From time to time WebRenderer is deployed within an Applet. Applets provide a convenient mechanism for launching client applications within the browser. WebRenderer however requires different libraries based on the target platform (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) and architecture (32/64 bit). Traditionally to run an Applet, you needed to specify all of the libraries that are required, and they will all be downloaded. If you intend for the Applet to run on multiple platforms, then traditional Applet deployment means that all the libraries for the supported platforms are required which results in the downloading of many unnecessary files.
Welcome to Part 4 of my series Deploying APM in the Enterprise. In the last installment we covered how you find, test, and justify purchasing an APM solution. This blog will focus on what to do after you’ve made a purchase and started down the path of deploying your coveted APM tool (ahem, ahem, AppDynamics, [...] Deploying APM in the Enterprise. In the last installment we covered how you find, test, and justify purchasing an APM solution. This blog will focus on what to do after you’ve made a purchase and started down the path of deploying your coveted APM tool (ahem, ahem, AppDynamics, ahem). Just clearing my throat, let’s jump right in…
esProc supports various data sources. These data sources could be JDBC-driving databases or sequence files that are not stored in database like Excel and Txt. With esProc, analysts can access data from a single data source or from multiple data sources. Results can be showed in esProc or exported to different data sources and can also be called by outside applications. Enterprises always have various data sources, for instance, CRM system may use SQL Server, sales reports adopt Excel, ERP applies Oracle database. When it comes to actual business analysis, enterprises usually need to conduct interactive computation, including filter, group, etc among various data environments. But data Interaction between multiple data sources are not easy to realize with some traditional statistical computing tools. In order to solve such kind of problems, esProc which adapts to various data environments comes into being.
Late Saturday – on the eve of Armistice Day – Apple and HTC announced that they have settled their patent litigation at the price of a 10-year license agreement that covers “current and future patents held by both parties.” Terms aren’t being disclosed. An HTC spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal that the company “doesn’t expect the license agreement to have an adverse material impact” on it. Back in 2010 Apple offered Samsung terms of $30 a smartphone and $40 a tablet or $24 for a cross license, sums that might be pricey for HTC, which unlike Samsung, is no longer a serious market threat. It’s the first licensing deal Apple has cut with an Android vendor.
The bad blood between Apple and Samsung is evidently getting worse. Samsung recently hiked the price of the so-called application processors it builds for Apple’s widgets by a hefty 20%, according to the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, quoting a story Monday in the Korean-language paper Chosun Ilbo, which in turn cites a person familiar with the negotiations between the two companies. Apple is the only Samsung customer affected by the price increase. Apple’s problem is Samsung’s its sole source. Apple reportedly looked around but couldn’t find a replacement. Apple bought roughly 130 million of the gismos from Samsung last year and more than 200 million this year for its iPads and iPhones. The contract runs until 2014. Apple is expected to bring the effort in-house by then but ensure that the widgets are backward-compatible.
Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu think Apple is going to get $6–$8 in royalties on each Android phone HTC sells because of their weekend licensing arrangement that puts an end to all litigation between them. Of course, terms weren’t disclosed and Wu’s estimate could just be a shot in the dark. If the figures are on the money Apple would see an extra $180 million–$280 million a year, a negligible sum for Apple. He thinks it’s less than the number Apple originally proposed. HTC’s financial position has been deteriorating; it currently has only a 4% global market share, down from 10.3% year-over-year, below even Chinese handset maker ZTE. The payments to Apple will likely pressure its profitability some more.
This was a perfect size book for what I needed. What I needed was a book that would get me back up to speed quickly on UNIX. I have not used UNIX since the late 80's, and I have not used Mac since the early 90's. The book starts off with a nice introduction to you Unix and why you would want to use it. The second chapter using the Terminal, is a nice introduction to Terminal's capabilities and shows you how to customization. After the first two chapters the book starts digging into the details of what you can do with Unix on the Mac. I have listed the chapters below.
First thing Monday morning Apple said that it sold three million iPad minis and fourth-generation iPads in the three days since Friday when the widgets went on sale. The number is double the 1.5 million sold in the last three-day weekend in March when the third-generation iPad came out. Apple didn’t say how many minis and how many 4Gen iPads but did claim that its stock of minis was virtually depleted.
An eCommerce site that crashes seven times during the Christmas season being down for up to five hours each time it crashes is a site that loses a lot of money and reputation. It happened to one of our customers who told this story at our annual performance conference earlier this month. Among the several reasons that led to these crashes I want to share more details on one of them that I see more often with other websites as well. Load balancers on a round-robin instead of least-busy can easily lead to app server crashes caused by heap memory exhaustion. Let’s dig into some details on how to identify these problems and how to avoid it. The website is deployed on six Tomcats with three front-end Apache Web Servers. During peak load hours individual Tomcat instances started showing growing response times and a growing number of requests in the Tomcat processing queue. After a while these instances crashed due to out-of-memory exceptions and with that also brought down the rest of the site as load couldn’t be handled any more with the remaining servers. Figure 1 shows the actual flow of transactions through the system highlighting unevenly distributed response time in the application servers and functional errors being reported on all tiers (red-colored server icon):
Apple’s record earnings came in a bit short of expectations Thursday, a situation the smart money attributed to its failure to make enough phones although it still sold an amazing 26.9 million of the things, up 58% year-over-year and good for $17.13 billion, into the expected launch of the new iPhone 5, which only came out at the very end of the third quarter. Apple admits to a lot of backlog and says it has no idea when supply and demand will even out. It earned $8.67 a share on revenues of $35.97 billion. It was expected to realize $8.75 a share on $35.86 billion. Apple sold 14 million iPads during the quarter, up 26% year-over-year, to $7.51 billion, less than the 17.5 million Wall Street originally anticipated and than rejigged to 15 million after Apple said Tuesday it sold 100 iPads since the beginning.
