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)

Windows 8 - Microsoft's Big Gamble

You may be thinking how a failure can be a game changer. Yes, it's easy to understand that if Windows 8 succeeds, then the tablet and smartphone computing would be changed forever, but how can it change the game by failing? Well – if Windows 8 fails then it would be an official endorsement of the end of an era – the era of the supremacy of the personal computer. Some of you would argue that the era has already ended and the failure of Windows 8 is already a foregone conclusion. But, you will probably be in the minority. Others may argue that every alternate version of Windows release has been a failure and even if Windows 8 fail (like Vista), we will still have Windows 9 which will be a success (like Windows 7). However, I think the situation is different now. What is the main proposition of Windows 8? Actually, there are two propositions. User will prefer to inte... (more)

Microsoft Private Cloud 2.0 – Build Your Own Infopedia

A headline theme for our next webinar will be ‘Microsoft Private Cloud 2.0′. Private Cloud Application Platform Two years ago I described an upcoming market that I initially defined as the Private Cloud Application Platform. Recently Microsoft began prosecuting this space with their PCSS initiative, the Private Cloud Solutions Suite, bringing together a partner group that enables the PCAP I described, wrapping lots of value around the core MS suite of Hyper-V and System Centre. This really starts to get the right ingredients for the real secret sauce to the Private Cloud story. As we have all gathered, simply implementing yet more virtualization is hardly a new story for the enterprise data-centre so instead to really make it cook we need a full implementation of all aspects of the Cloud, internally, in particular both PaaS and SaaS – Platform and Software as a S... (more)

Visual J# .NET, First Native XML Web Services Tool for the Java Language, Nears Completion

(March 20, 2002) -Microsoft has released the second beta of Microsoft® Visual J#™ .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers who want to build applications and services on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Visual J# .NET is the first Java-language development tool to run on a platform offering native support for XML Web services. This support enables an easy transition for Java-language developers into the world of XML Web services and dramatically improves the interoperability of Java-language programs with existing software written in a variety of programming languages. Visual J# .NET helps Microsoft Visual J++® customers and other Java-language programmers take advantage of existing skills and code to fully exploit the .NET Platform. Visual J# .NET is part of Microsoft's Java User Migration Path to Microsoft .NET (JUMP to .NET) strategy, which outlines a ... (more)

Informative Screen Savers

Have you ever needed to know the status of a user's computer, only to discover that the user had stepped away from his/her desk and locked the computer? Sometimes tracking down a user is difficult, and with today's tight schedules, we do not always have time to wait. Using the System.Management namespace and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, we can help eliminate the long waits by creating a screen saver that will display the information we are seeking. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) has been around since the later versions of Microsoft Windows 95. Since WMI runs as a service in Windows, we can look at the task manager to see the service. It normally appears as "WinMgt.exe." Since literally everything we do on a computer is considered an object, we need an interface to query for information on the objects that concern us. The Common Information Model Object M... (more)

IBM Rational XDE Developer Plus Edition

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 is arguably the most advanced integrated development environment (IDE) available today. Prepare to see your Visual Studio .NET environment on steroids! IBM Rational XDE Developer Plus Edition (v2003) provides an eXtended Development Environment that builds upon Visual Studio .NET 2002 or 2003, providing seamless integration of advanced UML modeling and assisted coding features for all aspects of .NET development. Software development with the .NET Framework has made our lives as software developers a little less complicated when compared with the previous generation of Microsoft development tools and languages; however, applications are becoming more complicated and the time frames to develop them are ever decreasing. If you're a software developer and you'd like to be able to make that barbecue tonight instead of working late tryin... (more)

PDC 2003 Off to Strong Start Despite Effect of California Wildfires* Live from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

(October 27, 2003) - Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003 started off with six preconference educational sessions. Most notable among these were Jeff Richter's (of Wintellect fame) session on CLR internals, Chris Sells and Rocky Lhotka's session on smart clients, and Tim Ewald and Don Box's session on .NET Web services. For much of the Web services session, Don Box sat at the keyboard and wrote code while Tim Ewald spoke. The topics they covered together were everything that an ardent .NET Web service coder could ask for - and then some! Starting with first principles, the conversation soon progressed into the intricacies of tweaking SOAP content to produce more customized behavior than is typically available from out-of-the-box .NET. After the daylong introductory sessions ended, there was a brief pause before the start of the nightly Birds of a Feath... (more)

Demystifying Regular Expressions

The ability to perform pattern-matching operations on text is a skill that is highly useful to any programmer. Whether you are creating a routine to validate data entered into a form, performing parsing and mining on data sets, or searching for sequence similarities in the human genome, chances are that the ability to construct a regular expression will be of great value to you. A single regular expression can often be used to create the same pattern-matching functionality that would otherwise require a lengthy subroutine. Yet despite these apparent benefits, many .NET developers find regular expressions daunting because they have a syntax based on Perl 5 regular expressions and are thus somewhat different from the typical .NET language constructs. In this article I will discuss the basic syntax of regular expressions and how they operate in order to demystify them... (more)

Introducing Microsoft's "U.S. Public Sector" Unit

Figuring that it has comprehensive technology solutions to help the public sector attain its goals such as providing key data access to law enforcement officials or better managing a school's grading system and so on, Microsoft has set up a new business unit, called Microsoft U.S. Public Sector. Working with the public sector to strengthen customer and partner outreach in the education and government markets, andheaded up by Linda Zecher, the Washington, D.C.-based unit will take the .NET architecture (as well as Microsoft Exchange, the Windows platform and Office) to the U.S. Public Sector. "One of the biggest challenges that today's public-sector organizations face is that they have many disparate, antiquated systems - databases and libraries of information that have accrued over the years and simply don't communicate with one another. Given the scope of government... (more)

Welcome to the Future!

Welcome to the June issue of .NET Developer's Journal. In this issue, we will look as far into the future of .NET technologies as is currently possible. We will do this by focusing on the most futuristic piece of .NET technology that Microsoft has yet revealed to the outside world - Microsoft Windows "Longhorn." My first exposure to Longhorn - like many developers' - came at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles in October 2003. I spent most of that conference hosting SYS-CON Radio (you can still hear the audio recordings of those sessions on the .NETDJ Web site). However, whenever I had some spare cycles, I made a point of running off to attend a session on one of the three key Longhorn technologies that were being introduced at that conference: Avalon, Indigo, and WinFS. Avalon, for those of you who might not already know, is the new prese... (more)

Database Modeling with Object Role Modeling - Part 3

Database Modeling with ORM - Part 2 Object Role Modeling - Part 1: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words This article is the third in a series introducing Object Role Modeling (ORM). ORM is an excellent modeling methodology you can use to construct the conceptual database model. It is an approach to describing data in terms of objects and the roles they play. The focus of the first article (.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 10) was working with domain experts to identify the various object types and fact types that need to be included in the conceptual model. It introduced you to the various common types of predicate arities as well as the use of Visio to construct an ORM source model. The second article (.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 12) continued the study of ORM source modeling. The process of developing the database model is iterative and involves the continual refinement and verifica... (more)