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SOA News : July, 2008


SOA Headlines : July, 2008

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WAVEMAKER TEAMS WITH STRIKEIRON TO SIMPLIFY WEB SERVICES MASHUPS

Joint Webinar will Demonstrate Web 2.0 Mashups Made Easy

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

SYNOVUS FINANCIAL CHOOSES MANAGED METHODS FOR AGENTLESS SOA VISIBILITY

Managed Methods Inc., the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products, today announced the addition of Synovus Financial to its customer list. Synovus is a financial services holding company with more than $33 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides commercial and retail banking, as well as investment services, to customers through 36 banks, 440 ATMs, and other Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.

Monday, July 28, 2008

XWEBSERVICES, INC. FOUNDER TO PRESENT 2 DAY SOA WORKSHOP IN MUMBAI, INDIA

Curious about SOA and whether it can really deliver both IT and business benefits? On August 19 & 20 in Mumbai, India discover how Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can make a difference in your organisation's agility and profitability with Cristian Sturek in a 2 day SOA Training seminar.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

STRIKEIRON WEB SERVICES NOW AVAILABLE ON THE SERENA MASHUP EXCHANGE

Mashup of two key players creates playing field for killer mashups

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

MANAGED METHODS ADDS REST SUPPORT TO JAXVIEW’S AGENTLESS DEPLOYMENT OPTION

Managed Methods Inc. today announced support of REST style services to their patent pending Agentless deployment options. JaxView has several different deployment options including XML/Firewall, Agentless, Agent stub and ESB integration. Although JaxView has had support of REST services in other deployment options, the agentless option only supported SOAP standard based services, until now.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

FORUM SYSTEMS EXPANDS GLOBAL CHANNEL FOR SOA GATEWAY, SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH LEADING SOA SOLUTIONS

Forum Systems, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Gateway, Forum Sentry, today announced it has partnered with Techlogix

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

SERVICE ORIENTED INTEGRATION WITH SERVICEMIX TALK

My talk from Javapolis 2007 titled Service Oriented Integration With Apache ServiceMix has been posted on the Parleys website for anyone who's interested.

Friday, July 04, 2008

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SOA CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE CAN CUT COSTS

Despite high initial start-up costs, service-oriented architecture (SOA) centres of excellence can save organisations

Thursday, July 31, 2008

SOA SUMMER VACATION CHECKLIST

There are seven words every IT professional dreads hearing during the summer: "Sorry to bother you on vacation but …"

Thursday, July 31, 2008

GT SOFTWARE EVENT WILL “ROCK THE MAINFRAME” WITH SOA AT SHARE SAN JOSE

The SHARE Orlando meeting held earlier this year was such a rocking success for GT Software that the company has adopted rock-n-roll as the theme for SHARE

Thursday, July 31, 2008

SECURITY FIRM HELPS IDENTIFY FLAWS IN TOP FIVE SOA ARCHITECTURES

A study conducted by Application Security Firm Fortify Software Inc., found critical security concerns in five of the most popular SOA solutions

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

FORTIFY LAUNCHES SOA BUG TRACKER

Launch responds to research that found critical security concerns in five popular service oriented architecture frameworks.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

SOA SET TO DRAMATICALLY CHANGE FEDERAL IT MARKETPLACE

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is emerging as a powerful tool for technology modernization, efficiency, and cost savings

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

THE GREAT SOA CONSULTANT SQUEEZE

Here's the scenario: you're a CIO who, in spite of reading ZapThink's warning about issuing a SOA RFP, you find yourself doing just that

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

SOA WORLD - SOA'S LAST MILE

According to Wikipedia, “The last mile (or last kilometer) is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer.

Monday, July 28, 2008

TESTING SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES

Download HP's SOA White Paper On Testing SOA Applications and Services

Monday, July 28, 2008

SOA WORLD - ABSTRACTION AND CONTROL IN REST VS RPC

One of the biggest debates in the software industry is about getting the level of abstraction right

Monday, July 28, 2008

THE ESB - SOA HULLABALLOO

With multiple ESB platforms, you are still providing a very good way to bring underlying business applications and transaction systems

Monday, July 28, 2008

SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) SET TO DRAMATICALLY CHANGE FEDERAL IT MARKETPLACE

Vendors with proprietary elements could be severely impacted by a SOA-driven standardized environment.

