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 Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced the availability of Adobe® CQ Cloud Manager, a Software-as-a-Service application that provides enterprises the ability to easily and quickly launch marketing initiatives in the cloud. With CQ Cloud Manager, part of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, d...May. 15, 2012 02:03 AM EDT Reads: 649 |
 The opportunity for today’s IT leaders is to transform IT by leveraging the new ecosystem of services that liberate IT from a technology focus to an information and innovation focus.
In his general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Rich Taggart, Lead Partner at SHI, will ...May. 8, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,903 |
 About six years ago I wrote a blog titled “I have no idea what Web 2.0 means“. That blog had link to a video where IT leaders were helplessly trying to explain what Web 2.0 means. One guy said something like this, “Everyone wants to do it, and you can’t find e...May. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,697 |
 With so many cloud offerings in the marketplace, how are you supposed to understand the differences, let alone pick the right ones to meet your specific needs? And while many of your applications may be a good fit for "the cloud," how will you evaluate which cloud offering will be the ...May. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,787 |
 This week in an interview with me, SAP's Head of Mobility, Sanjay Poonen predicted that by 2015, 50% of enterprise mobility applications would be HTML5 based. In another interview I conducted this week with Sencha's CEO, Michael Mullany, he predicted that by 2014, 50% of enterprise mo...Apr. 28, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,385 |
 Managed Services Providers face a variety of challenges. They struggle trying to sell an intangible and invisible service. Quoting Harry Beckwith, author of the book “Selling the Invisible”: ‘You can’t see them – so how do you sell them? That’s the problem with services.’ However some...Apr. 26, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 812 |
 Adobe launched Creative Suite 6 Monday, the latest version of its flagship software kit for designers and web developers, and made it subscription-based, part of the company’s Creative Cloud.
Pricing starts at $50 a month for a year’s commitment or $75 a month with no contract. Exist...Apr. 25, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,349 |
 Opsview, the IT monitoring software provider, has announced the launch of Opsview Enterprise V4 designed to help organisations more effectively monitor and improve the performance of their increasingly complex IT infrastructures. Opsview Enterprise V4 combines the latest data visualisa...Apr. 24, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 681 |
 Amazon is overhauling its partner program.
It’s starting a public beta of a new global AWS Partner Network (APN) that’ll provide members of its ecosystem with technical information as well as sales and marketing support to accelerate their Amazon cloud business.
Membership is divid...Apr. 23, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,438 |
 I am on my favorite soapbox - "standards" - standards around form filling. Generally speaking, no discussion of standards could be complete without an assessment of the state of play of the not so humble Adobe Portable Document Format or as most of us know it, PDF. I debated the merits...Apr. 20, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 879 |
 We all know that cloud computing can save time, money, and apparently all but does your laundry for you, but what are its real-use applications?
In her session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Victoria Kouyoumjian, Senior Business and Technology Strategist at Esri, will showcase...Apr. 20, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,793 |
 SDN technologies provide network owners and operators better control over their networks, allowing them to optimize network behavior to best serve their customers' needs. While networking technologies continue to evolve, the ONF believes that more rapid innovation is needed.
"Applica...Apr. 16, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 841 |
 Rather than pay a cash dividend, which is culturally repugnant to so-called growth stocks, Google said late Thursday, after posting better-than-expected results, that it would repay its stockholders, who must be dizzy from all its up and down movement, by giving them more non-voting st...Apr. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,216 |
 The fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) is been slung around by profiteers like folding chairs at a WWE event. The haters are still being haters. Nothing new there. But now I see JavaScript companies’ desperate pleas for Flex developers to …Apr. 12, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,483 Replies: 1 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced new predictive marketing capabilities within the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, reducing the complexity of uncovering hidden behavioral patterns in big data. These advancements will help marketers more quickly sort through an increasing amount o...Apr. 11, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,542 |
 The open source landscape has evolved into a complex maze of licenses and business models. To make matters more confusing, any simple meaning of the phrase “open source” has become lost amid a sea of ambiguous and arcane terminology. As a result, many software developers fail to recogn...Apr. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,198 |
 HTC Monday licensed patents from Intertrust Technologies, which has developed a trove of fundamental DRM and so-called trusted distributed computing IP.
Then it went a step farther than other Intertrust licensees and bought 20% of Intertrust’s SyncTV subsidiary for an undisclosed sum...Apr. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,616 |
 Not that I don’t like social networks, but I see no use for them in my personal life. I use Twitter for business reasons mainly, like advertising my upcoming training “JavaScript for Java Developers“, which doesn’t prevent me from posting a photo of two salmon h...Apr. 2, 2012 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,121 |
 It has been reported that one third of the world’s top 100 websites have already adopted HTML5, a percentage we expect to grow with the ever-increasing amount of traffic coming from smartphones and tablets and, more importantly, the amount of conversions and revenue-bearing transaction...Mar. 31, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,223 |
 Many companies have moved applications to the cloud as a way to reduce capital expenditure while improving IT focus and effectiveness. End users see the cloud as a way to access their documents and applications remotely from anywhere and from any device. IT managers see the cloud as a ...Mar. 28, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,839 |
 Design patterns were not born equal. Some of them are boring, while others are special. Do you remember your feelings after learning what the Data Transfer Object is? Don’t remember? Of course – cause you didn’t have any special feelings about it other than “It&...Mar. 27, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,094 |
 MapR Technologies, the Hadoop start-up, says it’s got a “comprehensive set of data connection options for Hadoop enabling a wide range of data ingress and egress alternatives for customers.” Fancy vocabulary that.
