NoSQL Databases have generated  lots of buzz and debates these days. Some of the industry leaders claiming that NoSQL is nothing really new and others arguing the benefits of NoSQL databases. Whatever the outcome of these debates is, the fact is that NoSQL is a hot topic today…. and Google Trends confirms this. During the… Read the full post

Python is a powerful programming language with exceptional support for large variety of content management systems. Bigger percentage of web content applications runs on python capabilities with simple to use functions. Below are some of the CMS that have been built and powered by python each with unique benefits: Django This is an all time… Read the full post

The Importance of Business Continuity to Start-ups and Web 2.0 Companies An interruption can threaten a company at any time. As the IT specialist, it is important that you put an efficient data protection and disaster recovery system in place to alleviate any possible reduction in company uptime. Downtime that may result from interruptions can… Read the full post

Forefront TMG – The Successor of ISA 1. Native 64-bit and IPv6 support Forefront TMG is installed on Windows Server 2008 64-bit edition and is able to function even on Layer 2 of the OSI model, which means it can support the upper-level IPv6. Forefront uses the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver in order… Read the full post

Synthetic monitoring of end-users transactions and actions on a website is the latest in development tools used by many web or online businesses. In the past businesses relied on customer or end-user experience monitoring to test out their website performance and new features that they introduced. Today many businesses are able to apply synthetic end-user… Read the full post

JBoss is by far the most widely-deployed JEE application server in the industry today. Unsurprisingly,application server administrators and developers are constantly looking for ways to monitor the performance of their applications. Fortunately, at the heart of JBoss lies built-in JMX instrumentation that enables us to collect vital statistics about its internal components. In this series… Read the full post

 When it comes to performance, BerkeleyDB’s cache size is the single most important configuration parameter. In order to achieve maximum performance, the data most frequently accessed by your application should be cached so that read and write requests do not trigger too much I/O activity. BerkeleyDB databases are grouped together in application environments – directories which… Read the full post

  The addition of Paid Monitor strongly positions GFI Software to solve the unprecedented IT management challenges arising from the rapid adoption of cloud computing Clearwater, Fla. – Oct. 25, 2011 – GFI Software today announced that it has acquired Paid Monitor, the pioneer of cloud-based network and systems monitoring solutions. This acquisition further strengthens GFI’s ability… Read the full post