Monday, July 28, 2008

SOA SECURITY MORE THAN AUTHENTICATION

Many years ago, I admired my sister's deadbolt. I made a silly comment as to how it looked like it would be impossible to break into the New York City apartment

Monday, July 28, 2008

BUILD POWERFUL JAVA APPLICATIONS USING SOA WITH NEW BOOK FROM PACKT

Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software architecture where functionality is grouped around business processes

Monday, July 28, 2008

ONLY 1 IN 5 SOA PROJECTS ACTUALLY SUCCEED

Despite its growing popularity and constant improvements in SOA technology, according to SOA survey done by Barton’s group Anne Thomas Manes

Saturday, July 26, 2008

INTRODUCTION TO SOA GATEWAYS: BEST PRACTICES, BENEFITS AND REQUIREMENTS

Forum Systems' White Paper On SOA Gateway - A Core Infrastructure Component of a SOA

Friday, July 25, 2008

BOOK EXCERPT: ENABLING AGILE BUSINESS WITH SOA

SOA Value Story Ronald Schmelzer, of industry think tank ZapThink, describes four key benefits to SOA.[1]

Friday, July 25, 2008

MICROSOFT ADDS TO CLOUD-BASED SOA PLATFORM

Microsoft added this week workflow capabilities to BizTalk Services, the company's platform-in-the-cloud project for SOA

Friday, July 25, 2008

WHAT'S WRONG WITH SOA

The benefits of a SOA are widely touted by advocates, and easily understood by anyone in the C-suite cost savings

Friday, July 25, 2008

COLLABORATION UNDER SOA: THE HUMAN ASPECTS

In the previous chapters, we concentrated on technical and organizational aspects of SOA in the enterprise.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

WHAT IS A GOOD SOA PROJECT?

Have you ever heard of this question, or something similar: "What is a typical or good SOA project"?

Thursday, July 24, 2008

ARCHITECTURE 101: WHY SOA NEEDS AN ENTERPRISE FOCUS

Reinforcing the growing sentiment that users attempting to build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) have been too technology and integration focused, presenters at this week's Open Group Conference bemoaned a gap between enterprise architects and SOA practitioners.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

CAPTURING THE ASPECTS OF SOA SERVICE OWNERSHIP

Effective SOA governance depends on the ID and assignment of ownership of various service components

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

SOA, SAAS TEAM UP

Midmarket companies are moving quickly to incorporate the fundamentals of service-oriented architecture, or SOA

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR SOA?

Technical approaches to implementing SOA abound, but business considerations may win over.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

COLLABORATION UNDER SOA: THE HUMAN ASPECTS

This book chapter from Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect shows how Web 2.0 business concepts apply to businesses, especially those enterprises that adhere to the philosophy of SOA.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

THE BEST SOA PILOTS DON'T GET THE SERVICES RIGHT

When Thomas Edison was in quest of inventing the electric light bulb, he didn't get it right the first time.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

HOW TO HANDLE SOA VENDOR CONSOLIDATION

While acquisition sprees reduce infrastructure choices, other factors keep a variety of SOA platforms available.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

CAN SOA MOVE BEYOND HYPE?

The software industry continues to struggle against the hype surrounding service-oriented architecture (SOA), long touted as the technology

Monday, July 21, 2008

OPINION: TOP 10 REASONS WHY PEOPLE MAKE SOA FAIL

Several recent articles have discussed why many service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives are failing.

Monday, July 21, 2008

APPROACHES FOR LEVERAGING HYDRASCA TO CREATE SCALABLE AND REUSABLE SERVICES FOR SOA

While the notion of service oriented architecture (SOA) continues to emerge, those who implement SOA today face a variety of challenges

Monday, July 21, 2008

SALTMARCH'S SUMMIT ON SOA/WEB SERVICES, SAAS/PAAS, VIRTUALISATION & ECM.

The power team for Workhorse IT -- SOA & Web Services, SaaS/PaaS, Virtualisation and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) -- will be center stage at Saltmarch Media's Business Technology Summit.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

EXECUTING SOA: A METHODOLOGY FOR SERVICE MODELING AND DESIGN

This chapter provides a detailed overview of a service-oriented design methodology and covers the SOA reference architecture.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

SOA COMPLICATED BY ESB PROLIFERATION

Enterprise service bus (ESB) intermediation remains an issue despite the adoption of WS-* standards, argues John Michelsen

Thursday, July 17, 2008

EVOLVING SECURITY ARCHITECTURES AND SOA FOR BETTER BUSINESS COLLABORATION

Traditional security models have been aimed at securing corporate boundaries, and then the network, reinforcing a 'perimeterized' approach.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

SOA PLATFORMS - SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL SOA DEPLOYMENTS -

SOA Platforms - Software Infrastructure Requirements for Successful SOA Deployments - a new market research report on www.companiesandmarkets.com

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: MDM'S ROLE AS A CRITICAL ENABLER FOR SOA

As organizations move toward distributed and federated SOA architectures, there is increased value on making enterprise information

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

IBM RELEASES EVENT-DRIVEN SOA

IBM releases event-driven SOA

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

SOA CUSTOMERS LOOK FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE

A new survey of SOA customers has found governance is key to creating sustainable implementations.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

THE BUCKAROO BANZAI EFFECT: LOCATION INDEPENDENCE, SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE, AND THE CLOUD

Now that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is finally becoming mainstream, an increasing number of people are asking us what comes after SOA.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

JUSTSYSTEMS' XFY HELPS IBM DELIVER REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF SOA

JustSystems' xfy Achieves Ready for IBM Retail Integration Framework Status

Monday, July 14, 2008

EARLY ADOPTERS VIEW GOVERNANCE AS KEY TO CREATING SUSTAINABLE SOA IMPLEMENTATIONS SAYS SOFTWARE AG

A new global survey issued today suggests that enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has ‘crossed the chasm’.

