MySQL Hotbackups with XtraBackup
Hotbackups are a staple of many different database platforms, but they remain sadly absent from the core MySQL distribution. Not to worry, the open-source utility has just arrived to rescue you.

Eliminating Duplicate Rows from MySQL Result Sets
The go to solution for removing duplicate rows from your result sets is to include the distinct keyword in your select statement. It tells the query engine to remove duplicates to produce a result set in which every row is unique. The group by clause can also be used to remove duplicates.

Simple Automation - Examining your MySQL Index Usage
In the majority of MySQL systems, the schema is always updated and changed based on the needs and focus of the application, making it somewhat difficult to keep up with all of the changes that come down the pipe. Chris Schneider shows you how to gauge the index usage in a system, using grep, awk and sed.

Clearing a Path through the 3NF Join Jungle
Rob Gravelle explores the pros and cons of normalization with a particular focus on the ramifications of third normal form normalization on data extraction by SELECT query.

SkySQL Takes Aim at Delivering MySQL
Former Oracle and Sun execs start up new venture aimed at filling perceived gaps in the open source database support system - but is it an attack on Oracle?

Inside MySQL Character Sets & Settings
MySQL has sophisticated character set support, and can store, retrieve and collate single byte, and multi-byte character sets alike. Sean Hull explores using non-default character sets and settings, which use the hierarchy to control these settings.

MySQL Server Benchmarking 101
Benchmarking can be a very revealing process. It can be used to isolate performance problems, and drill down to specific bottlenecks. More importantly, it can be used to compare different servers in your environment, so you have an expectation of performance from those servers, before you put them to work servicing your application.

Cardinality in MySQL Data Modeling
In data modeling, explaining how each table links to another is known as cardinality. Knowing how to establish table cardinality is a key skill in database design because it can identify areas where the normalization process may have gone awry. This article looks at each relationship type more closely.

A Look Inside MySQL Enterprise Monitor
MySQL Enterprise Monitor was highlighted during "MySQL Sunday" at the Oracle Open World conference this past month. Given the ease of implementation and helpful GUI tools, MySQL Enterprise Monitor provides almost instant benefits for any MySQL shop.

Using mysqldump to Back Up Your MySQL Database
Whether you host your website and database internally or you use a hosting provider, it is of paramount importance that you institute a rigorous backup policy. If you're using MySQL, several easily implementable options are at your disposal. This article introduces one such option by showing you how to backup your database using MySQL's native mysqldump client.

The 10 Most Common MySQL Queries
MySQL queries are usually written once and then wrapped in class functions to minimize code repetition. This article lists the 10 queries used most often in MySQL.

How Operator Precedence Affects MySQL SELECT Queries
When joining tables on common fields, if you're not diligent in the use of AND-OR combinations in the criteria clause, be prepared for unexpected results! Learn how to break filtering criteria into individual steps and how to group AND-OR statements to most effectively isolate the data that you wish to retrieve.

Disambiguating between Duplicate Column Names in MySQL
To minimize headaches that can accompany long field lists, DBAs employ a range of techniques. The specific techniques covered today are used to disambiguate between duplicate column names. Don’t be too quick to judge this as basic stuff. You just might find that there are a few things you don’t know on this subject.

Inside MySQL Binary Logs
The MySQL Binary Log files are important to the proper functioning of the database and facilitate replication, and recovery. This article discusses some of the inner workings of these important files, and explains how ordering of transactions also plays into how they work.

Top 10 Security Tips for MySQL
Security is a crucial part of any database system and MySQL is no different! There are very specific techniques a database administrator can use to protect their MySQL installation. Read on to learn the TOP 10 security tips for MySQL database administrators.

Keeping up with High Availability - Automating MySQL Failovers
Automating failover situations can benefit an organization along with the database administrator who is on call. This article discusses how to setup Keepalived and how it may help in automated failovers for a Multi-Master MySQL cluster.

Identifying and Eliminating the Dreaded Cartesian Product
Cartesian Products usually don't provide useful information and often result in mistakes that can hurt your database developer career. Learn to spot Cartesian Joins and banish them from your SELECT queries forever.

MySQL SELECT Statement 101
The SELECT statement is without question the most complex amongst MySQL's data manipulation statements. This article covers the syntax of the SELECT statement, exploring its many optional clauses.

