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A method and system for responding to requests for static web documents including saving the response as a packet train comprising one or more IP compliant packets. Upon a subsequent request for the static web document, the saved packet train may be retrieved and the header information updated. In this manner, the network protocol processing required to respond to the request is reduced. The server may include code for determining whether a referenced web object is a static object and a directory of recently accessed static web objects and a copy of the corresponding packet trains. The web server may be configured to consult the directory to determine if an object is a static object that has been recently accessed. If the object has been recently accessed, the server may retrieve the corresponding packet train from its system memory or from disk and update the packet headers prior to transmission.
1. A method for responding to a client request for an object in a data processing network, comprising:
determining whether a static object form response corresponding to the requested object is available;
responsive to determining that a form response is available, updating a header in the form response based on the client request;
responsive to determining that a form response is not available:
generating a response to the client request by retrieving the requested object and performing network protocol processing on the retrieved object;
generating a form response indicative of the generated response; and
storing the form response for use in responding to a subsequent request for the object.
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computer code means for determining whether a static object form response corresponding to the requested object is available;
computer code means for updating a header in the form response based on the client request responsive to determining that a form response is available;
responsive to determining that a form response is not available:
computer code means for generating a response to the client request by retrieving the requested object and performing network protocol processing on the retrieved object;
generating a form response indicative of the generated response; and
computer code means for storing the form response for use in responding to a subsequent request for the object.
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computer code means for determining whether a static object form response corresponding to the requested object is available;
computer code means for updating a header in the form response based on the client request responsive to determining that a form response is available;
responsive to determining that a form response is not available:
computer code means for generating a response to the client request by retrieving the requested object and performing network protocol processing on the retrieved object;
computer code means for generating a form response indicative of the generated response; and
computer code means for storing the form response for use in responding to a subsequent request for the object.
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[0001] 1. Field of the Present Invention
[0002] The present invention generally relates to the field of networked computing and more particularly to a method and system to improve server performance by handling static objects as special cases requiring reduced network processing.
[0003] 2. History of Related Art
[0004] In the field of data processing networks, it is becoming increasingly common to provide services via servers or server systems that are accessible over a network. For purposes of this disclosure, a server system refers to a cluster in which a set of microprocessor-based server devices are connected on a local area network (LAN) to provide a common set of services to client applications. Cost consideration may frequently motivate the manufacturers and purchasers of servers to implement the servers with less than state-of-the-art technology and with a minimum of peripheral components. In a common implementation, for example, server clusters are designed as a set of diskless server devices that share disk storage via some form of networked storage whether it be a network attached storage (NAS) device or a storage area network (SAN).
[0005] Clients access servers generally in two modes, namely data retrieval and data updates. In data retrieval accesses, the subject of this disclosure, it is conceivable that execution may be dominated by network processing in which information is made suitable for transport across the network from a server to a client (or vice versa). The devices attached to a network must use a common protocol or set of protocols to transfer information. Network protocols are typically described in terms of protocol �layers�, where each layer of processing is related to a specific function. The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) working group of the International Standards Organization (ISO) has distributed a widely recognized model (the OSI Reference Model) of a prototypical network. The OSI Reference Model describes a seven-layer network protocol, from the physical layer comprising the physical medium and the actual electrical signals of a network, to the application layer that acts as an interface between the network and application processes such as email.
[0006] Perhaps the most widely implemented network protocol is the suite of protocols commonly referred to as the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). TCP/IP provides the network backbone for a large number of data processing networks including the Internet. Each client and/or server connected to the Internet (or other TCP/IP compliant network) must include TCP/IP code that converts datagrams or packets transmitted over the network to a stream of bytes interpretable by an application process. Conversely, each network agent must be able to convert application information into a set of one or more packets suitable for transporting across the network. Packets are thus required to traverse the protocol �stack� of layers twice during each transaction, once as they descend the stack (from application layer to physical layer) at the source and again as they ascend the stack (from physical layer to application layer) at the destination.
