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Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, AJAXWorld News Desk has been covering every aspect of AJAX-enabled applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking AJAX news, please feel free to send it to ajax@sys-con.com. Compuware Corporation has announced the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath® Technology and the Gomez Performance Network, creating a powerful User Experience Management (UEM) solution. Compuware now offers a APMaaS solution that provides a complete UEM offering, including real-user, syn...May. 20, 2013 04:33 PM EDT Reads: 860 |
 Boston-based Cloudant and its NoSQL distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), which have gone to the VC trough four times since the company was started in 2008, have gotten what appears to be their first real money to grow on: a $12 million B round led by Devonshire Investors, the pri...May. 15, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,297 |
 Analyzing Hadoop jobs and speeding them up is often a tedious and time-consuming effort that requires experts.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Michael Kopp, a technology strategist in the Compuware APM center of excellence, will show you how proven APM techniques...May. 4, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,989 |
 If you are interested in getting started with Java, or just object oriented programming, this is a great book to start with.
The book starts off with a high level overview of the Java platform and goes straight into an example of creating a hello world application. While creating the ...Apr. 30, 2013 08:55 AM EDT Reads: 1,003 |
 This book is not only solid in the technical coverage it gives, it also gives a great overview of security concerns, history of how we got where we are, the types of threats and flaws that exist, who needs to be concerned, and what your role's responsibilities are in the security pictu...Apr. 29, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 996 |
 There suddenly seems to be a run on API management start-ups. First Intel acquired Mashery. Then CA bought Level 7. Now six-year-old 3scale of Barcelona and San Francisco has gotten $4.2 million in funding from Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital.
The round is meant...Apr. 29, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,077 |
 Security-as-a-service leader is first to the cloud-based market with a security solution that combines the key capabilities of user credentialing and authentication with single-sign-on for both SaaS and legacy applications.
CloudAccess, a provider of unified security solutions from th...Apr. 26, 2013 02:09 PM EDT Reads: 955 |
 Social media streaming and satellite imagery stored as Big Data in the cloud is changing the way we understand our world. By being able to tap into these new Big Data collections of real-time social media and up-to-date world-wide imagery we can now see patterns and activity not possib...Apr. 21, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,373 |
 “The cloud (whether public or private) is a strong driver of Big Data,” noted Michael Kopp, a technology strategist at Compuware, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “A Cisco survey said that 4 out of 5 IT professionals stated that ‘all or some Big Dat...Apr. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,699 |
 Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs will be stepping down sometime later this year he told employees Thursday.
Mozilla will be looking for a new chief executive and Kovacs will stay there until that person is found.
He wants “something more commercial” to entertain him and will stay on the boa...Apr. 14, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,517 |
 This book is THE book for the database beginner. It thoroughly covers design principles and process, and it covers them in depth.
The book is broken into four parts, Part I: Relational Database Design, Part II: The Design Process, Part III: Other Database Design Issues, and Part IV: A...Apr. 12, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,282 |
| Global PC shipments dropped 13.9% in the first quarter according to IDC, which said it was the worse contraction in the market since it started keeping records back in 1994.
The drop was worse than the 8% decline IDC had forecast.
It blamed cannibalization by tablets and smartphone... Apr. 12, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,259 |
 Best selling author and innovation expert Daniel Burrus recently described what an evolved mobile strategy looks like in the article titled Does Your Organization Have a Mobile Strategy to Accelerate Growth? "When you think about mobility, don't just think about devices and apps and ho...Apr. 9, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 681 |
 GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure company, and Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, on Tuesday announced the availability of Cloud Path for GoGrid, a joint offering for migrating customers' existing server workloads to GoGrid's cloud platform free of charge.
The Cloud Path software-...Apr. 9, 2013 02:07 PM EDT Reads: 1,838 |
 "Our customers tell us they need better solutions for managing mobile applications. They started with crash analytics, but as mobile applications have become mainstream, they now want crash, performance and business analytics all in one easy-to-use solution," said Steve Tack, Vice Pres...Apr. 2, 2013 12:51 PM EDT Reads: 2,018 |
 After Judge Lucy Koh cut $450.5 million off the original stunning $1.05 billion in damages a jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple for infringing its patents, Apple checked the judge’s arithmetic and wants to file a conditional motion to reconsider.
It complains it’s been gypped of $85 m...Apr. 1, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,560 |
 A coalition of news organizations and media advocacy groups including Bloomberg, The New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has asked the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold District Court Judge Lucy Koh’s order that Apple and Samsung unseal financia...Apr. 1, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,090 |
 Compuware has entered into an agreement with Amdocs, a provider of customer experience systems and services, to be a supplier of application performance management (APM) for its production environments.
Compuware APM – dynaTrace – will be one of Amdocs’ preferred production monitorin...Mar. 27, 2013 01:42 PM EDT Reads: 2,566 |
 This book is what it claims to be and that is a cookbook on advanced topics. I would follow the author's advice and if you are a beginner with Objective-C or iOS, this book is not the one you want to start with. This book is however an excellent book for experienced developers.
The fi...Mar. 26, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,537 |
 "We wish Kevin well in this new chapter of his career," said Adobe - somewhat sparingly - in a statement released as the company behind PDF and Acrobat confirmed that just four days after offering his resignation as CTO on March 18, Kevin Lynch will be leaving the company he joined in ...Mar. 20, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,773 |
 iSCSI? No problem! Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 include native support for a software iSCSI initiator as well as MPIO ( Multipath IO ) for resiliency and load balancing of storage IO over multiple network paths.
