In 1997, NASA researchers Michael Cox and David Ellsworth publish "Application-controlled demand paging for out-of-core visualization" in the Proceedings of the IEEE 8th conference on Visualization. They start the article with "Visualization provides an interesting challenge for computer systems: data sets are generally quite large, taxing the capacities of main memory, local disk, and even remote disk. We call this the problem of big data. When data sets do not fit in main memory (in core...

A detailed description of the further growth of cloud has been deduced by Oracle CEO, Larry Wilson on 2012, who once re-launched John McCarthy's 1961 MIT theory on 2008 and later called the same as gibberish, first introduced cloud to the entire world as platform based product. There are two versions of Oracle's new IaaS cloud. One is a "public cloud" similar to the kind of clouds offered by Amazon, Rackspace, HP, and others, where the hardware is located in Oracle's data centres. It inclu...

In 1941, a new term was added to the Oxford English Dictionary: Information Explosion (Press, 2013). The term explains the growth in information content seen seven decades ago, beginning with Fremont Rider; a university librarian who in 1944 estimated that information in university libraries would double in size every sixteen years. Nearly seventy year later, Bounie and Gilled, produced a report called "International Production and Dissemination of Information", and concluded that the worl...

Digital Transformation often referred as DX or DT . IT modernisation (for example, cloud computing) to digital optimization to the creation of new digital business models are all examples of digital transformation. In general, it refers to the use of digital technology to significantly enhance or create new business processes. So, what exactly is digital transformation for businesses? It is the process of understanding consumer needs and using technology to enhance the end-user experience....

Agile software development history doesn't begin with the Agile Manifesto—its roots go back much earlier. Due to application development crisis in the early 1990's as part of the innovative PC computing, which suggests that industries were to wait for an approximate period of 3 years before seeing the first version of the software? Since the PC world was overwhelming and software developments were lagging due to waterfall methodologies, it made the industry leaders frustrated. Out of sever...

It's said, ETL concept gained popularity in the 1970s when organizations began using multiple data repositories, or databases, to store different types of business information but only as a technical concept. The need to integrate data that was spread across these databases grew quickly. ETL became the standard method for taking data from disparate sources and transforming it before loading it to a target source, or destination. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, data warehouses came onto ...

The initials ERP originated as an extension of MRP (material requirements planning; later manufacturing resource planning) and CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing). It was introduced by research and analysis firm Gartner in 1990. ERP systems now attempt to cover all core functions of an enterprise, regardless of the organization's business or charter. These systems can now be found in non-manufacturing businesses, non-profit organizations and governments.To be considered an ERP ...

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Continuous Architecture provides a broad architectural perspective for continuous delivery, and describes a new architectural approach that supports and enables it. As the pace of innovation and software releases increases, IT departments are tasked to deliver value quickly and inexpensively to their business partners. With a focus on getting software into end-users hands faster, the ultimate goal of daily software updates is in sight to allow teams to ensure that they can release every ch...

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About a year ago, we published the Cloud Academy primer "Shedding Light on Cloud Computing". Since then, interest in cloud computing has blossomed and I have had the opportunity to present our Cloud Academy content at cloud computing events around the world. This new book encapsulates the insights and knowledge gathered from the conversations at these events. That includes the dialogue with cloud practitioners, vendors, customers and the considerable number of cloud computing gurus this in...