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Peter Yared is the CTO of CBS Interactive and has founded four e-commerce and marketing infrastructure companies that were acquired by Sun, VMware, Webtrends and TigerLogic. You can follow him at @peteryared.

The biggest issue to address is the ongoing tension between HTML5 and native. Most of the debate between the two is focused on different technical features that very quickly delve into minutia. However, the actual decision between the two should be made based on the type of traffic a site has.

If the majority of a site’s traffic is side door traffic from Google, Facebook, and Twitter ...

1 minute of end user being ever so helpful...as usual.

Three national staffing firms—Modis, Robert Half Technology and Technisource—shared with CIO.com their lists of the best U.S. cities for finding IT jobs...

Many of the reasons companies might consider moving their IT infrastructure to a data centre or hosting facility, as they are often referred to, include the following...

One of the important questions that we should all frequently ask ourselves is, “How will virtualization and cloud computing be different this year and next year than they have been in the past”? One of the answers to those questions involves the kinds of applications that you are virtualizing, and/or putting in clouds (public or private). The short version of the answer is that the applications that are left to virtualize, are for the most part, very different from the applications that have been virtualized to date. This is illustrated in the diagram below...

In 2011, about $2 billion will be spent worldwide on application performance monitoring licenses and first-year maintenance contracts. This is a 15% increase over the $1.7 billion spent on APM in 2010, which grew by approximately 10%, compared with global spending in 2009...

When we speak with customers, we’re often asked questions about the pros and cons of monitoring of real users vs. synthetic transactions and whether one approach should be used over the other. The truth is both approaches are relevant and they complement each other. However, there has been some chatter about synthetic monitoring no longer being relevant or needed. We disagree...

"[There is] absolutely a direct correlation between the performance and stability of an application and the revenue, brand recognition and agility of a company," explained Blair Drenner, vice president of business development, Compuware's DynaTrace division. "People have been talking about this for a long time--marrying the application, technology, bits and bytes to the business."...

A study conducted at Gartner's 2011 Data Center Conference in December showed that 78% of 2,500 attendees surveyed said they plan to build private cloud services by 2014. "We believe that the vast majority of private clouds will migrate or evolve into a hybrid model," says Gartner researcher Thomas Bittman. "We're telling clients to design and build their private clouds with hybrid in mind."...

Last time, I talked about many of the problems with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud pricing: public pricing typically isn't posted, there aren't standard pricing models, there's no tiered pricing, and more. In this article, let's cover some of the free options available to price the public cloud...

Networks are not the only attack vector, just one of the more popular vectors. 

What the application does is important to understand or is it?...

Citrix Systems believes that it can see the future, and it’s in the clouds. Or at least the virtual space that we are all being urged to put our trust in, for it is here that Citrix is making a play. It believes that the concept of the ‘personal cloud’ for businesses, where each employee has a cluster of applications, data, and friends, will see it be a market leader in a multi-billion market by 2015...