In this article, we’ll walk through the process of connec...Mar. 14, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,283 |
 Compuware has published the findings of a global study of consumer mobile application expectations and experiences. The survey reveals that global consumers prefer mobile apps over mobile websites.
Mobile applications are thought to make life easier by streamlining calendars and groc...Mar. 14, 2013 12:17 PM EDT Reads: 2,997 |
 Red Hat has transitioned into a leadership role for the OpenJDK 6 project, effectively extending support for the technology and its users. The move reinforces Red Hat’s commitment to the broader Java community and its future as a leading platform for mission-critical enterprise applica...Mar. 11, 2013 04:13 PM EDT Reads: 4,086 |
 VMware has dumped its free-standing SlideRocket SaaS collaboration widgetry into the lap of four-year-old San Francisco-based ClearSlide whose cloud-based PowerPoint technology services enterprise salespeople wanting to engage with customers.
The data it collects is supposed to show ...Mar. 11, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,637 |
 Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility may have to break down and start paying Microsoft royalties on the IP Redmond claims is in Android like the rest of the Android ecosystem.
That is if they want to keep Google Maps alive in Germany.
FOSS Patents reported Thursday that the ...Mar. 10, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,658 |
 After fining Microsoft $733 million for unintentionally flouting an antitrust settlement with regulators, the European Commission took some of the blame.
Antitrust czar Joaquín Almunia said the EU had been “naïve” to let Microsoft monitor its own adherence to the 2009 deal that let i...Mar. 10, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,568 |
 Carl Icahn, the famous “gangsta”-style activist investor, has stepped into the middle of Dell’s $24.4 billion leveraged buy-out, threatening “years of litigation” if he doesn’t get his way.
He has apparently amassed a 6% position in Dell, making him the company’s second-largest outsi...Mar. 8, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,065 |
 Compuware on Monday announced a PHP deep transaction management solution. With Deep Transaction Management for PHP, Compuware APM now provides a solution that fully combines user experience management (UEM), web-server visibility, deep-dive into PHP, database access and external calls....Mar. 5, 2013 05:34 AM EST Reads: 3,090 |
 A US district court judge Friday slashed the $1.05 billion award granted Apple last August by a jury that found Apple’s great nemesis Samsung copied Apple’s mobile widgetry. Apple’s stock thereupon fell.
The court has ordered a new trial to decide exactly what Apple should get.
Dist...Mar. 5, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,990 |
 PayPal co-founder and former CTO Max Levchin has started a rival service called Affirm focused on mobile payments that’s supposed to make check-outs from mobile devices faster and easier.
He’s whittled the process down to two taps rather than having the user struggle to input informa...Mar. 4, 2013 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,927 |
 Compuware Corporation has partnered with Hortonworks to optimize the performance of Hadoop applications on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). The integration of the Compuware application performance management (APM) solution with Hortonworks Data Platform provides complete visibility...Feb. 26, 2013 10:05 AM EST Reads: 2,643 |
 Flash storage array start-up Violin Memory is storing up greenbacks.
According to an amended SEC filing made late last week it’s gotten $96.3 million out of what may become $130 million in new funding.
All Things Digital reports hearing the financing was done at an implied valuatio...Feb. 25, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,560 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced that Things Remembered, the nation’s largest and most prominent retailer of personalized gifts, had a successful online holiday season in part as the result of the optimal performance of its website.
Things Remembered has more than 600 retail store...Feb. 20, 2013 09:37 AM EST Reads: 1,390 |
 Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced that Klaus Enzenhofer, a Technology Strategist for Compuware’s application performance management (APM) business, will deliver the day-one closing keynote address titled: “My Favorite App Performance Challenges solved last year!” at the ConF...Feb. 20, 2013 08:49 AM EST Reads: 1,058 |
 More. Better. Faster. Those are common themes development teams hear on a daily basis. In the rush to get new products out to market quickly, companies expose themselves to the risk of software failure. Java developers often turn to open source solutions to help protect themselves from...Feb. 19, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,776 |
 Oracle Monday appealed the multibillion-dollar Google-Java decision that went horribly against it last year when Android was found not to infringe on its patent or copyrights. It says if works of fiction are protected by copyright, so should the Java language claiming that Google copie...Feb. 17, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,778 |
 The Coverity Development Testing Platform enables developers to test early and often so they can assure code quality at each development sprint. By finding and addressing the most critical issues early, defects are cheaper and faster to fix. In addition, seamless integration with exist...Feb. 17, 2013 02:15 PM EST Reads: 3,604 |
 This book is both board and deep. Meaning it covers a ton of topics and goes in-depth on all of them. This book is great for the beginner, but also has a lot of advanced material.
After a nice introduction that explains the structure of the book the author starts off Part 1 covering t...Feb. 12, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,223 |
 If I was going to use one word to describe this book, it would be 'masterpiece'. This is one of the most well put together books I have ever read. It is in full-color, covers a wide variety of topics, and covers them in depth.
This book goes well beyond simply teaching you how to us...Feb. 7, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,070 |
 Over a series of posts, I will focus on horror stories, from some of our 8,000+ customers we have here at AvePoint, which provided the genesis for these business drivers. The intention of this series is to proactively help your organization understand what "could happen" and what the b...Feb. 2, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,519 |
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