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 Part 2 of a two part blog series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
Through observation, Fred notices that even...May. 18, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,289 |
 Part 1 – of a two part series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
As a product manager at Netuitive, I’m often put...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,319 |
 I read the following question recently, "Are we acting strategically enough to matter?" I remember the question, because I believe it is so important for us all to answer. It is a question all IT and business people should be asking themselves!
In this picture of charging elephants,...May. 8, 2013 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 457 |
 We are often asked how our clients use WebRenderer in their projects. There are thousands of different use cases our ingenious clients have come up with that have both delighted and surprised us. WebRenderer is more than just an embeddable Java Swing browser. WebRenderer also gives you...May. 8, 2013 02:24 PM EDT Reads: 536 |
 A question that every online application provider will face eventually is: Does my application scale? Can I add an extra 100 users and still ensure the same user experience? If the application architecture is properly designed the easiest way is to put an additional server behind the l...May. 5, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,551 |
 I’m excited to announce a new feature to TraceView – the Data API.
In a nutshell, the Data API exposes all of those high-level metrics you’re collecting in TraceView over REST, formatted as JSON. Now you can take that data, jam it into your own system and do whatever you need to make ...Apr. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,069 |
 Two or three times a year, Bon-Ton Stores products are featured on Jill’s “Steals and Deals” segment on the “Today Show.” The products are promoted with huge discounts. As soon as the segment first airs on the East Coast, the “Steals and Deals” site displays the featured products, with...Apr. 7, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,063 |
 Go ahead try saying Ubiquisys 10 times fast.
Surely that little tongue-twister will disappear now that Cisco has decided to
buy the place. Surely $310 million in cash and retention bonuses will fetch it
rechristening rights and make the receptionist happy.
The mighty switch hou...Apr. 4, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 911 |
 A/B and multivariate testing are often used to improve the conversion funnel. What these tools do is randomly place alternative change images, text or other design elements to gather statistics about how these things affect site visitors. Companies have had great success using such sol...Apr. 1, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,974 |
 How many advertisements for automobiles today promote the fact their cars are horseless carriages? None! Why? It is an assumption that your automobile will be horseless. The same is happening today with mobile apps. Who would develop a work order management or scheduling system tod...Apr. 1, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,513 |
 As much as we try to avoid performance problems, they do happen. It is inevitable. But it is possible to learn to react fast, and in some occasions fast enough that the impact on the end users is negligible. Despite operators’ best efforts, 73% of performance issues are reported by use...Mar. 29, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,772 |
 Recent developments in the healthcare industry have meant that patient and disease specific data is now more important than ever. This is because EMRs backed by health information exchanges across the nation have simplified the exchange of lab reports, tests, scans, prescribed medicati...Mar. 18, 2013 05:33 PM EDT Reads: 585 |
 If you want to learn iOS 6 development, this is a great place to start. The book spends the first several chapters covering the basics. The author first shows you how to get your system setup and how to install Xcode. He then covers the Xcode interface and the iOS simulator.
After tha...Mar. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,496 |
 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: 2,176 |
 No matter which team you were cheering for (or if you even watched the game at all), Super Bowl Sunday 2013 was more than a football game. Since the late 1990s, Super Bowl advertisers have tried to successfully link their TV ads to their online properties, sometimes with mixed results....Feb. 10, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,126 |
 After presenting to a partner of Kaazing last week I got asked what impact the emerging WebSocket standard would have on the Web, assuming we continue down the path that has already been laid out. The impact could be the … Jan. 29, 2013 01:29 PM EST Reads: 1,670 |
 I did not look closely at the description of this book before acquiring it. I mistakenly thought it was going to be about the Core Frameworks iOS has to offer. I thought that because I own the previous version of the author's book The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Core Concepts and Essen...Jan. 2, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,697 |
 Being a revenue-focused, data-driven tech marketer is no longer a best practice—it is, to use Hollis Tibbetts' pithy wording, "table stakes." But even if a marketing organization can't quite raise the stakes to get a seat among their best-performing peers (many marketers lag behind acc...Dec. 28, 2012 09:41 PM EST Reads: 1,451 |
 In 1704, the first newspaper advertisement was published. Ever since, newspapers have served their local and loyal community of readers, while pursuing new revenue streams in advertising. And so began an uneasy relationship with consumerism – newspapers can uniquely offer advertisers a...Sep. 4, 2012 12:20 PM EDT Reads: 1,971 |
 Last week I downloaded the new native application version of Facebook mobile for my iPhone. I must admit that I like the native application far better than the HTML5 version. The HTML5 version was jerky, slow to load, and scrolling up and down the news feeds was rough. The native ve...Aug. 31, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,505 |
 As part of my prep for the talk we give at JavaOne 2012, I built a WebSocket app using JavaFX 2.2 front-end with NetBeans 7.2 and the brand new JavaFX Scene Builder 1.0. The tools were a pleasant surprise, they were pretty straight-forward to … Aug. 27, 2012 05:47 PM EDT Reads: 3,158 |
 Major retailers like Sears, Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Best Buy, Shell and others announced last week their focus on developing MCX, Merchant Customer Exchange, to enhance their sales and cover the growing demand for capabilities to buy things from the smartphone.
