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Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Now AvailableFurthering its dedication to providing Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle announced the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. This release marks the first free Eclipse 3.4 environment to support Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 27-Aug-2008 19:30
Web Services Manifesto - RESTful Architecture and the Programmable Web
I don't need to go into too much detail here about what exactly REST is - I know that most of the readers of this blog are well versed in Web Services technologies and architectural patterns. The thing that I want to cover is that REST is an architectural decision, it is not a protocol or a wire format or even an industry standard. It is a set of recommendations for how you organize the information exposed by your Web Services. Before I go into detail here, I personally think that REST is the way to go. Unless you have a particular need to be strapped into the SOAP/WS-* roller coaster, your Web Service should be exposing resources via RESTful URLs. I can't imagine why people would chose not to do so.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 24-Aug-2008 10:30
MyEclipse Delivers Advanced AJAX Tools for Ganymede
Genuitec announced the availability of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.0 milestone 1. This milestone release delivers advanced AJAX tooling for Java EE and full Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities for Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede, among other enhancements.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 19-Aug-2008 15:15
Understanding "Clouded" Terms of Cloud Computing
There seems to be a lot of debate as to what Grid computing really is. In fact, the blogosphere seems to be throwing around terms like Grid, Cloud, Utility, Distributed and Cluster computing almost interchangeably. And rather than clarifying things, I feel that the waters are just getting muddier.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 17-Aug-2008 14:00
The Critical Role of Automation in a Virtualized World
Virtualization is today's "green" knight in shining armor, drastically slashing power, hardware and real estate costs. However, with all this efficiency comes a vast increase in complexity that threatens mission-critical business processing. Is there a way to slay that dragon as well? Enterprise schedulers provide automation capabilities that provide a solution.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 17-Aug-2008 12:15
Web Applications for the Apple iPhone 3G
It seems that Apple has another winner on their hands with the new Apple iPhone 3G. There are now millions of people connected to the Internet every minute of every day using this device. The fast adoption has created a tremendous opportunity for software vendors and companies to take advantage of an extremely large ecosystem of end users. The ecosystem is alive and well with the streamlined experience of the Apple App Store.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 16-Aug-2008 23:45
Merrill Lynch Estimates "Cloud Computing" To Be $100 Billion Market
What do the following companies all have in common: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, EMC, VMware, IBM, Sun, Dell, Akamai, SalesForce.com, NetSuite, and Activision. Answer: Cloud Computing. Merrill Lynch analysts reckon that by 2011 the volume of cloud computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95BN in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 16-Aug-2008 20:45
SOA Product Review: Managed Methods JaxView 4.0
Whether you work for a very large company with thousands of services in production or a small company with only a couple, visibility into the performance and uptime of those services is critical. Before you start investigating the myriad of governance products on the market, many of which will set you back a great deal of money, let me save you some time (and money).
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 16-Aug-2008 15:15
6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo News: An A to Z for the RIA Era
From AIR to ZK, this is an alphabetical round-up of the fast moving-world of application development tools and frameworks spawned ever since the appearance of Google Maps, the canonical early RIA. The list includes AIR, Appcelerator, ATF, Curl, Dojo, Echo, Eclipse RCP, Ext JS, Flex, Grails, GWT, JavaFX, Kabuki, Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 platform, Novulu, OpenLaszlo, Prototype, Rico, Ruby on Rails, Seam, Silverlight, ThinWire, TIBCO GI, ULC, WaveMaker, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Zend Framework, and ZK.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 16-Aug-2008 14:45
Oracle Upgrades WebLogic Server 10g R3