MySQL in Amazon EC2 - Beginners Guide
Increasingly, enterprises are looking at cloud services such as Amazon Web Services for their deployments. Datacenter virtualization is much more sophisticated than its desktop counterpart is, providing a whole suite of tools that allow you to control every aspect of your deployments. Join Sean Hull as he explores the MySQL - Amazon EC2 solution.

Working with MySQL Multi-master Replication - Keeping a True Hot Standby
Knowing and working with master-master replication and keeping a true hot standby is very important, especially when your business requires a fast failover with the least amount of downtime. This article focuses on the wonderful world of multi-master replication. Knowing how to setup and implement multi-master replication is the next step to faster, automated failover.

VMWare and CollabNet Push ALM into the Cloud
After a slow start, more companies are using the cloud for its role in application lifecycle management.

DevX Visitor Survey
These questions will help us to better focus our content toward those people coming to the DevX site.

A Recipe for Enterprise Agile: Mixing Scrum and Smart
This approach of mixing best practices, techniques and tools from Scrum and Smart has proven to be very successful in a variety of projects and project types.

Demand for Android Skills Up 710% from Last Year
Demand for iPhone developers remains about the same.

Sencha Launches Touch 1.0 with a New Price-Point: Free
Developers who previously purchased the cross-platform application development tool will get a refund.

Development Experiments in the Cloud Are Paying Off
There's a lot of hype about cloud computing, but how are developers actually using it?

VersionOne Survey Finds Agile Development Knowledge and Use on the Rise
The fifth "State of Agile Survey" finds that a quarter of respondents say they are "extremely knowledgeable" about agile methodology.

RIM: Smartphone App Builders Must Know Audience
BlackBerry consultant also advises developers to strive for simplicity and usability.

Adobe CEO: ‘There’s a War Happening for Developers’
Shantanu Narayen highlights the differences between Adobe and Apple.

ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms -- Shaping the Future of the Web
Over the next few years, MVC will develop and catch up with Web Forms and will be a strong contender for developer's favorite.

Be Careful of Cognitive Friction in Program Design
Sure, you're a cowboy coder and you want to do things your own way, but you shouldn't unless it is very intuitive.

One Bad App Can Spoil the Bunch
A new survey reveals that bad apps can color users' perceptions of mobile apps in general.

MBA: Do You Need One to Become a CIO or CTO?
After a few years on the job, developers often find themselves asking: what’s next? For some, the answer could be to go to business school to earn an MBA

Useful UML Modeling: Zeus, the First Software Analyst
By splitting compound roles your models will provide a clearer and more representative picture of who does what and when.

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK for Mac OS X
The announcement answers some questions about the future of Java on the Mac.

Red Hat’s Secret Patent Deal and the Fate of JBoss Developers
No one is talking about the outcome of a lawsuit between Red Hat and Acacia—and that could mean trouble for JBoss Developers.

Apple CEO Calls Irritated Developer
Steve Jobs discusses why an individual app was rejected from the App Store.

Intel Bolsters its Tool Offerings For Developers
The chip giant, hardly a household name in software, has lately been building its software credibility in the developer community, especially among those using its multi-core processors.

Effective Agile Development Meetings
These tips, culled from experts, can help application development meetings stay productive.

Learning JavaScript Visually with Diagrams
New tutorials help experienced developers grasp the semantics of JavaScript.

30 Things You Need to Know About Business Intelligence Software
When it comes to business software, few applications help businesses streamline their business processes, create new markets, and provide insight into their operations like business intelligence software. Download this Internet.com eBook to learn about the emerging trends in business intelligence, common mistakes, and leading business intelligence vendors.

Gaining Control Over Your Virtual Environment
With virtualization rates now well into the double-digits, many enterprises are looking not so much to be sold on virtualization as they are to figure out a way to improve processes using what they have. Download this Internet.com eBook to discover how virtualizations changes the way you manage and secure your servers and put your organization on the track to virtualization success.

Getting Value from Your ITIL Implementation
IT is a shared service that must support the business by enabling other business units to attain their objectives by simultaneously creating and protecting value. To do this requires a systemic perspective that transcends local operational groups and positions to methodically define, deliver and improve service offerings. Download this Internet.com eBook to see how ITIL and IT service management (ITSM) can help.

