DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Intrinsyc to Begin Shipping CerfCube 405EP

(July 25, 2003) - Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. is collaborating with IBM Microelectronics on the marketing of its IBM PowerPC 405EP embedded processor using Intrinsyc's new Linux-based CerfCube 405EP reference platform. This offering showcases IBM's latest processor technology to device manufacturers using Intrinsyc's platform. This is part of IBM's strategy to drive wide-spread adoption of the IBM PowerPC 405EP embedded processor, and Intrinsyc's strategy to provide device manufacturers with the products and services needed to help them create next-generation Internet-based devices. This is a considerable advance for Intrinsyc's leading edge intellectual property, and in particular the CerfCube 405EP - a low-cost, low-power, and high-performance reference platform that supports an open standard software environment, wireless connectivity options, and includ... (more)

Authentication in WebSphere Portal

Enterprise application integration (EAI) is a prime objective driving the decision to implement a portal. Portals are often used to integrate data and applications from remote systems and present them in a unified manner to users through a Web-based workspace. Because these back-end systems can contain sensitive business information and functionality (for example, a company's order control system) or private data (e-mail or employee records), access should be well controlled. The basis of access control is authentication, which ensures that the person or program requesting access is identified beyond doubt. It's recommended that back-end systems don't relinquish control of their application security to the portal server, but continue to do their own authentication and authorization. However, users shouldn't be repeatedly prompted to authenticate. This is where sing... (more)

Solving Performance Issues with E-Business Management

Traditional network, system, and application management products deliver incredible amounts of information about the status of a company's infrastructure. However, if everything is up and running and a visitor still can't purchase products or access information (for example, personnel, financial, or health data) from the Web site, these tools have failed to guarantee a positive end-user experience. The evolution of the Internet, specifically e-business, requires even more scrutiny and detail about application performance. To truly ensure the complete performance and functionality of e-business solutions, new management products are needed to manage the individual components and connection points within an application server. A new breed of management tools that oversee the individual components of an application server - the heart of the e-business infrastructure - ... (more)

IBM Life Sciences Framework, Part 2

To help address the challenges faced by pharmaceutical, biotech, research, and medical organizations, the IBM Life Sciences Framework uses industry-standard technologies (J2EE, XML, Web services, etc.) and protocols and data representations from standards efforts such as the I3C (Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium), OMG-LSR (Object Management Group-Life Sciences Research), HL7 (Health Level 7), and the Bio* projects. In my previous article (WSDJ, Vol. 1, issue 7) I showed how to invoke XEMBL, a Web service that takes an accession number as an input parameter and returns a nucleotide sequence. Web services, based on SOAP and WSDL standards, facilitates the development of loosely coupled, distributed systems. In this article we will look at developing workflows and the use of a registry to publish and discover Web services for the life sciences. XEMB... (more)

MQSoftware Announces WebSphere MQ Everyplace Support with Q Pasa! Version 3

(May 8, 2003) - MQSoftware, Inc. now supports WebSphere MQ Everyplace™, (WMQE) with Q Pasa!™ Version 3. WMQE is part of IBM’s WebSphere family of products that supports secure wireless and pervasive device solutions. MQSoftware’s support for the extended enterprise will give users more powerful monitoring capabilities across more WebSphere products that utilize mobile devices. "MQSoftware provides the highest level of support for the WebSphere MQ family of products," said Bill Cecchi, president and CEO at MQSoftware, Inc. "Our ability to monitor this important part of the extended enterprise with Q Pasa! provides customers with timely information about the performance and availability of all these systems." WebSphere MQ Everyplace applications support a wide variety of field applications that employ remote devices. For example, a salesperson with a PDA can dial int... (more)

IBM Unveils New WebSphere Business Integration Solutions to Meet the Specific Requirements of Eleven Industries

(May 20, 2003) - IBM announced new industry and Business Partner support for its portfolio of WebSphere Business Integration software. IBM's software is designed to enable an enterprise to adapt quickly and respond to market demands dynamically with increasing speed by integrating the applications and business processes specific to its industry. IBM is expanding its WebSphere Business Integration platform with the introduction of 48 industry-tailored solutions, each having a combination of software, services, and IBM Business Partner content. The solutions cover eleven industries: automotive, banking, chemical and petroleum, electronics, energy and utilities, financial markets, healthcare, insurance, life sciences and pharmaceutical, retail distribution, and telecommunications. The solutions will help companies in these industries integrate different areas of their b... (more)

On Protecting U.S. IT Jobs

As a closing thought, let's consider our jobs and how to protect them. There is a lot of instability in today's software industry, and the American sector is losing its competitive edge. The problem is that U.S. developers are overpaid with respect to what we produce, and people in other countries are willing to produce a similar product for significantly less money. We can worry and complain about this, but that won't eliminate the threat. In just seconds our source code can be sent overseas, where it can be completed or fixed by other developers. If these overseas developers are smart - and they are - they will be able to read the code and start working on it immediately. There is no need for us any more. This is the sad truth. So, what can we do? I don't think anyone wants to lower their standard of living, so taking a tremendous pay cut isn't an option. In that ca... (more)

Performance Testing Web Services

The successful development of scalable Web services on WebSphere (or any other application server) requires thorough performance testing. Applying a well-designed, consistent performance testing methodology throughout the development life-cycle is key in satisfying a Web services application's performance requirements. This article provides strategies for creating load test scenarios that reflect tendencies of the real world environment. To help you apply these strategies, it introduces best practices for organizing and executing load tests, and suggests how these best practices fit into a Web services application's development life-cycle. It also demonstrates how to utilize performance monitors offered by WebSphere and the operating system, as well as how to analyze load testing results. The bulk of the discussion assumes that WSDL is used to describe the Web serv... (more)

Plug-and-Play Remote Portlets

Portlets constitute interactive Web application components whose presentation markup is aggregated and displayed by a portal server like WebSphere Portal. In a previous WebSphere Journal article, we introduced you to the Java Specification Request for the portlet specification (JSR 168), which lays out the plans for a standard for portlets that will enable them to be deployed to any JSR 168 compliant portal. In this article, we will further our study of portlet portability. In particular, we will focus our discussion on the Web services for remote portals (WSRP) standard. The vision of WSRP is to allow portlets to be exposed as Web services. The resulting Web service will be user-facing and interactive. Unlike traditional data-oriented Web services, a WSRP-compliant Web service will carry within its payload the presentation logic necessary to display and interact w... (more)

No Predictions, Just Content

As the year closes it's time for industry columnists to make their bold, wrongheaded predictions for 2006. You won't find that sort of nonsense here. There's no Top 10 or crystal ball or cute list of Things to Watch. What you will find in this issue is more of the same. A couple more articles about SOA, a recap of the most recent product and alliance events regarding IBM, the long-awaited (and marvelous) final installment about Composite Applications, a WAS article, and some material about software development in general. As we move into 2006, keep expecting the same steady stream of articles about the various aspects of developing apps with IBM WebSphere. WebSphere cuts across all industries. It is involved in all aspects of governmental application development. And it is involved in a very competitive space characterized by technological innovation and marketing h... (more)