paul.nowak wrote: Matt, thanks for the comments. I made an error on the version of Plone. It's 2.5 Plone running on Zope 2.9x.
In regards to the additional products, we have a skin installed and we have a product that we had custom developed for us that connects to a PostgreSQL database. We've looked at slow PostgreSQL queries causing problems and have not been able to find an issue. We've also tested for the case where the PostgreSQL server is down and have not been able to create an issue. We therefor...
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In an interactive general session that forms part of its Data in Action virtual conference, IBM has really hit the jackpot. It has managed to snag Donald Feinberg, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, to talk about current trends in the Data Management market. There is a live Q&A sessi...
As the DoD and their contractors hammered out the details of Net-Centricity, it became increasingly clear that Net-Centricity required a broad, architectural approach to achieving agile information sharing in the context of a complex, siloed organization. At that point, SOA entered the...
RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica have joined together to deliver a complete business intelligence solution in the cloud. Jaspersoft’s kicking in the compute-intensive BI software, Talend the open source data integration software, and Vertica the analytic database management s...
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Database locking strategies is one of the most complex areas of application development -- and one of the most critical for reliable application performance and behavior. The basic issues, common strategies, and general recommendations on when and how to use different locking strategie...
This article shows you how to connect non-SOAP HTTP service requesters and providers to the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server V6 Service Integration Bus. This lets requesters and providers leverage the integration capabilities of an enterprise service bus.
Running applications in WAS for z/OS lets you take advantage of the z/OS built-in Quality of Service features such as reliability, availability, scalability, and serviceability. However, the solution could be very expensive.
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Enterprises need to think about a performance management solution that will give them real-time end-to-end visibility into the entire Web application environment from browser to back-end systems, including messaging middleware such as WebSphere MQ. By providing an application-centric v...
WebSphere applications often rely on property files to contain environment-specific values. These files usually contain any settings that change between environments, and the files can be in a variety of formats Java properties (key/value pairs), XML, or a custom format.