[0007] Full TCP/IP processing of each network object can be time consuming and processor intensive. Generating and checking checksums to facilitate error detection, allocating and deallocating memory for requested objects, packet framing and deframing, data copying, general protocol processing, and other required tasks can place a performance limiting load on the server cluster. It would therefore be desirable to reduce the amount of network processing required of servers that use widely implemented protocols stacks like TCP/IP.
[0008] Data objects that are retrieved by clients may be broadly classified into static objects and dynamic objects. Static objects are objects or files that are filly self-contained and change infrequently. For instance, a static Web page is typically available as a file that need not be generated at request time by the server. Also, once the Web page is generated, it is typically available under the same Universal Resource Identifier (URI) and rarely changes thereafter. To serve static objects in response to a client's data retrieval request, the server typically reads the object from its persistent or volatile storage, formats it into one or more network packets according to TCP/IP, and sends it to the client over the network. Thus, in a conventionally implemented server, static objects incur substantial overhead in network processing. If a static object is repeatedly accessed by clients in data retrieval mode, as is common in Web and file servers, the same amount of network processing is repeatedly applied even though the resulting object does not usually vary from one instance to the next. With the exception of the destination Internet address and some other minor protocol-related information, a packet generated from a static object is essentially the same each time it is generated. Because static objects represent an appreciable percentage of installed web pages, it would be desirable to implement a method and system in which the network processing of static objects is substantially reduced.
[0009] The problems identified above are in large part addressed by a method and system for storing static objects, including Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) documents, in the form of a one or more IP-compliant packet trains in memory or on disk. Upon subsequent access to a static object, the saved packet train may be retrieved from memory or from disk and the subsequent network processing would merely require some updating of header information. In this manner, a significant portion of the network protocol processing may be eliminated when static objects are referenced frequently. In one embodiment, the server would include code for determining whether a referenced object is a static object. The server may further include a directory of recently accessed static objects and a copy of the packet trains corresponding to these recently accessed objects. The server is preferably configured to consult the directory to determine if an object is static and if it has been recently accessed. If the object has been recently accessed, the server may retrieve the corresponding packet(s) from its system memory, otherwise the server retrieves said packets from disk. Following retrieval of the packets, the server may update certain header fields of the packet to reflect the current request. With the updated header information the packet train is then suitable for transmission over the network as a response to the client's request. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art having the benefit of the disclosure that if the packets exist in memory, then the processing required by this method does not entail memory allocation, packet construction, data copying, or heavyweight protocol processing such as computing checksums or manipulating sockets.
[0010] Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent upon reading the following detailed description and upon reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
[0011]FIG. 1 is a block diagram of selected components of a data processing network according to one embodiment of the present invention;
[0012]FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of an object database according to one embodiment of the invention; and
[0013]FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a method for responding to client requests on a server according to one embodiment of the invention.
[0014] While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the drawings and detailed description presented herein are not intended to limit the invention to the particular embodiment disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
[0015] Turning now to the drawings, FIG. 1 depicts selected elements of a data processing network 100 according to one embodiment of the invention. In the depicted embodiment, network 100 includes a client 102 connected to a server cluster 103 through a network interconnection 101. Client 102 typically includes a client application program such as a web browser or the like running on a client device. Suitable client devices include desktop and laptop personal computers, network (diskless) computers and workstations, and other network aware devices including Internet enabled phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
[0016] Network interconnection 101 may represent a wide area network (WAN) such as the Internet that includes a plurality of network devices including appropriate switches, routers, hubs etc., as well as the connecting media whether it is copper cable, optical fiber cable, or a wireless medium. Typically, each device or network connected to network interconnection 101 complies with and includes driver routines for a standardized network communication protocol. In a widely applicable embodiment in which network interconnection 101 represents the Internet, for example, each of the connected devices and networks is TCP/IP compliant.
[0017] Server cluster 103 as depicted in FIG. 1 is representative of a dense server configuration suitable for providing services to the Internet community. Server cluster 103 includes a switch 104 that interfaces a number of server devices 106 to the network interconnection 101. Each of the servers 106 is connected to switch 106 through a local area network (LAN) 105. LAN 105 is typically implemented with high speed Ethernet although the invention is suitable for use with a variety of LAN implementations.
