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  • Alan Turing and the stage he set for computing

    Without Alan Turing's work, computers as we know them today simply would not exist, says Robert Kahn, co-inventor TCP/IP protocols. In a world without Turing, "the computing trajectory would have been entirely different, or at least delayed," he said.

  • Your IT security action plan for 2012

    Rather than a comprehensive list of everything an IT security organisation should plan on doing in the new year, I'm going to share with you some of the things that many probably haven't even considered for their 2012 action lists.

  • Top business applications for iPad

    So far, Apple has sold more than 3 million of its iconic iPads, making it the bestselling tablet on the market. A runaway success? Absolutely. But an out-of-the-box iPad can be a disappointment for business tasks. Its rudimentary word processor, email client, contacts directory and calendar are slim pickings, especially for those who want to use the device for work on the road.

  • Intel Itanium at a crossroads

    Intel reaffirmed its commitment to developing the Itanium processor, but also said it wants to grab market share with Xeon server chips in high-performance computing, where Itanium also plays.

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    As software becomes more complex, and demands the scalability of the cloud, IT's auto mechanic of today, the sysadmin, will disappear. Tomorrow's sysadmin will be more like a physician, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

  • Now is the time to buy a new mainframe

    Mainframe customers haven't always had much leverage to negotiate with Big Blue, but now may be the perfect time to strike a new contract with IBM.

  • Cisco and HP gear up for battle in data centre

    Cisco's foray into the server market has been talked about for some months now. What has not been so widely discussed is HP's attack on Cisco's territory with a new range of ProCurve switches - it all adds up to a tasty battle.

  • Get tough on telecommuting: 6 questions to ask before you say yes

    Proceed cautiously - teleworking can change office dynamics in ways you hadn't anticipated.

  • The LAN is 30

    The idea behind ARCnet - the first LAN - came to an engineer while he was eating a meatball sandwich.

  • CCTV moves online

    Video surveillance is an increasingly digital world, and now it's starting to link in with other IP-based security systems.

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COMPONENTS AND SOA

While service oriented architecture (SOA) has become a ubiquitous buzzword, the word component ? or object ? is not used as widely. Yet an effective SOA-based enterprise application relies on the use of well-defined, modular software components. What is a software component? For that matter, what, really, is an SOA?
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The WebEx Operational Support System

WebEx Communications developed the MediaTone Network, a global, dedicated infrastructure, to deliver 24x7x365 collaboration services to its large and increasing user community. The MediaTone Network resembles a modern telecommunications carrier and very large Internet Service Provider combined into one. In order to manage this infrastructure, WebEx employs a comprehensive Operational Support System (OSS) that touches and synchronizes every session, data path, and device comprising the service. This paper illuminates the process and benefits of the system while highlighting some of the important solutions in everyday use.
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GignoMDA - Generation of Complex Database Applications

Complex database applications feature a large amount of structural and content-related aspects, and with each project, these aspects either have to be implemented completely again or must be realized by adopting and adjusting available program code. Based on the MDA concept (Model-Driven Architecture), the GignoMDA Project aims at the enrichment of the automatic generation of complex 3-layer applications through the consideration of non-functional properties. Aside from the automation aspect, the optimal mapping of annotated UML models to multi-layer architectures plays a central role here. That means, our approach provides a single point of truth describing all aspects of database applications (e.g. database schema, project documentation, etc.) with a great potential of cross-layer optimization. These new cross-layer optimization hints as non-functional properties are a novel way for the challenging global optimization issue of multi-tier database applications.
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Scaling Business Applications with New Servers and Storage

Ninth-generation Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell/EMC CX3 UltraScale series storage arrays offer a world of choices through open management, interoperability, and virtualization. By embracing standards to help simplify operations, increase resource utilization, and scale out cost-effectively, these high-performance platforms grow scalable enterprise applications responsively and manage change flexibly.
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