Preparing Your Organization for eDiscovery
Sponsored by Symantec Many companies still deal with ediscovery obligations by outsourcing the process to external specialists who collect what is relevant, and get it into a form that can be submitted to lawyers for review. But in the past five years, an increasing number of companies have begun treating ediscovery as a routine business process. Download this Internet.com eBook to learn the steps your organization needs to take to prepare for ediscovery challenges.

Power Protection for SMBs: UPS and Beyond
Electricity is your data's lifeblood, and if the power fails and you don't have a plan in place, it's lights out for your bottom line. Download this Internet.com eBook to learn how to save your data and PCs from power interruptions using technologies like uninterruptable power supplies (UPS).

Java 7 and 8 Begin to Take Shape: What's In, What's Out?
Oracle puts Java 7 and 8 features up for Java Community approval, providing a clear indication of what the next two major versions of Java are likely to include.

Adobe Takes Aim at Customer Experience Management
New capabilities in LiveCycle ES2.5 include enterprise mobility for improved multiscreen delivery of applications and an enhanced framework for building enterprise rich Internet applications.

Building a Test Platform in the Cloud with Open Source Technologies
A cloud-based test platform dramatically shortens test setup times and delivers automated scaling. Find out how to build one with Eucalyptus, Tomcat, JMeter and MySQL.

Top 10 New Features in Maven 3
In Maven 3.0, many of the Java build tool's internals have been revamped. Here are the 10 most notable new features.

IBM Joins Oracle in OpenJDK Effort
IBM joins Oracle in the OpenJDK open source Java project, mitigating potential fragmentation and giving new credibility to Oracle's Java leadership.

How Does Java Event Handling Work? Think Wedding Gifts
Java event handling is a core concept of the language and a vital mechanism for event-based programming. Learn an easy analogy for understanding how it works.

Adobe Unleashes Three New Versions of Flash Media Server
Adobe's new Flash Media Enterprise Server leverages peer-to-peer technology to provide a software-only solution for video delivery.

Oracle Lawsuit on Top of Java Complexity Scaring Developers Away?
With Java complexity already a barrier, the Oracle lawsuit against Google is further incentive for developers to stay away or switch.

As Oracle Sues Google Over Java, Developers Move to Other Languages
'Java won't die; it will limp along,' one source says, but it has 'hit the complexity wall.'

A Categorization Scheme for All Those Java I/O Stream Classes
Try this handy technique for categorizing the potentially overwhelming number of I/O stream classes in Java.

Write More Understandable Java Tests with Matcher Objects and FEST-Assert
Have your Java unit test assertions gotten hard to read? Use the matcher objects provided by the Hamcrest and fluent FEST-Assert libraries.

Quercus: Bring Java's Power to Your PHP Development (and Vice Versa)
With Quercus, PHP and Java developers can mix and match the respective capabilities of both languages.

Google Revs App Engine for the Cloud
New version of App Engine improves multi-tenancy and adds a high-performance image serving system.

Working with Java Threads Before and After JDK 5
Despite the new features and fine-grained control of the JDK1.5 threading framework, writing multithreaded Java applications remains challenging and error prone.

Adobe Buys Day Software to Bolster ECM Portfolio
Adobe Systems shelled out $240 million to acquire Day Software Holding, a Swiss developer of enterprise content management software.

Google Executive Frustrated by Java, C++ Complexity
Distinguished engineer talks up the Go application development language.

Oracle Commits to Further NetBeans IDE Development
With both the Eclipse IDE and NetBeans IDE, Oracle is aiming to grow its Java developer ecosystem.

New PivotViewer for Silverlight Lets You Visualize Data
Microsoft releases a downloadable control for Silverlight 4 that lets Web developers build sites that display data graphically using Microsoft's streaming media technology.

Scala vs. F#, Round 2: Application Programming Features
How do Scala and F# compare when it comes to application development features such as frameworks, object orientation, and runtime properties?

Helios Release Delivers 39 Open Source Projects for Eclipse IDE
The coordinated Helios release of Eclipse projects delivers new tools for developers to build and deploy applications with the Eclipse IDE.

Top 7 Features of the ASP.NET MVC Framework
The ASP.NET MVC framework is a web application framework implementing the Model View Controller pattern which aims at making tasks like manageability, extensibility and testability of your web application much easier. Read on to learn more about some of the best features in the ASP.NET MVC framework.

