California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team broke down the door to Gizmodo writer Jason Chen’s home Friday and carted off four computers and two servers plus an iPad, cell phones, digital cameras, hard drives and flash drives under a warrant issued by a San Mateo Superior Court Judge. They hauled the stuff off to a forensic lab to see what the widgetry might reveal about Gizmodo’s $5,000 purchase of the iPhone 4G prototype that an Apple engineer left in a Redwood City bar
This Wednesday I gave a presentation on 'Java in the Cloud' at the Phoenix Java User Group and lot of people attended it. I was thrilled with the interest in cloud and great to see cloud enthusiasts here in Phoenix. Lots of people asked for the presentation.
This Wednesday I gave a presentation on 'Java in the Cloud' at the Phoenix Java User Group and lot of people attended it. I was thrilled with the interest in cloud and great to see cloud enthusiasts here in Phoenix. Lots of people asked for the presentation.
The Have Nots - It's just a big iTouch. The Haves - It's not only a great size for viewing and portability. It changes what you do for reading, work and internet access. The Have Nots - I don't need it. The Haves - I don't "need" it either, but I am more productive with it. The Have Nots - I already have a NetBook for better portability. The Haves - So do I ... collecting dust... The Have Nots - I need a real keyboard. The Have's - The virtual keyboard works better than expected ... and the keyboard dock or Bluetooth work great. The Have Nots - You can't get any real work done on that. The Haves - I use it for work in more and more situations. The Have Nots - I need Windows apps, a mouse, and Flash would be nice. The Haves - There's an App for that ! The Have Nots - It doesn't do Multi-tasking The Haves - That would be nice, but there are other methods ... The Have Nots - I am waiting for Version 2 with a camera and whatever other cool things get added. The Haves - I will probably get that also... The Have Nots - Your just an Apple Fanboy ... The Haves - Not really, I hope the Slate and Android Tablets are as good as the iPad... we will see. The iPad: size, battery life and touch interface have set a high expectation and validated a new device segment that is here to stay. Any more Have vs Have Not opinions out there ?
The Have Nots - It's just a big iTouch. The Haves - It's not only a great size for viewing and portability. It changes what you do for reading, work and internet access. The Have Nots - I don't need it. The Haves - I don't "need" it either, but I am more productive with it. The Have Nots - I already have a NetBook for better portability. The Haves - So do I ... collecting dust... The Have Nots - I need a real keyboard. The Have's - The virtual keyboard works better than expected ... and the keyboard dock or Bluetooth work great. The Have Nots - You can't get any real work done on that. The Haves - I use it for work in more and more situations. The Have Nots - I need Windows apps, a mouse, and Flash would be nice. The Haves - There's an App for that ! The Have Nots - It doesn't do Multi-tasking The Haves - That would be nice, but there are other methods ... The Have Nots - I am waiting for Version 2 with a camera and whatever other cool things get added. The Haves - I will probably get that also... The Have Nots - Your just an Apple Fanboy ... The Haves - Not really, I hope the Slate and Android Tablets are as good as the iPad... we will see. The iPad: size, battery life and touch interface have set a high expectation and validated a new device segment that is here to stay. Any more Have vs Have Not opinions out there ?
What prevents an enterprise scale explosion in cloud processing that matches the individual and SMB growth patterns that have already been recorded? What stops important government and commercial mission-essential applications and services from being confidently migrated to the cloud in a style that captures the biggest possible payoff? The answer lies in restoring visibility into and through the cloud, and delivering a technique that can reclaim transparency even as services are being delivered through cloud processing. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Ron Knode, director in the Global Security Solutions (GSS) business unit of CSC, will discuss how this transparency is reclaimed, and will conclude with a brief demonstration scenario so the attendees can get a sense of what such transparency will look like and how it can make a difference in cloud usage.
What prevents an enterprise scale explosion in cloud processing that matches the individual and SMB growth patterns that have already been recorded? What stops important government and commercial mission-essential applications and services from being confidently migrated to the cloud in a style that captures the biggest possible payoff? The answer lies in restoring visibility into and through the cloud, and delivering a technique that can reclaim transparency even as services are being delivered through cloud processing. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Ron Knode, director in the Global Security Solutions (GSS) business unit of CSC, will discuss how this transparency is reclaimed, and will conclude with a brief demonstration scenario so the attendees can get a sense of what such transparency will look like and how it can make a difference in cloud usage.