Oracle this week upgraded the WebLogic application server that the company gained in its BEA Systems acquisition, adding integration with Oracle's Fusion middleware platform. Oracle WebLogic Server was named as Oracle's strategic Java container on July 1. The upgrade, WebLogic Server 10g R3, serves as the "cornerstone" of Oracle WebLogic Suite, which offers a foundation for enterprise applications and SOA and supports scale-out application grids, adaptive systems management, and predictable performance, Oracle said.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 15-Aug-2008 19:00
Tealium Announces Tealium TrackEvent for RIA
Tealium Incorporated, a provider of high-end, results-oriented Web analytics consulting, announced the availability of Tealium TrackEvent, a solution designed to decouple development from web analytics implementation of rich internet applications (RIA) such as Flash, Flex and Ajax sites. Tealium TrackEvent has been designed to work with any tag-based web analytics solution, including Omniture, Unica, Coremetrics, Google Analytics, and others. It allows web developers to send generic RIA calls from their applications. It then provides business users with an interface to transform these calls into requests specific to their web analytics solution.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 15-Aug-2008 19:00
AJAX World RIA Conference: AJAX Opens The Door To The Enterprise Software Suite
In this presentation, David Knight will discuss how the availability of an AJAX platform for aggregating and monetizing content is likely to dramatically transform the enterprise software business, with end-user companies no longer locked into a single software-suite provider for their applications. He will examine how AJAX-enabled platforms can be used to recreate the suite experience in multiple application areas, freeing companies to shop around for the best solution available ¬ or create their own application. The speaker will also discuss how AJAX can allow businesses to recreate the desktop experience and enhance worker productivity with integrated applications.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 13-Aug-2008 19:00
The Six Benefits of Cloud Computing for Government and the Public Sector
Despite its possible security and privacy risks, Cloud Computing - according to a magazine article due to be published later this Fall - has six main benefits that the public sector and government IT organizations are certain to want to take advantage of. They are as follows...
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 12-Aug-2008 19:00
Advertising on Google.com Requires No Personally Identifiable Information (PII), States Executive
"Advertising on Google.com is contextual, requires no personally identifiable information, is not provided by a third-party, and does not collect any information in addition to the basic information collected to provide search results," asserts Google's Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Alan Davidson.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 12-Aug-2008 13:00
Xsigo Systems and Carahsoft Team to Bring I/O Virtualization to Government
Carahsoft announced that it has expanded its VMware Complementary Solutions team to include Xsigo Systems. Xsigo's I/O solution can lower server-related operating expenses by up to 80%, cut capital costs by 50%, and use 70% less cabling, resulting in 100x faster server management.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 31-Jul-2008 23:00
Cloud Computing: Forget the Darknets, Make Way for The Dark Cloud
For nearly as long as the internet has been around there have been private subnetworks called the darknets. These private, covert and often secret networks were typically formed as decentralized groups of people engaged in the sharing of information, computing resources and communications typically for illegal activities. Recently there has been a resurgence in interest of the darknet ranging from the more unsavory such as P2P filesharing and botnets as well as more mainstream usages such as inter-government information sharing, bandwidth alliances or even offensive military botnets.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 31-Jul-2008 18:45
VMware Introduces New Virtualization Infrastructure Toolkit
VMware announced the general availability of the VMware Infrastructure (VI) Toolkit (for Windows), a new addition to its scripting toolkit portfolio that enhances automation of virtual datacenters. Offered free of charge, the toolkit is an easy-to-use scripting interface for administrators who need to manage multiple VMware ESX hypervisors or VMware VirtualCenter instances. Based on the popular Microsoft PowerShell scripting language, it provides a familiar interface that lets administrators automate repetitive tasks such as cloning, moving, starting or stopping virtual machines and hosts in a VMware Infrastructure environment.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 31-Jul-2008 05:15
3PAR Virtualization Customers Eligible for PG&E Incentives
3PAR announced the 3PAR Virtual Technology Incentive Program (V-TIP). The program combines the benefits of 3PAR Utility Storage with first-ever financial incentives offered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for datacenter storage virtualization and thin provisioning projects.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 31-Jul-2008 00:45
