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[Cloud Feed] Daily Cloud Feed - Nov 9, 2009: The key to modern cloud computing and the difference between it andClient/Server or SaaS is large scale redundancy. If all your data is storedin a single data center, even if it’s on multiple servers it’s not a cloud,…(more)

[www.bigbx.com - download portal] Gurobi Optimization Gurobi v2.0.1 » www.bigbx.com - download portal: The Gurobi Optimizer represents the next generation in high-performance optimization software, providing state-of-the-art linear and mixed integer programming solvers that can be accessed through a variety of programming languages and optimization modeling systems.

[The Security Blog] Clearing the Cloud Part II |A Ray of Sunshine On A Cloudy Day ...: The SaaS, PaaS and IaaS delivery models in the CSA document were all taken from NISTs paper as were the bulk of the deployment models (public, private and hybrid) with the difference being NIST’s community cloud versus CSA’s managed cloud.

[Rational Survivability] Cloud Computing [Security] Architectural Framework | Rational ...: While the very definition of Cloud suggests the decoupling of resources from the physical affinity to and location of the infrastructure that delivers them, many descriptions of Cloud go to one extreme or another by either exaggerating or artificially limiting the many attributes of Cloud.  This is often purposely done in an attempt to inflate or marginalize its scope.  Some examples include the suggestions that for a service to be Cloud-based, that the Internet must be used as a transport, a web browser must be used as an access modality or that the resources are always shared in a multi-tenant environment outside of the “perimeter.”  What is missing in these definitions is context.

[Lori MacVittie] The End of DNS As We Know It: Oh, I don't know, I think the way that we think about DNS, and how we use it, will require a radical change in order to leverage the cloud in the future. DNS is an awful lot like other IP-based technologies: it's just there, it's a core component, it's a foundation.

[Java Technology Headlines] Java Champion Adam Bien on Java EE and Cloud Computing: Furthermore, both Java EE 5 and Java EE 6 come with standardized packaging -- the Enterprise Archive (EAR), which makes the provisioning of cloud apps relatively easy. And EAR solves some cloud-interoperability issues: It's a lot easier to move an app from one cloud to another.

[Cupfighter.net] What is new in Microsoft SQL Server Azure? | Cupfighter.net: It was amazing to see that you are actually able to connect to an online SQL server cloud using the normal SQL management studio connecting to the database engine using the FQDN. The SQL Gateway which is manageable by an online web interface and includes all security and firewall settings for the SQL Cloud, the redirector layer which load balance T-SQL traffic and the underlying SQL Fabric which serves the cloud, is fully transparent to the SQL management studio and system administrators can manage all futures of SQL as they do in the normal in-house setups.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] 10 Reasons to use Linux for Enterprise Business: In an interesting press release IBM announced today that Olympus America Inc., a precision company that designs and delivers solutions in healthcare and consumer electronics worldwide, has increased the performance of its Web services three times by supplementing its current environment with Linux on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing solution. I am not surprised.

[Adam Bien] Java EE - The Perfect Platform For Cloud Computing : Adam Bien's ...: The term "Cloud Computing" is even cloudier than SOA or Web 2.0 definitions. My understanding of clouds is: Elasticity: you can fire up new instances on demand.

[Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community] Java EE: The Perfect Platform For Cloud Computing | Javalobby: My understanding of clouds is: Elasticity: you can fire up new instances on demand. Management and Monitoring: especially applications in the "cloud" have higher requirements regarding .

[SOA in Action Blog] Transcript -- How the Cloud Changes the Way Applications are ...: First of all, were seen emerging cloud development styles and because the factors I've spoken of, the waterfall environment or the waterfall approach to doing everything and then pushing it over to the users and going off to another project is really not appropriate in the cloud environment and doesn't take advantage of all the benefits of the cloud environment. And so cloud adopters have found its much more appropriate to adopt an agile, collaborative on-demand development style in which they adopt typically short iterative development cycles of 2 to 4 weeks and the Scrum methodology which is particular form of agile development is particularly appropriate for many developers in the SaaS and the Platform-as-a-Service environment use this.

[Linux Gazette] News Bytes LG #167: Built using industry standard hardware components plus FlashFire technology from Sun, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Release 11.2, the Sun Oracle Database Machine V2 is twice as fast as Version 1 for data warehousing. The Sun Oracle Database Machine goes beyond data warehousing applications with the addition of the huge Exadata Smart Flash Cache based on Sun FlashFire technology to deliver extreme performance and scalability for OLTP.

[Praetorian Prefect] Praetorian Prefect | Are Borderless Networks Possible?: However, data encrypted with a specific public key can only be decrypted by a private key which must be the other part of the same key pair.For example, John wants to access his banking account via web securely and confidentially, in order for doing this, he logs on to his online banking account via HTTPS:\\www.wamu.com; then his IE browser encrypts his logon session (include his ID and password) by using the public key (a digital certificate assigned to his online banking bank) and send to his online banking’s web server ;

[The Virtualization Practice] New Relic RPM Product Review | The Virtualization Practice: Since RPM is designed to monitor applications that live in one or more clouds, we should explore exactly what it means to deal with the unique aspects of APM in cloud environments. The first set of challenges which must be addressed when performing APM for cloud hosted applications are the same challenges that must be addressed when monitoring applications that live on a virtual infrastructure - since we can safely assume that most clouds either today already live on a virtual infrastructure or will do so shortly.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] CIT Group falls off S&P 500 index, to be replaced by open-source ...: MUMBAI - Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services has secured the nod from the India's markets regulator to sell 51-percent majority stake by way of a global auction to put the software bellwether, hit by a $1.43-bilion fraud, back on rails. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEB) gave its permission to Satyam to facilitate a global competitive bidding process so as to sell the majority stake to an investor, the company said in a regulatory filing Friday.

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