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IT Projects: 400% Over-Budget and only 25% of Benefits Realized
An alarming study by Flyvbjerg and Budzier published in the Harvard Business Review has made everyone stand-up and take notice. The coherent advice being that IT projects are much more riskier than we think.
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SOA’s Role in the Emerging Hadoop World
A new post by Joe McKendrick outlines Hadoop’s ability to significantly simplify enterprise SOA implementation through improved data access services build on a common enterprise data platform.
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How Do You Tune Your Application For Performance?
StackExchange is built on the ASP.NET and SQL Server stack. Recently, Sam Saffron and Marc Gravell blogged about their experience identifying and solving a performance problem that was finally traced to the .NET GC GEN-2 objects. There is a lot to be taken away from their experience for everyone tuning performance for applications in production.
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Worm Turns Unpatched JBoss Servers into Botnet
A new worm exploiting a JBoss vulnerability that was patched in April 2010 is targeting unsecured servers and adding them to a botnet, security researchers are reporting.
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AppDynamics Lite 2 Released - Adds Monitoring Support for Free
Application Performance Measurement (APM) vendor AppDynamics has released AppDynamics Lite version 2.0, bringing new features from their commercial product into the free version.
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Enterprises Can Now Create Google+ Accounts
Google+ is now available to businesses wanting to expand collaboration and data sharing between their users. Hangouts with Extras bring secured audio/video sessions integrated with document and screen sharing.
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50 Spots left for QConSF; Google’s Dart Keynote Added
The 5th annual QCon San Francisco is taking place just 3 weeks from now, the chance to register is quickly approaching. Registration is double last year's at this time! We only have 50 tickets left so book early to make sure you get a spot.
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Microsoft “Data Explorer” – Discover, Enrich, Publish Data
Microsoft announced a new Cloud Service codenamed “Data Explorer”, to be available by November. With this service, you can manage related data from disparate data sources, combine and curate data and then share results with others. The service also works with Azure data market and Bing to make third party datasets available wherever relevant.
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Hadoop-as-a-Service from Amazon, Cloudera, Microsoft and IBM
Companies rely more and more on big data when making their decisions. Amazon, Cloudera, and IBM have announced their Hadoop-as-a-Service offerings, while Microsoft promises to do the same next year.
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Cassandra 1.0.0. Is Ready for the Enterprise
Apache has announced the release of Cassandra 1.0.0, the first major milestone of the distributed column-based data store coming with data compression and several performance improvements and optimizations.
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'Denali' No More: SQL Server 2012 Announced, Focuses on BI and Big Data
Microsoft announced that the next version of SQL Server, known by the codename "Denali", will be called SQL Server 2012. It will feature the big data capabilities of Apache Hadoop and Power View, a touch-based business intelligence tool.
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Moving Ops from black to white box
During his talk at DevOps Days in Gothenburg Mitchell Hashimoto, co-author of Vagrant and system admin at Kiip, proposed an experience-based roadmap for moving organizations from a traditional black box ops culture to an (ideal) white box culture where developers are free to change the production environment.
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SQL Azure Data Sync Gets Point-And-Click Management, Filtered Synchronization
Microsoft has announced a preview release of SQL Azure Data Sync for all SQL Azure subscribers. Users can now setup synchronization across SQL Azure Databases in multiple data centers as well as Cloud-to-on-premise synchronization with a simple point-and-click interface.
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Microsoft Announces Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP #1
The new Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP 1 provides Windows administrators with updated tools to more easily manage Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and the upcoming Windows 8 platforms. This framework has 3 main components: Windows PowerShell 3.0, WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), and WinRM (Windows Remote Management).
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Does NoSQL have an impact on REST?
Statelessness has been a central principle of RESTful design and implementation. However, with the advent of NoSQL implementations, Ganesh Prasad wonders whether that is no longer true and suggests that REST+NoSQL offers a way to remove this restriction, providing stateful sessions, scalability and fault tolerance.