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- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...
- Tags: Databases, N-Tier, tier, Wintel Scalability, Rube Goldberg, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Microsoft creates GWT clone
- While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for C# and other .NET languages. "JavaScript is just an assembly language," says Live Labs product manager...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Intermediate Language, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Tier, CLR, GWT, Volta, Upshot, Silverlight 1.1, .Net, C#, Web Browsers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- End-to-End Application Performance Management
- The particular challenge of maintaining complex applications is that they cut across separate IT silos. An application will often include a Web tier, application logic, a database, and a storage tier. The successful execution of the application - let's say, transferring money from a checking to savings account - requires...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Performance, Information Technology, Tier, Application Performance Management, Symantec APM, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-09-22
- Achieving Interoperability With Ajax Using Java and .NET Technologies
- In "Java EE .NET Interoperability: Integration Strategy, Patterns, and Best Practices", the Java and .NET interoperability constraints across presentation, business, integration, and resource tiers were raised. Web 2.0 introduces a new layer of complexity to this - where particularly in the mashup scenario, one can be faced with interoperability challenges...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Interoperability, Microsoft .NET, AJAX, Web Browser, Tier, Mashup, Web Browsers, Programming Languages, Java, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Improving Recoverability in Multi-Tier Storage Systems
- Enterprise storage systems typically contain multiple storage tiers, each having its own performance, reliability, and recoverability. The primary motivation for this multi-tier organization is cost, as storage tier costs vary considerably. This paper describes a file system called TierFS that stores files at multiple storage tiers while providing high recoverability...
- Tags: Storage System, Tier, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- A Unified Platform for Data Driven Web Applications With Automatic Client-Server Partitioning
- Data-driven web applications are usually structured in three tiers with different programming models at each tier. This division forces developers to manually partition application functionality across the tiers, resulting in complex logic, suboptimal partitioning, and expensive re-partitioning of applications. This paper introduces a unified platform for automatic partitioning of data-driven...
- Tags: Client-server, Web Application, Tier, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-05-12
- Intelligent Data Archiving
- ESG has found that many companies are currently implementing a configuration of intelligent tiers in their storage environments. These intelligent tiers consist of various storage systems and disk-types with different cost, performance, and protection levels. Software tools are then used to move data between these different tiers based on frequency...
- Tags: Performance, Archiving, Tier, ESG, Storage, Performance Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Trusted Web Service
- This paper introduces an ongoing project called "Trusted Web Service" TWS. TWS adopts a two-tier model. At the lower tier, TWS uses the Trusted Network Connect TNC standards to measure, encrypt, and transfer the measurement data (such as the hardware/ software states of the platform) from a client to the...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Fujitsu Ltd., Standards, Tier, TWS, Quality, Web Services, Channel Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2006-08-22
- Anatomy of an implosion
- The Washington Post offers a look inside Tier, the troubled company that specialized in processing child-support payments for state and local governments. Tier went public in 1997, grew steadily, moved to DC in 2004, and showed an ability to win contracts from government. It all came crashing down this year,...
- Tags: Tier
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
- File System Archiving
- ESG has found that many companies are currently implementing a configuration of intelligent tiers in their storage environments. These intelligent tiers consist of various storage systems and disk-types with different cost, performance, and protection levels. Software tools are then used to move data between these different tiers based on frequency...
- Tags: Performance, File System, Tier, File System Archiving, ESG, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Scaling an Internet architecture
- Any great website eventually runs out of capacity. Horizontal scalability with load balancers between the tiers offers redundancy -- keeping the site up and running.
- Tags: Internet, Tier, Web Site Development, Web Technology
- Whiteboards 2005-08-03
- Data Center Design and Implementation With Cisco Catalyst 6500 Service Modules: Overview
- This paper focuses on using firewalls and load balancers in the data center. Load balancers distribute incoming requests to multiple servers, while firewalls analyze the traffic to avoid common attacks to the server farm. Although load balancing and firewalling can be deployed individually, these two technologies are often deployed together,...
- Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Data Center, Load Balancing, Server Farm, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Tier, Data Centers, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Networking
- White papers 2004-06-30
- Building Secure ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication
- Security is a broad topic. Research has shown that early design of authentication and authorization eliminates a high percentage of application vulnerabilities. Secure communication is an integral part of securing your distributed application to protect sensitive data, including credentials, passed to and from your application, and between application tiers. This...
- Tags: Authorization, Microsoft ASP.NET, Tier, Authentication, .Net, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2002-10-10
- Elcom, Inc. Pioneers an Exceptionally Highly-Available IT Infrastructure Aided by HP
- elcom wanted to redesign IT infrastructure to support the ASP business well into the future and maintain highest possible levels of availability for end users. The company wanted to provide leading-edge B2B solutions to leverage the rapidly changing technology and business conditions. The first tier of elcom's three-tier application architecture...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Tier, Microsoft Windows NT, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
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- Adaptive Two-Tier Energy-Efficient Multicasting in Mobile and Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
- This paper studies the problem of energy-efficient multicasting in mobile and wireless ad hoc networks. To deal with node mobility, the paper presents a two-tier multicasting model which consists of mobile nodes and stationary nodes. Mobile nodes achieve multicasting through the closest stationary node at lower tier. Stationary nodes route...
- Tags: Mobile, Node, Multicasting, Tier, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
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- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Icahn says he can't
- Add Carl Icahn to the list of parties trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo! who can't. If he had a solid idea of how to set Yahoo! apart from Google, in particular, or Facebook and MySpace, along the way, he would have been...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Icahn, Corporate Governance, Channel Management, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamed
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamedWho is really to blame?SOA makes things easier for the end user, but harder for IT. But is it really SOA that should take the blame or are IT shops just really bad at "real" software engineering? I vote for the later. ...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, software, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- FastScale Composer™ Suite
- FastScale Composer™ SuiteSell it like Hotcakes!Pay no attention to the technology as it doesn't really matter. I'm going to buy it just because of the name. You know, like Cakewalk®, ProTools®, Mediabroker® and Ironman®.Go buy it before they run out of stock folks!!How fast is 'fast'?I can't see...
- Tags: Operating systems, FastScale Composer™ Suite
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
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