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At Monitis, we strive to monitor and report high uptime and provide the best user experience for our customers. To achieve this goal, we are preparing a series of performance tuning tips that cover areas including Windows and Linux server performance and Javascript tuning. From a web application perspective, web server performance is one of the most critical segments. In this series of articles, we will cover IIS (Internet Information Server) web server performance tuning, providing tips to make IIS management easier. Microsoft IIS Server is one of the most popular web servers for Windows-based servers. A Brief Introduction to IIS IIS is the Microsoft implementation of an HTTP web server. As a component of the Windows operating system, IIS web server is tightly integrated into the OS itself and designed to deliver the best possible performance. IIS Server includes... (more)

Tous égaux devant le «Cloud»

Semaine du 14 juillet : la France défile et prend quelques jours de vacances. Le lien avec l’informatique dans les nuages ? Le 14 juillet célèbre la Révolution française et la devise de la France :  Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Je parle souvent dans ce blog de «révolution» à propos du Cloud et en particulier de la R2I, Révolution Industrielle informatique. Il m’est donc venu l’idée de proposer une devise pour cette révolution du Cloud :              Universalité, égalité, compétitivité Pourquoi ? Les solutions Cloud Computing, et en particulier les applications en mode SaaS, u... (more)

Google Loses Nortel Patents to Apple-Microsoft Clique

Despite all its money and its running start Google lost the marathon four-day auction this week for Nortel's prized patents. At close to midnight last night Nortel announced that the winner was the purpose-built consortium - understood to be dubbed Rockstar Bidco - that consisted of Microsoft, Apple, EMC, RIM, Sony and Ericsson. The sextet is paying $4.5 billion for the 6,000 patents and patent applications that span wireless, wireless 4G, data networking, optical, voice, Internet, search, social networking, service provider and semiconductors and touch nearly every aspect of tel... (more)

Samba 3.6 Out

The Samba Team has released Samba 3.6, a major new release of the Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The widgetry includes the first Samba implementation of Microsoft's new SMB2 file-serving protocol. Samba's new SMB2 server has been tested by major vendors and has reportedly been able to double the performance of some network applications when run in conjunction with Windows 7 clients. Samba has also completely rewritten its print subsystem. Samba 3.6 is the first "on the wire"-compatible version of Microsoft's SPOOLSS printi... (more)

Flexera Software Launches Workflow Manager to Help Companies Implement Enterprise License Optimization Best Practice Processes

Workflow solution tightly integrates with FlexNet Manager Platform to ensure maximum ROI from software license management investment Maidenhead, UK - July 11, 2011 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of strategic Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and their customers, today announced the launch of Workflow Manager for Enterprise License Optimization. As part of the FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, Workflow Manager helps IT management automate and enforce best practice business processes around software license management. "Organizations th... (more)