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Did you know that you can use Vordel SOAPbox to send a SOAP message onto a JMS message queue? You can choose to send it as a normal TextMessage, or an ObjectMessage. But you can also choose to use the "SOAP over JMS Message Service" proposal to place the message. Just choose Design mode instead of Classic mode in the tabs in the top-right, and then drag in a "Messaging System" filter onto the canvas. You might notice that the "drag and join" configuration of SOAPbox is very similar to how the Vordel Gateway is configured. So you can test the JMS service in exactly the same way as you configure the connection to the JMS service. ... (more)

Keep an eye on OneCMDB and the CMDB Federation

OneCMDB Version 2.0 is a real interesting concept and product as this may be one of the first IT Service Management solution developed in an Open Source mode. It will not replace your Service Desk solution but may help companies with limited budget or companies which have a wide diversity of existing catalogs of assets. It is only covering Configuration Management as a process and in some way IT Assets management. For those who are using Nagios, there exist some connectors. This has been initially developed by Lokomo Systems using Java but I’m not sure how does that fit with the CMDB Federation Group (I wrote a post on the subject in 2007) if it still exists….(I haven’t seen any indication of activity since January 2008 and maybe this is a dead project…). In any case, keep an eye on both… ... (more)

A wave of new features

During June, we have released a wave of new features to our users. Here’s a quick summary: Improved add server wizard: Our new add server wizard is always available on the right-hand side of your management console, and makes it simple to add new servers or drives using our pre-installed system images, ready to self-install or with custom configurations. Pre-installed Windows servers. We now offer pre-installed system images for Windows Web Server 2008 to get you started as quickly as possible. Private network VLANs: Customers with several servers can now interconnect these on a private network, separate from the public internet. This enables your servers to communicate entirely privately and securely, and will commonly be used to implement multi-tier architectures such as database servers behind front-end web servers. Network traffic on private network VLANs is no... (more)

Sams Teach Yourself iOS 6 Application Development in 24 Hrs 4th Edition Book Review

If you want to learn iOS 6 development, this is a great place to start. The book spends the first several chapters covering the basics. The author first shows you how to get your system setup and how to install Xcode. He then covers the Xcode interface and the iOS simulator. After that he provides a short primer on Objective-C and then covers the Cocoa touch layers and the frameworks they contain. There are a ton of them but the author does a nice job of introducing them. You leave Hour 4 with a great understanding of the tools you have access to. The author continues with twenty more chapters broken down into hour long reads. Most chapters took me longer because I got sidetracked playing with the code samples. I have listed the chapters below. Their titles are descriptive enough to give you a good idea of what is covered. Hour 1. Preparing Your System and iDevice for D... (more)

PR Newswire Summary of High Tech Copy, March 7, 2005

Following is a summary of high technology news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at the PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/. HKM002 03/07/2005 02:01 r f bc-Global-Sources-SVY (HONG KONG) Consumer Electronics Applications Drive Asia-Pacific Embedded Design - Global Sources-Gartner Survey SFM077 03/07/2005 03:01 r f bc-CA-Microsoft-software (SAN FRANCISCO) Microsoft Tackles Growing Demands of Game Development SFM019 03/07/2005 03:05 r f bc-CA-SST-PowerAmps (SUNNYVALE) SST Communications' New Power Amplifiers With On-Chip Power Detection Enable Wider Range in WLAN Systems NYM152 03/07/2005 03:44 r f bc-IL-VASCO-Microsoft (OAKBROOK TERRACE) CEBIT 2005: VASCO Launches Digipass Plug-In for Microsoft Internet Authentication Server (IAS) NYM035 03/07/2005 05:00 r f bc-ITG-Euro-new-sls-dir (LONDON) ... (more)

Promise Technology Announces SuperTrak 4 and 12 Port Native PCIe SATA RAID Controllers at LinuxWorld San Francisco, 2006

LINUXWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Promise Technology, Inc. today announced SuperTrak EX4350 and EX12350, the newest native PCIe additions to the SuperTrak EX series SATA controllers. SuperTrak EX4350 and EX12350, 4 and 12 port respectively, are RAID 6 controllers supporting SATA 3Gb/s data transfer rate, and complete the Promise SuperTrak SATA RAID controller portfolio with 4, 8, 12 and 16 ports. Featuring the 500MHz Intel XScale(R) IOP333 I/O processor with intelligent RAID 6 processing for dual-drive failure protection, SuperTrak EX4350 and EX12350 are similar to the existing SuperTrak SATA controllers. The SuperTrak EX series SATA controllers have expanded OS support to include Miracle Linux, Fedora Linux, and FreeBSD in addition to the current Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux and Linux open source support. "Customers looking for exte... (more)

Earlham College Expands Use of NexentaStor 2.0

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/02/09 -- Nexenta Systems, the leading provider of hardware independent NAS and SAN solutions, has freed another customer from the shackles of proprietary enterprise storage. Earlham College announced today that they are tripling their capacity of storage managed by NexentaStor and expanding their usage of NexentaStor to encompass primary storage, desktop backup, and site to site replication. Earlham College is a leading Midwestern Liberal Arts College based in Richmond, Indiana. Randy Schultz, the Lead Systems Administrator at Earlham, said: "We initially used NexentaStor on Sun x4500 Thumper servers for primary storage for home directories. In the course of a year we have seen the system perform extremely well while additional capabilities and features were added at no additional cost from Nexenta. We recently added more Nexe... (more)

Timesys Announces LinuxLink Support for Mercury Computer Systems Ensemble 5000 Series VXS HCD5220 Module

