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By John Treadway
Okay – this is easy… or is it? Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true ...
May. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 817
By Bob Gourley
There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing enti...
May. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,559
By Hovhannes Avoyan
In the last post of the series, we saw how to use the Monitis JMX agent to collect JDBC connection pool metrics from JBoss. While the connection pool performance is often the most important thing to monitor, there are a multitude of other metrics available in JBoss that are worth explo...
May. 11, 2012 10:16 AM EDT  Reads: 235
By Lori MacVittie
Mega-sites like Twitter and popular browsers are all moving to support SPDY – but there’s one small glitch in the game plan… SPDY is gaining momentum as “big” sites begin to enable support for the would-be HTTP 2.0 protocol of choice. Most recently Twitter announced its support f...
May. 8, 2012 05:45 AM EDT  Reads: 601
By Bob Gourley
There is no excuse for the abuses we are learning about at GSA. We should all be bothered by the waste, fraud and abuse and I hope the government moves fast to correct the failures of leadership evident in these problems. Something else should bother us. The bad apples at GSA who eithe...
May. 2, 2012 10:58 AM EDT  Reads: 586
By Bob Gourley
Datameer provides a big data solution that focuses on perhaps the most important niche in this growing domain, the end-user. Here is an introduction from their website: Datameer leverages the scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of Apache Hadoop to deliver an end-user focuse...
Apr. 26, 2012 05:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,024
By Si Chen
The first proof of concept application is now available.  This new application is based on Apache Geronimo 3, OSGi Blueprint, and openJPA server side and HTML5/Javascript/CSS client side technologies.  Facebook integration is built into the application: You can try the opentaps v2 Note...
Apr. 4, 2012 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 954
By Bob Gourley
On January 19, Carahsoft hosted a webinar on Big Data success in government with Bob Gourley and Omer Trajman of Cloudera.  Bob began by explaining the current state of Big Data in the government.  There are 4 areas of significant activity in Big Data. Federal integrators are making la...
Mar. 31, 2012 03:30 AM EDT  Reads: 2,753
By Bob Gourley
Aside from keynotes and panels from federal and industry leaders in information technology, Carahsoft’s Government Big Data Forum also had two showcases to highlight the actual solutions available for dealing with massive amounts of complex data and getting the most out of it for your ...
Mar. 29, 2012 09:45 PM EDT  Reads: 782
By Hovhannes Avoyan
HBase is a distributed, NoSQL, open-source database, initially conceived as an open-source alternative to Google’s proprietary BigTable. Originally, HBase was part of the Hadoop project, but was eventually spun off as a subproject. Given this legacy, it is not surprising that mos...
Mar. 28, 2012 09:50 AM EDT  Reads: 1,073
By Hovhannes Avoyan
This is the third blog post in a series of blog posts about open source Content Management Systems (CMS). You can find the first two parts here (Part 1) and here (Part 2) . In the last article in this series we covered Xoops, Seotoaster, e107, Concrete5, and Typo3, five leading Conten...
Mar. 22, 2012 09:20 AM EDT  Reads: 2,542
By Hurricane Labs
The Ins and Outputs of TCPDUMP By: Nicholas Beris As a Network Engineer, I spend a lot of time on,...Read More
Mar. 20, 2012 04:12 PM EDT  Reads: 565
By Tieu Luu
I don’t get to do much development anymore these days but over the past couple months I have been spending some time learning and playing around with MapReduce and Hadoop.  Here’s a list of resources I found useful to help me get up to speed with this stuff. Conceptual Unde...
Mar. 19, 2012 10:46 AM EDT  Reads: 524
By Hovhannes Avoyan
February was the birthday of one of the most important Free&Open Source projects: the Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”), very often simply called Apache, or Apache webserver. The project was started 1995, and since April 1996 has become the most popular webserver on the Inte...
