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Sybase iAnywhere announced availability of support for Apple iPhone during
the first international iPhone Developer Summit, colocated with AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008 East. Information Anywhere now enables IT
organizations to provide secure delivery of Lotus Domino and Microsoft
Exchange enterprise email to iPhone users, in addition to a broad range of
other mobile devices. Sybase iAnywhere’s unique approach to providing
enterprise email support for the iPhone reduces potential security concerns
while still providing a rich user experience utilizing native iPhone
applications.
“We’ve had significant demand from our customer base for iPhone support,
as companies want to allow the iPhone as an approved device choice for
wireless email, along with their other Windows Mobile, Symbian or Palm
devices,” said Mark Willnerd, vice president, Sybase iAnywhere. “In
addi... (more)
More than a year passed since Adobe decided to stop supporting Flex framework
and gave it away to Apache Foundation. This writeup is based on the
conversation I had with my colleague Anatole Tartakovsky in January of 2013.
In this conversation I’ve been representing the HTML5 community while
Anatole fought for Flex framework. I’m trying to find arguments against
using FLex framework even though I believe that it remains the best and the
most production way for developing Web applications. I’ll be just playing
devil’s advocate here. Anatole also believes that Flex is the best
framework available today, but in our company we often argue about the tools
to use for various projects. We hope that Web developers find this
conversation useful and thought provoking.
Yakov. If you read this blog, most likely you know about our company, Farata
Systems. Our engineers work on ... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Microsoft has been named "Platinum
Sponsor" of DevOps Summit Silicon Valley, which will take place on November
4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Microsoft will deliver DevOps Summit Santa Clara David Tesar will deliver the
opening keynote "NoOps != No Operations" as well as a popular DevOps session
"Three Ways to UP Your OPs Game."
Contact @MS_ITPro for your FREE @DevOpsSummit pass.
Shipping daily, injecting faults, and keeping an extremely high availability
"without Ops"? Understand why NoOps does not mean no operations. Agile
development methodologies require evolved operations to be successful.
NoOps != No Operations
In his keynote at DevOps Summit, David Tesar, Microsoft Technical Evangelist
on Microsoft Azure and DevOps, will discuss how Microsoft teams who have made
huge progress with a DevOp... (more)
At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Tuesday, Microsoft showed off
the desktop Windows 7, the new, supposedly improved and less cluttered –
but not that dramatically different – next-generation Windows operating
system it’s building as penance for Vista. PDC-goers were polite, nothing
more.
At the PDC unveiling Microsoft handed around a pre-beta build and promised a
broad, feature-complete beta early next year. It should hit market by January
2010 at the latest, earlier if the scuttlebutt is right.
Senior VP Steven Sinofsky (pictured) responsible for Windows admits that
after dicking around with Vista for years - passed the time most people cared
- "We really weren't ready at launch." Windows 7 is supposed to be different
and not require as much work from the ecosystem or be constricted by, say,
poor application and device compatibility - the hard work ha... (more)
Microsoft announced the rebranding of SQL Services to SQL Azure. SQL Server
is the data platform of Windows Server so it made sense to align the name of
the relational database platform of Windows Azure, SQL Azure. SQL Azure is
built on the SQL Server technology foundation which delivers relational
database capabilities in the cloud. The next CTP of now SQL Azure will be in
August. You can, however, get started today with SQL Express. Over the next
days there will be more details about SQL Azure, including posting the first
round of SQL Azure Database documentation to MSDN. Also the SQL Azure prices
will be announced on Monday.
Related posts: Email Archiving in the Windows Azure Cloud Using SQL Data
Services I wrote previously about the potential of SQL Data Services, the...
SQL Data Services. Your Database in the Cloud. One thing in the Microsoft
cloud I find real... (more)
Social Media on Ulitzer
RIAbiz.com recently discussed the findings of an August 24-25, 2009
Investment News survey conducted on the Twitter habits of the
financial-advisory community. Not surprisingly the survey reveals that "a
mere 14.9% of financial advisers say they communicate with clients or
colleagues through Twitter. Meanwhile, only 44.9% and 43.8% of advisers say
they use LinkedIn and Facebook, respectively, the survey found".
Have RIAbiz.com and Investment News missed the point? It's not about
Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn! It's about communicating with one's
customers and clients utilizing ALL the tools available!