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Timesys Corporation (http://www.timesys.com), provider of LinuxLink, the first commercial software development framework for building custom embedded Linux-based products, today announced LinuxLink support for the Ensemble(TM) 5000 Series VXS HCD5220 module from Mercury Computer Systems. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090515/NE17461LOGO ) The innovative HCD5220 module, based on two dual-core 8641D processors, is a high-performance computing module for sensor-networked environments such as radar, SIGINT/EW and industrial applications. The HCD5220 is supported by the rich set of features available from the cross-product Mercury MultiCore Plus(R) software infrastructure, which allows for ease of portability while offering an open software development architecture. The Timesys LinuxLink solution for this platform prov... (more)

Sentilla Expands Executive Team With Addition of Experienced Business Development Veteran Eddie White

Sentilla® Corporation, provider of demand-side energy management solutions for data centers and commercial facilities, today announced it has appointed storage and data center management industry veteran Eddie White as senior vice president of business development. White’s appointment signals an increased emphasis on the integration of Sentilla’s award-winning energy management solution with leading software for enterprise IT and systems management providers. Alliance partner customers will benefit by having a fully integrated view of both IT and energy assets; from this view, customers will be better able to analyze information and make changes in order to increase IT and facilities equipment performance. “Coming to Sentilla is a great opportunity,” commented White. “The company’s technology is fast becoming a necessity for data centers that badly need to manage t... (more)

SouthernLINC Wireless Adds Motorola Debut(TM) i856 to Product Portfolio

ATLANTA, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- SouthernLINC( )Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), today announced the availability of the Motorola Debut(TM) i856. The Debut i856 is the first Motorola Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) device that combines the power of Push To Talk two-way radio with a slider-style design. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090507/CL13145LOGO ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090929/CL83154 ) Packed with style and features, including a dedicated music player button, expandable memory - up to 8 gigabytes with a microSD card - and 3.5 millimeter audio jack, the Debut will be a favorite of music aficionados. The Debut also offers: Push To Talk two-way radio (PTT) with a menu of PTT Features that allows messages, pictures, events, My Info contents, contact and location information to be sent via the P... (more)

QNAP Expands Turbo NAS Lineup with New Entry-level 4-drive Rack-mounted NAS Server for Workgroup and SMB Customers

POMONA, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers, NVR Video Surveillance Systems, and Network-based Multimedia Players today expanded their Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of the TS-410U rack-mounted NAS server targeted specifically at the SMB and workgroup market segments. The TS-410U features 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to 8TB of total capacity (with 2TB drives) packaged in a compact 1U rack-mounted chassis. The TS-410U supports 2.5" or 3.5" hard drives, giving users more flexibility in selecting hard drives for installation. The TS-410U features a Marvell 800MHz CPU and 512MB DDRII memory which provides sustained high performance with low power consumption. The TS-410U can be configured for RAID 0/1/5/6/5+ spare, and JBOD with online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level mig... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
Bill Schmarzo, author of "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business" and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science," is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogge...
Enterprises have taken advantage of IoT to achieve important revenue and cost advantages. What is less apparent is how incumbent enterprises operating at scale have, following success with IoT, built analytic, operations management and software development capabilities - ranging from autonomous vehicles to manageable robotics installations. They have embraced these capabilities as if they were Silicon Valley startups.
The deluge of IoT sensor data collected from connected devices and the powerful AI required to make that data actionable are giving rise to a hybrid ecosystem in which cloud, on-prem and edge processes become interweaved. Attendees will learn how emerging composable infrastructure solutions deliver the adaptive architecture needed to manage this new data reality. Machine learning algorithms can better anticipate data storms and automate resources to support surges, including fully scalable GPU-c...
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
Business professionals no longer wonder if they'll migrate to the cloud; it's now a matter of when. The cloud environment has proved to be a major force in transitioning to an agile business model that enables quick decisions and fast implementation that solidify customer relationships. And when the cloud is combined with the power of cognitive computing, it drives innovation and transformation that achieves astounding competitive advantage.
Cloud-enabled transformation has evolved from cost saving measure to business innovation strategy -- one that combines the cloud with cognitive capabilities to drive market disruption. Learn how you can achieve the insight and agility you need to gain a competitive advantage. Industry-acclaimed CTO and cloud expert, Shankar Kalyana presents. Only the most exceptional IBMers are appointed with the rare distinction of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the company. Shankar has also receive...
Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner's latest report on the hype cycle of emerging technologies, blockchain has just passed the peak of their hype cycle curve. If you read the news articles about it, one would think it has taken over the technology world. No disruptive technology is without its challenges and potential impediments t...
To Really Work for Enterprises, MultiCloud Adoption Requires Far Better and Inclusive Cloud Monitoring and Cost Management … But How? Overwhelmingly, even as enterprises have adopted cloud computing and are expanding to multi-cloud computing, IT leaders remain concerned about how to monitor, manage and control costs across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ...
If a machine can invent, does this mean the end of the patent system as we know it? The patent system, both in the US and Europe, allows companies to protect their inventions and helps foster innovation. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be set to disrupt the patent system as we know it. This talk will examine how AI may change the patent landscape in the years to come. Furthermore, ways in which companies can best protect their AI related inventions will be examined from both a US and...
Chris Matthieu is the President & CEO of Computes, inc. He brings 30 years of experience in development and launches of disruptive technologies to create new market opportunities as well as enhance enterprise product portfolios with emerging technologies. His most recent venture was Octoblu, a cross-protocol Internet of Things (IoT) mesh network platform, acquired by Citrix. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and ...