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Cisco Beefs Up WebEx With $215 Million Acquisition of Email Startup PostPath

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:55:36 -0700

Cisco is getting into the Web e-mail game with a $215 million purchase of five-year-old PostPath. The company sells a Linux-based e-mail service to enterprises somewhat like Zimbra (which Yahoo bought for $350 million last year). PostPath is a fully functional in-browser Ajax client, and on the back-end it is trying to take on Microsoft Exchange.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Downloads

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:59:30 -0700

GlassFish and Java EE Downloads

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:54:23 -0700

Mark Logic: The Leading XML Content Platform

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:58:34 -0700

Riena

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:09:50 -0700

How much memory does MySQL Enterprise Monitor?s agent use?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:42 -0700

After last week’s post on agents versus agentless monitoring systems, I got a lot of email. One, from a customer whose name I am not permitted to mention, sent me the following action shot (posted with permission):

Over half a gigabyte; more than twice what MySQL itself is using. So, that raises an interesting question. How much memory would you say your server’s MySQL Enterprise Monitor agent uses? No bashing allowed, tell the truth. And please post if your agent runs in a small amount of memory, too.

Another thing I’m interested in: what factors contribute to the high memory usage? Under what conditions does it use a lot or a little? What can you expect, generally speaking?

On another note, I think it’s almost unfair not to mention the competition, so I will: I was playing with MONyog 2.6 recently and it started to use a lot of CPU. I think it might be architecture-specific (amd64 Ubuntu) but I can’t be sure. It was using 170% CPU on my dual-core system to monitor 2 instances.

monitoring, MONyog, mysql, MySQL Enterprise Monitor

Are Zimbra and Alfresco on Red Hat's shopping list? | Between the Lines

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:35 -0700

Ivar Jacobson | Process Improvement Services | Welcome

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:48:46 -0700

SpringSource Application Platform | SpringSource

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:03 -0700

Attensa Blog - Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Business Process Management meet Enterprise RSS

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:27:17 -0700

Liferay - Enterprise Open Source Portal

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:04:55 -0700

Openbravo Home Page - Web-based Open Source ERP

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:55:10 -0700

Open Source Queueing and Messaging Systems? (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:06:26 -0700

RabbitMQ - Open Source Enterprise Messaging

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:06:09 -0700

RabbitMQ - Open Source Enterprise Messaging

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:05:39 -0700

SnapLogic Open Source Data Integration Framework for SaaS Integration

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:06:21 -0700

Apple - Support - iPhone - Enterprise

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:06:07 -0700

Welcome — Ruby Enterprise Edition

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:05:31 -0700

Allows your Ruby on Rails applications to use 33% less memory on average, when used in combination with Phusion Passenger.

Is the Cloud Right for You? Ask Yourself These 5 Questions

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:06:02 -0700

Is cloud computing right for you? For the fledgling startup, the appeal of the cloud is obvious. Given how easily an entrepreneur’s vision can be stymied by a lack of technical and operations expertise, leveraging an Amazon EC2 or Google App Engine could provide the only viable option.

But what about large enterprises that not only have an in-house technical staff to do their bidding, but existing data centers and deep pockets? Stacey has already identified issues with some cloud providers, such as security, reliability and portability. However, assuming they are all resolved, are there compelling reasons for large enterprises to even be interested in cloud services? And if so, under what conditions?

In order to decide, the enterprise needs to ask these five simple questions:

1. Is demand constant? If demand is constant, dedicated resources in an enterprise data center are fine. Smooth, constant workloads mean that a fixed pool of servers can chug away 24/7, meeting utilization targets.

Unfortunately, very few enterprise applications have this kind of profile. Consider a retailer that does 80 percent of its annual business in the month following Thanksgiving Day. Fixed capacity engineered to peak would only be fully utilized during those four weeks, compared to utilization of slightly more than 2 percent during each of the other 11 months. In other words, its investment would go virtually untouched for more than 90 percent of the year. Try selling that to the finance committee. A cloud, on the other hand, can provide dramatic cost savings by offering access to scalable resources on a pay-per-use basis.

2. Is growth predictable? Even if demand isn’t constant, if growth is predictable, it can be managed in an enterprise data center. By building in lead times, one can place orders for additional capacity and rest easy that it will arrive in time, even by snail-mailing paper purchase orders for servers that get delivered by slow ships.

But when growth is unpredictable, the pay-per-use model of the cloud makes “cloud-bursting” — that is, leveraging cloud services to handle spikes — a more cost-effective option. Plus, with fixed capacity, it’s easy to make one of two fatal errors: Being overwhelmed by surprise demand can easily lead to poor performance or no service, resulting in the loss of both revenue and reputation. On the other hand, investing in capacity that remains idle can bankrupt a small company.

