http://www.byteonic.com This site is about my thoughts relating to the business focus of IT Innovation. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:30:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The respondents to Computerworld’s annual forecast survey voted .Net as a hot programming skill for ‘09. It is surprising there is no mention of Java/JEE in the top nine list of hot skills. Per the survey, the top skills for ’09 are: 1.       SAP, .Net in application development category 2.       Help desk/technical ... http://www.byteonic.com/2008/forecast-survey-javajee-not-a-hot-skill-for-%e2%80%9809/ The current economic crisis has resulted in massive layoffs across the world. LiveMint.com, a subsidiary of Wall Street Journal, reports there is at least one layoff every ten seconds. In the US, for the month of November alone, there have been more than 500,000 jobs slashed. Techcrunch layoff ... http://www.byteonic.com/2008/one-layoff-every-ten-seconds/ What is the value proposition of SaaS integration? Software as a Service (SaaS) Integrators integrate an enterprise service with Software as a Service provider or integrate two or more SaaS providers. The SaaS based integration is billed based on consumption unlike a typical enterprise in-house integration which follow chargeback ... http://www.byteonic.com/2008/value-proposition-of-saas-integration/ Per a recent posting on programmable web, the number of Web API’s has crossed the one thousand mark, an important milestone in the web world. The example posts mentioned below support the increasing importance of having a Web API. 1.       Sixty percent of eBay product listings come from their ... http://www.byteonic.com/2008/sonoa-a-comprehensive-solution-for-web-api-infrastructure-management/ The value propositions of monitoring a Websphere MQ environment (or the Queue Manager network) are mentioned below: 1. Provide business service visibility i.e. how many cross sell offers (messages) were processed? 2. Precise measurement of the Queue Manager throughput for capacity and performance planning and architecture fine tuning. 3. Helps in troubleshooting issues ... http://www.byteonic.com/2008/three-tools-to-monitor-your-websphere-mq-environment/ A load test, when conducted before a web site goes live, helps in detecting and responding to scalability and performance problems much before the user is aware of such issues. Executing a load test from the cloud offers the following benefits: 1. Zero administration costs that would have otherwise incurred due ... http://www.byteonic.com/2008/keynote-and-soasta-cloud-offerings-to-test-your-web-site-performance/ The ever so interesting Tim O’Reilly does an interesting analysis on the future of cloud computing (as understood in the context of IaaS), whether it would evolve into an outsize profit business as envisioned by Hugh Mcleod in his post titled “The cloud’s best kept secret”. Some interesting points from ... http://www.byteonic.com/2008/will-cloud-computing-will-be-a-commodity-business/