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It seems to me that we’re slowly getting to a point where organizations are no longer doubting the suitability of the Cloud for them, but rather having to make some big decisions about which Cloud vendor to use.

In computing, NoSQL (sometimes expanded to “not only SQL”) is a broad cl*** of database management systems that differ from the cl***ic model of the relational database management system (RDBMS) in some significant ways, most important being they do ...

I’m excited about Sensu, a new open source monitoring framework, and I’d like to help others get started with it as well. So, after observing the frequent questions from new visitors to #sensu on Freenode I thought perhaps the best way to do that is ...

A tutorial on how to create many-to-one relationships on the same and different Entities

A friend of mine alerted me this weekend to just how much I have a weird fascination with Venn diagrams. I decided to roll with it. So yeah, I have an irrational love of Venn diagrams. But that begs the question, can I make a Venn diagram with just C...

Have you ever started new Vaadin Widget wizard, hacked together a nice component and in the end wondered how exactly am I should have set up this widget project? I am sure you have - and you are not alone. To make the process really easy, I wrote the...

Dells formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.

Cloud Infographic: Cloud Drivers For Adoption. Informative infographic found over at Dell illustrating why cloud computing has recently grown in relevance to IT managers and business leaders.

One of the positives, and at the same time negatives, of Googles Android Market has been the anything goes style of app acceptance into the Market. Thats been criticized more and more, as more malware writers target the Market with infected apps, som...

Node.js is showing immense popularity. But its not for everyone. Heres a story about one developer who finds it lacking to say the least.

P***ive network analysis can reveal OS, service, and even vulnerabilities -- just by sniffing the network.

Mongo is a wonderful new NoSql solution from the folks at 10gen, and it has really gained a large following with a reputation for being high performance and developer friendly. There are lots of good articles on Mongo best practices, see here and her...

The most striking thing about Amazon’s fourth-quarter and year-end numbers was that the company’s head count was up a whopping 67 percent to 56,200 employees, compared with 33,700 a year ago, according to Amazon’s new 8-K filing. Sixty-seven percent ...

IT clouds (compute, applications, storage, and services) are like electricity in that they can be scary or confusing to some while being enabling or a necessity s to others not to mention being a polarizing force depending on where you sit or view th...

According to CGN (Government Computer News) the U.S. Army’s Architecture Services Division within the Software Engineering Center (SEC) has deployed a platform for the quick development and migration of applications to the private cloud. The engineer...

The Time For NoSQL Is Now is the conclusion made in a recent article by Andrew C. Oliver, practicing Oracle since 1998 and which thought Oracle was magical. From its long experience he also share the following conclusion:NoSQL solution requires less ...

I recently received email from one of my very close friend from California. His question was very interesting. He wanted to know how many virtual processors are there available for SQL Server. He already had script for SQL Server 2008 but was mainly ...

A month ago I had an incident on production that was caused, as I found out later, by poor performance of used JSON parser library. I’ve optimalized the code and got over it but decided to look for another library with better performance characterist...

The Schema DDL that is provided is used to generate a private database on the fly. If anything is changed in your DDL (even a single space!), then you will be prompted to generate a new schema and will be operating in a new database.

SQL Server 2012 is has very exciting new feature of SQL Server AlwaysOn. This new feature reduces planned and unplanned downtime and maximize application available. Additionally it provides data protection keeping database always available. Microsoft...

Boss: Hey Ed, Sue in Detroit says that sometimes, the wrong Invoice Part Number is showing up on the Product History Screen. Can you help us figure this out.

Dont use query parameters to alter stateDont use mixed-case paths if you can help it lowercase is bestDont use implementation-specific extensions in your URIs (.php, .py, .pl, etc.)Dont fall into RPC with your URIs

Who wins in the comparison between Flash-based games and HTML5 games.

Many people are confused as to how can they attract thousands of visitors to their site. Driving high traffic is very important for a website, but even more important is designing a website in such a way that will make them stay longer.