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Open Group publishes standards to align cloud strategies

The Open Group has published two industry standards that enable businesses to integrate SOA (service orientated architecture) and cloud computing
IBM buys software testing vendor Green Hat

IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, the company announced on Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not provided.
Red Hat releases JBoss Data Services Platform tool

Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1 virtualises architecture.
IBM rolls out DataPower blades for zEnterprise mainframe

IBM continues to roll out new components for the zEnterprise 196, the mainframe it released last summer.
SOA makes its home in financial services arena

For a concept that was pronounced dead two years ago, there's still plenty of life in SOA, says Forrester
SOA's not dead says Burton

The onset of cloud computing has meant that SOA is making a comeback says Burton analyst
Leapfactor offers cloud deployment for Apple, Android App Store

SAP partner and start-up Leapfactor announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back office custom applications for accounting and customer support.
Oracle announces Service Bus 11g

The Oracle Service Bus 11g helps turn complex architectures into flexible application networks and provides caching and governance
Open source middleware vendor updates OSGi for web services

Carbon platform features component management, web services discovery.
Epicor promises ERP for credit crunch recovery

Epicor announced a new version of its flagship ERP (enterprise resource planning) application that it says is packed with features meant to help customers as business rebounds from the global recession.

Latest Features

Complexity of IT systems will be our undoing

Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch and an expert in software architecture, argues that the increasing complexity of our IT systems will be our undoing. In fact, he just recently got a patent for a methodology that helps deal with complex IT systems. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Sessions to get his take on the extent of the problem and possible solutions.
The long dark night of the end user

The ability to deliver a consistent, quality end user experience and to fix problems is both growing more important and more complex than ever.
Automatic for the programmer

The magic of software is that, because there are no limits of physics, we can keep advancing the technology to meet our ambitions. Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.'
New IBM mainframe won't end battle for big iron's soul

IBM is expected later this month to announce its next-generation System z mainframe, its first update since the release of the z9 three years ago.
From routing to switching - Juniper jumps in with both feet

Juniper executive VP Hitesh Sheth explains why he thinks the time is right for his company to get into LAN switching.
Red Hat faces stiff challenges to move beyond its core technology

Clad in his pyjamas, Red Hat co-founder Marc Ewing arrived at work at 1100 one day in 1998, unlocked the office for a new employee, and promptly left to go back to sleep.
Are unified communications here at last?

So far, IP communications that follow users across voice, IM, email and other media have benefitted a narrow group. That may be about to change.
The shifting sands of WAN optimisation

Riverbed's announcement this week that it is shipping its PC client software has underlined the fact that PCs are now powerful enough to do the job of a WAN optimisation appliance.
Grid computing: The term may fade, but features will live on

Grid computing's goal of sharing resources is still a plan for many corporate customers; the question is how to get there most effectively.
Integrating the phone with the business process

Business efficiency means involving people better, not cutting them out of the loop, argues the boss of Avaya's communications group.

How-tos

Assembling a 'Network A-Team'

How to cost an SOA project

Case Study: ILIM's quick response time

How to handle legacy data in a service-oriented architecture

How to navigate a sea of SOA standards

How to define an SOA

Case Study: What customers want in this new year (part 2)

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Featured White Papers

What?s New in Oracle SOA Suite 11g?

Oracle SOA Suite, a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, offers a one-stop solution for building, deploying, and managing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). And because Oracle SOA Suite's components are hot-pluggable, they can run in a variety of environments, allowing organizations to extend and evolve their existing environments instead of replacing them.
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Enabling agile and intelligent businesses

This paper looks at how Oracle SOA Suite 11g enables agile and intelligent businesses by providing a unique design advantage, a platform for agile and intelligent business applications and innovation for efficient IT execution.
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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

For most enterprise IT organizations, years of innovation, expansion, and acquisition have resulted in sprawling infrastructure that stretches the limits of manageability. While the individual IT systems and applications in service are often well considered and expertly implemented, the sheer scale of the ongoing IT investment itself has emerged as the dominant concern. Even when best-of-breed technologies, open standards, market-leading vendors, and modern architectural practices like SOA have been employed pervasively, most enterprises now find themselves with too many platforms, too many technologies, too many domains of expertise, and too many vendors to coordinate and manage.
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Top 10 reasons to choose an open source application integration solution

To help you evaluate various application integration solutions and technologies available on the market, and to compare the leading open source application integration technology with alternatives, this white paper presents top 10 reasons why organizations are choosing open source AND Talend for application integration.
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What?s new in Oracle SOA Suite 11g?

This white paper reviews platform enhancements, and explores each and every product in the SOA Suite (adapters, B2B, OSB, BPEL and Human Workflow, Business Rules, BAM and CEP).
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