipping. While it's easy to gush over this emerging...Jun. 14, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,107 |
 When blade servers burst on the computing scene several years ago, they were hailed as a replacement for traditional rack-mount solutions and a catalyst for the continuing shift away from proprietary Unix servers and mainframes and toward systems leveraging the x86 architecture and Lin...May. 30, 2005 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 13,452 |
Trade publications, news magazines, and blogs are filled with secrets and solutions for easily and cost-effectively building Web sites, intranets, and the like. Recipes like these are great but, in reality, how do we make it happen? May. 30, 2005 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 16,147 |
The Network File System (NFS) is an important mechanism for sharing files among end users on a broad range of platforms. End users have relied on NFS to support mission-critical applications for several decades. However, in recent years, other shared file systems have been developed to... May. 30, 2005 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 18,864 |
Linux PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a wonderful authentication application library that's used by essential programs like 'login' and 'passwd', and, so, is included in virtually every Linux distribution. Still, for most beginning Linux users and even a few veterans, PAM is ... Apr. 6, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,640 |
A transformation is taking place in telecommunications to meet the demands of new voice and data technologies. These technologies include Voice-over-IP (VoIP), the packet-switched alternative to old-fashioned circuit-switched telephony. To enable VoIP traffic, application servers must ... Mar. 10, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,500 |
Corporate migration to a Linux desktop requires rigorous premigration planning to succeed. The goal of migration is to finish with a Linux desktop that is cost-effective and responsive to the organization's needs. Without proper data center planning, the migration won't meet this goal ... Mar. 10, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 16,064 |
The year 2004 began auspiciously with the introduction of the 2.6 Linux kernel and advanced rapidly for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), its membership and the communities it represents and serves. Let us reflect on OSDL's achievements over the last year. This article will intr... Mar. 10, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 16,285 |
Blue Gene/L (BG/L) is a massively parallel supercomputer with low cost-to-performance ratios for speed, power, cooling, and floor space. It's designed and built by IBM in partnership with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Feb. 8, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,085 |
The battle with spam can easily be compared to an arms race. Spammers will learn about and start exploiting a certain method to send their garbage messages. E-mail administrators (with the help of open source developers and vendors) will respond with anti-spam tools battling the latest... Feb. 8, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,176 Replies: 2 |
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