Web 2.0 Journal

This post is sponsored by The Business Value Exchange and HP Enterprise Services Back in the good old 1990s we were actually concerned with software application performance factors such as processing power clock speed along with system memory and storage. While memory is still a... (more)

A man walks into the doctor’s office. He hasn’t been feeling well. A virus has been floating around the office and the man feels he’s caught it. Doctor walks in, smiles and picks up the chart. He starts examining the man and as he writes a prescription advises he keeps sanitary an... (more)

I have a confession. I am Shadow IT. I am the guilty party operations and security love to hate because I expense tens of thousands of dollars in cloud services...every month. Truth be told, my team and I couldn't afford to wait in line for IT to provision the resources we needed... (more)

Our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market leader in manufacturing customized hats, decided to expand its market reach with an e-commerce site where its potential customers could choose, customize and order hats online. TescaraHats used an APM... (more)

In Part 1 I talked about how there's nothing new about subscription services since they've been around for generations. Now I'll relent a little and admit that there is something new about many of the subscription services out there. What's new is what is no longer there. Tradit... (more)

In a previous post we showed how we hooked up our blog's WordPress application with the new Compuware APMaaS offering. Since WordPress is a PHP application we use PurePath for PHP to monitor it. We highlighted that we got an alert about a response time violation on some of our bl... (more)

CULVER CITY, Calif., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Movie Channel (SMC) is filling the screen with outlaws, horse thieves and cowboys as the channel brands July with some of the best Western films ever made. As America celebrates the month known for Independence, SMC is ridin... (more)

SES (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today at CommunicAsia2013 a multi-year multi-million dollar contract renewal with Supernet, Pakistan's leading satellite network service provider. The deal will see Supernet contract C-band capacity on the SES NSS-12 satellite at the pr... (more)

PARIS, FRANCE -- (Marketwired) -- 06/19/13 -- Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Lagos-based Arik Air has signed a firm contract to acquire three CRJ1000 NextGen aircraft and four Q400 NextGen turboprop airliners. Based on the list price of the CRJ1000 NextGen and Q400 Next... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/19/13 -- Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced that Paco Nathan, director of Data Science, will deliver a talk, titled "Pattern -- an open source project for migrating predictive models fro... (more)

CULVER CITY, Calif., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As Sony Movie Channel (SMC) features some of the best Westerns ever made in July, it only seemed fitting to also offer viewers the chance to live like a cowboy for a few days. In keeping with the theme, Sony Movie Channel is p... (more)

Samsung's latest line of next-generation GALAXY tablets, the GALAXY Tab 3, keeps you entertained, connected and productive all summer long MISSISSAUGA,ON, June 19, 2013 /CNW/ - Samsung Canada, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced t... (more)

SES (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) a annoncé aujourd'hui, au salon CommunicAsia2013, la signature d'un contrat pluriannuel d'un montant de plusieurs millions de dollars avec Supernet, premier fournisseur de services de réseau satellitaire du Pakistan. Dans le cadre de cette transa... (more)

NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Opera Solutions (@OperaSolutions), a global leader in Big Data, machine learning, and advanced analytics, today announced that it has made Gartner's Cool Vendors in Analytics1, 2013 report available to readers.  Each year, Gartner identifie... (more)

NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NYC-based experience design and innovation firm, Sub Rosa, announced today that it has been selected as the Agency of Record for Pantone, the world-renowned authority on color and provider of professional color systems, services and product... (more)

NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment One Family (eOne Family) announced today the U.S. expansion of the Peppa Pig brand with the addition of five new licensing agreements, as well as several line extensions in the toy, book and DVD categories. Based on the hit an... (more)

WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SocialRadar, Inc. (www.socialradar.com) today announced it has secured $12.75 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Grotech Ventures and SWaN & Legend Ventures. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130... (more)

SES (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) meldete heute im Rahmen der CommunicAsia2013, dass Supernet, der führende Betreiber von Satellitennetzen in Pakistan, seinen Mehrjahresvertrag über mehrere Millionen Dollar verlängert hat. Im Rahmen des Vertrags erwirbt Supernet C-Band-Kapazitäte... (more)

LAS VEGAS and PALO ALTO, Calif., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AlertID™ today announced that its free online and mobile app is now protecting Sacramento. AlertID is the safe way to receive trusted public safety alerts and share information with neighbors. Using information from... (more)

ExtraHop, the provider of real-time IT operational intelligence from wire data, announced today that it has helped Murphy USA increase application speeds by as much as 500 percent. A wholly owned subsidiary of Murphy Oil operating 1,258 gas stations in 23 U.S. states, Murphy USA ... (more)