Cloud Computing - Yahoo, HP & Intel Embark on Joint Cloud Research
Yahoo, HP and Intel are going to do cloud research together using a global, multi-data center, open source Cloud Computing Test Bed bigger than anything put together for such a purpose before, they said. The whole testbed could potentially scale to 24,000 cores, 18 terabytes of memory and 9 petabytes of disk, roughly 164 teraFLOPS of power, big enough, the threesome said, for Internet-scale tests, at least tests of short duration. There will be six ? God willing always-available ? sites: one at each of the vendors and one each at the state-run Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 30-Jul-2008 19:00
Alameda County Medical Center Selects DataCore's Storage Virtualization
DataCore Software announced that its SANmelody software is serving as the foundation of a replication and disaster recovery (DR) plan at Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) that was orchestrated by DataCore partner Entisys. The IT environment at ACMC was fundamentally based upon products from Dell and EMC as well as virtual machines from VMware. ACMC is comprised of multiple sites and as a county hospital the organization is under a number of budget constraints. Entisys presented the Citrix XenServer and DataCore SANmelody DR solution based upon XenServer, which provides great savings to the medical center.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 30-Jul-2008 14:45
CA Products Complement Alternative Technology's Virtualization Offerings
Alternative Technology continues to expand its offerings by announcing it will supply a broad range of CA distributed enterprise IT management software. Those offerings include: application & development databases; application performance management; database management; dynamic & virtual systems management; governance, risk & compliance; infrastructure & operations management; IT service & asset management; project, portfolio & financial management; security management; and storage & information governance.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 30-Jul-2008 13:15
3PAR Expands Virtualization Sales Channel in Japan
3PAR announced a partnership with Tokyo-based ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) to deliver 3PAR Utility Storage products and maintenance services to customers throughout Japan. With this partnership, 3PAR gains the leverage of CTC's network of 4000 sales and pre-sales engineers and approximately 100 maintenance centers across Japan to expand market coverage and value delivery to CTC customers nationwide. The partnership between 3PAR and CTC creates a strategic alliance designed to meet the demand for storage solutions to support the growth of utility computing, infrastructure virtualization, and green datacenter deployments in Japan.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 30-Jul-2008 05:15
Avnet Provides Partners with Virtualization Market Understanding
With Gartner predicting that virtualization will be the highest-impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012, Avnet Technology Solutions furthered its commitment to enable its value-added reseller partners to excel in this fast-growth market. Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet announced a dedicated training program called VirtualPath University for value-added resellers in the United States. Based on Avnet's successful HealthPath University and GovPath University programs, VirtualPath University provides partners with virtualization market understanding, knowledge, technology drivers and tools.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 30-Jul-2008 00:00
3PAR Puts its Snapshot Widgetry at the Service of VMware VDI
3PAR, the utility storage company, says it's got an integrated virtual desktop provisioning and management solution for the VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) that will also scale VDI storage. It's supposed to automatically provision hundreds of high-performance virtual desktops that consume only a fraction of the bandwidth and storage capacity required with traditional storage, hence the name Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 23-Jul-2008 16:45
Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence
Just as people begin to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise 'Ops-Free' computing. Because it's easy, scalable, available and disposable, the cloud is well on its way to becoming 'technology's next big thing.' However, with recent outages from Amazon and Google Apps, the question of the cloud's competence, security and reliability have come into play. In this session, Hyperic's CEO, Javier Soltero will address these issues along with the many others surrounding the cloud including: The emergence of web operations as a discipline, How cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating the importance of web operations, What tools are available to help better manage cloud environments?
