Software Configuration Management

GovIT at Cloud Expo June 23, 2009 - During this morning’s IAC breakfast, discussing “Transparency, Collaboration and Web 2.0”, a panelist made a very interesting point. While the US Federal Government’s use of Internet social media services and cloud-based information-sharing applications is well underway, albeit at the very earliest of stages (mainly due to significant policy, privacy, security and simple “newness” issues), by far one of the major risks lies with accountability. Accountability in collaboration and information-sharing environments is typically achieved to some degree by association of metadata with the information packages being exchanged, or with the “containers” of online events and the trusted identities of those participating in the dialogue. With social media applications and contexts like Twitter or Facebook, however, there are far too many w... (more)

Direction for Software Developers in the Cloud

The last fifty years has seen the advent and rise of the Information Age -- a period marked by the ability to integrate data management and transactional data processing into many aspects of society. During this time, we have developed the means and tools to transform and move data about in quantities undreamt of during the Industrial Age.  As information technology (IT) has evolved and matured over these years by the efforts of untold numbers of programmers, engineers and scientists around the world, its range of effect has increased from controlling data formats and performing ... (more)

Linoma Software Lends Its Support to iManifest

The IBM i continues to work as the backbone of data processing for thousands of mid-size to large enterprises around the world. The secure architecture and flexibility of the IBM i (formerly branded as AS/400, iSeries and System i) has given it much more longevity than was ever predicted by those early skeptics. Even though the IBM i is a very powerful and robust computing platform, many its supporters do not think it's getting the attention that it deserves. This is why Linoma Software is helping to fund the iManifest (http://www.imanifest-us.com) initiative, which is an indepe... (more)

Data Recovery Post NTFS Boot Sector Corruption

Two serious problems that you might encounter after NTFS boot sector corruption are unmountable hard drive volumes and inaccessibility of data. To overcome NTFS boot sector corruption issues, all you need to do is search the backup copy of the sector, and then overwrite the primary boot sector using that copy. However, if you are unable to find the backup copy or the backup copy itself has been corrupted, then you will need to reinstall Windows operating system. A clean reinstall of Windows erases all the data stored in your hard drive. For complete recovery of lost data after fo... (more)

Software Revolution Is About To Explode

In the phone industry, we became barraged by long-distance carriers and a multitude of options. In the utility industry, many of us are, for the first time, having to choose from options we don't really want to understand. When a patent expires on a drug we now have a plethora of generic drugs to choose from. In all cases, the options and complexity grows. The prices also come down. The same thing is about to happen in the software industry. New tools and capabilities make building, selling and delivering Web-based software solutions accessible to a much wider audience. A material perc... (more)