What do you mean, more exactly, by cleaning up the config files? For me, the config files are easy to use.

That’s an excellent review, I would like to ask you a question. How can I have Nagios process all object configuration files in a certain directory? It must be possible.

Can you tell me, please, how many NetScaler instances can be hosted on a single physical server?

Regarding the comparison between Juniper and Cisco Ethernet Switches, what is your opinion about rollbacks? There can be situations when somebody makes a mistake.

I developed a website and it has SSL. Do you know if Incapsula can support it?

I agree with the drawbacks you presented in the review. I would like to ask you, can you give me some examples of other options that are more affordable for midsize shops? Thank you.

Very good review, I agree with all the topics. Do you know why does my site appear to be hosted elsewhere using CloudFlare?

Can you tell me, please, how does an ASA learn about the MAC address of the host? Thank you.

You said that version 10 does address many of the issues you presented at room for improvement chapter. Can you tell me, please, if the issue with redundancy (disaster recovery) was solved?

Do you know if I can access my Google Apps account from another program? Thank you.

I have a question for you, if you can help me. After dropping off some files in Dropbox, can I see a list of the files that I’ve dropped off? Thank you.

Can you tell me, please, how backups become corrupted? This is not pleasant for any user, to try to recover data from backups.

You said that the initial setup is quite easy. Can you tell me, please, how much time did you spend with the initial setup?

Very good review. Do you know what is the maximum amount of physical memory that can be supported on the host in GigaBytes?

Can you advise me, please, how much memory should I reserve for the root, on Hyper-V R2? Thank you.

Thank you for this good review. Do you know if I can run Horizon View Standard Edition and Horizon View Standard Add-ons in the same environment?

Do you know if there is a limit to the number of virtual machines that can be added to a vApp in vCloud Director? Thank you.

Thank you for this good review and for the advice. Do you know if I can import OVF formatted virtual appliances?

Does anyone know what is the correct number of JVMs per virtual machine? Thank you.

You are right, XenServer has lots of good features, but lots of limitations. Related to limitations, do you know how many virtual processors can XenServer allocate to a virtual machine?

This is a very good review, and I would like to ask you a question. Do you know if I can use FTP to upload my own custom designs and images?

Thank you for this complete review, and I have a question for you. What do you think about the fact that Skype will now light up Office presence and contact cards? Does it mean that Microsoft is replacing Lync with Skype?

Can you tell me, please, what is the difference between SharePoint Server Standard, Server Enterprise and Foundation? Thank you.

Very good review. Do you know if I can provisionally add people to my project in a way that doesn't send notifications?

Can you tell me, please, what was the result of the evaluation with SpagoBI and Jasper?

Do you know if MicroStrategy Cloud can be configured so that end users can only access the service through a certain VPN?

Regarding the topic of generating reports, do you know if I am able to write my own reports and ad hoc queries in OBIEE? Thank you.

I need to export my data to PDF, XLS, CSV and JPEG files. Can you tell me, please, if the exporting is made easy in BIME?

You said that one day in the morning the application broke and the support team quickly helped you to make it run again. Can you tell me, please, what was the reason of this failure?

Very good and complete review, but I still have one question for you. Do you know if I can access Microsoft Dynamics CRM from my mobile phone?

Thanks for the advice. Do you know if AdvocateHub have capabilities to integrate dynamic, web-provided information into the sales force resources?

As far as I know, there is a mobile application available for Android and iOS. Have you checked it?

Can you tell me, please, how do I configure my User Portal so users don't have to log in? Thank you.

Do you know if I can copy extractions that I create with Weblog add-on into other apps or add-ons?

I agree with your pros and cons, and I would like to ask you a question. Do you know if I can assign issues to multiple users or groups? Thanks.

Very good review. I want to upgrade HP ProLiant ML370 G4. Do you know if HP ProLiant ML370 G4 is compatible with Windows Server 2008 R2? Thank you.

Tim, from your point of view, which tool is more adequate for testing web applications, JMeter or Gatling?

You said there were few issues, that caused the memory out, but they were resolved. Can you give me more details about those issues, please?

Do you know if Marketo support mobile devices? Thank you.

Do you know other SFDC tools, beside Aprimo, that can be used by sales people to monitor every move their prospects make?

As far as I know, there is a feature called Syncfile in Goldengate. Do you know if this feature can be used for E-business suite file synching? Thank you.

This is a good and complete review. Do you know if in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Power View replaces Report Builder?

Can you tell me, please, what tools are available for using PostgreSQL with web pages?

Related to security, can you tell me if MySQL has built-in authentication against LDAP directories?