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 18-Jul-2008 22:00
Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences
Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken's two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover: Layers of cloud computing, Cost breakdown versus traditional solutions, IT management and development, testing benefits/examples, Extreme, fast scalability at low cost - case study.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 18-Jul-2008 21:45
Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences
Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken's two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover: Layers of cloud computing, Cost breakdown versus traditional solutions, IT management and development, testing benefits/examples, Extreme, fast scalability at low cost - case study.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 18-Jul-2008 20:45
Sun Expects Q4 Earnings Above Estimates
On Tuesday evening Sun issued a fourth-quarter guidance range largely above analysts' estimates. The company pre-announced that revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June was $3.725 billion to $3.8 billion, with gross margin in the 44-45% range. Sun expects non-GAAP profits of 25-35 cents a share. Some analysts nonetheless had been looking for $3.8 billion and 27 cents.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 17-Jul-2008 12:15
Sun Expects Q4 Earnings Above Estimates
On Tuesday evening Sun issued a fourth-quarter guidance range largely above analysts' estimates. The company pre-announced that revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June was $3.725 billion to $3.8 billion, with gross margin in the 44-45% range. Sun expects non-GAAP profits of 25-35 cents a share. Some analysts nonetheless had been looking for $3.8 billion and 27 cents.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 17-Jul-2008 11:15
Trusting the Cloud: Timing and Adoption of Cloud Technologies
Cloud technologies offer many benefits over traditional IT systems, especially when managing the size and vastness of unstructured data and unpredictable growth in IT environments. But when does it make sense to adopt cloud technologies and migrate a set of your IT services to the cloud? The movement of information and services out of the data center and into the cloud can unleash fear in many of us. Trusting that your information is secure, accessible and protected is important, and deciding what information remains inside and outside of the cloud can be critical to the success of your business. In this session, Mike Feinberg, Senior VP of EMC's Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division will discuss how to optimize the deployment of cloud technologies and the options that exist for migrating information to the cloud.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 16-Jul-2008 18:15
2009 Will Be "The Year of RIA" for Enterprises
The industry has been debating the meaning of 'Enterprise 2.0' (how to bring Web 2.0 technology to the enterprise). Andrew McAfee has talked about the SLATES mnemonic (search, linking, tagging, authoring, extensions, and signals). Many companies have developed Wikis, Blogs, Tag clouds, Mashups, but the ROI is unclear. Jnan Dash, Chief Strategy Officer of Curl, Inc., feels the low hanging fruit for Web 2.0 deployment in the enterprise is called 'RIA' - 'Improve the user interface of old client-server applications and delight your users while reducing the TCO,' says Dash.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 14-Jul-2008 18:00
Using Virtualization to Secure Your Users' Desktops
Currently most desktop productivity software including browsers, mail clients, Office suites, IM, and media players make direct connections to the Internet and/or run untrusted content. As a result, these applications, which are core to office productivity, are also the primary vector of infections from Internet-borne malicious software. This session will describe how desktop virtualization can be deployed within an organization to secure users' desktop applications against Internet-based threats and untrusted content.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 14-Jul-2008 18:00
White Paper: "Infrastructure Optimization via Desktop Virtualization"
To address this issue of improving capacity utilization, more and more companies and information technology departments are implementing infrastructure solutions, such as server and storage consolidation through virtualization. With the promise of a new day rising upon the desktop environment, companies are taking a 'return-to-the-mainframe' mentality, leveraging these same solutions, and in many cases, the same IT skills, to re-deploy desktops. Via mainframe-inspired System x x86 server hardware located within the datacenter, the entire desktop operating system and application stack can be virtualized, delivering the complete multimedia experience that users have become accustomed to, but without the security concerns and spiraling management costs of the traditional 'fat client' PC approach.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 14-Jul-2008 14:15
Oracle, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Intuit and the SaaS / Cloud Computing Revolution
This is a reference guide to what each of the major software vendors are doing in the SaaS space. I won't be sensational and predict the demise of any of these vendors. I think it's far too early to tell how the future will pan out. I can say subjectively that I am impressed with Larry Ellison's pioneering efforts in the space. I can also say that SAP is currently the media whipping boy in the space, with delays in their Business ByDesign program costing them credibility.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 14-Jul-2008 12:30
HCL Technologies Announces Relationship With VMware to Offer Virtualization Lifecycle Services