So, what's my point?
Practical, functional, and sensible go a long way to enhancing the
relationships financial advisors are trying to create between themselves and
their customers and clients, with or without social media tools. Social
me... (more)
Azure at Cloud Expo
Cloud Computing Expo - Azure was in Public Preview for quite some time now.
In our previous posts about Windows Azure, we went directly into how to map a
network drive to Azure Blob Storage and start setting up backup tasks to
Azure Storage.
We didn’t mention exactly how to acquire a Windows Azure account since it
was invitation only.
Yesterday, Windows Azure was transitioned from Public Preview mode to Full
Production mode. It took me a while to understand how to setup the Azure
account and start using the Azure Storage. I will share the steps here in
this article.
Hopefully, in 3 big steps, you will be using your Azure Blob Storage from
Windows Explorer and smooth sailing thereafter.
Step 1: Activate windows Azure Subscription
Instead of the invitation only mode in Public Preview, you can now activate
your Windows Azure subscription from the ... (more)
Centrify, which made its bones making Microsoft's popular Active Directory
accessible to Redmond's enemies list, is spreading its wings and snuggling up
closer to Microsoft at the same time by throwing it something of a lifeline.
See, Microsoft expects Office 365 to be one of the fastest-growing businesses
in its history. It's already claimed it's got a billion-dollar run rate.
There's only one little problem.
The widgetry Microsoft supplies for Active Directory integration - ADFS or
Active Directory Federation Services - is a pain in the proverbial tail for
both Microsoft's field personnel and the channel, which is paid to sell
Office 365 and hardly needs to spend hours wrestling with the slippery stuff
since it actually takes pricey dedicated hardware and specialized knowledge
of the operating system to get it up and running.
Not so Centrify's software, which can ... (more)
Roundarch is a provider of user-centric Web design and technology services
specializing in the synergy between user experience and application
development to solve complex issues for large organizations. Clients include
Fortune 500 companies and government agencies such as Motorola, The Hershey
Company, Avis, A&E Networks and the United States Air Force. Founded in 2000,
Roundarch has offices in New York, Chicago and Boston. For more information
please visit www.roundarch.com.
Register for AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo
Submit Your Paper to Present a Session
Sponsor AJAXWorld Conference & Expo
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I’ve spent the past day reviewing all that’s floating around the
Interwebs on the Azure announcements from the WPC this week. There are
definitely a lot of nice nuggets to digest and stuff that’s going to take a
while to process. Most of the Azure talk at WPC has been, as expected, about
how partners can benefit from and build solutions on top of Azure. That’s a
compelling message and one I think Microsoft got 100% correct. Now if only
they’d franchise Azure we’d really be cookin’ ;). But what about
enterprise customers using Azure? Since enterprise virtualization is the
overwhelming topic here on The Virtual DC, I’m going to focus on that
rather than the partner angle.
One thing that struck me straight away today was a comment from Bob Muglia in
a CNET interview:
Businesses and hosters will want to offer their own clouds he said, and
Microsoft will have tools for ... (more)
Enterprises are increasingly being called upon to provide a high level of
user experience with compelling and interactive content. Serving enterprise
content and data securely to internet / intranet has become a very common
necessity and is routinely handled by web servers. Web services technology,
on the other hand, addresses the application-to-application transparent
interaction over the web using industry standards. Delivery of web services
can also be handled by databases which are responsive to HTTP requests. In
this article a simple example of serving a static web page containing dynamic
content from a SQL Anywhere 11 database server is described. The web page has
examples of jQuery, DOJO, as well as an embedded ADOBE flash file.