[0018] In the depicted embodiment, LAN 105 includes networked storage 108 that represents a non-volatile, mass storage facility available to each server 106 in cluster 103. Networked storage 108 typically includes one or more Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, a fibre channel Storage Area Network (SAN), or a combination thereof. In one embodiment, servers 106 may be implemented without a non-volatile storage device (i.e., hard disk) to minimize cluster cost.
[0019] In the depicted embodiment, client 102 may issue client requests to server cluster 103 via network interconnection 101. The client request is received by server cluster 103 and routed to an appropriate server 106 by switch 104. The server 106 interprets the client request and generally issues a response back to client 102. A common example of such a sequence occurs when the user of client 102 selects a web address with a web browser. The browser generates an HTTP formatted GET request identifying the selected web address. The TCP/IP drivers on client 102 process the HTTP request to produce a network compliant packet or set of packets that includes a network address (e.g., an IP address) of server cluster 103. The packet(s) are then routed to server cluster 103 and directed to a server 106 by switch 104.
[0020] Referring now to FIG. 2, selected elements of server 106 according to one embodiment of the invention are depicted. It is to be understood that selected features of network 100, client 102, and server 106 may be implemented as a set of computer executable instructions (software). Such software may be stored in a computer readable medium including volatile mediums such as the system memory (DRAM) or cache memory (SRAM) of server 106 as well as non-volatile mediums such as a magnetic hard disk, floppy diskette, CD ROM, flash memory card, DVD, magnetic tape, and the like.
[0021] As depicted in FIG. 2, server 106 includes an interpreter 202, which processes client requests and generates the corresponding responses. In one embodiment, interpreter 202 includes an HTTP interpreter capable of processing HTTP formatted client requests. Furthermore, in one embodiment interpreter 202 may be implemented as an application-level process for maintainability, or it may be implemented as a kernel-level process for high performance.
[0022] Interpreter 202 works in conjunction with a network interface 204 and network processing code 210 to receive requests and send responses through network interconnection 101 (through, in turn, local area network 105 and switch 104). Network processing code 210 may include the operating system's TCP/IP routines that transform application level messages (requests and responses) into network packets and vice versa. Network processing code 210 may include portions of the operating system kernel code. Typically, it is desirable to access or invoke kernel code as seldom as possible because of the extensive context state that must be saved when a processor switches from executing user code to protected code. The present invention contemplates a reduction in context switching for selected types of requested objects.
[0023] Interpreter 202 according to one embodiment of the invention is configured to determine when a requested object is a static object. For purposes of this disclosure, a static object refers to an object that is time invariant. In other words, a request for a static object always generates the same responsive content. Because static objects, including static HTTP documents, represent a significant portion of the content that is accessible via the Internet, a method of handling requests for such documents that improved response time may result in an appreciable improvement in overall network performance.
[0024] Server 106 includes a static object directory 208. Interpreter 202 uses the information stored in static object directory 208 to determine if the requested object is static, and if so, whether pre-formatted packets corresponding to the requested object have been previously generated. If the packets have been previously generated, interpreter uses the static object directory information to determine the location of the pre-formatted packets corresponding to the object reside (e.g., local memory, local disk, or on network storage 108). If the information in directory 208 indicates that the requested object is static but requires processing to generate the pre-formatted packets, then interpreter 202 retrieves the requested object from an object cache 206 or, if the object is not available in cache 206, from disk storage. After the object has been retrieved, interpreter 202 invokes network processing code 210 to generate a response in the form of a network compliant packet or set of packets (packet train) suitable for transmission to client 102.
[0025] Upon constructing a response to a request for a static object, interpreter 202 may store the constructed packets locally (or on disk) as a separate entity referred to herein as a form of a response to a request for the object. Interpreter 202 may then update static object directory 208 to reflect that a form response containing the corresponding object exists and to indicate its location. The form response or pre-formatted packet train may then be retrieved when the object is subsequently requested by another client. By retrieving the form response, server 102 can bypass or reduce time-consuming network protocol processing and improve overall response performance.