3. Can demand be shaped? Users today expect instant gratification, even from free services. While some demand can be shaped and smoothed – either by avoiding it, deferring it, or incenting it, via sales, promotions, queuing, congestion pricing, or variable pricing for yield management — some can’t.

If spiky demand can’t be shaped, on-demand scalability is indispensable. After all, how popular would Google be if a search request returned, “We’re kinda busy right now. How does next Tuesday around 2 pm work for you?”

4. Where are the users? If users are concentrated in a particular locale, they can be serviced by a single nearby data center (or two, for business continuity), but not if they’re scattered around the globe.

The only way to engineer today’s rich Internet application for a global community is to leverage a network of dispersed web, content and application servers. While building lots of data centers all over the world might have seemed like a good idea for enterprises a few years ago, a better option today is to consolidate enterprise data centers while simultaneously leveraging a cloud service provider with a global footprint.

5. Is the application interactive? There are still many applications out there that aren’t highly interactive, such as seismic analysis, circuit simulation and equity portfolio optimization. For them, geographic dispersion could be a negative, due to an inability to effectively partition the compute tasks into loosely coupled components.

However, for the tidal wave of emerging Web 2.0, AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, proximity to a service through geographically dispersed cloud resources is key as the client portion of the app has to make frequent round-trips to the server — in some cases on every keystroke. And for applications such as multipoint video collaboration, reducing hops and propagation delays between end points and cloud-based bridges is essential to creating a natural experience.

So for enterprises with smooth and predictable demand created by accommodating users who are willing to walk back across the street another day to process their batch jobs, clouds may be unnecessary.

But for enterprises pursuing emerging, shifting and uncertain global markets, with global supply chains or virtual enterprise partners and variable and unpredictable workloads coming from demanding users who want engaging, interactive interfaces, the cloud could be the right — perhaps even the best — option.

Key Question Enterprise Data Center Better Cloud Services Better Key Cloud Benefit 1) Demand 2) Growth 3) Fungibility of Demand 4) Users 5) Applications

Constant	Variable	Scalable and On-Demand
Predictable	Unpredictable
Deferrable or Promotable	Not Shapeable
Concentrated	Dispersed	Globally Dispersed to Reduce Latency
Batch	Highly Interactive	Globally Dispersed to Reduce Latency

Joe Weinman is Strategic Solutions Sales VP for AT&T Global Business Services. The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of AT&T.

Enterprise Service Bus — PushToTest

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:05:26 -0700

Great article discussing enterprise service networks, talking about folks migrating from WLI to Mule

TechScrawl.com

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:25 -0700

http://www.tinyerp.org/index.html

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:13 -0700

[from rugi] Enterprise Integration Patterns - Table of Contents

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:11:49 -0700

Patterns and Best Practices for Enterprise Integration

MediaWiki

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:13:37 -0700

Google Should Buy eXpresso

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:13:35 -0700

Like a lot of people, I had my problems with Google Apps this week. Sure, Google "feels my pain" but they also lost my confidence. And confidence is a delicate thing. What crashed for me was Spreadsheet. That has always been the weakest component for Google and the strongest for Microsoft. Excel rocks, its just a tad behind the times on collaboration.

But in this post we explain how Google could still win the spreadsheet game by buying eXpress Corp.

Let's look at the context. Google can win in Gmail and Document by getting Gears working. But the Spreadsheet problems go deeper and spreadsheets are mission critical. If you lose confidence its over. Today I got "Updating" in nice red letters, but that was still the same thing 10 minutes later. Then I got "We're back! Updating" and I thought, "phew". But still not working. My email (yes, in Gmail) to my collaborator read:

"forget about Google - they are having probs!

So here is good old fashioned xls"

The rule for start-ups - confidence takes a long time to win and a second to lose.

Google could win by buying eXpress Corp. We reviewed the product here. It is a natural bridge product for Google. They can get clients onto a collaborative Excel and then switch them to a mature all Google product when it is really ready for prime time.

Or Microsoft or Yahoo could buy eXpresso. No, I do not have any interest in eXpresso - I wish I did :-)

Then again, Google could just buy stronger Expresso and give it to their programmers and tell them to work harder and faster :-)

ABA Banking Journal - 2008: year of rich internet apps? (April 08)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:05:07 -0700

enterprise | RIA pedia - Rich Internet Applications - Its all about the user experience!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:05:07 -0700

New tool cracks most enterprise wireless LANs | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:05:10 -0700

FreeRADIUS - Wireless Pwnage Edition

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:05:10 -0700

Pen-testing tool that takes advantage of weaknesses in enterprise wireless authentication processses to extract credentials from unwitting users.

AppleInsider | HSBC bank may ditch BlackBerry for 200,000 iPhones - report

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:05:22 -0700

Likely just a negotiating tactic.