Windows Presentation Foundation's ObservableCollection Made Easy
Learn how to bind, custom sort and more with the ObservableCollection in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Accessing Server-Side Data from Client Script: Accessing JSON Data From an ASP.NET Page Using jQuery
When building a web application, we must decide how and when the browser will communicate with the web server. The ASP.NET WebForms model greatly simplifies web development by providing a straightforward mechanism for exchanging data between the browser and the server. With WebForms, each ASP.NET page's rendered output includes a <form> element that performs a postback to the same page whenever a Button control within the form is clicked, or whenever the user modifies a control whose AutoPostBack property is set to True. On postback, the server sends the entire contents of the web page back to the browser, which then displays this new content. With WebForms we don't need to spend much time or effort thinking about how or when the browser will

ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms -- Shaping the Future of the Web
Over the next few years, MVC will develop and catch up with Web Forms and will be a strong contender for developer's favorite.

Scaling With Distributed Cache in Windows Server AppFabric
Caching is an important element for any application serious about performance and scaling. Windows Server AppFabric provides an easy and clean way to cache your data in a highly available and reliable way.

Accessing Server-Side Data from Client Script: Using WCF Services with jQuery and the ASP. ...
This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to expose server-side data using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services and how to consume that data from client-side script using the ASP.NET Ajax Library and jQuery.

Researchers Have a 'BLAST' With Microsoft Azure
High-performance computing (HPC) may be coming to a cloud near you as Microsoft makes an important life sciences analysis tool available to run on its Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Implementing Asynchronous Operations in ASP.NET MVC Framework
Learn how to implement asynchronous operations in your ASP.NET MVC applications.

Understanding the Internals of Code Contracts
.NET Framework 4.0 made code contracts first class citizens by introducing System.Diagnostics.Contracts as part of base class libraries. Code contracts offer a way to express state assumptions in applications and take forms of pre-conditions, post-conditions and object invariants. Read more to learn the underlying internals of how code contracts work.

Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Exporting Charts
The Chart Web control makes it easy to display a chart in an ASP.NET web page - simply drag the Chart control onto the page, set a few properties and either bind it to a data source control or write a few lines of code that get and bind the data of interest. When a page with a Chart control is visited by a user, the Chart control renders an <img> element on the page that displays the rendered chart.The Chart control is great for displaying a chart on a web page, but what if a user wants to view that chart offline, or send the chart to a colleague? In an earlier installment, Programmatically Generating Chart Images, we examined a number of ways to generate the chart image programmatically. This technique

Optimize Images Using the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Framework
The HTML markup of a web page includes the page's textual content, semantic and styling information, and, typically, several references to external resources. External resources are content that is part of web page, but are separate from the web page's markup - things like images, style sheets, script files, Flash videos, and so on. When a browser requests a web page it starts by downloading its HTML. Next, it scans the downloaded HTML for external resources and starts downloading those.A page with many external resources usually takes longer to completely load than a page with fewer external resources because there is an overhead associated with downloading each external resource. For starters, each external resource requires the browser to make an HTTP request to retrieve the

Create ZIP Files From An ASP.NET Application
A ZIP file is a popular, decades-old file format used for file compression and archiving. Commonly, such files have a .zip extension and are used to reduce the size of one or more files and/or to archive multiple files and folders into a single file. Additionally, the contents of a ZIP file can optionally be encrypted and viewable only by those who know the password. Both Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS provide built-in operating system support for opening, reading, and creating ZIP files.In a recent project I needed to create ZIP files from an ASP.NET application on the fly. Specifically, there was a web page that listed of series of data files that were created by an external process. Users visiting this page

Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Using the Chart Controls with ASP. ...
The Microsoft Chart controls are a series of classes in the System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting namespace that allow web developers to ability to add charts to their ASP.NET applications. The most pertinent charting-related class is the Chart class, which contains information about the chart's appearance, series, charting areas, and so forth. In most of the demos and code samples we've explored thus far, we've used the Chart class as a Web control, adding the <asp:Chart> declarative markup to our ASP.NET page, setting a

An Introduction to SQL Azure Web Portal
Learn to work with the SQL Azure web management portal as we walk through how to, set up firewall access rules, create and delete databases and more.

Formatting Dates, Times and Numbers in ASP.NET
This ASP.NET tutorial shows a variety of ways to format dates, times and numbers in an ASP.NET application.

Solving the Dining Philosopher's Problem with .NET Framework 4.0 Task Parallel Library
Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Task Parallel Library. Read along to learn core Task Parallel Library concepts; including how to use the Task and BlockingCollection classes.