[0026] Although the content of a static object does not vary from one request to the next, the network packets that carry the content may vary. More specifically, the network protocol processing performed by network interface 204 and processing code 210 typically includes appending various headers to the underlying content (the payload) where the headers contain information needed or desirable to send the information across the network to the correct destination. These headers may include, for example, the IP address of the requesting client and a time stamp. While the content of a static object is invariant, the header field values may vary with each request for the object.
[0027] To address this contingency, interpreter 202 may include code that updates a form response to produce correct header values for the current request. This header processing is significantly less time consuming than the fully general network processing that occurs when a response is generated from scratch. For instance, fully general network processing of a static HTTP object would include the computation of a checksum based on the content of the requested object, the allocation of (and eventual deallocation of) memory to store the packet, copying the data from the object cache into the allocated memory, formatting the packets according to the protocol requirement, and the setting up of appropriate scatter/gather buffers. Scatter/gather is used to do Direct Memory Access (DMA) transfers of data that is written to noncontiguous areas of memory. Scatter/gather buffers are a list of vectors, each of which gives the location and length of one segment of the requested object.
[0028] In one embodiment, interpreter 202 inserts one or more blank application layer header fields into the form response. When interpreter 202 processes a request, it can update the application layer header fields to reflect the current request. The response header fields allow server 106 to pass information about the response that cannot be placed in the response status line. These header fields give information about server 106 and about further access to the requested object. HTTP supports a finite set of response header fields as outlined in the HTTP specification from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). See, Hypertext Transfer Protocol�HTTP 1.1, RFC 2616 (IETF 1999). The HTTP response header fields may include an Accept-Range header field, Age header field, ETag header field, Location header field, Proxy-Authenticate header field, Retry-After header field, Server header field, Vary header field, WWW-Authenticate header field, as well as additional general header fields. By inserting one or more blank header fields in the form response, server 106 and interpreter 202 are able to take advantage of the pre-processing of packets as described while retaining flexibility to insert response-specific application header fields. If a response requires more header fields than are provided by the form response, interpreter 202 may opt to construct the response in the conventional manner using fully general network protocol processing.
[0029]FIG. 3 presents a flow diagram illustrating a method 300 of responding to a client request for a specific object in a data processing network. In the depicted embodiment, server 106 receives a client request (block 302). The server device determines (block 304) whether a form of a response containing the requested object is available to the server. If no such representation of the response is available, a response comprising a set of one or more packets is generated (block 306) using fully general network protocol processing including the allocation of memory for the generated response, appropriate data copying, packet formatting, and the calculation of an appropriate checksum. In addition, the interpreter will determine (block 308) whether the requested object is a static object. If the requested object is determined to be a static object, the a form response is generated (block 309) from the packetized response. Generating the form response may include inserting one or more blank header fields into the formatted packets. The form response is then stored (block 310) in the static object database as a set of pre-formatted packets available for subsequent requests. The static object directory is then updated (block 311) to include a reference to the form response thereby enabling subsequent requests to locate and access the form.
[0030] If the interpreter determines in block 304 by searching the static object database that an appropriate form response has been previously generated, the form response is located using the static object database and retrieved (block 312). The interpreter may then update (block 314) appropriate headers in the form response where the effort required to update the response headers is significantly less than the fully general network protocol processing that would otherwise occur. Ultimately, the response, whether generated from a form response or from scratch, is transmitted (block 316) to the client. By storing the responses generated for static objects for subsequent re-use the present invention improves response performance for a potentially significant portion of the client requests, e.g. client requests for static HTTP web pages.
[0031] It will be apparent to those skilled in the art having the benefit of this disclosure that the present invention contemplates a method and system for storing the responses generated for static objects including static HTTP pages for subsequent re-use to reduce network processing on subsequent requests for these objects. It is understood that the form of the invention shown and described in the detailed description and the drawings are to be taken merely as presently preferred examples. It is intended that the following claims be interpreted broadly to embrace all the variations of the preferred embodiments disclosed.
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Situated in Rockingham, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Rockingham is in a shopping district and regional attractions include Rockingham Speedway and Rockingham Dragway.
