January 14, 2014

FlexNet Connect 2014 Helps Reduce Hacker Risk and Uncover New Revenue Streams for Internet-Connected Devices

January 14, 2014 10:01 pm

FlexNet Connect 2014 Helps Reduce Hacker Risk and Uncover New Revenue Streams for Internet-Connected DevicesNew communications, device management and update capabilities enable Internet of Things by facilitating new product/service offerings & easier app updates, patches and bug fixesMaidenhead, UK – January 14, 2014 – Flexera Software, the leading provider of

Oracle Will Ship Java 8 March 18–With or Without Bugs

January 14, 2014 10:01 pm

According to an Oracle posting to the Java mailing list, the company will ship Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 on March 18 even if it’s still a little buggy. Between now and then, the Java team will work on eliminating major bugs, paying less attention to those considered minor. “Non-showstopper

Network Functions Virtualization ? The Telcos Get with the Cloud Program

January 14, 2014 8:01 pm

One of the primary enablers of Public Cloud Providers? dramatic economies of scale is their fanatical devotion to homogeneity at the hardware level. Walk into one of their data centers and you?ll see identical racks of identical equipment ? with an emphasis on identical. (Of course, Private Clouds should also

Scale Long Running Background Services in Azure

January 14, 2014 2:01 am

Overview I have been doing a lot of work on Azure lately. Most recently, in a high volume message processing application that we are building for one of our customers, I quickly got into a scenario where we needed to understand how we can scale long running services to support