It means direct access from databases, files, data warehouses and appl...Mar. 26, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,449 |
 With the new release of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition you have Beta support for the Firefox 11 browser and therefore you can test the performance of your Web sites with the latest available Browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft.
The AJAX Edition now supports Firefox 10, 11 and Internet Exp...Mar. 22, 2012 02:18 PM EDT Reads: 1,137 |
 The world has changed dramatically for organizations that use web-enabled business applications in enterprise environments. The complexities of modern applications, which include multi-tiered, globally distributed architectures, SOA and a host of other new technologies, have forced maj...Feb. 7, 2012 02:31 PM EST Reads: 6,865 |
 There are many ways of creating Web applications and creating them for the enterprises is not the same as developing a Web site for a pizzeria in your neighborhood. During the last five years we’ve been using mainly Adobe Flex for development of the front end of Web applications. Flex ...Jan. 27, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,395 |
 SmartBear Software has unveiled LoadComplete 2.0, the latest version of the company's load testing tool for Web applications. Featuring new support for rich Internet applications (RIAs), LoadComplete 2.0 now makes it easy to create and run realistic load tests, without scripting, for w...Dec. 8, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,700 |
 After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Adobe has abandoned its Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately t...Nov. 23, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 5,208 |
 In the fashion of the times Adobe is building a cloud and in the fashion of Adobe it’s called the Creative Cloud.
Adobe calls it a major “transformative” new initiative. It’s meant to sell classic Adobe desktop and newfangled tablet applications.
Adobe’s got a half-dozen cross-plat...Oct. 12, 2011 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,194 |
 Back in the seventies, I’d been taking entry exams to the Kiev Politechnic Institute (KPI). I lived in the Ukraine, which was a part of the Soviet Union. At that time people of Jewish descent had a really hard time getting into most of the colleges and universities. Typically, there ...Sep. 1, 2011 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,303 |
 AIR has joined Adobe Reader in the dustbin of Adobe products on Linux.
According to figures gathered by Netmarketshare that Adobe uses to justify its decision to terminate AIR on desktop Linux, desktop Linux accounts for less than 1% of the market.
More important – from Adobe’s poi...Jun. 20, 2011 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,809 |
Adobe offers Customer Experience Enterprise Platform that includes Flash, Flex, HTML, PDF, designer’s tools, workflow servers, data services, tools for all major mobile platforms, marketing campaigns in social networks, usage analytics, friendly content management system. Adobe becomes... Jun. 20, 2011 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 3,899 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated on Thursday announced that Adobe SocialAnalytics, a new application within the Adobe Online Marketing Suite, powered by Omniture®, is now in a worldwide beta program. Unveiled earlier this year, Adobe SocialAnalytics goes beyond social monitoring and aggregat...May. 19, 2011 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,106 |
 Adobe quietly stopped supporting the thinly used Linux desktop last June, a development noticed by only a few like a smarting IBM, which reportedly has – or at least had – 16,000 Linux desktops inside. In the next couple of months Adobe is supposed to stop supporting AIR for Linux even...Apr. 24, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,152 Replies: 1 |
 More than a year ago, Sofia was abducted from her home in Lighthouse Point, Florida, by her Syrian National uncle, who is practicing medicine in the Chicago area. Last March, a Florida judge issued an order to pick Sofia up from the uncle's house in Chicago and return her to her home t...Apr. 11, 2011 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,542 |
Adobe is about to release Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 – both are sharpened for the mobile development. On May 3rd you’ll get the version supporting Android, and the June’s release will support iOS. In other words, developers will be able to create standalone AIR applications for A... Apr. 11, 2011 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 5,240 |
 After taking heavy fire from Steve Jobs over Flash, Adobe Tuesday ran up a white flag and produced a so-called experimental Flash Professional-to-HTML 5 automatic conversion tool called Wallaby so Flash files can run on Apple’s otherwise forbidden iPad and iPhone.
It will work initia...Mar. 14, 2011 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,907 |
 During the MAX 2010 conference, it was clear that Adobe was shifting its focus from Flash Player to HTML producing tools. At that conference, the announcement about the acquisition of Day Software was made without much fanfare. Oh well, it’s just another Content Management System (CMS)...Feb. 22, 2011 12:02 AM EST Reads: 5,456 |
 Every time I meet up with web developers, either through a customer engagement or when I am giving a presentation about web performance optimization, I ask this question: Who is using Firefox and who is using Internet Explorer as the main browser? The answer is easy to guess. I hardly ...Dec. 29, 2010 09:30 AM EST Reads: 6,067 |
 Original Software, the Application Quality Management (AQM) and Automated Software Quality (ASQ) vendor, has announced the release of its latest version of TestDrive, an agile test automation solution, and TestDrive-Assist, a dynamic manual testing solution.
Version 7 is in direct res...Dec. 21, 2010 12:04 PM EST Reads: 3,207 |
 This week, stalwart packaged applications software vendor Adobe announced the availability of its Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure. It’s a move that should be good for both companies but one that also raises a few questions.Dec. 20, 2010 09:00 AM EST Reads: 5,830 |
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