This is a great milestone in ...Aug. 25, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,636 |
 I’ve contacted a publisher regarding possible publication of our new book. We’ve been working with these publishers in the past and they seem to be interested, which means the publisher started asking certain questions to see if such a book will have a market value. This blog is ...Aug. 22, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,705 |
 Secrets never stay secret very long at HP, but this sounds more like a secret they want known.
HP is moving its webOS gang into a new semi-autonomous company called GRAM.
webOS Nation broke the story after it got its hands on a flyer and an internal e-mail penned late last week a...Aug. 20, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,413 |
 CTOlabs.com is a research tool information on technologies, concepts and companies of interest to enterprise IT professionals. The CTOlabs Disruptive IT List is a curated list of firms we believe hold the greatest potential for positive disruption in the enterprise IT space. Our wri... Aug. 19, 2012 07:36 AM EDT Reads: 2,991 |
 In this 18 minute audio podcast, Srinivasan Subramanian from Unvired and I discuss all kinds of issues related to enterprise mobility, mobile strategies and cloud mobility. The audio is not perfect, but the content is good. Grab some po...Aug. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,992 |
It is interesting reviewing the news around HTML5 each week and analyzing everyone's opinions. I can say that over the past few weeks the majority of articles, quotes and comments describe HTML5 as needing to be used in a hybrid approach. HTML5 seems to have too many limi...Aug. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,851 |
 I don’t know what you thought about the opening ceremony of the “Games Of The 30th Olympiad Of The Modern Era,” but I watched it from seat 5D on JetBlue Flt 676 from LAX to JFK and, for me, it lacked some of the grandeur I was expecting. Not to worry. Once they passed...Jul. 30, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,529 |
 What’s an app? It depends who you ask. If you asked me a few weeks ago, I’d say that Tiggzi app builder creates apps. You build an HTML5/jQuery Mobile app UI, plus you can export the app as PhoneGap. That’s an app. Then there is Parse, an excellent mobile backend serv...Jul. 23, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,294 |
 Micro Focus has developed a mobile app testing solution to enable companies to create mobile business applications. The Silk Mobile tool provides functional testing of apps on mobile devices across multiple platforms including HTML5, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbia...Jul. 21, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,128 |
 Apica, a performance testing and monitoring company teamed up with Kaazing to bring performance monitoring to apps using WebSockets. Kaazing customers moving applications to HTML5 and WebSocket extensions will now be able to validate response time and function with Apica’s real-browser...Jul. 20, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,506 |
 I know, some people will say it’s apples to oranges. Some people will say Adobe is also pushing for HTML5. But I’m writing this for people who read the title of this blog correctly: Flex or JavaScript. Disclaimer 1. I do both. Disclaimer 2. I don’t care about game programming. I work f...Jul. 20, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,384 |
 Thousands of dollars worth of prizes plus exclusive VC and vendor CTO mentoring await the winners at www.techtrailblazers.com LONDON, UK - July 19th 2012 |
 This book is great. It's no nonsense approach to covering the C# 5.0 language is like a breath of fresh air. It is clean, to the point, and thorough. It makes finding a topic, and learning it, or getting a refresher, a very fast process.
This new version includes new information on th...Jul. 17, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,210 |
 This little book is great when you don't feel like toting around the full version of C# 5.0 in a Nutshell. It is chapters 2,3, and 4 of C# 5.0 in a Nutshell.
I take it along on trips where I can put it in my pocket. It is perfect for shopping trips with my wife. It gives me something ...Jul. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,820 |
 The Facebook IPO was arguably the most iconic public offering of the past 5 years. NASDAQ claimed to have tested their systems before the social giant went public, but that didn't stop the platform from faltering in the opening hours of Facebook's IPO. Had NASDAQ tested the structural ...Jul. 11, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,231 |
 As the head of marketing, your most important internal client is the CEO. It is often said that the CEO has to identify with the brand messaging. The brand messaging needs to be in harmony with the CEO at the end of the day. It needs to match the CEO in quality and narrative. Buyer...Jul. 11, 2012 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,126 |
 In his recent blog post, SPDY and WebSocket Support at Akamai Stephen Ludin, chief product architect talks about Akamai’s vision of the Web. Stephen discusses that at the 2012 Santa Clara Velocity conference Akamai announced upcoming SPDY and WebSocket support. He … Jul. 9, 2012 02:48 AM EDT Reads: 2,872 |
 Last week we organized a webinar on the topic of HTML5 test automation. It was an interesting and well attended event. The presenter Nick Olivo was as entertaining and informative as ever. You can see the main presentation on YouTube and the complete event, including Q/A session on sma...Jun. 25, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,533 |
 Web 2.0 style integration has become the norm with REST and SOA-based APIs – WebSockets may provide the speed and scale necessary to make it the perfect answer to ...Jun. 21, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,230 |
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