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The 73 air-conditioned guestrooms at Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Rockingham include safes and complimentary newspapers. Guests can use the in-room complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. 32-inch flat-screen TVs are equipped with cable channels. All accommodations provide desks along with free local calls (restrictions may apply). Additional amenities include hair dryers and irons/ironing boards.
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Author uses facts to create award-winning fiction
Carolina Astrain
March 18, 2013 at 10:04 p.m.
Updated March 18, 2013 at 10:19 p.m.
Whether it's mystery, romance or a timeless tale of the lower class biting at the heels of the American dream, author and investigative journalist Jess Walter, 47, manages to make his characters shine brightly with detailed word smithery.
Walter is giving a reading in Victoria on Thursday afternoon as part of the University of Houston-Victoria's American Book Review Reading Series.
The inspiration for his characters from his 2005 novel "Citizen Vince" - about a mild-mannered credit card scam artist and a string of jilted New York mafia members - was taken from the pages of his Spokane, Wash., reporter notebooks, Walter said.
"It was a good city for New York mafia witnesses," Walter said. "In my reporting, I found seven different mafia witnesses that got sent here, and I even got to know a couple of them by interviewing."
The culture clash of having a crime family from New York living in quiet Spokane were the elements the journalist said he found fitting for writing a crime thriller paralleled by the 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign.
"The 1980 election was interesting because it was when we started a real pendulum swing from the left to the right," Walter said. "When the conservative movement as we know it today was launched, so it just made sense to use that election."
In the novel, his main character, donut baker and credit card scam artist Vincent Camden, grapples with the fact that he cannot vote because of his prior convictions.
"I had also been fascinated by the fact that we don't let felons vote," Walter said. "Which seemed to me like the strangest punishment - like telling teenagers they can't have vegetables because felons don't really want to vote."
After a political rally, Camden convinces one young Republican, Aaron Grebbe, to give a stump speech to a few of his blue-collar poker friends.
Grebbe is convinced the speech is one of the best he's ever given and begs Camden to let him stay and continue his back-alley campaign unaccompanied.
But Grebbe quickly loses his thunder after realizing no one at the poker table is registered to vote.
"We are wildly inattentive when it comes to politics; most people can name three or four Kardashians, but I'm not sure how many members of Congress they could name," Walter said. "That's sort of a sad fact. We are a distracted culture, and we don't take our own government seriously as we take some things, except for every four years when it becomes another television show."
"Citizen Vince" was the winner of the 2005 Edgar Award for best novel.
And his latest book, "Beautiful Ruins" was a New York Times bestseller and named the best book of 2012 by Esquire.
Film adaptation of some of his books, including "Beautiful Ruins," are currently in the works, said Walter.
"If an actor gets interested, then I would tailor the script to them," Walter said. "Billy Bob Thornton wanted to be in it "Citizen Vince" at one point."
The father of three said he works on his fiction pieces seven days a week.
"To get to do the thing you love is such a treat that it makes the challenges and struggles worthwhile," Walter said. "The hardest part of becoming a writer is that we expect things in our culture so fast, and what it really takes to get there is hard work, a ton of reading and time."


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Efficiency may be the most commonly used term in enterprise software marketing - that or "ensure." And not without reason - efficiency is one of the key value propositions of most enterprise software, from collaboration tools, to productivity tools, to integration tools and beyond. At a certain point though, the gains to be achieved from efficiency become smaller and smaller and of lesser and lesser business significance.
This is resulting in a shift in focus from efficiency to effectiveness. At times, these goals are twin, but in many cases, they are not - the most effective allocation of resources may not be the most efficient - at least in the short-term. Managing an organization with an eye toward effectiveness can be a challenge, because business metrics are often tied to processes and other types of "discrete" pieces of work, and how quickly/efficiently they are completed. As a result, when an organization makes the shift to managing for effectiveness rather than efficiency, the metrics used to evaluate success typically have to be "leveled-up," that is, taken up to the level that really matters to the business. An example of this leveling up occurred several years back when customer service organizations changed their focus from shortening call times to increasing the rate of first call resolution. Resolving a customer issue on the first call may result in increasing the length of the call, but over the long term it is a more effective approach, because it may result in a shorter overall expenditure of the Customer Service Representatives' aggregated time, and will certainly result in more satisfied customers.