Monitis, a provider of all-in-one Cloud-based network and application monitoring suite, has announced a major new product launch: Java Application Monitoring. Using their leading-edge hosted software as a service (SaaS) approach, Monitis’ Cloud-based Java Application Monitoring Tool enables IT managers to monitor any Java-based service with JMX hooks, but to do so from the Cloud. This means that in addition to enabling users to see inside a production Java (also JRuby) application deployed in a cloud or in a datacenter, users are free to monitor these processes from anywhere at any time. Said Monitis Founder and CEO, Hovhannes Avoyan, “This is a big deal. This is a major step forward in the industry and we are excited to be at the forefront of this innovation. With this new addition Monitis becomes a true Swiss army knife for the IT administrators. Our host of useful tools in one simple, easy-to-use package can be configured in 5 minutes and require zero maintenance efforts.”
Monitis, a provider of all-in-one Cloud-based network and application monitoring suite, has announced a major new product launch: Java Application Monitoring. Using their leading-edge hosted software as a service (SaaS) approach, Monitis’ Cloud-based Java Application Monitoring Tool enables IT managers to monitor any Java-based service with JMX hooks, but to do so from the Cloud. This means that in addition to enabling users to see inside a production Java (also JRuby) application deployed in a cloud or in a datacenter, users are free to monitor these processes from anywhere at any time. Said Monitis Founder and CEO, Hovhannes Avoyan, “This is a big deal. This is a major step forward in the industry and we are excited to be at the forefront of this innovation. With this new addition Monitis becomes a true Swiss army knife for the IT administrators. Our host of useful tools in one simple, easy-to-use package can be configured in 5 minutes and require zero maintenance efforts.”
Java papa James Gosling, who left Oracle on Good Friday slamming the door behind him, has dropped another provocative hint about the circumstances of his departure from Sun's new master. When he blogged that he'd quit, he wrote "As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. The hardest part is no longer being with all the great people I've had the privilege to work with over the years."
Java papa James Gosling, who left Oracle on Good Friday slamming the door behind him, has dropped another provocative hint about the circumstances of his departure from Sun's new master. When he blogged that he'd quit, he wrote "As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. The hardest part is no longer being with all the great people I've had the privilege to work with over the years."
No one is talking about the Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, or SOA these days. It doesn't mean that no one is using these technologies, it is just that these are not the buzzwords anymore. The latest buzzword is "Cloud Computing". Every one is talking about building apps in cloud or moving the apps to cloud. There are plenty of jobs on job boards looking for the people with the skills: "familiarity with cloud" or "expertise in cloud". What is the cloud? Every one defines the cloud in their own way, here is my take on it. Companies whose main business is not Computer related, they outsource their IT work to some computer consulting firm. It is because IT is not their main business and some times it makes sense to hand it over. Similarly, for application development companies - the focus is application development, not hosting the applications. In addition to the application developers, they need to have IT people, hardware to host the apps. For some companies it makes sense to outsource the IT and hardware. In other words, you are outsourcing your application to a different company. Application outsourcing used to be to hosting companies, but that's changing to the cloud due to its infrastructure. The cloud makes it very easy to scale an app for rapid growth compared to the hosting companies. Cloud will take away all the hardware management and IT risks from you.
New Site Open for Free Search and Download from Thousands of Virtual Machine Images for any Hypervisor, Speeding the Deployment of Virtualization and Cloud Computing. The virtual machine images available through Thunderflash are vitally important to IT professionals, as they contain pre-installed operating systems, applications and other tools, which can then be deployed as a unit in one simple operation. Such images can save IT professionals hours of valuable time building and configuring application servers from the ground-up. Thunderflash's advanced searching tools allow for the selection of exactly the right virtual machine image, which can then be directly download, enabling new application servers to be deployed in a fraction of the usual time.
New Site Open for Free Search and Download from Thousands of Virtual Machine Images for any Hypervisor, Speeding the Deployment of Virtualization and Cloud Computing. The virtual machine images available through Thunderflash are vitally important to IT professionals, as they contain pre-installed operating systems, applications and other tools, which can then be deployed as a unit in one simple operation. Such images can save IT professionals hours of valuable time building and configuring application servers from the ground-up. Thunderflash's advanced searching tools allow for the selection of exactly the right virtual machine image, which can then be directly download, enabling new application servers to be deployed in a fraction of the usual time.
Apple has upgraded its MacBook notebooks, moving the top two of the three to Intel’s latest chips and sexing up all of their graphics and battery life. The 15- and 17-inch models now use the faster Core i5 and i7 processors and graphics that switch automatically between high-end Nvidia GeForce GT 330M capabilities and energy-saving Intel HD Graphics depending on the program. They are supposed to last eight to nine hours. The 13-inch still uses the Core 3 Duo and can supposedly run for 10 hours with faster Nvidia graphics. Prices range from $1,199 to $2,299 for clock speeds of 2.4GHz-2.66GHz. Memory can expand from 4GB to 8GB, The 13-inch has got a 250GB hard drives, the others 500GB.