It was a good idea to move to Microsoft Azure cloud, I also don't want to use SQL Server anymore. I have one question for you related to this topic: what is the difference between SQL Azure and SQL Server?

Can you tell me, please, what other API I can use instead of OpenGL to build my Android application?

You are right, I can deploy Java, Python or Go based web applications. Related to this topic, do you know which JVM languages I can use in my App Engine application?

This is a good and complete review. I have only one question: Do you know if Amazon EC2 is used in conjunction with Amazon S3?

Can you tell me, please, what is the difference between the Basic Workflow module and the Advanced Workflow module?

Are you a member of Fluke Networks' Gold Support program, which is by invitation only? It provides annual priority calibration and factory refresh, priority repair services and accessory replacement.

What can you tell me about the pricing plan called "Freemium", that AppDynamics has?

Can you please tell me, if AppDynamics supports mobile devices?

Regarding the feature of starting Yammer conversations from SharePoint documents, I've been experiencing an issue with this feature since release, where the resultant URL attachment in Yammer sometimes fails to resolve due to authentication issues. I wrote to SharePoint…

You outlined perfectly some pros and cons that WebEx has. I would like to add features that helped me when using WebEx at my workplace Since it is software as a service, the user only needs to subscribe to the service and have Internet access and he is ready to go. With…

I read your review and I agree with your points. From my point of view, when using docSTAR, I noticed the following benefits - It has an easy to use and intuitive user interface - It does not require upfront capital investment - It minimizes business risks associated with…

By using a VPN, is it possible to access Infrared360 from a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone?

I like Infrared360's platform independence, the fact that it is 100% web compliant and it can support external services like LDAP, Web Services, Java Services, Alert Services, databases and other messaging services. Infrared360 can be accessed from any location via web…

I would like to add some more pros that Apache Web Server has Apache has useful features, including implementation of the latest protocols. The admistration is easy, because the configuration files are in ASCII, have a simple format, and can be edited using any text editor.…

There are a few features that I really enjoyed with ProactiveNet, and I will give you some examples: it detected and resolved IT performance issues and bad configurations before users can be impacted in a negative way, it prioritized events in a real-time business context…

Immediately after purchasing the "Chatter Plus" license, can a user upgrade "Chatter Plus" license to a "Chatter in the Clouds" license?

Compared with other tools, HipChat is more useful based on the following reasons: integration with external tools like: pivotal tracker or codeclimate, one common room for all users that work at the same project where they can chat about everyhing, usage of hipbot, a really…

I enjoyed using Confluence because it allowed me to post documentation of in-business content: project documents, business plans and business practices. Confluence is a great repository for technical content and very useful when bringing new team members up to speed when…

APM has some benefits that were very useful for me. I like the real-time dashboard of mainframe and distributed services, the ability to trace transactions in distributed systems and in the mainframe environment and subsystems. I also like that APM can identify the source of…

Can you tell me the additional costs that were incurred because of the hybrid solution?

I've used Symantec Endpoint Protection for about a year now. Overall it has done its job, but I don't use the firewall or application management features. Once I got all the exceptions policies in place it seemed to have less impact on my critical infrastructure. It's easy…

I agree with your product presentation and I would like to add some features that Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 has. It has bare-metal restoration, the user can restore the server copies, including user configurations, system state data, applications, network settings, and…

Citrix XenServer is a very easy to deploy and manage virtualization product. It works well and flexible for a variety of deployments. It has everything that VMWare or Hyper-V does but in an inexpensive (open-source) package. I run it at my home lab on commodity hardware and…

You said that there are lots of management tools. Can you give me some examples, please?

I used XenDesktop 5.6 and I agree with you, it's a great product. From my point of view, the main pros are: thin provisioning capabilities, client USB support, advanced high definition video and audio capabilities and support for vSphere, Hyper-V and XenServer hypervisors…

In the following lines, you can see few of the new features added in VMware vSphere 5 1. Support for Apple products: vSphere 5 supports Apple xServe servers running on OS X Server 10.6 2. A new virtual machine in vSphere 5 includes suppot for USB 3.0 devices 3. Simplified…

I would like to add other pros that VMware Server has 1. VMware Server has a simple installation, it installs like a standard application 2. VMware has Virtual state capture, it captures the virtual machine's state so if a problem arises, the user can roll back to a…

Can you describe me, please, the issues you had with controller type/driver versions, and on which guest OS?