Mar. 19, 2012 06:49 AM EDT  Reads: 633
By Hovhannes Avoyan
Riak is a document oriented open-source database system. It is shaped by the Amazon Dynamo document and provides a decentralized key-value store that supports standard Get, Put and Delete operations. Riak is a distributed, highly scalable and fault-tolerant store with map/reduce, HTTP,...
Mar. 14, 2012 01:48 PM EDT  Reads: 1,313
By Bob Gourley
Another valuable pannel at the DC Cloudera Day was Todd Lipcon’s look into Hadoop management software Cloudera Manager available through Cloudera Enterprise. Cloudera is in the business of making Hadoop, the open source Big Data storage and analysis platform, easier for enterpris...
Mar. 7, 2012 01:36 PM EST  Reads: 782
By Bob Gourley
We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use (commercial and government).  
Mar. 5, 2012 03:30 AM EST  Reads: 3,123
By Bob Gourley
Police Departments nationwide have been using data and statistics to drive policing since the 90s in an approach founded by the NYPD named CompStat was credited with dramatic reductions in crime and increases in efficiency. CompStat, a process and philosophy rather than a single techno...
Feb. 28, 2012 04:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,773
By Udayan Banerjee
If you look at the predictions made for 2012, you will find a new entry which was not there last year. Be it Gartner, Forrester or McKenzie – “Big Data” finds a place in the prediction. So, what is big data? Is it the next path breaking technology which will change everything or is...
Feb. 15, 2012 05:00 AM EST  Reads: 2,077
By Archie Hendryx
Yearly prediction blogs are so clichéd hence why I’ve always tried to avoid writing one. Despite this I’ve always made a mental note of technology, products or companies that I thought were going to really do well in the upcoming year. Back in 2008 I felt VMware were going to really ta...
Feb. 13, 2012 09:30 AM EST  Reads: 1,050
By Bob Gourley
As you watch the video below you can form your own conclusions about this natural evolution of robotics.  But I’ll give you some of my opinions below the video: http://youtu.be/YQIMGV5vtd4 Now some context: As a technologist I would like to remind you all that every future use ca...
Feb. 2, 2012 12:31 PM EST  Reads: 390
By Bob Gourley
At Cloudera Day, Cloudera software engineed Todd Lipcon Delivered a Deep Dive on the Core of Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), detailing tweaks and planned improvements to the Hadoop core. Just a few days later, some of these planned improvements were impleme...
Jan. 31, 2012 11:00 AM EST  Reads: 569
By Peter Velikin
Typically, the Dog here usually thinks of Amazon as the place with all the items I could want on my Christmas wish list like the “Outward Hound Back Seat Pet Hammock” (I prefer mine in blue, thank you).  But thinking from the IT part of the IT Dog brain, there is a lot...
Jan. 30, 2012 09:00 AM EST  Reads: 160
By Hovhannes Avoyan
1. Integrate NGINX Monitoring into Monitis.com NGINX is one of the most popular new web servers out there. It is lightweight and powerful. But monitoring it is no small task. The statistics module that comes with NGINX is not reader friendly, so this post shows you how to monitor NGINX...
Jan. 29, 2012 05:29 AM EST  Reads: 246
By Bob Gourley
Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera’s Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is kn...
Jan. 28, 2012 08:12 AM EST  Reads: 852
By Hovhannes Avoyan
The Internet is a great resource, but it is sometimes too much to wade through hundreds of web pages looking for tips about using Tomcat with a database. So we at Monitis have done it for you! Below are some of the more useful tips found in various places on the Internet. Tip #1 – [......
Jan. 24, 2012 03:30 AM EST  Reads: 1,063
By Bob Gourley
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an all-volunteer group of developers, stewards and incubators of technology. They bring us many of the technologies powering our enterprises and consumer solutions and are continuing to innovate in ways that are absolutely amazing and enjoyable t...