HCL Technologies announced it has signed a Global System Integration contract with VMware. This relationship combines VMware virtualization products and services with HCL's proven experience and globally benchmarked capabilities in enterprise IT infrastructure operations and transformation, thereby providing best-of-breed virtualization lifecycle services to global enterprises.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 11-Jul-2008 21:15
Chelsio 10GbE Adapters Certified for VMware ESX 3.5 Hypervisor Virtualization
Chelsio Communications announced that its single- and dual-port 10GbE adapters are now certified for the VMware ESX hypervisor and have been added to the VMware ESX 3.5 Hardware Compatibility List. With this certification, Chelsio offers VMware customers low-latency adapters for high-performance computing in virtualized environments. This is another important step toward Chelsio's goal to enable unified wire networking for the agile data center by providing simple, standards-based solutions.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 11-Jul-2008 21:15
Parallels Virtualization Automation Adds Integration for Secure64 DNS
Parallels announced that its Parallels Automation solution now integrates with Secure64 DNS, giving service providers who use Parallels Automation the ability to easily manage Secure64 servers within their datacenters. Through the collaboration, Parallels Automation is able to offer a new option for service providers searching for secure and highly available DNS solution.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 11-Jul-2008 21:15
Chelsio 10GbE Adapters Certified for VMware ESX 3.5 Hypervisor Virtualization
Chelsio Communications announced that its single- and dual-port 10GbE adapters are now certified for the VMware ESX hypervisor and have been added to the VMware ESX 3.5 Hardware Compatibility List. With this certification, Chelsio offers VMware customers low-latency adapters for high-performance computing in virtualized environments. This is another important step toward Chelsio's goal to enable unified wire networking for the agile data center by providing simple, standards-based solutions.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 11-Jul-2008 20:15
Virtualization - AMD Gives Nvidia A Fat Lip & A Black Eye; Its Other Injuries Are Self-Inflicted
Woe has come to a chip company and for a change it isn't AMD. In fact it may be AMD-inflicted. Late Wednesday GPU leader Nvidia, which competes with Intel and AMD's ATI graphics side, said its current quarter had come a cropper and that everybody should cut their expectations from $1.1 billion in revenue to somewhere between $875 million to $950 million, something like a 17% sequential drop. It had predicted a seasonal 5% decline a couple of months ago.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 09-Jul-2008 04:45
Former Microsoft Executive Takes Over as VMware CEO
The President of EMC's Cloud Computing Division, Paul Maritz, has been made President & CEO of VMware, immediately replacing co-founder and virtualization pioneer Diane Greene. Here Virtualization Journal brings a round up of the early reactions from the virtualization blogosphere.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 09-Jul-2008 00:15
Cloud Computing - Billing Goes SaaS
Well, if the economy - and not just software, mind you - is going from products to services and perforce subscriptions then vendors are going to need an appropriate billing system that chases down and captures all the monthly payments, right? Well, that's what a couple of lads out of the on-demand school thought too and that's why they started Zuora Inc on Marc Benioff and Benchmark Capital's combined nickel.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 08-Jul-2008 17:45
Web 2.0 Journal Case Study: Transcending E-mail as a Platform for Multi-Person Collaboration
E-mail is extremely easy to adopt and use, and lends itself very well to certain types of collaboration. When two people are attempting to collaborate asynchronously, e-mail is usually the best solution. It's certainly far less frustrating than phone tag. But once more people are involved, email's utility rapidly degenerates. While the rise of free, open-source solutions makes it tempting to build one's own collaboration tools, on-demand or Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are the better choice for the majority of users and uses.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 06-Jul-2008 21:30
Progress Software Announces Mindreef and IONA Acqusitions at SOA World Conference
Progress Software has acquired Mindreef, a provider of SOA service validation and testing tools. Mindreef will be fully integrated into Progress Software, and will adopt the Progress Software company name. Progress expects to retain most Mindreef product names, however, this will be reviewed over the months following the acquisition.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 06-Jul-2008 16:00
Red Hat Numbers Up
Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 03-Jul-2008 12:30
Little ISV Sues Google for $1 Billion
A little Chicago ISV called LimitNone is suing Google for nigh on to a billion dollar charging it with misappropriating its trade secrets to beat back Microsoft Office. Seems a year ago March LimitNone shared its mojo for migrating Outlook users and their calendars and contacts to Gmail with Google and according to LimitNone's story the widgetry turned up in Google Apps despite Google's assurances that it had no intention of developing a similar product.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 01-Jul-2008 20:15
VMware Cuts China OEM Deal
VMware has cut an OEM deal with Inspur, the Chinese company whose name used to be Langchao and said to be the largest native server maker. Inspur will bundle and support VMware's Infrastructure 3 widgetry on its servers. Inspur says there's little virtualization deployment experience in China.
Source : eclipse developer's journal | 01-Jul-2008 19:30