Microsoft News: The Software Giant Talks Up Private Cloud at TechEd Europe
Microsoft continues to expand its options for customers who want to migrate their applications to the company's cloud, including ones who want to host the cloud themselves.

Durable Services in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Read along as we explore the durable services concept in WCF and look at how to implement it by creating an example.

10 More C# Programming and Microsoft Visual Studio Tips and Tricks
Here is another set of C# programming tips and tricks. This set consists of tips that are often neglected workarounds. These tips save developers a lot of the time and will help to make code-writing skills sharper.

Storing Additional User Information with ASP.NET Membership
This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to enhance ASP.NET's Membership system to record additional information about each user.

30 Things You Need to Know About Business Intelligence Software
When it comes to business software, few applications help businesses streamline their business processes, create new markets, and provide insight into their operations like business intelligence software. Download this Internet.com eBook to learn about the emerging trends in business intelligence, common mistakes, and leading business intelligence vendors.

Gaining Control Over Your Virtual Environment
With virtualization rates now well into the double-digits, many enterprises are looking not so much to be sold on virtualization as they are to figure out a way to improve processes using what they have. Download this Internet.com eBook to discover how virtualizations changes the way you manage and secure your servers and put your organization on the track to virtualization success.

Getting Value from Your ITIL Implementation
IT is a shared service that must support the business by enabling other business units to attain their objectives by simultaneously creating and protecting value. To do this requires a systemic perspective that transcends local operational groups and positions to methodically define, deliver and improve service offerings. Download this Internet.com eBook to see how ITIL and IT service management (ITSM) can help.

Preparing Your Organization for eDiscovery
Sponsored by Symantec Many companies still deal with ediscovery obligations by outsourcing the process to external specialists who collect what is relevant, and get it into a form that can be submitted to lawyers for review. But in the past five years, an increasing number of companies have begun treating ediscovery as a routine business process. Download this Internet.com eBook to learn the steps your organization needs to take to prepare for ediscovery challenges.

Power Protection for SMBs: UPS and Beyond
Electricity is your data's lifeblood, and if the power fails and you don't have a plan in place, it's lights out for your bottom line. Download this Internet.com eBook to learn how to save your data and PCs from power interruptions using technologies like uninterruptable power supplies (UPS).

How To Change Text Color Using HTML and CSS
You've seen it on many sites! In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the color of text, links and visited links on a web page using HTML or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

WordPress For the Web Developer: Join The Social World With BuddyPress
WordPress is not only one of the world's most popular blogging tools, it's also a solid platform on which to base news and even commerce sites. Enter BuddyPress, first released in 2009, which has since taken the WordPress community by storm as a social networking plugin.

Top 10 Productivity Tips for Web Developers
Web development is about many things: concept, design, development, testing and much more. In this article we're going to look at a variety of tips to help you throughout the design process.

Graphics School: How to Customize Web Photo Galleries in Photoshop CS3
In the last lesson we looked at the process of building Web galleries in Photoshop CS3. The result, while functional, isn't pleasing to the eye and needs quite a bit of customization to give us a result that we can use in real life. This tutorial will show you how to do just that!

Tutorial: How to Create Hotspots and Rollovers in Paintshop Photo Pro
Image maps are where the designer has created a special region or hotspot to act as a trigger to another web page. The hotspot could be a circle, triangle, rectangle or polygon. In this article we're going to look at how you can create Hotspots and Rollovers in Paintshop Photo Pro.

How to Build Web Galleries in Photoshop CS3
One of my favorite aspects of Photoshop is its ability to create custom web galleries. In this tutorial you'll learn the basics of the process, and we'll give you a few tips to save you some time.

Principles Of MVC for PHP Developers
In this article I will attempt to explain everything you need to know about MVC--the Model View Controller-- in the simplest possible way, from the perspective of a PHP developer.

The Mobile Web with jQuery Mobile
In October of 2010, the jQuery team released a mobile version of their awesome JavaScript library. This tutorial will tell you all about jQuery mobile, and show you how you can use it with mobile devices.

jQuery Basics for Web Developers: Other Events
So far I have talked about form events, mouse events, and keyboard events, to finish out the events; I will discuss the remaining events. Actually, there are a few more than what we have discussed, but those are more advanced topics for a later time.