Jan. 4, 2012 03:48 PM EST  Reads: 2,369
By Hovhannes Avoyan
1. Monitor Everything with Monitis – And do it easily with PowerShell – Part 12 This series has covered a dozen or so ways to use Monitis and PowerShell to monitor all kinds of IT services and metrics. This post shows how to add notification rules to the mix. That’s right, not on...
Dec. 17, 2011 05:23 PM EST  Reads: 1,076
By Chris Muir
As software applications grow, a common technique to reduce the complexity is to break the overall solution into separately built and deployed modules. This allows each component to be worked on independently without being overwhelmed with detail, though the cost of reassembling and bu...
Dec. 8, 2011 01:15 PM EST  Reads: 2,041
By Bob Gourley
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons learned and creative ideas for addressing Big Data challenges. The top five nominees and overall winner was announced at Hadoop World in New ...
Dec. 5, 2011 02:29 PM EST  Reads: 1,518
By Bob Gourley
The Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of “incisive analysis” has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted in response to a broad solicitation of inputs on a very interesting construct. They have embarked on a ne...
Oct. 8, 2011 11:08 AM EDT  Reads: 837
By Hovhannes Avoyan
Apache and MySQL make up the backbone of many Linux based web servers. According to the August 2011 Web Server Survey by Netcraft, Apache currently runs on 65.18% (or 301,771,518!) of web servers. Similarly, MySQL is the most popular open source database and holds a significant portio...
Aug. 30, 2011 04:30 PM EDT  Reads: 3,395
By Hovhannes Avoyan
This is another section that is broader than one would first imagine. There’s a reason that many large organizations employ dedicated database administrators. That said, this doesn’t prevent the average sysadmin from making some changes to enhance performance on their database. The ...
Aug. 30, 2011 02:57 AM EDT  Reads: 1,776
By Lori MacVittie
A recently discovered 0-day Apache exploit is no problem for BIG-IP. Here’s a couple of different options using F5 solutions to secure your site against it. It’s called “Apache Killer” and it’s yet another example of exploiting not a vulnerability, but a protocol’s behavior. UPDATE ...
Aug. 26, 2011 11:21 AM EDT  Reads: 2,470
By Bob Gourley
As a former enterprise CTO and current technology watcher, I was struck at the incredible brilliance of yesterday’s announcement by Dell and Cloudera. In a move that will help enterprises of all sizes serve a very wide range of missions, those two organizations have announced a n...
Aug. 7, 2011 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 4,171
By Bob Gourley
According to a review recently put out by the the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) was faced with a riddle. In recent years, violent crime and assaults on officers have been declining, training has been adapted to focus more on deescalatin...
Jul. 6, 2011 10:09 AM EDT  Reads: 2,590
By Yakov Fain
If you are developing a distributed application, you can’t get by with any single technology. You’re using at least one programming language and one or more frameworks. I work in the world that requires Adobe Flex and Java EE knowledge. To develop a front end I use, at a minimum, HTM...
Jun. 15, 2011 03:11 PM EDT  Reads: 4,676
By Hovhannes Avoyan
At Monitis, we strive to monitor and report high uptime and provide the best user experience for our customers. To achieve this goal, we are preparing a series of performance tuning tips that cover areas including Windows and Linux server performance and Javascript tuning. From a web ...
Jun. 13, 2011 04:26 PM EDT  Reads: 2,840
By Bob Gourley
Earlier, I wrote on the use of Hadoop in the exciting, evolving field of Bioinformatics. I have since had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ron Taylor of Pacific Northwest National Library, the author of “An overview of the Hadoop/MapReduce/HBase framework and its current applica...
Jun. 10, 2011 09:09 AM EDT  Reads: 3,900
By Raymond Feng
The Apache Tuscany team is pleased to announce the 2.0-Beta2 release of the Java SCA 2.0 project. Apache Tuscany/SCA provides a runtime environment based on Service Component Architecture (SCA), which is a set of OASIS specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. ...
Feb. 24, 2011 05:29 AM EST  Reads: 3,049