IBM
Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
Features
 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: 396 |
 We are in the midst of the virtualization era. In fact, VMWare reports that all Fortune 100 companies are using their virtualized data network products, as well as more than 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies, and Yankee Group’s 2008-2009 Global Virtualization Deployment and Usage Su...Nov. 11, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 509 |
 This article discusses Open Source compliance and the challenges faced when establishing a compliance program, provides an overview of best practices, and offers recommendations on how to deal with compliance inquiries. Nov. 10, 2009 09:45 PM EST Reads: 546 |
 Plone and Drupal are two leading open source Content Management Systems (CMS). Both were recognized in the 2009 Open Source CMS awards, run by Packt Publishing. Both also have large installed bases and large developer communities. This is made evident by some quick searching on Googl...Nov. 3, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,308 Replies: 3 |
 In 1998, a little-known company called VMware had just opened the doors of its Palo Alto office. Ever since computing moved from the mainframe to the desktop, the push had been bigger, faster, and more – more CPUs, more servers, more power, more cooling – and ultimately more complexity...Sep. 25, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 999 |
 When it comes to defining Cloud Computing I typically take the stance of "I know it when I see it". Although I'm half joking, being able to spot an Internet centric platform or infrastructure is fairly self evident for the most part. But when it comes to an "OpenCloud API" things get a...Sep. 15, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
 It’s no secret what’s driving the move to virtualization in data centers. The demand for new and expanded software systems is growing, but the geographic and carbon footprint required for scaling underutilized dedicated servers is too costly on many levels. This issue has led to the ma...Sep. 9, 2009 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,088 |
 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: 1,656 |
 Cloud computing is slowly gaining credibility and traction in the enterprise world. As giants such as Google and Amazon productize their massive cloud infrastructures, moving enterprise applications to the public cloud seems a more realistic possibility. The advantages of an enterprise...Jul. 21, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,821 |
 In today’s economy, an enterprise must have strong financial motives for transitioning to SOA. SOA’s superior technical capabilities are a strong motive for information technology professionals to make that transition. However, enterprise stakeholders are motivated by solid investment ...Jun. 30, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,127 |
 This article explains how an Open Source SOA Roadmap can use a typical Web application project’s funding as the basis for a successful SOA transition effort. It is the first of three articles that explains how open source technologies and techniques can be leveraged to successfully del...Jun. 8, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,118 |
 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: 2,482 |
 “What would you think if I told you that you can develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you can with a typical Java framework?” Oops! Ten times faster! Well, after these comments I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. I need to know the true key of the productiv...May. 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,393 |
 A service inventory is a living body of services that individually will need the freedom to evolve independently over time. What we learned when documenting the SOA design pattern catalog is that there are patterns that emerged not only at design-time but also during this post-implemen...Apr. 7, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,036 |
 Why developers want the software to be open sourced? I like quotes by great minds. Here's my favorite quote by Henry Ford: If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Some of these chapters of our upcoming O'Reilly book "Enterprise Development with Flex...Mar. 23, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,509 |
 A key task in the scope of Content Management, is Content Modeling - this is when you get raw content to fit into some common model of types and elements. Once defined, the types and their elements fit into a hierarchy (A.K.A - Taxonomy or "Content Tree"). To break this down a little f...Mar. 23, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,427 |
 With a global recession looming, software development managers are being asked to slash resource budgets in 2009 while maintaining schedules. When you need to deliver more features with fewer coding resources, there is only one answer: hybrid development. Hybrid software development in...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,370 |
 High-performance databases are optimized for transaction processing and used by several industries around the world, notably financial services and health care. They are more commonly available on 32-bit Unix platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux). The trend is to 64-bit-enable the...Dec. 11, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 9,819 |
 The open source community includes many early advocates of the recent wave of emerging SOA-related technology projects. Historically, however, open source has sometimes been considered a "late follower," with commercial products first to hit the market, and then followed by "me-too" op...Nov. 26, 2008 06:45 AM EST Reads: 5,331 |
 Any large Java source base can have insidious and subtle bugs. Every experienced Java programmer knows that finding and fixing these bugs can be difficult and costly. Fortunately, there are a large number of free open source Java tools available that can be used to find and fix defects...May. 16, 2008 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 12,065 |
 Is software development a science or an art? The software industry treats it as a science. It uses processes like MRDs, PRDs, and functional specs to convert customer needs into software that solves their problems. Various roles like product managers, engineering managers, project mana...Apr. 27, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 16,873 |
 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: 26,840 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 |
 One of the most exciting things about the software industry is how fast it moves. Software is constantly optimizing itself around the state-of-the-art. Inherent industry bottlenecks change cyclically every five years or so. Architectures and solutions change too. CPUs too costly? Enter...Feb. 4, 2008 05:45 AM EST Reads: 6,968 |
 Governance is currently a key topic for many IT functions. Its definition varies, but its key themes are true for all companies: effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability. Business value and risk mitigation are also at its center and represent a significant part of enterprise governan...Jan. 31, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 7,909 |
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 |
 Understanding the complexity of AJAX at the browser level is critical to refining and debugging rich AJAX applications that leverage Web technologies such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and XMLHttpRequests. Adding a third-party AJAX runtime heightens the complexity and su...Jan. 4, 2007 02:00 PM EST Reads: 15,071 Replies: 2 |
The team at ATTAP Technologies announced that it is previewing Jitsu, a new web-development framework. Jitsu is an open source user-interface toolkit that enables developers to build and deploy sophisticated user interfaces for web applications. Jitsu tools include an XML markup langua... Jun. 27, 2006 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 13,838 Replies: 1 |
 We'll build a servlet that will demo some new Java 5.0 features and do some basic tasks like creating a session to track user visits to multiple Web pages. This code can easily be extended to store a user ID in the session that will travel with her as the site is navigated. The value o...Jan. 7, 2006 01:15 PM EST Reads: 92,554 Replies: 13 |
Subscribe to Open Source Magazine Email News Alerts
Subscribe via RSS
