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Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How?

Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How? Mainframe (Z/OS) based systems running COBOL programs are legacy systems in many organizations. These are planned to be replaced with low cost commodity servers running Java or .Net based systems, saving the … Continue reading

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Is Your Data Really Secured?

Security has always been one of those topics that we as developers or architects hate to deal with. Our ideal world would be that security is dealt with at some higher level in our data-center, and that we don’t need… Continue reading

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How Virtualized MW infrastructure works in the real world? – The operational Aspect

Last week I had an interesting "incident" that proved how much the operational aspects of a virtualized middleware platfrom GigaSpaces provide is critical for on-line systems. Here is the story: During the maintenance activities of one of the largest wall … Continue reading

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The Master-Worker Pattern

The Master-Worker Pattern (sometimes called Master-Slave pattern) is used for parallel processing. It follows a simple approach that allows applications to perform simultaneous processing across multiple machines or processes via a Master and multiple Workers. In GigaSpaces XAP, you can … Continue reading

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JavaOne 2009 Lab – PetClinic in the Clouds

This year JavaOne will include really cool lab – PetClinic in the Clouds: Scaling a Classic Enterprise Application. In this Hands-on Lab, participants will take a popular Web application (the Spring PetClinic sample application) and modify it so that it … Continue reading

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