Platforms and Technology

Cloud infrastructure is an integral part of any organization’s transition into the cloud and Gartner expects the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market to grow at least 38.4% before the end of the year. Overall, IaaS is expected to continue its skyward path well into 2017 as technology leaders decide to shed their legacy deployments for flexible, cost-effective […]

MSDeploy (a.k.a. Web Deploy) is mainly known as a technology to deploy web applications, but it is much more than that. It is a platform that can be used to deploy many different application and application components. It accomplishes this by allowing custom providers to be written. MSDeploy ships with providers that cover a wide-range […]

Research and analyst firm Gartner named Microsoft Azure as a leader in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant. Placing Azure in the leaders quadrant confirms Gartner’s belief in the platform’s completeness of vision and ability to execute in the IaaS market, citing the following strengths: Microsoft Azure encompasses integrated IaaS and PaaS components […]

Using structured data markup is a good way to help search engines find, understand and feature important information on your site. That means they can do a better job of helping the right people find you in search. A recent session at SMX Advanced in Seattle revealed a number of interesting innovations in the area […]

Checklists serve a variety of purposes and are widely considered a valuable tool to get things done.  Some checklists may guide you to complete tasks in a particular order, while others are intended to assist in making a decision. According to the Aberdeen Group, buyers in the discovery phase use checklists to help them better define their […]

On July 20, we organized a webinar around preparing for the future of cloud. Well attended by CIOs, IT Managers, and Executives alike, we shared the principles and trends driving cloud adoption. In the course of our webinars, we also ask questions in between transition slides of our attendees to get a gauge on where […]

Here at Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform conference, much of the conversation has been around the appropriate use of technology. For Silicon Valley companies and employees alike including me (who grew up in Silicon Valley and lived in the region for 27 years), the conversation is important since many get caught up in the development and its […]

Upgrading an existing stage/production OSB 11g implementation to Service Bus 12c can be a massive job. It becomes an overwhelming task if it contains several clustered nodes and several OSB 11g projects that need to be imported to JDeveloper 12c. Some of the pre-requisites for a successful migration are: Only a domain that is running […]

Demonstrating their deep commitment to helping enterprises deliver software rapidly, reliably, and at scale, Pivotal announced its channel partner program with Perficient on Monday at the inaugural SpringOne Platform conference in Las Vegas. The program, which includes Perficient, aims to provide partners the necessary resources to ensure success while transforming the way enterprises deliver next-generation […]

Ignition is an open source framework for Sitecore, developed by Perficient. It follows industry best practices for architecture and dependencies. It is fast and easy for developers to build new content components. Search blogs.perficent.com for more articles about Ignition or check out the online documentation. In this article I will continue using my “ContentBlurb” component […]

With so many cloud products and concepts that currently exist in the Cloud Technology space, one can wonder, “What exactly is Java Cloud Service? How long will it take for my organization to move to cloud?” All these are genuine concerns. So, let me start addressing some of them. Oracle Java Cloud Service (JCS) is […]

Globalization is driving companies to keep up with innovation in order to stay competitive.  The ability to procure, analyze, and report real-time information to internal and external stakeholders regardless of their location is becoming a necessity to remain viable. According to the global market intelligence firm International Data Corp. (IDC), more than half of enterprises’ […]