Java News Desk

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Arun Gupta – Oracle

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:15:00 EST

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

HTC Buying Dashwire

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:00:00 EDT

It’s ostensibly to strengthen HTCSense.com’s hand in mobile cloud services since the five-year-old company’s Dashworks platform offers mobile and web applications for setting up and personalizing smartphones and tablets, and synchronizing content across multiple devices. However, it’s suspected HTC, currently in a multi-front wrestling match with Apple over Android, wants Dashwire at least as much for its patents. Dashwire bought patents off of Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures back at the beginning of April but only for defensive purposes.

Apple Chases Samsung Tab Out of Oz for the Moment: Bloomberg

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:45:00 EDT

Samsung has agreed to pull its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 off the Australian market and cease advertising the thing pending a decision from the Australian Federal Court hearing Apple’s “look and feel” patent infringement complaint.

US Leaves Its Youngest Citizen Behind in Syria

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:00:00 EDT

Yesterday (Sunday) AP reported that "State Dept. issued travel warning on Syria" and this morning (Monday) Reuters filed a follow-up report that "US offers free flights out for employees in Syria." As of this morning, and since July 2010, my abducted daughter Sofia Kircaali, a US citizen, remains in Syria and in harm's way. On Friday, I watched videos on the Internet showing violence inside a mosque one block away from where Sofia currently lives with her mother and grandmother.

Google To Show Off ‘ChromeBook’

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST

Google is supposed to unveil a beta Chrome OS on a generic Atom-based netbook Tuesday and put the Google-branded thing into limited circulation in the run-up to a commercial product next year. Reportedly no more than 65,000 of this first-stab widget will be made as an appeal to developers.

Cloud Expo Sponsor Logicworks Betas infiniCloud

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:45:00 EST

Enterprise hosting provider Logicworks is beta testing a cloud computing service targeted at sophisticated commercial and enterprise-level projects. It's called infiniCloud and the beta will run through the end of the year, with release to follow in January. It's an on-demand service priced familiarly according to RAM-hour, storage and bandwidth utilization combined with managed services purchased à la carte at fixed monthly rates. Logicworks president Kenneth Ziegler claims cloud computing has so far been used mostly as a testing and development medium or a way to offload non-critical applications or content. "When we talk about moving ‘real apps' into the cloud, we're targeting profit centers like prime time media sites, financial and healthcare applications, massive multi-player online games, and e-commerce. There is a real need in the marketplace for blending dynamic cloud computing and managed hosting for high-performance applications. We've built our managed cloud services to address this need, starting with infiniCloud."

JavaOne May Be Dead

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:15:00 EDT

Google has pulled out all 17 of its presentations from the upcoming JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Yes, it's because of that lawsuit. This is what Reuters has to say about it.

Unless Oracle and Google will settle on their little issues, JavaOne may be dead. Or to say it properly, Java One will fork, bit it'll never be an event that would gather 10-12 thousands of ENTHUSIASTIC Java developers under the same roof. I'm still going there and, on return, will share with you what kind of vibe/energy I've experienced, if any.

I know this guy who should consider this as an opportunity and create large conference, an alternative to JavaOne. He knows how to do it.

In general, this Oracle/Google dispute may turn into a birth of a new language created by Google, which will make java obsolete like COBOL.

Now there are 17 empty slots to be filled with substitute speakers. I'm wondering who's going to be a substitute presenter for the annual Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter?

Application Virtualization and Software Licensing: Best Practices

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:30:00 EDT

SafeNet examines virtualization, its advantages, and why it is such a hot topic in the world of software licensing, digging deeper into the options available to ISVs and presents best practices for handling software licensing in virtual environments.

Jonathan Schwartz Gets a Part-Time Gig

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:15:00 EDT

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s pig-tailed former CEO, the guy who ostensibly sold the company to Oracle, has joined the board of Taleo, the $200 million-a-year California company with the cloud-based on-demand talent management solutions. Seems it must be a tough business to be in in the middle of a jobless recovery but the publicly traded Taleo claims to be on a “fast-growth trajectory.”

Oracle Surviving Sun Just Fine, Thank You

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 EDT

Oracle doesn't look like it's choking on Sun any. It beat the Street and its own projections Thursday when it reported its fiscal Q4 numbers. Revenue was up 39% and income was up 25%. That translates into a record 46 cents a share on $9.5 billion - 60 cents non-GAAP on expectations of 54 cents - with new software licenses up 14% to $3.1 billion. License updates and product support revenues were up 12% to $3.4 billion. Oracle estimates that Sun reduced its $3.3 billion operating income by approximately $100 million, including $176 million of amortization, and contributed about $400 million to non-GAAP operating income, which was up 26% to $4.4 billion.

