This first issue of Cloud Development Digest, geared for Java developers, features the following three articles: "Java Platform as a Service Providers Vie for Developers’ Affection," "Cloud Architecture Key to Leveraging Cloud-Based Services," and "IaaS Management Tools and Test Cycles in the Cloud." 

Condé Nast Digital manages the online presence for the content of digital magazines such as Vogue and Wired. Read this brief case study to learn about the application server they looked to when they wanted to improve the performance of their Java infrastructure. 

Read this white paper to learn about one company offering early implementation for Java EE 6. Discover how this server meets the high-performance specifications that your organization needs while remaining easy to use, configure, and administrate. 

This white paper offers key tips on how to successfully integrate Java-based applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server with C-based implementations by leveraging Java Native Interfaces (JNI). Discover the benefits of this platform and how it can simplify the process of creating, configuring and invoking shared libraries. 

Read this white paper to learn about a website health monitoring system that records your server’s memory, cpu, network, database, and cluster status and saves the data so you can adjust for load changes and evaluate problems. 

Addresses need for high reliability and data sync to multiple device platforms. Avoids need for a DBA, and reduces development effort by simplifying performance optimisation and back end connectivity. Works with standard development tools and languages. 

This paper highlights companies’ confidence level in deploying custom Java applications in the cloud. Learn how to accelerate application deployment and transition to cloud computing by virtualizing applications and implementing a lightweight development framework for quickly building and deploying applications for a virtual environment.  

With ILOG JRules and ILOG Rules for COBOL, you can externalize and manage the business rules in your organization’s COBOL applications without disruption or a major development project. 

How do you manage performance for apps with 100 to 500 users and no budget for the extra servers to handle random load spikes? With elastic load balancing. View this webcast to learn how to cost-effectively run your applications & balance your load across virtual machines. 

This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

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