Resara Launches OfficeBox Appliances
31 Jan 2012 1:18am GMT NAS devices offer an affordable compromise to investing in more expensive server solutions for small businesses. "Every small business with a network needs a server to share and secure data. NAS devices are an easy solution, but they don't provide the powerful features that would make them an ideal replacement to a server," says Warren Luebkeman, CEO of Resara LLC. "We wanted to develop a solution that would bridge the gap between NAS products and small business servers. A simple appliance that...
The Specific ElementFormDefault Schema Attribute
21 Sep 2011 11:15am GMT Here is my 'five-minute XML' series where by I give you scheduled byte size guides. Today's issue is good for those people that happen to be starting out with XML. In "XML Schema - Overview" (5 Minute XML #7), I reported the need for a schema definition language. I defined principle syntax for the purpose of indicating the namespace from the schema document and W3C URI (for referencing components and attributes not defined from the targetNamespace). In conclusion I referred to the following...
Building Next-Generation Tech Leaders
19 May 2011 7:55pm GMT In the software development services industry -- people are the software company's #1 asset. With pressure to deliver faster with fewer resources, increasingly distributed teams, and savvy customers -- software companies need to find ways to build capable leaders within their organizations. But how are next-generation tech leaders built? I spoke to Mike Lim, VP for Engineering at Exist, who by the way is currently enrolled at the prestigious Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program, about this and...
Troubleshooting Response Time Problems
12 Apr 2011 8:12pm GMT Production Monitoring is about ensuring the stability and health of our system, that also includes the application. A lot of times we encounter production systems that concentrate on System Monitoring, under the assumption that a stable system leads to stable and healthy applications. So let’s see what System Monitoring can tell us about our Application. Let’s take a very simple two tier Web Application:read more
Another Mainframe ISV Has Trouble with IBM
25 Feb 2011 6:36pm GMT Data Base solutions AG (DBS) in Switzerland calculates that European mainframe sites pay IBM 500 million euros – that’s $650 million – more than they have to every year because of a gimmick that has ironically been dubbed IBM’s “generosity factor.” That, it figures, is two euros or $2.70 out of the pocket of every man, woman and child in the European Union since consumers ultimately wind up paying the price of IBM’s generosity. DBS came to make the...