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Osx 1. Backup. Osx 2. Osx 3. Osx 4. Osx 5. TIBCO ActiveMatrix add-on preemptively scales SOA - SD Times On The Web. A SOA infrastructure software maker has decided that good governance means taking preemptive action to head off service problems. Today, TIBCO Software announced Service Performance Manager (SPM), an add-on to its ActiveMatrix platform that uses complex event processing to monitor the performance of IT systems in SOA environments. SPM is not a standalone product, but instead integrates into ActiveMatrix’s existing administrative interface. It will become available for ActiveMatrix users by the end of May, according to the company. Rourke McNamara, TIBCO’s director of SOA product marketing, explained that service reuse has made understanding the load profile of a particular service a challenging task. “Companies are being as agile as possible about scaling service. That’s not good enough if business users are complaining. Even if you are very agile, users still have slow-running applications,” he said.

Agile Project Management. Expecting your teams to estimate in Story Points can be quite a leap of faith. When I first introduced the concept of Story Points at my previous company, no-one could wrap their heads around the concept. When it comes to estimating, we’re so accustomed to thinking in days or hours that making the leap to some obscure, seemingly illogical measurement is quite the expectation – especially a bunch of engineers. Getting used to it Once you start using Story Points, it usually only takes a couple of sprints before teams start to understand the magic in this new practice.

Many companies I talk to, who have adopted Agile, generally practice a modified Scrum/XP process. Many do not estimate in story points and from my point of view, this is a big mistake. In my opinion, Story Points are the fuel for the Agile machine. So what makes Story point estimation so important, so good… Since this topic is near and dear to my heart, I have lots to say. 1. 2. 3. How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets. Most motherboards have a feature that I have been aware of for some time but have not tried until recently. It is called wake-on-LAN (WOL) and gives you the ability to wake a computer simply by sending it a “magic packet” from any other machine on the local area network (LAN).

A magic packet is a data packet that contains the hexadecimal sequence FF FF FF FF FF FF followed by sixteen repetitions of the target computer’s MAC address. I implemented this feature on the Ubuntu LAMP server that I use at home. Now, I simply open a terminal and type a one line command to turn on my server. If you want to activate WOL on your computer I give you some pointers below. Configure Your BIOS and Hardware for Wake-On-LAN Although not every motherboard supports WOL, most ATX motherboards do. Determine MAC Address and Install Magic Packet Software If you have managed to configure your BIOS correctly, the rest should be fairly easy. The final step is also the one that gives you the most choices. Gluster. Deploying scalable, flexible enterprise storage shouldn't lock you in to high-cost proprietary solutions. Red Hat® Storage Server helps your enterprise manage the explosion of big, semistructured, and unstructured data growth while maintaining the storage performance, capacity, and availability you need to meet your most demanding enterprise storage requirements.

Videos What is open software-defined storage? Software-defined storage, or software-based storage, brings the power of virtualization to enterprise data storage. This lets your organization abstract and pool storage capacity and compute and networking resources across on-premise and cloud environments to scale independently and beyond individual hardware components. But we've taken it a step further. What is Red Hat Storage Server? Red Hat Storage Server is an open software-defined, scale-out storage platform for easy management of unstructured data for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Red Hat Storage Server benefits. Party of one: Surviving the solo open source project - Java World. With more than 100,000 open source projects hosted on SourceForge alone, starting a new one is no small undertaking, and bringing it to the masses is hardly a sure thing. In this article reprinted from Pushing Pixels, Kirill Grouchnikov explores the challenges and pitfalls of being the sole developer on an open source project.

Whether you're thinking about starting a solo development project or struggling to maintain one, get tips for structuring your development timeline, managing development priorities, and finding a niche for your project, even in the vast sea of open source software. JavaOne 2008 included a track on open source with a substantial number of very interesting panels, discussions, and presentations. These talks concentrated mostly on big, well-established, and very broad open source communities, however, which does not reflect the specific problems of a much vaster open source landscape.

Development is the most enjoyable part of a new project, at least for some of us. SAN: Advanced Storage: All-in-One Guides: SearchStorage.com.