Cloud-Chasing To Cost CA 1,000 Jobs

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:45:00 EDT

CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69. It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one, blames on expenses. So, apparently, does CA. Therefore, in the name of "profitable growth" and efficiency, it's going to terminate a thousand people, about 8% of its global workforce, to right-size for its new cloud computing strategy.

Our Flex Book is a Java Bestseller

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:45:00 EDT

Our new book "Enterprise Development with Flex " made the Amazon bestseller's list of ... Java books: See the list here. This list is refreshed every hour so I'm not sure what place you are going to find it at, but at the time of this writing it's #20. Help us to move up the list by doing you know what :)

Oracle Reports GAAP EPS of $0.23, Non-GAAP EPS of $0.38

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EDT

Oracle on Thursday announced fiscal 2010 Q3 GAAP total revenues were up 17% to $6.4 billion, while non-GAAP total revenues were up 18% to $6.5 billion. Excluding the impact of Sun Microsystems, Inc., which Oracle acquired on January 26, 2010, GAAP total revenue grew 7%. GAAP new software license revenues were up 13% to $1.7 billion, and up 10% to $1.7 billion excluding Sun. GAAP software license updates and product support revenues were up 13% to $3.3 billion, while non-GAAP software license updates and product support revenues were up 12% to $3.3 billion. GAAP operating income was down 5% to $1.8 billion, and GAAP operating margin was 29%. Non-GAAP operating income was up 13% to $2.9 billion, and non-GAAP operating margin was 45%. GAAP net income was down 10% to $1.2 billion, while non-GAAP net income was up 9% to $1.9 billion. GAAP earnings per share were $0.23, down 11% compared to last year while non-GAAP earnings per share were up 9% to $0.38. GAAP operating cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis was $8.2 billion.

MySQL Ace To Run Eucalyptus

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Mårten Mickos, the guy who sold MySQL to Sun for a billion dollars, has got himself another company. Now all he has to do is find another sucker like Sun. Mårten, who wouldn't be Mårten without that cute little Finnish doohickey over his name, has been named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private cloud start-up. Woody Rollins, who was CEO, has morphed into the company's CFO. Since leaving Sun and MySQL last year, Mårten has been at Benchmark Capital, which backed MySQL, as entrepreneur-in-residence trying to spot his next opportunity. As it happens Eucalyptus is a Benchmark investment. Benchmark led its $5.5 million first round.

Dell Unveils Cloud Computing and Virtualization Solutions

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:15:00 EDT

Dell on Wednesday unveiled Intelligent Data Management solutions to help customers facing unprecedented challenges storing and managing data transform that information into a strategic asset. Applications for creating and consuming digital content, increased server virtualization, and computer-driven services are causing exponential data growth, particularly in unstructured data such as files, images and movies.

Download Windows 7 Now!

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:30:00 EST

Windows 7 is really different. It has more functionality, a better interface, and, if you keep it configured/managed, much better security than previous Microsoft operating systems. Here is another fact about Windows 7: It is coming to your enterprise, sooner or later. And, since its functionality/features/security are an improvement over XP and older systems and since many of the issues with Vista seem to have been addressed, I think we should be accelerating Windows 7 into the enterprise. Related posts:

How to Prevent Flex Numeric Nulls From Turning to Zeros in BlazeDS

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST

This article offers a solution for handling of null values for numeric data types in Flex/Java projects. Currently, every time there’s a Flex/Java update, we end up replacing the original nulls with zeros when the user didn’t actually change that value. This article ia a silver bullet for handling numeric nulls.

IBM Betas Test & Dev Cloud Computing

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:45:00 EST

It’s called plainly enough IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and will provide compute and storage as a service with Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere middleware and Information Management database thrown in. IBM is beta testing a public cloud, based on customizable virtual machines, for application software development. It’s called plainly enough IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and will provide compute and storage as a service with Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere middleware and Information Management database thrown in.

Free Virtual Appliance for Cloud Computing

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:15:00 EST

up.time represents a quantum leap forward for companies that need to drive both IT performance and cost-savings, while ensuring a consistent quality of service. The technology provides IT managers with an unobstructed view of the datacenter to efficiently manage distributed applications and global services levels, while maximizing enterprise-wide IT resources. The solution's ability to provide dashboards that deeply monitor, measure, and manage IT infrastructure and applications in virtual, physical and Cloud environments, as well as across multiple/remote locations, platforms, databases, and more has helped hundreds of customers achieve new levels of performance and immediate cost savings.

Adaptivity “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of Cloud Expo

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Adaptivity's CEO Tony Bishop will be offering major thought leadership in a Morning Keynote.

