Links that I have found interesting for February 25th:

• Build a Common Data Model. I dare you. – Leveraging Information and Intelligence – How do you build a CDM? It's really an enterprise metadata model, that's fully normalized and compartmentalized, so that there is a complete single, functional, and well defined schema that spans the enterprise. Moreover, all security, logic, rules, and other important information is defined in the CDM. Creating a CDM is just a matter of understanding the existing data, including semantics, structure, integrity, rules, logic, and physical location, and then working through the logical and physical design of the CDM, including normalization, and physical to virtual database abstraction.
• Digital Fuel, "Innovation Of The Year" Finalist, To Compete For Top Honors At IT Service Management Conference – Digital Fuel, the leader in IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, today announced it has been named a finalist in the "Innovation Of The Year" portion of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Awards sponsored by Pink Elephant, producer of the 13th Annual International IT Service Management Conference & Exhibition. Digital Fuel will exhibit at the conference, to be held February 22-25, 2009 in Las Vegas at the Bellagio Hotel, and will compete for top honors on February 24.
• Endace and Correlix Deliver First Integrated Network Monitoring Solution for Latency Intelligence – "Our NinjaProbe coupled with Correlix's trading-level latency intelligence and innovative correlation technology introduces a unique solution into the market space," said Mike Riley, CEO of Endace. "We're enabling users to track their complete trading and market data flow in real time while simultaneously monitoring, capturing and managing the underlying raw network data for deep technical analysis."

  "As the low-latency trading era becomes more sophisticated and evolves from low-latency component investments to understanding complex multi-layer latency in trade systems and market data flows, we believe this integrated solution addresses the needs of our typical trading desk customer and their network team," said Shawn Melamed, CEO Correlix.

Links that I have found interesting for February 24th:

• Solution to Automatically Generate and Email TCR Reports – this solution provides a mechanism to generate and distribute PDF reports from TCR via email to one or more email ids. Examples are also given which will allow TCR PDF reports to be distributed by means of a web page interface and a simple cgi script which will send requested reports via email.

  This solution provides a set of sample scripts which provide a process to email previously generated PDF reports from TCR. These were written and tested with reports generated from TCR 1.1.1, here after referred to as TCR. The PDF reports will need to be stored in a directory structure for access by the scripts with correct permissions. Also included is html and cgi example code to which will allow the user to send the same previously created TCR PDF reports to their email ID via a simple web front end.

• The operational context diagram – For many years, application architects and analysts have used the system context diagram (SCD) as a powerful tool to share the high-level view of a system. The SCD provides only a functional view of the system, a view that later leads to the use case model. To completely specify the system under development, non-functional requirements must be taken into account. NFRs create another view of the system context: the operational context diagram, which then segues to the operational model. In this article, learn about a technique to complement the SCD with a non-functional oriented operational context diagram.