Operationalizing this "leveling-up" is not an easy task. Most of the greatest challenges associated with doing so relate to data. First, organizations must have an idea that their current efficiency-based metrics are not serving them well. The only way to know that your current practices are ill-serving you is to capture data to make that point. In the CSR example above, that means being able to find out that a customer has called multiple times. But the way that calls are typically handled, a case is created for each one, meaning that the data doesn't tell a story of a customer calling multiple times and taking the time of many different CSRs; instead, the data tells of ten individual calls, each of which lasted three minutes. The complexity of the problem is actually greater than this, because what happens more often than not in such cases is that a customer will try to resolve the problem by contacting the organization through multiple different channels - phone, Web, email, chat. Because the data is so often fragmented, organizations will typically find out about such broken practices through a series of irate letters and phone calls, or in the worst case scenario, in a drop-off in customers. Whatever the means of notification, at some point it becomes clear to the organization that they not only have a problem of misaligned incentives, but also a data problem. They then turn to the data to understand what has been going on in their organization and how to manage more effectively.
The story likely can be pieced together from the data, but the organization must still make sure they are asking the right questions - if "number of cold calls made" is not the right metric, what is? Once the right questions have been identified, then it's time to turn to the data. Because in most organizations the data to be captured was not set up with these higher-level goals in mind, getting the right answer from the data requires some work. The data across these various systems must be integrated and federated - all of the necessary data must be extracted from the various systems inside and out of the organization and loosely coupled so that the data is telling the whole story. It also requires cleansing the data and rationalizing it such that data about the same thing being captured in different systems is in sync.
It may be that even after having all of the data rationalized and accessible, the crucial data needed to manage the business more effectively is not currently being captured. This is a relatively small problem, with practically everything digitized and virtualized, there is very likely a way to capture the data an organization seeks. A common scenario is that the data is being captured, but in an off-premise cloud-based application or in a partner's application or it may be that the data is embedded in the activities carried out on social networks. In all of these cases, new technology makes the data accessible and manageable. As a result, so, too, are the answers to the real business questions of how to manage the business more effectively.
Data integration tools make it possible to integrate and federate data from cloud-based applications with on-premise systems, to incorporated data from third parties. The ability to use Hadoop MapReduce to take in and manage unprecedented volumes of data from social networks and other non-traditional sources makes it possible to truly have, manage and analyze all of your data. New social MDM technology means that you can tap into the data embedded in social interactions on social networks and use this to create an even more fully fleshed-out golden record for your customers.
In truth, it is the gains we have made in efficiency, in finding ever-more efficient ways to access, store and analyze data that make this turn towards effectiveness possible. Without being able to do all of the above in a time- and cost-efficient manner, it is not possible to use the data to manage more effectively.
In many ways, this is what the hype about Big Data is all about. The unarticulated and implicit excitement about Big Data is really about being able to take advantage of the data in which we are all awash and use it to manage our organizations more effectively than ever before. Managing for effectiveness looks different in every industry. In retail, managing for effectiveness is understanding customers - catering to them when, where, how and with what they want. In pharma, managing for effectiveness is limiting physician wash out, getting more clinical trial data more quickly, and being able to complete or pull the plug on trials faster based on the results of that data. In every industry, managing for effectiveness means using the power of data to make the best business decisions possible, getting a true return on data.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SafeLogic has been named "Bag Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo® New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. SafeLogic provides security products for applications in mobile and server/appliance environments. SafeLogic's flagship product CryptoComply is a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic engine designed to secure data on servers, workstations, appliances, mobile devices, and in the Cloud.
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SYS-CON Events announced today the IoT Bootcamp – Jumpstart Your IoT Strategy, being held June 9–10, 2015, in conjunction with 16th Cloud Expo and Internet of @ThingsExpo at the Javits Center in New York City. This is your chance to jumpstart your IoT strategy. Combined with real-world scenarios and use cases, the IoT Bootcamp is not just based on presentations but includes hands-on demos and walkthroughs. We will introduce you to a variety of Do-It-Yourself IoT platforms including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Spark and Intel Edison. You will also get an overview of cloud technologies s...
