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Data Management represents a strategic asset for Cloud Platforms as the most popular Data Services will likely command the largest platform market share. In a post this week, Arnon Rotem-gal-Oz argues that "Database-as-a-Service" is a bad idea. Would you trust your enterprise data to DaaS?
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By Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Aug 21, 2008,
- Architecture,
- SOA
- Topics
- SaaS,
- Cloud Computing
David Chappell published a Microsoft sponsored white paper on Introduction to Cloud Platforms
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By Dilip Krishnan
on Aug 20, 2008,
- Java,
- SOA
- Topics
- Rich Internet Apps,
- SOA Platforms,
- SaaS
The latest version of XAware, an open-source composite data services software supports REST operations, XML schema validation and enhancements to JMX BizComponent monitoring component. XAware development team last week announced release of version 5.1 of the data integration solution which can be used for creating and managing data services for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications.
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By Srini Penchikala
on Aug 16, 2008,
- Architecture
- Topics
- SaaS,
- Cloud Computing
Cloud computing seems inevitable, simply because of its business case. Prof. Lewis wrote an article where he recommends caution and provides a series of questions that anyone should answer before using capabilities from the Cloud. Are you using Cloud Services in the Enterprise? What are the benefits and the drawbacks?
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By Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Aug 07, 2008,
- Architecture
- Topics
- REST,
- Rule Engines,
- SaaS
Max Krohn and his colleagues at MIT developed a new end-to-end security architecture to help achieving data secrecy and integrity across complex Web Applications. In this talk and a series of papers, Max presents their findings and a use case based on MoinMoin Wiki.
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By Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Aug 01, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Performance & Scalability,
- SaaS,
- Ruby on Rails
New Relic announced that 37signals uses their Ruby on Rails performance management solution to find problematic areas in their applications. David Heinemeier Hansson confirmed that they achieved a 50% speedup in certain actions.
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By Mirko Stocker
on Jul 15, 2008,
- Architecture,
- SOA
- Topics
- Hype,
- Virtualization,
- SaaS,
- Cloud Computing,
- Deployment / Datacenter,
- Grid Computing
The term "cloud computing" has shown up everywhere from the Web 2.0 conference to the enterprise architecture whiteboard sessions in big companies to the laptops of startup developers. The big question being asked now is "what is cloud computing?"
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By Steven Robbins
on May 29, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- SaaS,
- Performance & Scalability,
- JRuby,
- Ruby on Rails
New Relic introduces a new performance analysis tool for Rails applications. The tool is installable as a Rails plugin, and offloads the analysis to the New Relic service. We talked to New Relic's Lew Cirne about the technology behind the product.
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By Werner Schuster
on May 02, 2008,