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November 12, 2009

Cloud, Standards, and Pants

These three things have a lot more in common than you might think and all three tend to evoke similar levels of frustration.
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November 11, 2009

‘Drowsy’ Networking

No, not the kind you do on Facebook when you’re really, really tired but the kind defined as a means to reduce power consumption without affecting application performance or availability by eliminating non-essential processing and networking whenever possible.
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November 10, 2009

Microsoft Exchange 2010: HELO New Architecture

Microsoft has made some fairly substantial changes to the core architecture of Exchange 2010. Here's the down and dirty overview of what's changed and how it will impact your deployment.
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November 9, 2009

Virtualization Changes Application Deployment But Not Development

Cloud computing management functionality and standards are right now laser-focused on virtual machines, and most APIs focus on that level of the infrastructure. This is because the application is still insulated by its virtualized environment. This means nothing changes for developers. But it could and maybe it should. Check out this website I found at devcentral.f5.com

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November 6, 2009

When Is More Important Than Where in Web Application Security

While you spend your time arguing over where application security belongs, miscreants are taking advantage of vulnerabilities. By the time you address the problem, they’ve moved on to the next one.
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November 5, 2009

Twitter Account Lockouts Continue to Plague Users

Brute force attacks by spammers seeking easy access causing frustration for users with no resolution in sight Check out this website I found at devcentral.f5.com

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November 4, 2009

The API Is the New CLI

Where previous generations of administrators evaluated the manageability of network and application network devices based on the CLI (command line interface) the next generation of administrators and the developers who will support integration efforts, will almost certainly look to APIs instead. Check out this website I found at devcentral.f5.com

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November 3, 2009

Maybe Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Makes Cloud Computing Too Easy

With just a few clicks you, too, can create a cloud computing environment. But if you’re like a lot of organizations, you may not know what to do with it after that.
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November 2, 2009

Using Network-Side Scripting to Convert Microsoft Smart Quotes to HTML Entities

You can address the problem of converting smart quotes – and any other content - in your application if you control the code. What if you’re using third-party software for which you do not have the code? Or what if it is your code but the “defect” is too low on the priority list?
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October 29, 2009

WILS: Three Ways To Better Utilize Resources In Any Data Center

Cloud computing is, at its core, about using resources in the most operational and financially efficient manner possible. It’s about spreading resources around and sharing them to achieve greater scalability with fewer investments in hardware and software. But what if you aren’t moving to cloud? Or virtualization? Or perhaps you are, but the benefits won’t be really seen until you actually get enough resources shared across your organization. Isn’t there any other way to better utilize the resources you have now to improve the bottom line? Check out this website I found at devcentral.f5.com

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