Ten Key Reasons for Enterprise to Choose Cloud Computing

April 28th, 2009 It's recession hit period where companies are sorting out ways to overcome the downturn. Companies are looking for economical computing styles that could cut down the infrastructural cost and maximize entrepreneurial scalability.

August 22nd, 2009 Cloud Computing is the most hottest area of Information Technology today.  Companies that moved to Cloud Computing significantly reduced their costs, and they could concentrate on their core business. Once you are plugged into the cloud, you have access to thousands of new applications that can help your business, many of them free or low cost.

July 3rd, 2009 For long, the geeks had discussed of the D-day when the OS would disappear and everything would be accommodated in a cloud. At this day,  Cloud computing is a throwaway word that includes everything from web mail to Facebook.  Amazon had an important role in the development of cloud computing by modernizing their data centers after the dot-com bubble.

November 8th, 2008 Any reasonable (web) application which deals with some subset of web data (rss feeds, web pages, product pricing data etc.), has to use distributed data processing to go anywhere. Unless you have very deep pockets and / or have strong VC funding (which is rarer than a bottle of Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Premier Cru First Growth these days) you will have to opt for consumer grade hardware (instead of big iron which more companies opted during the dotcom era ) and use them in a distributed computing framework like hadoop or GridGain or older (more mature) high throughput computing systems like OpenPBS (ignore the marketing talk to download the free version) or Condor.

April 1st, 2009 I am sure if you are associated with software developments or serious enterprise workships, you must have heard of XP or extreme programming. The core idea of XP is Agile programming that is fast and flexible and Iterative development.

October 9th, 2009 CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.

December 15th, 2007 BEA SmartConnect 3.0 aims to reduce total cost of ownership and time-to-market for ERP applications by allowing rapid development of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based applications. BEA SmartConnect 3.0 consists of complete connectivity solution designed to allow service-enabling enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications to quickly build new service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications.

June 29th, 2007 After sometime I am back to developing in Java & JSP. And boy does it smell good! If there is a programmers heaven, I am in it now.

August 8th, 2008 IBM today announced new software and services for mobile devices that closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. The new software & services can help individuals make better business decisions faster, while connecting friends, work colleagues and teams above and beyond PC era.

August 24th, 2009 OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform to be developed under the open-source model. The goal is for OpenNMS to be a truly distributed, scalable platform for all aspects of the FCAPS network management model, and to make this platform available to both open source and commercial applications.

October 17th, 2008 This might come as a surprise to you in light of their recent Q3 results in which they beat forecasts by 31% increase in revenue. However let's look at the clear and omnious signs that even Google is not recession proof and may be in more trouble than you realize.

November 25th, 2008 The MySQL Query Analyzer tool monitors query performance and quickly pinpoints and corrects problems in SQL code. It promises to "turbo-boost" the speed and uptime of MySQL database applications.

September 9th, 2009 Java Management Extensions (JMX) is Sun Microsystem's new Java-based tool for managing enterprise applications. JMX is a Java framework designed to manage enterprise applications in a distributed environment.

October 23rd, 2009 Cisco Unified Service Delivery provides service providers like you with the technologies to fully integrate, secure and virtualize their service delivery infrastructures in an unique way. With Unified Service Delivery and a next-generation IP network,  CISCO Unified Service Delivery combine the data-center and their IP network together to provide end-to-end delivery of services like video, collaboration or cloud services.

May 24th, 2007 Overview There are two good choices for reading & writing Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet files from Java, in a platform independent way, - jexcelapi and Jakarta POI (HSSF). Both of them provide nice interface to access Excel data structure and even generate new spreadsheet.