Cloud consumers need choice because workloads are different. In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, M. Srikanth, CTO of ComputeNext, will discuss how with the growth and adoption of cloud, there is a need to provide options for consumers of cloud with the ability to select and federate their workloads across heterogeneous cloud. M. Srikanth is CTO of ComputeNext. With 13+ years in search and semantic technology and most recently an applied researcher at Microsoft Bing, he is fascinated with how search and discovery can power efficient computing in federated cloud ecosystems.
Two types of cloud infrastructure have emerged to clearly differentiate the choices enterprises face in their cloud migration strategies: enterprise virtualization clouds versus elastic cloud infrastructure. The former defines infrastructure built to support legacy enterprise applications like those built on SAP and Oracle. The canonical example is a vSphere stack. The second cloud category – elastic cloud – defines infrastructure built to support new, dynamic applications like mobile, gaming, Big Data, and PaaS. The canonical example is public cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS). In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Troy Angrignon, Vice President of Sales & Partnering at Cloudscaling, will explain how enterprise CIOs are increasingly faced with the need to build and support new, dynamic apps built on REST-ful APIs under the devops model. Unfortunately, new apps are ill-suited to their enterprise virtualization stacks. Running them on public clouds like AWS works technically, but this presents regulatory, availability and proprietary issues. CIOs are asking for an elastic cloud infrastructure that's architecturally and behaviorally consistent with AWS, but they want it in their data center.
Recently FireScope Inc. introduced the general availability of its Stratis product. Stratis brings all of the FireScope Unify capabilities to the cloud, with the added advantage of a new architecture that delivers near infinite scalability. Moreover, the new Stratis architecture provides scalability at all application layers including its back-end operations, which were newly designed to leverage the benefits of MongoDB. In this article we will discuss several of the architecture choices that were made as part of this effort with the hope that others might benefit from the research and analysis that was performed to bring this product to market. As background a functioning FireScope deployment has the ability to gather metrics from all forms of existing IT assets, normalize the gathered metrics, provide historical analysis of the metrics, and most importantly provide service views for worldwide operations which is unparalleled in the IT industry. In the early phases of designing the Stratis product, FireScope undertook significant research into the scalable persistence architectures that were production ready at the time of this effort. FireScope ultimately chose MongoDB for its ability to scale and its flexibility in supporting an easy transition from a relational persistence model to a NoSQL model.
The International Trade Commission decided Wednesday that Samsung Android smartphones and tablets infringe four Apple patents – a design patent, a hardware patent and two multitouch software patents – a preliminary determination sure to be kicked upstairs to the ITC’s six commissioners for review in February since the agency’s only punitive power is to ban the import and sale of infringing products. Samsung reportedly has some kind of unidentified designarounds for the three utility patents. FOSS Patents says Android widgetry has now been found to infringe 20 patents worldwide.
It’s interesting as a parent watching your kids grow up and learn how to do things for themselves. I have 2 boys ages 6 and 7 and they often amaze me and confound me. There are times when I think they are absolutely brilliant and other times where I think that significant amounts of remedial education may be in their futures. I recall a time not long ago when my kids first discovered the wonders of duct tape. What a magical substance. They really thought that you could fix anything with duct tape. Broke a lamp? Duct Tape! Cut your finger? Duct Tape! Building a boat out of sticks? Duct Tape! (Seriously, my oldest boy actually tried this.)
The latest OSX update released last week removes all traces of what used to be an Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from Mac-compatible browsers when it installs. Apple doesn’t say why but it’s telling users to go to Oracle for the latest version of the plug-in if they need it for a particular web site. After a zero-day exploit was discovered this summer users were told they’d be safer from hacker-borne malware if they expunged Java from their systems because Java is easy for hackers to screw with. Reuters remembers that Oracle and Apple agreed two years ago that Oracle would eventually be responsible for providing Java to Mac users. That agreement may have kicked in.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively decided that all 20 claims in Apple’s US Patent No, 7,469,381 are invalid. The non-binding decision had Samsung sprinting off to Judge Lucy Koh late Monday to inform her of the re-examination finding. See, Apple used Claim 19 of the so-called rubber-band patent to nail Samsung’s hide to the barn door this summer, one of five patents that made a California jury award Apple landmark damages of $1.05 billion against Samsung for infringing it in various products including the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S2 smartphone. Fortune recalls that it was supposed to have been one of Steve Jobs’ favorite patents, the widgetry that convinced him that Apple could make a meaningful dent in the cell phone market, and something he distinctly told Samsung not to copy although it did anyway.