MySQL Marks a Milestone

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:45:00 EST

The MySQL developer community has announced "a Milestone release", 5.5.0 of the popular open source, relational database software. The release it says are of beta quality but leaves scope for more frequent subsets releases of tested functionality akin to JBoss and OpenSuse who follow a similar release model. Users are encouraged to test the MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2, code-named "Betony" but are also cautioned that MySQL Server 5.5-M2 isn't production ready yet .

Continuous Integration in Cloud Computing

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Continuous Integration topic launched today on Ulitzer. Continuous integration describes a set of software engineering practices that speed up the delivery of software by decreasing integration times. Ulitzer is a "new media" social journalism platform that revolutionizes how we create, deliver, and consume content on the Web. Ulitzer authors can get started with their first article in a few minutes and may start a new "Topic" on any subject or write a story and post it both to their Ulitzer author page and to any existing Ulitzer topic.

Sun Microsystems Releases NetBeans IDE 6.8

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST

With complete Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3 support, the NetBeans IDE 6.8 makes language and platform improvements easily available to developers and helps accelerate application development. The NetBeans IDE 6.8 enables developers to take advantage of the latest Java EE 6 language features that simplify Java application creation, including POJO-like development, more annotations and less XML configuration. Additionally, developers can easily target and deploy to GlassFish v3, including the new lightweight GlassFish v3 Web Profile

rPath Offers Eight Safe 2010 Predictions They Can't Miss

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:45:00 EST

rPath announced “Eight IT Predictions for 2010,” an animated short video that offers a lighthearted view of what the future holds for enterprise IT. The video is available now at http://bit.ly/6lCjug. “For many organizations, 2009 was a painful year,” said Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for rPath. “But in IT, pain usually precedes progress, and that’s what we’re forecasting for 2010 — progress borne of necessity and informed by the struggles of 2009. For 2010, we’ll see many of the lessons of a down economy play out in the form of fundamentally leaner approaches to enterprise IT.”

Citrix XenServer Helps Rankin County Go Virtual

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:30:00 EST

Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that Rankin County, which ranks among the top 10 percent of fastest-growing U.S. counties, has deployed Citrix XenServer to upgrade, consolidate and maintain the county's server infrastructure. XenServer is an open and powerful server virtualization solution that helps reduce datacenter costs by transforming static and complex datacenter environments into more dynamic, easy to manage IT service delivery centers. The IT team for Rankin County, Mississippi serves more than 20 departments across disparate locations. Technology support across the county includes the 911 emergency call center, police officers on patrol and county government officials. Running out of space in the county's server room and faced with aging hardware, Rankin County needed a way to make room for more servers to support the county's IT needs while maintaining services around the clock. In response, the Rankin County Board of Supervisors funded a virtualization project that uses Citrix XenServer to provide a way to upgrade and update mission-critical server applications without any service outages or downtime.

Red Hat Open Sources SPICE

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST

Red Hat has open sourced SPICE, the proprietary Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment hosted virtual desktop protocol that it got when it bought the Israeli KVM start-up Qumranet last year. SPICE is a key to Red Hat’s Virtualization for Desktops product now in private beta. It deploys the desktops from the Linux server and dynamically customizes the instances currently either XP or Windows 7 images as well Red Hat’s own Linux.

Actuate to Buy Xenos for $35.8m

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST

The combined company is supposed to expand the market opportunity for the BIRT Web 2.0 development environment by transforming content and structured data into BIRT-based Rich Information Applications (RIAs). Xenos, which has got a string of 350 brand name customers, including 170 of the Global 1000, provides a scalable Xenos Enterprise Server that extracts, transforms, repurposes and personalizes data and documents culled from clients’ supply chains for storage, real-time access, e-presentment, printing and delivery in numerous formats across multiple channels.

The First Full-Function, Cloud-Based Desktop as a Service

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of a new cloud-based Desktop as a Service for educational institutions. Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group are now offering a secure, cost-effective computing solution delivered anytime, anywhere via the Internet that provides a rich, virtual desktop experience for all leading Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to nearly any client device, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms with Java-based browsers.

Google Open Sources its JavaScript Tools

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. Well, Google says the Closure widgetry is a key part of the JavaScript infrastructure behind its web apps. And the more web apps, the more of a headache for Microsoft and its ilk.

Vordel Appoints Spike Reply as Partner

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Vordel’s products provide governance, acceleration, integration, and security for SOA and Cloud Computing. Spike Reply has established a SOA Center of Excellence division to assist its Customers exploit the opportunities presented by adopting a SOA-based approach to their business processes. Built on a bedrock of products from leading vendors, Spike Reply is delivering on its goal of enabling its customers build agile enterprises responsive to increasingly competitive and arduous trading conditions.

Amazon Web Services Database in the Cloud

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing users to focus on their application and their business. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use. Also announced today, AWS has lowered prices and introduced a new family of High-Memory instances for Amazon EC2. To get started using Amazon RDS, and other Amazon Web Services, visit http://aws.amazon.com.

