This article is a transcript from a recorded conversation I had with Anatole
Tartakovsky and Victor Rasputnis – my business partners at Farata Systems.
This conversation took place on the mountain after the day of skiing.
Yakov. 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 applications
work in a well known and predictable run-time environment called Flash
Player. The code is compiled and you have convenient tools for development.
Flex is undergoing “Under New Management” transformations these days.
Even though Flex remains the best framework for development of Web
applications, you can feel the pressure of HTML5. But using just HTM... (more)
F5 Networks on Tuesday announced that the latest release of the F5 BIG-IP
product family has been certified by ICSA Labs as a network firewall, helping
customers protect their public-facing websites from today’s massive cyber
attacks. The newly certified solution handles eight times more traffic at the
same cost of the closest competitor’s solution.
“F5 provides an entirely new and more intelligent approach for defending
public-facing web properties and DNS services against harmful attacks,”
said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management at F5. “Many of the
world’s largest... (more)
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 to
try to track. One of the greatest projects at the ASF is Hadoop, a capability
that may turn out to be the greatest innovation of the century. I have been
accused of hyperbole for emphasis in the past, so please dig into the facts
of this capability and judge for yourself. As for me, something that... (more)
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Two groundbreaking
initiatives, aimed at realistically achieving the once-unthinkable goal of
ending new HIV infections among children by the end of 2015, were launched
simultaneously at the World Economic Forum's Annual Conference in Davos
today.
The Business Leadership Council for a Generation Born HIV Free was launched
together with a Social Media Syndicate that is designed to reach billions of
people around the world, getting them to join in action to take the number of
HIV-infected births from 390,000 a year to zero within 4... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Connect, produced by UBM
TechWeb, today announced fresh program elements for this year's event
including new tracks around Big Data and Mobile, and the Carrier Cloud Forum.
In addition, CloudNOW, a nonprofit group of women in cloud computing, will
host their first annual CloudNOW Awards during Cloud Connect. As the
premier technology event for cloud computing, featuring the latest
technologies, strategies and innovations within cloud, Cloud Connect will
take place February 13-16, 2012 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Sa... (more)
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