How to Correct Image Distortion in Paintshop Photo Pro
In this tutorial, we're going to look at several ways of correcting distortion in an image. The topics we'll be covering are image straightening, perspective distortion and lens distortion.

Web Developer Class: How to Create Consistent Web Layouts
Web page design has become quite complicated due to the rapid advances in technology. Still, you can make your life much easier if you plan your web site in advance of building it. In this tutorial are some tips to help you with the design process.

A Web Developer Looks at Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
It's been many years since I reviewed the previous version of Dreamweaver (CS3) and I have been looking forward to the updates in this application. In this review we'll take a look at several important updates, including enhanced CSS starter layouts, comprehensive CSS support and integration with Adobe BrowserLab.

Principles Of Object Oriented Programming in PHP
Object Oriented Programming, or OOP, refers to the method of programming that invokes the use of classes to organize the data and structure of an application. In this article we are going explore exactly what OOP is in relation to PHP, and look at a few things you should remember about it as well. We'll end of with a simple example of how to use it.

An Overview of Open Web Applications for Developers
You may have heard about Google's coming venture in web-based applications. Now Mozilla has announced it will be opening its own Open Web App Store where similar apps will be available. So just what are these web apps? They are applications that are made using the core technologies of the web: HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Top Five Web Hosting Companies for Web Developers
At some point most web developers will be in the position of having to either provide hosting for their clients' websites, or they will need to know which web hosts to to recommend to their clients. This article will tell you about five of the most reliable, economical and dependable web hosts out there who cater to web developers.

Drupal 7 Beta: A Developer Looks at Themes and Modules
Last week we took a look at the beta release of Drupal 7, a long awaited update to one of the most popular open source content management systems (CMS) today. This week we're going to take a look at Drupal 7's themes and modules!

Featured Drupal Module: Taxonomy Image
The Drupal module "Taxonomy Image" enables a site builder to associate an image for dispaly with a taxonomy term, without the need to modify any template files.

Drupal Version 7 Beta: A Web Developer's First Look
The Drupal Group this week announced the beta release of its flagship CMS, Drupal 7. We decided to give it a try, and we'll let you see the results in this first look at the much anticipated content management system upgrade.

How To Use Photoshop To Change Colors in an Image
Many times as a web designer I find that some of the colors in a photo are not suitable for use with a site’s color scheme. To solve this problem, I use Photoshop to change the photo's colors to better suit my application.

Featured Drupal Module: RealName
The Drupal module "RealName" enables a site builder to designate a field(s) from the user profile that will be automatically displayed in place of the username variable, without the need to modify any template files. You might also consider this a byline module.

IBM Adds Developer Tools, Resources for Expected Boom in Cloud, Mobile Application Development
Vendor's new survey of IT professionals points to mobile and cloud platforms as most in demand for software development in next five years.

SaaS Backlash: Survey Shows Abandoned Deals
Software as a service sees growing pains, as the number of mid-sized companies using SaaS for critical applications trends down year over year.

IBM Offers New Cloud Service to Speed Up, Analyze, Automate Business Processes
SaaS-based Blueworks Live combines business process with automation tools and social network features, delivered by channel partners at prices starting at $10 per user per month.

Channel Searching Cloud for Moneymakers, Cisco's Goodwin Says
Partners see cloud computing opportunity but uncertain how it will pay off, vendor's top channel executive says. Company working to prep channel for as-a-service oriented business model while stepping up midmarket sales efforts.

5 Ways Cloud Computing Will Change Business and Careers
IT staffers need to take a hard look at their job prospects, and companies need to move faster, among other expected changes.

Cloud Customers: Don't Worry About Standards Yet
There's a lot of technical work to be done before the cloud works as seamlessly as the hype would have us believe.

Building a Test Platform in the Cloud with Open Source Technologies
A cloud-based test platform dramatically shortens test setup times and delivers automated scaling. Find out how to build one with Eucalyptus, Tomcat, JMeter and MySQL.

How SaaS and Cloud Computing are Transforming Education
The growing adoption of SaaS and Cloud Computing in schools means the next generation will be fully comfortable with this emerging technology.

Google's Search Appliance Connects to the Cloud
Cloud Connect feature for Google's GSA adds personalized results from Google Docs, Google Sites and Twitter.

Aplicor Combines CRM and ERP in the Cloud
Aplicor claims its new sales-to-billing cloud service offers more than Salesforce.com for a flat monthly fee.