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Oracle Joins the NoSQL Club
Oracle has announced the Big Data Appliance running with Oracle NoSQL Database, a new key-value store based on Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition. Some of features include: billions of rows of storage capacity in records and terabytes in B-tree, ACID transactions, CRUD, sharding, no single point of failure, disaster recovery via datacenter replication.
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Kernel.org Back After Security Breach
After over a month since Kernel.org's security breach was announced (and subsequently taken off-line), the Kernel.org website has been brought back on-line.
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CloudBees Launch First Java EE Web Profile PaaS at JavaOne
CloudBees continue to deepen their support for Java with the first production-ready Platform as a Service to support the Java EE 6 Web Profile Specification
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Windows Server 8 Marks Shift Towards GUI-Less Future
Microsoft has alerted Windows Server developers and administrators that the platform's future will be one in which the traditional GUI applications will no longer be supported. The Server Core installation option, originally debuting in Windows Server 2008, will become the preferred installation option for Windows Server 8.
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Mozilla Considers Blacklisting Java
The Mozilla Foundation has publicly considered disabling Java from running in the browser environment, thanks to recent research that indicates Java is the top of the three vectors for security exploits in the browser.
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IBM Releases JDK 7
IBM have announced the availability of IBM SDK Java Technology Edition Version 7 for both their AIX platform and the Linux platform. The SDK is available for download from developerWorks and brings the compiler and runtime to the same level as found in OpenJDK.
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AWS Targets Scientific Community with New Resources for High Performance Computing
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team announced a set of resources targeting the high performance computing needs of the scientific community. AWS specifically highlights their “spot pricing” market as a way to do cost-effective, massive scale computing in Amazon cloud environment.
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Model-Driven Approach to Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE)
Business-IT alignment, now part of mainstream EA, is increasingly viewed as an unnecessary overhead in a world where IT is a core business entity in the enterprise. Anirban Ray proposes a model driven approach to creating a SOE which makes a core assumption that IT is an integral part of the business which leads to business focused service offerings.
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Modularity Maturity Model
At the OSGi Community Event, Dr Graham Charters introduced the Modularity Maturity Model, a way of scoring where projects or organisations against how their modular developments score.
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OSGi Community Event Review
<p>The OSGi Community Event was held in Darmstadt, Germany, during last week. Presentations from across the board, from embedded smart home devices to the latest Enterprise specifications were presented. Read on for a review of what was covered.</p>
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Lean Startup or Agile or Lean Startup and Agile?
A recent post by Joshua Kerievsky contrasting Lean Startup with Agile approaches resonated with some commentators and raised the ire of others. Do Lean Startup principles replace and supersede Agile approaches or are they complementary.
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Java EE PaaS Providers
A survey conducted by Red Hat at this year's VMworld implied a strong demand for Java EE based PaaS, but such products are thin on the ground. We take a look at two contenders, CloudBees' RUN@cloud, and Red Hat's own OpenShift.
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Zachman's Views On Impact Of Cloud Computing On Enterprise Architecture
John Zachman, the originator of the Zachman framework, recently wrote an article that addresses the questions regarding the impact of cloud computing on enterprise architecture; especially given how disruptive and popular cloud architectures are becoming an effective technique to cut costs.
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SEI Releases Smart Grid Maturity Model Update
At the GridWeek 2011 Conference the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at the Carnegie-Mellon-University has released an update 1.2 of its Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM).
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Designing Loosely Coupled Metro Applications with URIs
Protocols allow applications to launch other applications using URIs much as you would launch a website. This allows you to build a collection of small work-flow centric applications that work together seamlessly.