• My Top Tech Predictions for 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-27 16:00:00
    Ruth Cheesley, MD, Virya Technologies offers her Top Tech Predictions for 2013 in "IT-Directory": Cloud-Based Phone Calls Further Enhancements To The Shopping Experience SEO Gets Personal Social Signals Take Priority Open Source is King Responsive Website Design Rising Apprenticeships Read on for details.

  • Magic Mirror: Top Trends Looking Forward into 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-26 16:00:00
    Michael Snow selects from the predictions the community of thinkers who publish their annual lists for the coming year: Geoffrey Moore: 2013 - The Year of Engagement JWT - THE TOP 10 TRENDS FOR MARKETERS Deloitte Top 10 Tech Trends for 2013 Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013 Forrester: 2013: THE YEAR OF DIGITAL BUSINESS Bill Chamberlin: HorizonWatching: 103 Digital Marketing Trends and Prediction Lists for 2013 <li28 Internet of Things (IoT) Trends and Prediction Articles for 2013 19 Gamification Trend Articles for 2013 Capgemini: CTO blog posts addressing the business and IT trends

  • How to Set Up a Hadoop Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones

    Updated: 2013-01-26 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 4 Solaris Sign in Register Password Help Membership types How to Set Up a Hadoop Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones Features Solaris DTrace MySQL Linux Exadata Hardware Sun Tape Top10 Virtualization Java Technology Security Trademarks Previous Next OTN Article by Orgad Kimchi January 26, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 4 This article starts with a brief overview of Hadoop and follows with an example of setting up a Hadoop cluster with a NameNode , a secondary NameNode , and three DataNodes using Oracle Solaris Zones . The following are benefits of using Oracle Solaris Zones for a Hadoop cluster : Fast provision of new cluster members

  • Smartphone Market Up 43% in 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-25 16:00:00
    "Another report released this week from industry research firm IDC also showed a growing smartphone market, but those increases were not as impressive as in the Strategy Analytics report. IDC said 545 million smartphones were shipped last year, representing a 10 percent growth over 2011. That contrasts with Strategy Analytics' tally of 700 million sold..."

  • Oracle VM 3.2

    Updated: 2013-01-24 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 4 Virtualization Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle VM 3.2 Features Solaris DTrace MySQL Linux Exadata Hardware Sun Tape Top10 Virtualization Java Technology Security Trademarks Previous Next Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 also now Available January 24, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 4 Oracle VM Release 3.2, a key component in Oracle�s desktop to data center virtualization portfolio , is now in , GA offering improved ease-of-use and more automated processes including full command-line support . Oracle VM Manager 3.2 offers unified virtualization management for Oracle SPARC T-Series Servers running Oracle VM Server

  • Getting the Most out of MySQL Enterprise Edition

    Updated: 2013-01-24 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 4 MySQL Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Getting the Most out of MySQL Enterprise Edition Features Solaris DTrace MySQL Linux Exadata Hardware Sun Tape Top10 Virtualization Java Technology Security Trademarks Previous Next Maximize Scalability , Security and Uptime January 24, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 4 Oracle's MySQL Enterprise , Edition according to Bertrand Matthelié , includes the most comprehensive set of advanced features , management tools and technical support required by users to assist in reducing the cost , risk and time to deploy and manage MySQL applications . His recent post includes a link to the

  • Oracle Releases Oracle Exalogic VM Templates

    Updated: 2013-01-24 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 4 Exadata Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Releases Oracle Exalogic VM Templates Features Solaris DTrace MySQL Linux Exadata Hardware Sun Tape Top10 Virtualization Java Technology Security Trademarks Previous Next Enable Rapid Provisioning of Oracle Applications January 24, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 4 Oracle Exalogic Oracle VM Templates featuring optimized application deployment practices are now available for the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3, Oracle�s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1, Oracle�s PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 and Oracle�s Siebel CRM 8.1.1.8 and 8.2.2. These are the first Oracle VM templates

  • Howto use PreRenderViewEvent on a component or any managed bean

    Updated: 2013-01-15 23:15:27
    JSF 2.0 introduced many events, one of it is javax.faces.event.PreRenderViewEvent. But there is a pitfall – listeners for this event are registered in application scope. Therfore one must be very carefull to not subscribe any UIComponent or managed bean as listener for PreRenderViewEvent. However, sometimes it’s required to do something during PreRenderViewEvent processing on a [...]

  • Suppress second execution of buildView() as performane improvement when using Facelets views

    Updated: 2013-01-14 21:58:24
    Since JSF 2.0 when using Facelets view definitions the component tree is built twice on postback requests, once in RESTORE_VIEW phase and once in RENDER_RESPONSE phase. The rebuild in the render phase is necessary in case the page author used conditional includes. On big views several hundred component build the component tree – this may [...]

  • Top Ten Articles for last few Issues

    Updated: 2013-01-13 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 2 IT Top 10 Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Top Ten Articles for last few Issues Solaris MySQL Linux Cloud Computing Exadata Storage Top10 Java Technology JavaFX Security Trademarks Previous Next Vol 179 Issue 1 Vol 178 Issue 1, 2,3 and 4 Vol 177 Issues 2, 3 and 4 January 13, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 2 See what the audience has found of most interest over the past few weeks Each week , we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last 8 issues . Vol 179 January 2013 Vol 178 December 2012 Vol 177

  • 10 Storage Predictions For 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-13 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 2 IT News Watch Storage Sign in Register Password Help Membership types 10 Storage Predictions For 2013 Solaris MySQL Linux Cloud Computing Exadata Storage Top10 Java Technology JavaFX Security Trademarks Previous Next CRN January 3rd , 2013 January 13, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 2 Cloud storage , flash storage , storage virtualization software , disaster recovery , and a whole host of technologies are no strangers to solution providers . However , 2013 will be a time of transition as customers seriously look at how to adopt and change those technologies to increase the performance , simplify the management , and squeeze the

  • 5 Data Center Trends For 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-13 16:00:00
    "Energy efficiency will continue to be a major focus of data center operations over the coming year, but that's not all we'll see," says Charles Babcock in "InformationWeek." "As 2013 opens with new prospects for data center operations, we'll see new looks at some old themes, especially around energy efficiency. Increased power costs and pressure from environmental groups will lead data center designers to look to new technologies to cut their traditional energy needs. But that's not all we'll see; here are five important trends you can expect to see gain strength in 2013..."

