Agile Architecture [ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
November 2008- Traditionally, an attempt is made to make the right architectural decisions early, due to the significant anticipated cost associated with making incorrect decisions. But this contradicts with Agile practices, which encourages welcoming change. Conceptually, the goal of Agile architecture should be to minimize the architectural change by crafting software so that it can easily adapt to change. In practice, developing Agile architecture is far more difficult. The architectural goals change dramatically during the development of ...

Test Automation: Delivering Business Value [ Source: AppLabs ]
October 2008- As organizations look to reduce costs across a wide range of operational disciplines, IT will become under the radar more and more. The impact of project slippage, poor quality delivery, and inadequate solutions will not be tolerated. This may prove a pain-point for many organizations who have traditionally failed in these critical areas. Testing, like all project disciplines, has areas that can be quickly improved within an organization. One of the key areas where cost-savings ...

Top 5 Myths of Screen Scraping [ Source: Seagull Software ]
June 2008- Many organizations with mainframe, System i or OpenVMS applications still ask their employees to use green-screen (or text-based) user interfaces to work with essential business information. Green-screens are a business problem and a technology problem. They're unappealing, hard to learn, intimidating, and accessible only with terminal emulation software. They’re also incompatible with modern application integration methods like Web services and SOA.

The appeal of screen-scraping is understandable — it's simple and inexpensive. But ...

Mobile Learning Applications - Ubiquitous Characteristics and Technological Solutions [ Source: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ]
January 2008- Although the functions which the mobile devices offer to eLearners are similar with those of a PC, the experience is different due to design and interface issues - small screen, lack of keyboard, slower Internet connection. At the same time there are added functionalities like GPS navigation, ability to distribute the information between several devices designed for different purposes to aim needs of the learner better. With the specific m-Learning features - portability, location awareness, ...

SandStorm: Load-Testing Tool [ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
July 2008- The performance of a Web application under heavy traffic has become one of the most crucial factors that define its success. The challenges faced by these online applications include ensuring faster response time during peak hours and maintaining the basic level of quality and reliability of services. This white paper discusses various aspects of Web load testing and offers an insight into Impetus’ SandStorm Web load-testing tool.

Economics of Scale-Out Storage [ Source: Red Hat, Inc. ]
April 2012- Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. As this shift occurs, an increasing number of enterprises are seeking to understand the advantages of the newer technology when it comes to the storage of exploding amounts of unstructured data.

While many sources have investigated the advantages of scale-out storage from a technology perspective, few have taken on this ...

Open Source as a Catalyst for Innovation and Cultural Change featuring Yahoo [ Source: Black Duck Software ]
March 2012- Fact: Open source is a fundamental part of many of the world's leading development organizations, and is often credited with enabling and enhancing innovation. But how do open source and the community model of development impact organizational structure and culture?

Join us on this webinar to hear a senior executive from Yahoo! Share his experience and perspective on leveraging the positive business and network effects of open source while simultaneously managing some of ...

Optimize your infrastructure with IBM Virtualization Solutions [ Source: IBM ]
November 2011- Today, success demands agility. If your IT staff spends all of their time worrying about security, uptime and capacity problems, they won't be working with you to drive innovation. This paper describes IBM Server Optimization and Integration services - Vmware server virtualization, a consulting-based solution that can help you determine the optimal placement of workloads within a VMware vSphere infrastructure deployment.

Governance Fast Start: 5 Keys to Effective Open Source Governance [ Source: Black Duck Software ]
November 2011- Gartner predicts that through 2014, no more than 50% of open-source investments by mainstream IT organizations will yield consistent long term TCO advantages over alternatives. The reasons include the lack of a governance program to filter, audit, track and manage open source assets in the enterprise. In the same study they recommend -leveraging third-party commercial service and support to establish service-level agreements (SLAs) for OSS.

The credativ Group and Black Duck discuss these five key ...

ITG Report: Cost/Benefit Case for IBM XIV Systems: Comparing Cost Structures for IBM XIV and EMC VMAX Systems [ Source: IBM ]
September 2011- New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents. These comparisons included financial services, government, health care, life sciences, manufacturing and telecommunications organizations with initial installed capacities of between 44 and 522 TB. Calculations allow for three-year capacity growth. Download now to read the detailed comparisons.