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Archive for September, 2008

What does Oracle cloud offering mean to the enterprise?

( AWS and Cloud Computing and JEE and Java and News and Oracle and Products )

In this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle announced that its products can be executed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2, the cloud environment). Oracle products available for EC2 are mentioned below:
1. Oracle Fusion Middleware: Comprises of Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit ( arguably considered to be the fastest JVM [...]

Financial market collapse impacts Java job market the most

( Java )

The mayhem in the financial services sector over last week is hard to fathom. Approximately over four trillion dollars has been lost between Oct’9, 2007 and Sept’12, 2008. George Colony from Forrester presents an interesting statistics of contributions from the financial services sector towards the overall US IT spending market and fears a [...]

VMware, Citrix want to be enterprise cloud enablers

VMware and Citrix announced their cloud initiatives at VMWorld last week. Up until then, the choice to enable an enterprise’s infrastructure as a service was limited to using products from any of these firms: 3Tera, Elastra, and Enomalism (open source).
From an architectural perspective, Citrix and VMware cloud initiatives broadly fall into the following categories:
1.  Cloud [...]

Amazon to launch content delivery service

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a provider’s network of servers situated around the globe to effectively deliver web content to the end users. A CDN is the best solution in addressing inherent performance and scalability problems associated with delivering of web content on a global scale. While a CDN is an appropriate solution to [...]

Collaborative editors may shake up software development

Devuntiy, Amy Editor and SubEthaEdit have one thing in common; they all enable your code to be shared with other developers online. Devunity is operating in stealth mode and is not available for a test drive. However one of the interesting and unique features of Devunity is it allows a developer to write code online [...]

What you might have missed on Byteonic?

In case if you have missed, here are some excellent articles that were published on Byteonic over the last week:
Gnip, online message oriented middleware : Message Queuing technology makes integration simple. Integration among Web 2.0 services involves the same challenges as in the enterprise. What are these challenges? How are these [...]

AdventNet, one product for all performance/srvc management needs

AdventNet is a privately held company head quartered in Pleasanton, CA, founded in 1996. AdventNet offers forty two products in multiple market segments such as Infrastructure Management (includes server and network management), Application Management, Change Management and Software as a Service (SaaS).
The company’s offering in SaaS segment are Zoho office/collaboration services, On Demand CRM, Online [...]