Apple Tuesday brought out the roundly anticipated iPad mini with most of the specs exactly as the rumor mill called it. At least the price remained a secret. The 7.9-inch diagonal widget will cost $329 to start, pricier than many people expected. In the manner of Steve Jobs’ famous “one more thing,” Apple did manage to surprise people by launching a new fourth-generation classic iPad tricked out with a fancier A6X processor that’s supposed to be good for 2x better graphics with a 2,048-by-1,536 pixel Retina display and faster Wi-Fi connectivity. Pricing remains the same as its predecessor, which just came out in March, upsetting entirely Apple’s traditional upgrade cycle.
Samsung told the Korea Times Monday that it will be terminating its contract to supply Apple with LCD displays next year. It blames it on the margins it can fetch from Apple’s business although it appears that it’s really Apple that’s doing the “terminating” by shifting its orders elsewhere. Apple is Samsung’s largest components customer, but Apple’s belief that Samsung stole its iPhone and iPad technology and the worldwide litigation that has resulted has driven a massive wedge between the two companies. The paper says Samsung Displays “believes its American partner is no longer a cash-generator due to the iPhone maker’s stiffer supply-chain management structure.” Apple has been rumored to be moving its business to Samsung rivals and Samsung’s move seems to confirm the scuttlebutt. Evidently Apple is getting better pricing in the process.
On returning from an awesome SAP TechEd in Las Vegas, I was waiting in the departure lounge for my Virgin Atlantic flight and looked through the iTunesU videos I had on my iPad2. There I saw the WWDC2010 Keynote, one that I had personally attended and decided to view it. Within 10 minutes I was amazed. In the world of mobile we seemed to be fascinated and compelled to look forward, project and speculate but I thought in this blog, I would do quite the opposite. It is only when looking back that we can realise how far we have come and in such a fantastically short time, two years! In fact it seems that the cycles of new devices and OS' is becoming shorter and also the time technology advances are in the spotlight before they become accepted as the norm.
If people really don’t like negative political ads, why aren’t they sick of companies behaving like spoilers and trying to step on each other’s announcements? Google apparently can’t stand the thought of Apple and Microsoft unveiling products without it putting its two cents in. It’s sent the media an invitation to a mystery Android event on Monday October 29, the same day Microsoft is set to make its Windows 8 phone announcement. Google is also using New York as a backdrop having hired Basketball City at Pier 36 on the East River at 10am. Google will also live stream the event at http://www.youtube.com/android.
After foiling press prophecies last week about when the media would get invitations to the supposedly thinner 7.85-inch iPad mini’s unveiling the precious suggestive invites arrived the other day. The widget, whose existence Apple has yet to acknowledge and addresses competition from Samsung. Google and Amazon, will apparently appear October 23, three days before Microsoft is scheduled to trot out its Apple-rivaling Windows 8 ARM-based Surface tablets, which will start at $499 like the entry-level iPad. The mini’s price is rumored to be $249 or $299 with 8GB of storage. Some think it may start at $199, where the Amazon Kindle and Google Nexus 7 start. The older iPad 2 is now available for $399.
Apple finds itself in the enraging position of having to deny in print that Samsung copied its iPad technology after losing an appeal to the UK’s Court of Appeals Thursday. It was protesting a High Court decision this summer that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 couldn’t possibly infringe on Apple’s design patent because it wasn’t as “cool” as the iPad. The High Court said the Samsung tablet didn’t have the “understated and extreme simplicity” of the iPad. It ordered Apple to run ads in British newspapers, such as Daily Mail and the Financial Times, and post a notice on its web site saying Samsung didn’t infringe its patent or break UK law.
Mouse gestures are one of those great "add-ons" that enhance browser usability. For those that are not familiar with mouse gestures, they are a browser navigational aid that works via mouse movements. Mouse gestures have been around for some time now and we thought it would be good to show how to implement mouse gestures in WebRenderer. This demonstration application not only aids in browser navigation, but also shows how to draw on top of the WebRenderer browser. To enact a mouse gesture one holds down the right mouse button and moves the mouse in a direction or pattern and the browser matches this pattern against a predefined list. After the browser interprets the mouse movement pattern it is matched to a browser action, such as "go back" or "reload page". Mouse gestures can be visually interpreted by the user thanks to a "tail" which is drawn on the browser (web page) as the user performs the gesture.
Apple has poached a top chip designer from Samsung, its nemesis as well as its foundry. It’s waltzed off with the guy who was chief engineer at AMD until June of 2011, when he went to work for Samsung down Texas way as chief system architect. Jim Mergard, who was at AMD for 16 years, is regarded as an expert in PC chips, APUs and SoCs. It’s not clear why exactly Apple hired him – aside from spite – or what his job’s going to be at Apple. But the Wall Street Journal quotes one of Mergard’s former colleagues from AMD, Patrick Moorhead, now in the research business at Moor Insights & Strategy, as saying, that besides Mergard’s SoC skills, “He would be very capable of pulling together internal and external resources to do a PC processor for Apple.”