Monday, July 14, 2008

OSLO: ROAD TO MICROSOFT'S CLOUD

The road to Microsoft’s Cloud computing environment runs through “Oslo,” the company’s software modeling initiative, but there will be other stops along the way.

Monday, July 14, 2008

SOA POLICY MANAGEMENT

Can you explain the mechanics of SOA policy management?

Monday, July 14, 2008

SOA FAILURES TRACED TO PEOPLE, PROCESS ISSUES

At Interop 2008, panelists said that most SOA efforts will fail, but the issues are with people and processes and not with technology.

Monday, July 14, 2008

WHEN PORTAL PLATFORMS AREN'T TRUE SOA

In our Enterprise Portals Report evaluations, we point out that vendors who tightly couple their portal offerings to other pieces

Monday, July 14, 2008

"VIRTUALIZATION POWER PANEL" LIVE ON SYS-CON.TV

View Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera's Pete Manca, Microsoft's Stewart, and Symantec's Duckering

Saturday, July 12, 2008

AN IT ADMIN'S DREAM COME TRUE: THE PROMISE OF DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION

MokaFive's Founder & CTO, John Whaley, to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Friday, July 11, 2008

ON THE PATH TO CLOUD NIRVANA

rPath's Founder & CEO, Billy Marshall, to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thursday, July 10, 2008

SYS-CON'S "CLOUD COMPUTING EXPO" - CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN THROUGH JULY 31

Join the World Class Faculty Exploring the Technical & Business Value of Delivering IT Resources as Services

Thursday, July 10, 2008

VIRTUALIZATION: BEYOND HYPERVISORS TO COMPLETE IT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

Liquid Computing's CTO & Co-founder, Mike Kemp, to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thursday, July 10, 2008

MICRONETWORK-BASED COHERENCY: EXTENDING A PROCESSOR'S COHERENCY DOMAIN OVER A STANDARD NETWORK

3 Leaf Systems' CEO, Bob Quinn, to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thursday, July 10, 2008

SOA ISSUES ARE PEOPLE ISSUES...NOT TECHNOLOGY

According to the Burton Group, the issues around SOA are not so much about technology and complexity as they are about the people

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

UML AND SOA THE MICROSOFT WAY

Microsoft's Oslo project for model-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA) will support, but will not be based on the unified modeling language (UML),

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

SOA PRINCIPLES DRIVE CONTENT PRACTICES

The growth and visibility of SOA has brought the basic principles of service orientation to countless domains outside of application development.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

SOA ENDS ERA OF BIG APPS, OPENS DOOR FOR RUBY ON RAILS

The era of the monolithic multi-million line application is over and service-oriented architecture (SOA) killed it, argues Tom Mornini, CTO of Engine Yard, a Ruby and Rails hosting service.

Monday, July 07, 2008

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTS ARE VITAL IN TOUGH TIMES - FORRESTER

Enterprise architects should use the current economic uncertainty to push business unit executives into genuine collaboration, according to a new paper from Forrester.

Monday, July 07, 2008

VIRTUALIZATION ON WALL STREET CONFERENCE & EXPO WILL BE THE LEADING TECHNOLOGY EVENT

Three-day event will offer unmatched content on Virtualization for the financial markets

Sunday, July 06, 2008

FIRMS THAT UNDER-INVEST IN SOA GOVERNANCE WILL FAIL TO REAP REWARDS

Organisations that under-invest in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

MICROSOFT SOA STRATEGY: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE?

The classic Strother Martin line from "Cool Hand Luke" might sum up analysts views as to why so few people outside Microsoft

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

CRITICAL WATCH NOMINATED FOR SYS-CON'S "SOA WORLD MAGAZINE READERS' CHOICE AWARDS"

FusionVM SaaS Nominated for "Best Security Solution"

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

GT SOFTWARE NOMINATED FOR SYS-CON'S "SOA WORLD MAGAZINE READERS' CHOICE AWARDS"

Ivory Service Architect Nominated for "Best SOA Tool" and Three Other Categories

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

ORACLE REVEALS BEA ROADMAP

WebLogic app server becomes core Java container and SOA is emphasized as Oracle meshes its technologies with those acquired in the BEA merger

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

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