Web servers and database web servers
Web servers enable enterprises to expose their data and information to
intranet and internet use... (more)
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@ThingsExpo Stories By Liz McMillan  As popularity of the smart home is growing and continues to go mainstream, technological factors play a greater role. The IoT protocol houses the interoperability battery consumption, security, and configuration of a smart home device, and it can be difficult for companies to choose the right kind for their product. For both DIY and professionally installed smart homes, developers need to consider each of these elements for their product to be successful in the market and current smart homes. Oct. 16, 2017 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 616 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that MIRAI Inc. will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Pavilion at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MIRAI Inc. are IT consultants from the public sector whose mission is to solve social issues by technology and innovation and to create a meaningful future for people. Oct. 16, 2017 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,747 | By Liz McMillan  In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, will lead you through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He'll look at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes. John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM’s public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering ... Oct. 16, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,582 | By Elizabeth White  As hybrid cloud becomes the de-facto standard mode of operation for most enterprises, new challenges arise on how to efficiently and economically share data across environments.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Dr. Allon Cohen, VP of Product at Elastifile, will explore new techniques and best practices that help enterprise IT benefit from the advantages of hybrid cloud environments by enabling data availability for both legacy enterprise and cloud-native mission critical applications. By rev... Oct. 16, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 362 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that NetApp has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. NetApp provides a full range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together with their partners, NetApp emp... Oct. 16, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 960 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Dasher Technologies will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Dasher Technologies, Inc. ® is a premier IT solution provider that delivers expert technical resources along with trusted account executives to architect and deliver complete IT solutions and services to help our clients execute their goals, plans and objectives.
Since 1999, we'v... Oct. 16, 2017 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,864 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that TidalScale, a leading provider of systems and services, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
TidalScale has been involved in shaping the computing landscape. They've designed, developed and deployed some of the most important and successful systems and services in the history of the computing industry - internet, Ethernet, operating s... Oct. 16, 2017 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,190 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks, that helps your business operate seamlessly with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions, has been named "Exhibitor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo ®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. As a premier telecommunications provider, Massive Networks is headquartered out of Louisville, Colorado. With years of experience under their belt, their team of... Oct. 16, 2017 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,991 | By Pat Romanski  Widespread fragmentation is stalling the growth of the IIoT and making it difficult for partners to work together. The number of software platforms, apps, hardware and connectivity standards is creating paralysis among businesses that are afraid of being locked into a solution.
EdgeX Foundry is unifying the community around a common IoT edge framework and an ecosystem of interoperable components. Oct. 16, 2017 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 611 | By Yeshim Deniz  Join IBM November 1 at 21st Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, and learn how IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and AI to intelligent, unmanned systems. Cognitive analysis impacts today’s systems with unparalleled ability that were previously available only to manned, back-end operations. Thanks to cloud processing, IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and AI to intelligent, unmanned systems. Imagine a robot vacuum that becomes your personal assistant tha... Oct. 16, 2017 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,372 | By Yeshim Deniz  Infoblox delivers Actionable Network Intelligence to enterprise, government, and service provider customers around the world. They are the industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, the category known as DDI. We empower thousands of organizations to control and secure their networks from the core-enabling them to increase efficiency and visibility, improve customer service, and meet compliance requirements. Oct. 16, 2017 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,084 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM has been named “Diamond Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Oct. 16, 2017 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 951 | By Liz McMillan  Amazon is pursuing new markets and disrupting industries at an incredible pace. Almost every industry seems to be in its crosshairs. Companies and industries that once thought they were safe are now worried about being “Amazoned.”. The new watch word should be “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
In his session 21st Cloud Expo, Chris Kocher, a co-founder of Grey Heron, will address questions such as: What new areas is Amazon disrupting? How are they doing this? Where are they likely to go? What are th... Oct. 16, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 800 | By Elizabeth White  In a recent survey, Sumo Logic surveyed 1,500 customers who employ cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the survey, a quarter of the respondents have already deployed Docker containers and nearly as many (23 percent) are employing the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework.
It’s clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. Tha... Oct. 16, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,244 | By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Avere delivers a more modern architectural approach to storage that doesn't require the overprovisioning of storage capacity to achieve performance, overspending on expensive storage media for inactive data or the overbui... Oct. 16, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,142 | By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today that N3N will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
N3N’s solutions increase the effectiveness of operations and control centers, increase the value of IoT investments, and facilitate real-time operational decision making. N3N enables operations teams with a four dimensional digital “big board” that consolidates real-time live video feeds alongside IoT sensor data a... Oct. 16, 2017 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,864 | By Liz McMillan  Join IBM November 1 at 21st Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, and learn how IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and AI to intelligent, unmanned systems.