I totally agree with you and I would like to say that this program is plain and intuitive, with a wizard design that walks the user through each step of the virtual machine creation process. The opening menu lets him select whether he wants to create a new virtual machine…

I started to deploy ESXi and vCenter few months ago and I'm fascinated with this product. I can build almost anything and reduce costs. The learning curve is not hard as it seems at the beginning and, once the user has all installed, he can try to build any kind of networks…

I like at RHEV the feature called Transparent Huge Pages, which allows Linux to dynamically create large memory pages for virtual machines and improve performance by reducing the number of times that memory is accessed. Another useful feature is a power user portal that…

Yes, as far as I know, Oracle VM templates are available for E-Business Suite Release 12.2.2. You can download those templates from Oracle website and they allow you to quickly build E-Business Suite 12.2.2 environments on Oracle Linux virtual machines for demonstration…

As you said, the main pro of VM VirtualBox is that it supports a wide range of operating systems, like Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. Also this tools is free, easy to use and fast. The main cons are that VirtualBox does not have drag-and-drop between host and guest…

I recommend VMware vSphere for operating systems different than Windows and Hyper-V for hosting Windows. Hyper-V still offers a better backend for performing live backups of Windows guests and VSS is integrated better than with vSphere at the guest side. vSphere may offer…

From my point of view, Horizon View has three main pros: first pro is the new HTML5 client with Blast, which allows Horizon to deliver full desktops to users' browsers and it has a touchscreen interface. Second pro is that the platform uses space efficiently through the SE…

I made many backups on DVDs on Windows XP and on Windows 7 and always worked well. I don't understand why you are saying that the backups failed entirely. I am sure that the written data was corrupted.

I agree with you, and I would like to add three more features that Gomez has First feature is the mobile real-user monitoring, which enables orgranizations to understand the actual performance end users are experiencing when using native mobile applications or accessing…

I started using the trial version of TOSCA Testsuite to get a first look at this software. I was impressed by the way how easy it is to create and execute test cases. I noticed that non-programmers can write test cases (no scripting required). This can be a con for testers…

I like QuickTest Professional because it's easy to use, it has a simple interface and it uses a real programming language (VB Script) with numerous resources available. QuickTest Professional is significantly easier for a non-technical person to adapt and create working test…

You said that Quality Center can be integrated with a variety of automation tools. Can you give us some examples, please?

From my point of view, HP Quality Center seems mainly to be liked by managers who can get reports out of it, and who've never done any testing. It is very useful when the user manages the requirements traceability and the coverage. A con is that test case structure it…

I would like to add three more pros that LoadRunner has. First pro is that LoadRunner supports many protocols, and running a multiple protocol script can be easily done. Second pro is that the monitoring and analysis interface provided is very user friendly and easy to…

I agree with you, and I would like to add three pros that Microsoft Lync 2013 has. First one is referring to HD video conferencing, because Lync delivers support for 1080p HD resolution for video conferencing, so participants have a sharp, clear display. Second one refers to…

From my point of view, HipChat is very useful for companies with employees in multiple locations. It allows conversations to occur asynchronously, and I've noticed that it cut down on the amount of emails the user send and receive with other colleagues. As pros, I would add…

I used Confluence 5 and I enjoyed its new features. From my point of view, the best feature is the intuitive space sidebar, which appears on every page and is intended to display the most likely content users want to access. The aim is to reduce the need for searching and to…

I also built warehouses on Windows and on Ubuntu, but from my point of view the warehouse built on Windows worked better. I will always advise developers to use Pentaho on Windows, but I respect your opinion.

What I noticed at Infrared360 is that it is agent-less technology that does not require software to be installed on the machine.Infrared360 is a single server installation that runs on a J2EE stadards based application server such as Tomcat. Another pro is that Infrared360…

You said that Apple is always behind Android SDK in benefits, so iOS SDK is behind Android SDK in benefits. The only reason is because Android SDK accepts programming in C and C++, or do you have other reasons?

Ghost is a very nice tool that helped me save large amounts of time in setting up new computers. From my point of view, Ghost is easy to use, reliable, stable and very useful. But compared with other similar products, for example Acronis and Clonezilla, it is more expensive…

Android SDK is very useful because it allows programmers to develop Android applications that they can run, test, profile and debug using the emulator and the other included tools. As a pro, the development language is Java, this is the reason why SDK has multiple platform…

You said you evaluated Tableau, QlikView and MicroStrategy. Compared to those products, what areas of SiSense Prism have room for improvement?