100 Hottest Skills in Today’s Online Labor Market

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:21:00 EDT

While recent industry reports indicate that technology job losses rose in the last quarter to five percent, Elance reveals a more promising outlook showing that hiring tech contractors online is growing, with overall hiring on Elance in October up 46% compared to a year ago. The company released its October “Elance Work Index” ranking the hottest 100 skills in today’s online labor market

Cloud Computing Journal: Adobe to Deliver ColdFusion in the Cloud

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Alagad announced it is collaborating with Adobe Systems to help develop a Cloud-based implementation of the Adobe ColdFusion software. The collaboration will enable customers to rapidly deploy and test ColdFusion 9 without installing or configuring the software on-premise. ColdFusion 9 is the latest release of the development technology for building dynamic websites and Internet applications. Alagad’s team worked with Adobe to create a private beta of ColdFusion 9 that can be deployed in minutes via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Cloud Security on Ulitzer - Nothing New But It Changes Everything

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) this coming November 2-4, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. His session will be entitled “Cloud Security – It’s Nothing New, It Changes Everything!”

Tactical Cloud Computing Panel at 1st Annual GovIT Expo

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EDT

I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, 2009.

As Technical Chair of this conference, my goal has been to provide useful and actionable information to the conference attendees. While the industry has engaged in a rigorous discussion around "enterprise" cloud computing, information on tactical or deployable cloud computing possibilities has been scarce. To address this, I've asked Dataline partners to join me and share their views on this issue.

Tactical Cloud Computing refers to the use of cloud computing technology and techniques for the support of localized and short-lived information access and processing requirements. Use cases could include:

“Cloudbursting” to support cyclic data processing requirements
Establishing a cloud-based collaboration environment in order to coordinate firefighting resources during a wildfire
Virtually binding shipboard IT infrastructures in order to create a battlegroup infrastructure-as-a-service platform
Virtually binding land vehicle based servers and storage resources into a battlefield data center
Dynamic provisioning of virtual cloud-based servers in order to automate exploitation and dissemination of unmanned air vehicle (UAV) streaming video feeds
This discussion panel will explore how defense, homeland security and law enforcement organizations are looking to leverage this new and exciting IT capability.

Please register and join us for this unique opportunity. First 50 registrants are eligible for a VIP pass !!

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Ray DePena Launches Salesforce.com Journal on Ulitzer

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:00 EDT

Salesforce.com Journal Ray DePena launched today Salesforce.com Journal on Ulitzer. De Pena worked at IBM for the past 13 years in various senior global roles in programs, marketing, and business development. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a B.B.A. from the City University of New York at Baruch College. Mr. DePena was born and raised in New York City, and now lives with his wife and three children in Sacramento, California. Salesforce.com Journal offers breaking news, articles, opinion pieces on Salesforce.com SaaS platform.

Visual Studio IDE Productivity Tools

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:00:00 EDT

DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. CodeRush for Visual Studio® .NET helps you create sophisticated code blocks in seconds and extend code templates instantly. CodeRush completes identifiers as you type and expand or contract selections logically. With CodeRush, you will be able to instantly place selected code inside Try/Catch blocks, Regions and your own custom wrappers with ease. You can even reverse the logic of selected code and revisit important points within your code instantly (and effortlessly swap between locations).

Interviewing Java Developers With Tears in My Eyes

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:30:00 EDT

During the last week I had to interview five developers for a position that required the following skills: Flex, Java, Spring, and Hibernate. Most of these guys had demonstrated the 3 out of 10 level of Flex skills even though each of them claimed a practical experience on at least two projects. But this didn’t surprise me – Flex is still pretty new and there is only a small number of developers on the market who can really get Flex things done. What surprised me the most is a low level of Java skills of most of these people. They have 5-8 years of Java EE project behind their belts, but they were not Java developers. They were species that I can call Robot-Configurator. Each of them knew how to configure XML files for Spring, they knew how to hook up Spring and Hibernate and how to map a Java class to a database entity. Some of them even knew how to configure lazy loading in Hibernate even though not all understood why it’s needed.

BMC Software Enters Enterprise Cloud Computing

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:45:00 EDT

BMC is working with IT organizations and service providers to bring the same level of service management capabilities, automation and control expected from their physical and virtual environments to their cloud initiatives. These customers are finding that the core capabilities found in BSM – including Service Automation, Service Support, Service Assurance, Service Optimization, and the Atrium platform – can be used to do the following:

Forget Cloud Computing, Let's Talk About Ed Zander

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:30:00 EDT

Yet I spent too many years writing, publishing, and producing for Sun to let this deal go uncommented upon. The relationship started when we shook hands and signed a deal with Ed Zander to acquire an in-house magazine on the day the Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Bay Area (I was with IDG at the time).