Cognitive analysis impacts today’s systems with unparalleled ability that were previously available only to manned, back-end operations. Thanks to cloud processing, IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and AI to intelligent, unmanned systems. Imagine a robot vacuum that becomes your personal assistant th... Oct. 16, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,549 | By Yeshim Deniz  With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation. Oct. 16, 2017 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,170 | By Liz McMillan  SYS-CON Events announced today that Suzuki Inc. will exhibit at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Pavilion at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Suzuki Inc. is a semiconductor-related business, including sales of consuming parts, parts repair, and maintenance for semiconductor manufacturing machines, etc. It is also a health care business providing experimental research for... Oct. 16, 2017 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,863 | By Elizabeth White  Most technology leaders, contemporary and from the hardware era, are reshaping their businesses to do software. They hope to capture value from emerging technologies such as IoT, SDN, and AI. Ultimately, irrespective of the vertical, it is about deriving value from independent software applications participating in an ecosystem as one comprehensive solution. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kausik Sridhar, founder and CTO of Pulzze Systems, will discuss how given the magnitude of today's applicati... Oct. 16, 2017 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,604 |
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Digital transformation is changing the face of business. The IDC predicts that enterprises will commit to a massive new scale of digital transformation, to stake out leadership positions in the "digital transformation economy." Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Oct 31-Nov 2, will find fresh new content in a new track called Enterprise Cloud & Digital Transformation.
In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a leader in the space, it’s necessary to accommodate, incorporate, and exploit the new breed of enterprise...
Digital innovation is the next big wave of business transformation based on digital technologies of which IoT and Big Data are key components, For example:
Business boundary innovation is a challenge to excavate third-party business value using IoT and BigData, like Nest
Business structure innovation may propose re-building business structure from scratch, as Uber does in the taxicab industry
The social model innovation is also a big challenge to the new social architecture with the design from the ground up of a data-driven ecosystem, as Google promotes its self-driving car project
Organizations do not need a Big Data strategy; they need a business strategy that incorporates Big Data. Most organizations lack a road map for using Big Data to optimize key business processes, deliver a differentiated customer experience, or uncover new business opportunities. They do not understand what’s possible with respect to integrating Big Data into the business model.
SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM has been named “Diamond Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st Cloud Expo, which will take place on October 31 through November 2nd 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation.
It takes years – sometimes a lifetime – to perfect certain skills in life: hitting a jump shot off the dribble, nailing that double high C on the trumpet, parallel parking a Ford Expedition. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book, “Outliers,” discussing the amount of work – 10,000 hours – required to perfect a skill (while the exactness of 10,000 hours has come under debate, it is still a useful point that people need to invest considerable time and effort to master a skill). But once we get comfortable with something that we feel that we have mastered, we become reluctant to change. We are reluctant t...
Web-scale networking, also known as hyperscale, is a concept that has been popularized by companies like Google, Netflix and Facebook, who adopted this model for its proven cost economics, resiliency, scalability, and in some cases, better performance for large companies.
In recent months, the web-scale strategy has begun to gain the attention of enterprises in response to the changing data center landscape and growth of compute-heavy, complex technologies like AI, machine learning, and big data analytics initiatives. What should IT pros know about web-scale? 
Enron changed how U.S. public companies audit and report their financial data. There is also an opportunity to use the Equifax data breach to create a framework for better protection of our data in future.
The credit reporting agency reported one of the largest data breaches in the history. Hackers were able to steal sensitive information from its internal servers. The stolen data include name, Social Security Number (SSN), date of birth, and also credit card numbers and driver license numbers in some cases. A massive breach like this can haunt the victims for years to come. 
Okay, so my vacations don’t necessary seem like other folks’ vacations. Yes, we relax. Yes, we spend too much money. Yes, we eat too much food. But for some reason, unusual learning opportunities pop up during our vacations, and this year’s vacation was no different. This year’s vacation theme was… logistics.
Our logistics foray started by watching the artsy-fartsy movie “The Lunchbox.” I hate artsy-fartsy movies, but my wife insists on watching them on vacation. The movie was excellent. However, I was totally mesmerized by the lunchbox delivery system that was a featured part of the movie. T...
Every time there’s a notable cybersecurity breach, someone (even me) writes a comprehensive primer on the proper way to create “secure” passwords. Lather, rinse, repeat. Until a few years ago, everyone (including me) based their password advice on a 2003 paper from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the catchy title “NIST Special Publication 800-63.” The paper recommended that passwords be cryptic, contain special characters, and be as close to nonsense as possible.
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