Who won the Performance Bowl?

FOLLOW SD TIMES FEBRUARY 2, 2015 IN THE NEWS Performance Bowl: The website winners and losers of Super Bowl XLIX Are mainframes still road worthy? Apache Storm turns toward security in 2015 LINKAPALOOZA FROM THE WEB

IN THE NEWS

Performance Bowl: The website winners and losers of Super Bowl XLIX By Rob Marvin During one of the most competitive, entertaining and ultimately unbelievable Super Bowls in NFL history, advertisers and websites played their own game of dueling performance metrics and response times. APM software provider Dynatrace monitored the brand websites advertising during the big game, and in the moment of truth revealed which stood up to the ultimate traffic challenge The winners and losers of the 2015 “Performance Bowl,” according to the Dynatrace performance dashboard, are... READ MORE »

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Are mainframes still road worthy? By Alex Handy It’s easy to look around Silicon Valley and determine that the days of the refrigerator-sized mainframe computers are over. Clouds are big, and OpenStack promises a future where everyone can run their own cloud inside their enterprise. But the core business applications of yore are still out there, running on giant machines in basements, making it tough to pinpoint the exact moment of obsolescence for these platforms... READ MORE »

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Apache Storm turns toward security in 2015 By Alex Handy Since it was created in 2011, Storm has garnered a lot of attention from the Big Data and stream-processing worlds. In September 2014, the project finally reached top-level status at the Apache Foundation, making 2015 the first full year in which Storm will be considered “enterprise ready.” But that doesn’t mean there’s not still plenty of work to do on the project in 2015. Taylor Goetz, Apache Storm project-management committee chair and member of the technical staff at Hortonworks, said that the road map for Storm in 2015 shows a path through security territory. “Initially, Storm was conceived and developed to be... READ MORE »

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