IBM announced its partnership with Amazon Web Services this week. Six IBM products (see the list below) will be available in the Amazon cloud in the near future.
IBM DB2
Informix Dynamic Server
WebSphere Portal
Lotus Web Content Management
WebSphere sMash
Novell’s SUSE Linux operating system
The pricing for usage is billed hourly and paid to Amazon; however, the billing [...]
Hifn’s Express DS 4100, a Network Interface Card (NIC) with optimized bandwidth and encrypted data transfer can possibly be the answer to security issues related to data in the cloud. Some key points of Express DS 4100 are:
1. Offers dual Gigabit Ethernet connections either copper or optical fibre
2. Data is compressed for encryption [...]
Sizing a JVM for optimal performance is one of the trickiest tasks in the performance tuning for Java/JEE applications. While organizations have their own methodology to sizing a JVM, it is recommended to execute the JVM sizing in continuous phases with two distinct action steps. The sizing at the first step of tuning [...]
On demand message queuing providers enable custom integration of services through API or coding. In some situations using an on demand message queuing service adds more value, for example, in the situations of decoupling the components of your application. However, in the situations of integration between external services and given the current economic [...]
The latest addition to the list of on demand message queuing service providers is CloudMQ. See my earlier coverage on the list of on demand message queue providers here. The article also answers the question: why enterprises may choose on demand message queuing integration mechanisms.
CloudMQ seems to have been built leveraging AMQP with [...]