I noticed that OptiView XG cannot only perform stress-testing on a network, but it can also diagnose the issue in real time. Handling up to 10Gbps and 8 streams of data, it aims to go after intermittent performance issues. Another pro of this product is its graphical path…

I agree with you, Visual TruView is indeed a five star product. It provides to the users end-to-end visibility, it helps them to drill down from the map overview all the way to the actual packets and it can store everything, having a 10Gbps line rate. Another pro is that…

Bizagi Process Modeler is a great tool used for creating clear and conclusive BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) representation of the structure of a project As a pro, I would like to add that program's interface is sleek, resembling recent versions of Microsoft…

You are right and I would like to add other features that Network Performance Monitor has: first is ConnectNow Topology Mapping. It allows the environment to be mapped in real time automatically, which provides graphical visibility into the network. Second is Integrated…

From security point of view, CloudFlare offers options when it comes to protecting a website and some of the key security elements include protection against SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). Another security feature is the blocking options, with the protection…

You are right, Unified Access Gateway is a great product from Microsoft. I would like to add that UAG provides secure socket layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN), a Web application firewall, and endpoint security management, enabling authentication, authorization and…

Nagios is a very useful tool for system administrators, which provide good monitoring for network and servers. It's free and from my point of view it's fast and efficient. Nagios is stable and has many plugins available for monitoring. The software is robust, but, as a con…

When using Prism, I noticed that it has the following pros: the program is browser-based, making it easier to navigate and simpler in both design and interface, it has a lower deployment cost and total cost of ownership for all the features that it provides and empowers its…

From my point of view, one of the most impressive capabilities of Visual TruView is the way it presents critical information. The visual part of the product culminates in an HTML5/Java browser-based applet that delivers stunning graphs and dashboards that make it easy to…

When comparing Incapsula and CloudFlare, I noticed that both companies offer outstanding SSL options. Incapsula offers stronger encryption while CloudFlare offers a second solution called 'Flexible SSL'. Any website can use the Flexible SSL even if they do not have SSL…

When comparing Amazon EC2 with Google Compute Engine, I noticed that each one of them has pros and cons. For me, the most important pro of EC2 is that the code can be written in simple programming languages like C# and the most important con is that I will be charged minimum…

I totally agree with your review. My opinion is that Windows Azure is only a part of the future. The future is the concept of pushing all applications into the cloud and utilizing world wide hosting providers. The upfront costs of pushing products out the door is heavily…

Compared with Amazon's EC2, Rackspace Cloud has one specific advantage: it offers cheaper low-end server instances that may be all the developer needs for certain tasks. For certain tasks that are not CPU or memory-bound but instead network bound, the low-end Rackspace…

Salesforce is specific to its own platform and not going after a general purpose audience of mobile developers. That is not a bad strategy as it can quickly build up a portofolio of mobile apps tied to its backends that preempts its large customer base from thinking about…

This is a really great idea. Thank you for sharing this information with us.

I agree with your pros, and as other pro I would add that the only need is to deploy the application, because all the rest is Microsoft managed, the user has no worry about the windows patching and updates, server running out of space, technical troubleshooting and…

As a pro, I would say that Salesforce Platform is built with a broad range of development tools, so it is easier for developers to create applications using those tools. Another pro is that the used programming language is Apex, which is very similar to Java and C# and…

I think that the best feature of App Engine is that it provides application scaling for computer platforms. It automatically allocates both memory and power resources to meet the growing load, bandwidth or CPU demands. The projects are allowed to consume resources up to a…

Some of the business inteligence vendors offer mobile solutions. Notable examples include QlikView and Cognos, as Tina said, but there is also MicroStrategy. Developers are still waiting for Microsoft to offer mobile solutions.

On my opinion, Heroku is the best for a statup. Do you agree?

What do you think about Heroku's support system, is it of a good quality?

Silver allows developers to manage private clouds and also external public clouds offerings. The advantage is that the developer has some security/QA control in place (because Silver is hosted on his end in-house) but yet it's inexpensive because the actual virtual machines…

When comparing IBM SmartCloud with Windows Azure, I noticed that both supports varying processor, I/O configurations, web, command line and API access to compute and storage. In my opinion, SmartCloud is better because it supports multiple operating systems, it has the…

What I like at EC2 is the easy creation and termination of servers and that it allows experimentation without too much cost. It has a lot of services to choose with different OS options. Also, I like the simplicity and the elasticity. But EC2 is expensive and I dislike the…

When compared with Heroku, an Engine Yard application has a larger capacity to scale. An application deployed to Engine Yard lives on a managed EC2 image with a larger memory and storage footprint, while a deployment to Heroku is provisioned to a smaller abstract slice of…

Few months ago, I was in hurry for project delivery and I was looking for an easy to use, fast and reliable open source web development platform, but with great functionality and supporting Ajax. WaveMaker was really the perfect one. It gives to developers all possibilities…

