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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

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University Medical Center Virtualizes, Cuts Storage Needs By 65%

With data doubling about every year, the University of Kansas Physicians group turned to virtualization to cut costs and boost performance.

How To

How to Use a Business-Focused Approach in SOA Design and Governance

If you listen to industry discussion of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more.

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How Enterprise Architects Can Be a Business Person First

Enterprise architects can add tremendous value to their organization's selection of a packaged application solution by analyzing each candidate's Architectural Business Value (ABV). Forrester Research's Randy Heffner explains how.

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Cloud Computing: Advice for Application Control Freaks

The whole point of cloud computing is to easily leverage services you don't have to build and operate yourself. How do you make sure that the things you depend on will really be there over time?

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Forrester: SOA is Alive and Well

It's been a little hard of late to find references to SOA (service-oriented architecture), the buzz-phrase that once saturated the IT industry but in recent years has succumbed to "cloud computing." But SOA remains alive and relevant, according to a new Forrester Research report.

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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

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SAP's Co-CEOs: Are Two Heads Better Than One?

Nearly a year into their tenure as co-CEOs of SAP, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe are saying all the right things and getting good marks from industry analysts--proving that a dual-CEO model is not a recipe for disaster. But the duo still faces significant challenges.

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Talend Acquires SOA Vendor Sopera

Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

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SOA's Not Dead Says Burton

The onset of cloud computing has meant that SOA is making a comeback says Burton analyst

 
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