Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Mon, April 16, 2012 - Managing the petabyte-scale and larger data stores that are a fact of life with Big Data is a different beast than managing traditional large-scale data infrastructures. Online photo site Shutterfly--which manages more than 30 petabytes of data--shares its strategy for taming the storage beast.

Tue, April 10, 2012 - Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions carefully or risk finding themselves stuck with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward.

Tue, March 20, 2012 - Big Data is coming, but for most organizations it's three-to-five years away. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare now. Analyzing Big Data will require reference information like that provided by a semantic data model. And once you mine the data, you need to secure it.

Fri, March 16, 2012 - Business customers and users are demanding ever-better performance from websites and applications. However, the majority of CIOs are uncertain they can meet those expectations. Next-generation application performance management (APM) tools can provide the visibility necessary to proactively identify bottlenecks and performance issues before they affect users.

Mon, March 05, 2012 - Application streaming--delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud--holds great promise, but has proved elusive in practical application. Legacy applications can prove difficult to virtualize and performance has been problematic. But Numecent, a startup born of a DARPA project, aims to change that.

Fri, January 20, 2012 - The Open Group has published two industry standards that enable businesses to integrate SOA (service orientated architecture) and cloud computing

Tue, October 11, 2011 - With data doubling about every year, the University of Kansas Physicians group turned to virtualization to cut costs and boost performance.

Wed, August 03, 2011 - 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.

Mon, June 06, 2011 - 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.

Tue, March 29, 2011 - 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?

Wed, March 23, 2011 - 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.

Tue, December 14, 2010 - For a concept that was pronounced dead two years ago, there's still plenty of life in SOA, says Forrester

Tue, November 23, 2010 - 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.

Wed, November 10, 2010 - 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.