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After making a doctor's appointment via your mobile device, you receive a calendar invite. The day of your appointment, you get a reminder with the doctor's location and contact information. As you enter the doctor's exam room, the medical team is equipped with the latest tablet containing your medical history – he or she makes real time updates to your medical file. At the end of your visit, you receive an electronic prescription to your preferred pharmacy and can schedule your next appointment.
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SOA Software has changed its name to Akana. With roots in Web Services and SOA Governance, Akana has established itself as a leader in API Management and is expanding into cloud integration as an alternative to the traditional heavyweight enterprise service bus (ESB). The company recently announced that it achieved more than 90% year-over-year growth. As Akana, the company now addresses the evolution and diversification of SOA, unifying security, management, and DevOps across SOA, APIs, microservices, and more.
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Temasys has announced senior management additions to its team. Joining are David Holloway as Vice President of Commercial and Nadine Yap as Vice President of Product. Over the past 12 months Temasys has doubled in size as it adds new customers and expands the development of its Skylink platform. Skylink leads the charge to move WebRTC, traditionally seen as a desktop, browser based technology, to become a ubiquitous web communications technology on web and mobile, as well as Internet of Things compatible devices.
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Docker is an excellent platform for organizations interested in running microservices. It offers portability and consistency between development and production environments, quick provisioning times, and a simple way to isolate services. In his session at DevOps Summit at 16th Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, will walk through these and other benefits of using Docker to run microservices, and provide an overview of RancherOS, a minimalist distribution of Linux designed expressly to run Docker. He will also discuss Rancher, an orchestration and service discovery platf...
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This was a very poor purchase on my part. I paid **.** for four pieces of wood that might be worth $*. You cannot plant anything in it without lining it with plastic of some sort. The water would ruin it in a short time. It is small, it is shallow, it is worthless. Needless to say, I will never buy from Overstock again. What a waste.
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I ordered this planter in the sage color, but received light blue. This was not a difference of what was pictured looking slightly different than what was received. They sent the wrong color. Because of the hassle of returns, however, I will not be sending it back.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? Not at all the same.
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. Ok.
- How accurate was the on site description of the product? Not at all.
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I just finished baking a batch of theses cookies. They tasted very good but they were far to flat for me. When i think of a chewy cookie i think of a thicker cookie.
OMG these are fantastic! Don't overbake. Done when you can move the cookies on the pan. Yumm!
My rating is the rating of my friends and co-workers...they loved it! Thank you
The first time I made these cookies, they tasted amazing and were soft, but they were way too soft, and were falling apart. I just assumed that they needed to bake longer, but the second time when I made them and baked them longer, they just got overcooked. I'd say these need 1/4-1/2 cup more flour, even though the texture of the dough seems great. These taste awesome!
Great recipe! I used ghirardelli cocoa and they came out great with the addition of mint M
A great, solid chocolate cookie recipe. I did what the other reviewer suggested and added a bit of peanut butter to substitute a part of the butter..boy did it add a nice complimentary taste! I did find, though, the dough was a bit too dry...I added 1/4 c. of oil and it made it much easier to handle. Very tasty cookies!
Your cookies are delicious one of the BEST COOKIES I ever tasted my whole family justed loved them!!!!:-)
Fabulous cookie that received many rave reviews! I used unsalted butter and Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips. I baked 9 cookies at a time on parchment paper for 9 minutes, and they turned out great.
Yummy! This one is already printed out and saved in the "favorite cookies" section of my cookbook :)
The cookies turned out wonderfully, although they are a bit greasy because of all the butter (I used two sticks and 1/4 cup of Crisco to help them stay chewy.). I think I will reduce the butter next time. I also added Andes Peppermint Crunch pieces. Oh my goodness did they work well with the chocolate cookie base! I will be making these again. Thank you for sharing!!


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Today the Venable law firm, through their debt relief experts Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum, Esq. and Jonathan L. Pompan, Esq. provided an overview of the new Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and how it applies to credit counseling agencies, debt settlement companies, and debt relief service providers. The presentation is about 1:25 but it ... Read More »
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