What I like at eApps is that the control panel configures everything, from root the user can restart all applications and eApps allows many users and they can control their own accounts and even have webspace of their own, It is very simple for user to install or uninstall…

What I like at Mendix is that it allows the user to directly capture feedback to an application, right at the screen to which the feedback is associated to. After that, the feedback gets into a queue that developers can access and answer them. At the company that I work for…

On my opinion, Heroku has two main pros: speed and simplicity. Since I just want to focus on my applications, it's a convenience to have a managed platform that I can quickly push application to. I also like that it offers plugins which further simplify things like…

You are right, I did the same error in the past, I upgraded to Business Objects 4.0, and I was not satisfied. But, after a while I upgraded again to BO 4.1 and I noticed few new things. For example, it has improved interoperability and usability across the BI suite, it has…

My opinion is that Cognos TM1 is one of the best business application development platforms, and it has a good performance because of it's in-memory OLAP engine. Another pros are that it is quite scalable, easy to setup and migrate to a new environment. But, as a con, it…

Yes, you are right Mark, by using functions the developer can get an improved performance.

Yes, I use WebFOCUS, and it has three pros that I like most: First one is that it provides real-time, native access to more than 85 data sources over 35 different platforms, and most of the real-time access is read/write. Second one is that the user may append sticky notes…

I agree with you, but I would like to add two more cons: First is that the documentation for Cognos Express is wrong in many cases, probably IBM was in a rush to release this product. Second con is their poor support center, not well trained for this tool.

I used Spotfire few months ago and I noticed the following pros: it is a very intuitive design tool, once the user learn one thing, it's quite easy to use that knowledge to do something else. Marking visualization components is very intuitive and easy to understand. The tool…

When I used SAP BO Crystal Reports, I noticed that it has the following pros: it has easily consumable reports which enable business users to make decisions quickly and instantly, it has securely disseminate information across the organization and the user can get a complete…

There are two pros that I like most: the first one is that administrators can schedule Jaspersoft to generate reports on regular intervals, as you mentioned, and the second one is that it has built-in connectivity to MongoDB, so the data store can be tapped without the need…

I noticed that icCube is designed to integrate with Excel. It has the power of OLAP analysis thanks to the OLAP engine. I discovered that, as you said, MDX IDE is an invaluable asset in creating sophisticated MDX reports. But, from my point of view, the main disadvantage is…

I like Cognos because of the richness of functionality and the breadth of features. The main advantage is the acquisitions and the merging of technologies from disparate organizations into a single solution, which is done using an enterprise service bus (ESB). The main…

I agree with you Anurag. All BI applications must efficiently access terabytes of data. Average BI application query response times often range from 10 seconds to one minute or more, with query optimization relegated to the database. Microstrategy has a high performance and…

Yes, you are right. I don't think there is other BI platform that has all those features.

I saw that you evaluated other options like QlikView, Tableau and Cognos. Can you tell me please the main reason why you have selected Logi Info?

I agree with you Tina. I would like to add that the developers who use Microsoft BI can work with the widely used Microsoft Office Excel, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Analysis Services and data mining, because they are all from Microsoft. Also, to help…

I totally agree with the comparison. In my opinion, QlikView needs fewer tech people than the same solution created with the Microsoft platform. QlikView's scripting and importing capabilities are a little clunky, but once the user gets past that, things aren't very…

I would say that Logi Info is fast and easy to use. I also like their support center. But, from my point of view, it is expensive.

When I used it, I noticed that MicroStategy platform supports interactive dashboards, scorecards, highly formatted reports, ad hoc query, thresholds and alerts, and automated report distribution Interface include web, desktop and Microsoft Office integration. MicroStrategy…

As pros, Pentaho Business Analytics has a large selection of options, it is customizable, it is easy to install and easy to use. Pentaho is very good for Windows, but poor for other operating systems.

As you said, SpagoBI is an open office software, but also a complete and flexible business intelligence tool. I would like to add that SpagoBI covers external processes for managing customized processes, running in the background or starting at a scheduled time.

I would like to add some more pros: .NET has less complexity, it requires less time to produce a product, by using it is easy to access complex operating system functions, it supports both windows and web applications and by using .NET is easy to create dynamic sites. As…

On my opinion, the biggest pro is the excellent data recovery support. Microsoft SQL Server has a number of features that promote data restoration and recovery. Although individual tables can't be backed up or restored, complete database restoration options are available…

I would like to say that SPSS identifies market segments using visual classification trees, it isolates unusual or problem data and it prepares and transform data using spreadsheet tools and procedures. I don’t like that the default graphics are poor and not easily…

Thank you for your approval, DB2 is really very reliable.