  • 10 most successful open source projects of 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-06 16:00:00
    Alan Shimel writes in "ITWorld", "It's that time when we look back at the year that was and speculate about what's in store for the next. This is my list of the top open source success stories for 2012..." Apache Hadoop MongoDB OpenStack Pentaho PostgreSQL Joomla WordPress DotNetNuke SugarCRM Audacity

  • 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-06 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 1 IT News Watch Technology Sign in Register Password Help Membership types 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013 News Training Solaris ZFS MySQL Linux Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC Top10 Virtualization Java Technology Trademarks Previous Next CIO December 18th , 2012 January 6, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 1 Which technologies and products will be put out to pasture in 2013 Some are no-brainers , some others might say are poised for a comeback and a couple might surprise you , writes John Brandon in CIO Legacy Applications Mobile Applications Traditional Desktops BlackBerry Smartphones Windows Phones Private Branch Exchange PBX

  • From zfsday 2012: Brendan Gregg on ZFS Performance Analysis and Tools

    Updated: 2013-01-04 16:00:00
    <img border=0 src="http://sun.systemnews.com/images/179/1/joyent_zfs_perf.png" align="right"At zfsday 2012, Brendan Gregg presented on the topic of ZFS performance analysis and tools. (The talk itself is available on YouTube.) Gregg describes the presentation as focusing on observability tools both old and new -- many based on DTrace -- and spanning performance analysis from the application level down through the kernel and the storage device level. Gregg referred to several DTrace scripts for ZFS analysis during the talk, drawing them either from the File System chapter of the DTrace book (also online at dtracebook.com), or from the fs directory of the dtrace-cloud-tools project, online at github/brendangregg.

  • Free Oracle VM Training for Sys Admins: January 15, 2013 and January 29, 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-04 16:00:00
    Oracle is offering free online training for sys admins in Oracle VM, Monica Kumar announces. The date for the Americas audience is Tuesday January 15, 2013, with various start times. For the EMEA audience, the date is Tuesday January 29, 2013, again with various start times. Kumar writes that this training will give registrants the opportunity to dirty their hands with the file systems, install images and management tools for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM in the setting of a proctored lab. Detailed agendas for the training and a Twitter hashtag for the event are available.

  • Top 10 Java Stories of 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-04 16:00:00
    The top 10 Java Stories of 2012 as reported by Tori Wieldt reflect the abundant number of developments in Java technology throughout the year. The stories cover everything from JavaFX to Java SE 8 to activities in the Java Community Process to the naming of six new Java Champions. Wieldt provides links to each of these most read stories, remarking that "2012 was the right mix of code, corporation, and community for Java."

  • Accelerate Oracle DB Startup and Shutdown with Solaris 11 vmtasks

    Updated: 2013-01-04 16:00:00
    Solaris 11.1 includes a number of new features, one of which, vmtasks, evoked the most interest from the Solaris user group to which Orgad Kimchi presented a review of the new release and provides a link to the slide deck. vmtasks, Kimchi reported, accelerates such shared memory operations as creation locking and destruction, thereby optimizing system uptime because Oracle DB startup and shutdown are much faster. According to Kimchi every application requiring fast access to shared memory can benefit from this feature.

  • MySQL Workbench 5.2.45 GA Released to GA

    Updated: 2013-01-04 16:00:00
    Version 5.2.45 of the MySQL Workbench GUI tool has been released to GA. This version contains the following significant updates: support for several new MySQL 5.6 features; import recordsets from CSV file for the Inserts editor in Modeling and in the SQL Editor; and improved trigger editor, along with 72 resolved bugs. MySQL Utilities 1.1.1 has been included on the distribution as well. A post by rennox includes links to downloads, binary and source packages, and documentation.

  • Object storage predictions for 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-04 16:00:00
    "Object storage is primed for growth, according to Mark Goros , CEO of Caringo, a provider of object storage software. Goros predicts 2013 will include a number of advancements and revelations in cloud services, Big Data analytics and mobility thanks to wider adoption of object storage..."

  • 10 Storage Predictions For 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-03 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 179 Issue 1 IT Storage Sign in Register Password Help Membership types 10 Storage Predictions For 2013 News Training Solaris ZFS MySQL Linux Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC Top10 Virtualization Java Technology Trademarks Previous Next CRN January 3rd , 2013 January 3, 2013, Volume 179, Issue 1 Cloud storage , flash storage , storage virtualization software , disaster recovery , and a whole host of technologies are no strangers to solution providers . However , 2013 will be a time of transition as customers seriously look at how to adopt and change those technologies to increase the performance , simplify the management , and squeeze the

  • 7 Enterprise Mobility Predictions For 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-03 16:00:00
    "Smartphones and tablets fueled the rise of BYOD in 2012, but better management of those devices is top of mind in 2013... The proliferation of user-owned smartphones and tablets across the workplace isn't going to stop, so it's likely BYOD-related terms will continue to pepper the IT lexicon a year from now. Many of the practices and technologies that surround these devices are primed for a shake-up, however. What will 2013 mean to enterprise mobility strategies? We break down seven trends to watch in the new year..."

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