Showing posts with label Windows Server 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Server 2012. Show all posts

October 03, 2012

Windows Server 2012 Delivers Data Virtualization in Delightful Ways
Microsoft describes Windows Server 2012 as something that was “built from the cloud up.” Many of the design decisions are a reflection of fundamental shifts on how IT operates while aligning to a strategic grand unification of the Windows core that has been going on for over a decade.


How to Prosper During Change
Contrary to how many people view and respond to change in the workplace, it’s been my experience that periods of organizational adjustment typically represent big fat beach balls of opportunity for those willing to pitch in and help.


The Day the QA Department Died
 Many QA Engineers are moving from Software Quality Assurance to quality checking positions involving programming and developer testing. The QA team is changing and integrating into a cross-functional team. The walls are coming down.


Why you may want to consider how much you compliment
“What we are saying,” Stern explains, “is that with CEO status, the greater the status, the more flattery and opinion conformity will be directed towards the CEO. And the more flattery and opinion conformity directed at the CEO, the greater the CEO’s self-enhancement.


Decade of the CSO
So on the 10th anniversary of CSO's launch, let's raise our glasses and toast the Decade of the CSO. Security leadership existed before us, and it will continue after, but this has been a magnificent decade to have front-row seats to watch security mature and fight for its place.


Microsoft TypeScript: Can the father of C# save us from the tyranny of JavaScript?
This isn't one man's vision of how to change the products of one company with the objective of selling more of that one company's product. This is about how to change JavaScript - a tool that reaches way outside of Microsoft's sphere of influence and into the heart of the open development community.


Startup unveils cloud-based IPv6 service
Using the software-as-a-service model, 6connect offers IP address management, DNS and Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) functionality typically purchased in the past as a special-purpose appliance or server-hosted software package.


Building a JavaScript WebSockets Client
Create a JavaScript client that works with a WCF 4.5 WebSockets service to receive continuous, ongoing updates from the service.


Big Data's Biggest Obstacles
Big Data can allow us to see and predict human behavior objectively. What starts small for instance, seeing through data how people really eat and move can become massive such as overhauling the health care system to address real behavior. But, there are many obstacles to getting to a good place with it. Here are some of them:

Oracle finally releases pricing for cloud software offerings
While not giving a public price for every one of its cloud products, Oracle's website now has pricing for its on-demand database and Java development service, as well as for some applications.



Quote for the day:

"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." -- Richard M. Nixon

July 10, 2012

Design Your Company, Not Your Product
There's a new wave of entrepreneurs who believe the real key to long-term success comes from focusing on designing the company--not the product. That means establishing a solid company philosophy, fostering cooperation and friendliness among the staff ...


MData – Using interfaces as domain model
In MData, all entities in the domain are defined as interfaces. This means MData uses the ‘POCO principle’ by default. The advantage here is that the implementation of the actual properties/logic can be different in different layers of the domain.

Windows Server 2012 Release Preview: Compelling new features
Much easier DirectAccess deployment and a full-scale dynamic access control system are among the key benefits.


Information Technology Spending to Hit $3.6 Trillion in 2012, Report Says
Spending on public cloud services is expected to increase 20 percent, to $109 billion, from $91 billion in 2011. By 2016, Gartner said, this expenditure could nearly double, to $207 billion.

What a pitcher!’ How to turn failure into future success
So what is the purpose of failure? How can I learn from failure, instead of being wounded by it? And most importantly, what can I do about that yucky feeling in the pit of my stomach left behind by the failed pitch?


Venkat Subramaniam Thinks Functionally
In this .NET Rocks podcast, Venkat digs into the idea that functional programming is less about language and more about practice, exploring how C# can build functional code just as well as F#. The conversation also drills into the advantages of functional programming for parallelism ...


The Evolution of Targeted Attacks in a Web 3.0 World
Web 3.0 is the next stage of the internet. An internet for the machines where everything with an electric current running through it has an IP address and is communicating with other machines like it, without the need for human intervention. The machines will get to a point approaching artificial intelligence where they will learn about your likes, dislikes and needs, locations and associations and organize and present information to you from the web.

Feeling Blah About Work? Don't Blame Your Boss--Get Engaged
Show us a disengaged person, and we will show you lackluster performance, limited personal growth, and diminished rewards. Show us an engaged person, and it's just the opposite--high performance, accelerated personal growth, and inevitable success.

Level 3 London datacentre outage takes more than 50 businesses offline
A power failure in a Level 3 central London datacentre has knocked customers offline, including colocation provider Adapt


Big-data analytics – where next?
Companies that are able to effectively leverage big data will benefit from massive competitive advantages ... most are still struggling with collecting, analysing and interpreting traditional data, let alone big data ... Tesco was able to turn the data it collected into customer knowledge it could act on.



Quote of the day

"Data matures like wine, applications like fish" -- Andy Todd