Apple has upgraded its MacBook notebooks, moving the top two of the three to Intel’s latest chips and sexing up all of their graphics and battery life. The 15- and 17-inch models now use the faster Core i5 and i7 processors and graphics that switch automatically between high-end Nvidia GeForce GT 330M capabilities and energy-saving Intel HD Graphics depending on the program. They are supposed to last eight to nine hours. The 13-inch still uses the Core 3 Duo and can supposedly run for 10 hours with faster Nvidia graphics. Prices range from $1,199 to $2,299 for clock speeds of 2.4GHz-2.66GHz. Memory can expand from 4GB to 8GB, The 13-inch has got a 250GB hard drives, the others 500GB.
To reassure an uneasy and dubious MySQL community about Oracle’s administration of the open source database, Oracle’s chief corporate architect Edward Screven, a Larry Ellison direct report, said at a MySQL conference Tuesday that Oracle would be increasing investment in the thing “on every front” (without putting a dollar figure on it) and improving its performance (without unveiling a roadmap). Oracle’s point in doing so is to harry Microsoft’s feature-rich SQL Server and penetrate parts of the market Oracle itself doesn’t reach. It’s also protecting Oracle’s flank since its own customers run MySQL too. It will mean better integration with Windows.
To reassure an uneasy and dubious MySQL community about Oracle’s administration of the open source database, Oracle’s chief corporate architect Edward Screven, a Larry Ellison direct report, said at a MySQL conference Tuesday that Oracle would be increasing investment in the thing “on every front” (without putting a dollar figure on it) and improving its performance (without unveiling a roadmap). Oracle’s point in doing so is to harry Microsoft’s feature-rich SQL Server and penetrate parts of the market Oracle itself doesn’t reach. It’s also protecting Oracle’s flank since its own customers run MySQL too. It will mean better integration with Windows.
There’s not enough iPads to go around so Apple is delaying the thing’s international launch a month until the end of May. It puts it down to stronger U.S. demand than it expected. You will recall that the dingus was supposed to be available everywhere in late March, then it went to U.S.-only starting April 3. Anyway, Apple now says, “Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.
There’s not enough iPads to go around so Apple is delaying the thing’s international launch a month until the end of May. It puts it down to stronger U.S. demand than it expected. You will recall that the dingus was supposed to be available everywhere in late March, then it went to U.S.-only starting April 3. Anyway, Apple now says, “Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.
Long a leader in the Software-as-a-Service space, OpSource has helped pioneer enterprise cloud computing with OpSource Cloud. OpSource Cloud™ is the first cloud computing solution to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Emphasizing security, OpSource Cloud provides enterprise users with a virtual private cloud within the public cloud, allowing them to determine their own degree of Internet connectivity. OpSource Cloud also offers the best SLA available from any Cloud vendor, reflecting the company's commitment to deliver enterprise-class reliability, performance and support.
Long a leader in the Software-as-a-Service space, OpSource has helped pioneer enterprise cloud computing with OpSource Cloud. OpSource Cloud™ is the first cloud computing solution to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Emphasizing security, OpSource Cloud provides enterprise users with a virtual private cloud within the public cloud, allowing them to determine their own degree of Internet connectivity. OpSource Cloud also offers the best SLA available from any Cloud vendor, reflecting the company's commitment to deliver enterprise-class reliability, performance and support.
Cloud Expo General Session Speaker Marty Gauvin believes that 3G-SaaS – the combined effect of Cloud Computing and outsourcing with application management – will drive the use of IT for a significant period of time. By leveraging existing Cloud service providers, the pay-as-you-go model of 3G-SaaS enables ISVs to align licensing as closely as possible to how the customer consumes the application. Enterprise customers will depend upon successfully leveraging this confluence of trends to secure their business operations, IP, data and future.
Cloud Expo General Session Speaker Marty Gauvin believes that 3G-SaaS – the combined effect of Cloud Computing and outsourcing with application management – will drive the use of IT for a significant period of time. By leveraging existing Cloud service providers, the pay-as-you-go model of 3G-SaaS enables ISVs to align licensing as closely as possible to how the customer consumes the application. Enterprise customers will depend upon successfully leveraging this confluence of trends to secure their business operations, IP, data and future.
Let me ask you this, “Can you come up with any innovation for the time interval between the moment you pressed the button Send in your email client and the moment when the send process actually begins”? No? And Microsoft couldn’t, even though MS Outlook is probably still the most popular email client.