Red Hat

We all have moments when we just feel right about something. On Tuesday, we met with Red Hat to discuss our partnership as we expand our Open Source Services. During the visit, I learned how Red Hat got its name – to read more about the story… check the link http://www.computerworld.com/article/2548974/linux/ever-wonder-how-red-hat-got-its-name-.html What sticks out to […]

Edit: Part 2 (setup) : Part 3 (Mahout) The internet is becoming increasingly personalized.  It has transitioned from indexing massive wells of information to delivering personalized information, or recommendations based on complex searches.  Evidence of this is seen in Google’s Knowledge graph, Amazon, the Bing engine, Facebook friends and twitter recommending people you may be interesting in […]

This post discusses the tasks for preparing the operating system before installing WebLogic Server. 1) Validate Operating System The very first thing to do is to validate that the latest critical updates and patches are applied. Everyone talks about it. However, breaches occur regularly because it is not done. I recommend manually running the process […]

Options IBM Workload Deployer – hardware appliance. Formerly cloudburst appliance.  It’s a bring your own infrastructure IBM SmartCloud Application Services. It’s a Managed PaaS Pure Systems Workload Deployer It consists of hardware, workload deployer function, IBM middleware images and patterns.  It can connect to VMWare. It essentially controls all you virtual systems.  Makes it easy […]

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]

This is an ongoing series. Here are the predecssors: UI Backend Integration Search Multi-site support Content Management It used to be that the most common question regarding portal was about Single Sign On (SSO).  Lately, Personalization (PZN) seems to have overtaken it.  Almost every client I talk to these days ranks personalization very high in […]

IBM announced that on December 17th they will release their Hypervisor edition.  It’s optimized to run on VMWare ESX and supports the Open Virtualization Framework (OVF).  IBM WebSphere Portal Server Hypervisor Edition V7.0 and IBM Lotus Web Content Management Hypervisor Edition V7.0 are special editions of IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Lotus Web Content […]