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Software AG upgrades registry and repository for SOA Software AG is offering an updated registry and repository product for SOA, which had its genesis at Infravio and webMethods. IBM addressing beginner, advanced SOA needs With an SOA product rollout on Wednesday, IBM is looking to address needs spanning from basic to advanced deployments.  October 2, 9:00 p.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Purdue pursues long-term cost savings Like other adopters of server virtualization, Purdue University was concerned that its datacenter would hit the wall, exceeding physical space, power, and cooling limits. The use of EMC VMware let it combine 140 physical servers into three Hewlett-Packard DL-585 servers, a 40:1 compression ratio, says Mike Rubesch, director of IT infrastructure systems. "It helps postpone the inevitable," he adds. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA touts Genesis project for next-gen apps BEA Systems is planning a dynamic application infrastructure codenamed "Project Genesis," for building next-generation business applications that incorporate technologies including mashups. September 11, 12:00 p.m. PDT Best of open source in platforms and middleware Open source cut its teeth on operating systems, earned its street cred on Linux and Apache, and never looked back, continuing ever since to extend the kingdom to databases, middleware, and newfangled platforms such as hypervisors for server virtualization. Our Bossies in platforms and middleware recognize a few old faces, and some fairly new ones. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases rich media app betas This week Microsoft is quietly delivering a flurry of updates to its developer community, including the release candidate version of Silverlight, the new rich media competitor to Adobe's Flash Player. Also available for download will be a Silverlight plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 -- another huge hunk of bits Microsoft is making available for download this week. None of this would be complete without Beta 2 of the 3.5 version of the .Net Framework itself, also ready for downloading. July 26, 3:02 p.m. PDT Tibco links BPM with SOA With a new release of its business process management software available Wednesday, Tibco Software said it is enabling a tighter link with SOA and delivering a more integrated user experience. June 20, 5:30 a.m. PDT AmberPoint Flex-ing SOA management muscles AmberPoint will add an Adobe Flex-based interface to its SOA management platform, with the goal of giving users a bird's eye view of their SOA networks June 11, 12:01 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Stephan Murer Back in the late '90s, the Private Banking IT division of financial services giant Credit Suisse was at a crossroads. Some felt that the organization’s IT infrastructure was beyond repair and would have to be replaced wholesale. Others maintained that everything was fine and could keep going indefinitely. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Robert Gourley Imagine merging 11 companies’ IT departments, creating a standard communications platform that can withstand battlefield conditions, and launching an SOA effort all at the same time. And having it in operation just two years later. That was the challenge Robert Gourley faced as CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which gathers, analyzes, coordinates, and distributes intelligence data for the U.S. armed forces and in partnership with various civilian spy agencies. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft bolsters just-unveiled services platform Microsoft is adding on Wednesday connectivity testing and publish-and-subscribe capabilities to its BizTalk Services platform for integrating services within and outside a firewall. May 2, 3:00 p.m. PDT Formal BPEL standard set for approval Without further adieu, an industry-wide specification for orchestrating Web services in business processes appears set to be formally adopted by OASIS next week, nearly five years after the proposal first debuted. March 29, 12:45 p.m. PST Software AG offering SOA policy control Software AG on Thursday plans to announce its Active Governance Framework (AGF), which features a policy editor for SOA. February 15, 6:35 a.m. PST Unisys, Oracle home in on Linux conversions Unisys will announce on Tuesday an expansion of its relationship with Oracle to move mainframe and Unix deployments over to Linux and SOA. February 5, 9:00 p.m. PST Oracle sows the seeds for SOA An SOA (service oriented architecture) has the appealing allure for reducing costs and improving your company’s agility. But, before digging up your existing IT roots, you’ll need assurances there’s a fortified and fertile ecosystem waiting to support you in those supposedly greener pastures. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Budgeting for SOA success SOA has been an enterprisewide rallying cry for the past few years, as companies have sought to unlock Web services’ potential to augment the value of existing IT resources. Yet most activity around service-oriented architecture has been limited to discussion, study, planning, and small projects. 2007, however, will witness a significant surge in SOA spending, as early adopters evolve POC (proof of concept) implementations into more robust deployments and late adopters buy into the architectural shift. Lack of insight and foresight, however, will spur many enterprises to divert too many dollars to areas that will prove less fruitful in ensuring the long-term success of their SOA. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Platforms Novell’s Suse Linux 10 was the landmark operating system launch of the year, giving us a bigger and badder Linux server and a startlingly smooth Linux desktop. We also got good looks at Microsoft Vista and Windows Longhorn betas, and at BEA’s venerable WebLogic 9.1. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM extends SOA tools for desktop Focusing on the global architecture of SOA, IBM on Tuesday is introducing IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 for the desktop. December 5, 5:00 a.m. PST AmberPoint extends SOA management platform AmberPoint on Monday is extending its AmberPoint SOA runtime governance suite to Tibco's new ActiveMatrix SOA platform and more application servers. December 4, 5:00 a.m. PST Iona open source ESB melds multiple technologies On Monday, Iona will release Celtix Enterprise, an enterprise service bus for departmental usage and SOA, in a move to leverage the hybrid business model arising around open source software. December 3, 9:00 p.m. PST Tibco will use virtualization for SOA deployments It’s virtualization to the rescue again -- this time with large-scale SOA deployments. December 3, 9:00 p.m. PST Xcalia assists with service access Focused on SOA, Xcalia next week will roll out XIC (Xcalia Intermediation Core) version 5.0, for building composite applications in which it can be decided at runtime how the applications access data and service resources. November 10, 4:00 p.m. PST Sun needs to find some sizzle Last week I attended an interesting dinnertime event at Silicon Valley's Churchill Club. For the sake of full disclosure, I’m on the club’s board of directors. The main attraction was Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, being ably interviewed by New York Times journalist John Markoff. November 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle zeros in on Red Hat Given Oracle’s appetite for buying companies, nobody thought twice about rumors that CEO Larry Ellison had his eye on a Linux vendor that would give his company its own OS. After all, when you’ve digested a PeopleSoft or Siebel, how hard can it be to chow down on a Red Hat or Novell, or to cleanse your palate with a tidbit like Ubuntu Linux? October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle pitches SOA at conference SAN FRANCISCO -- Just as rival BEA Systems did a few weeks ago at its own event in the same city, Oracle is pitching wares for SOA at its industry conference this week. October 24, 1:35 p.m. PDT HP, Oracle, Intel eye mainframe migrations Eyeing the fertile market of IBM mainframe installations, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and Intel on Tuesday will detail a program that incorporates SOA and grid concepts in helping migrate mainframe applications. October 24, 5:00 a.m. PDT AmberPoint improves SOA policy execution The next release of the AmberPoint SOA Management System decouples policy enforcement from the agents that have executed these policies, letting third-party systems such as enterprise service buses execute policies. October 23, 5:00 a.m. PDT Why SOA and VoIP will converge A dozen years ago, I wrote a Byte cover story on the subject of computer-telephony integration. CTI was “right around the corner” back then. Every time I revisit the subject I conclude that, regrettably, it still is. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Is IT on the rise again? When I read the press release that IBM was “helping” the computer science department at Georgetown University develop an SOA (service-oriented architecture) curriculum, and that the courses would use WebSphere integration middleware, I raised an eyebrow. Wouldn’t that be like a pharmaceutical company developing a curriculum for a medical school on how to treat depression, I wondered? October 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Iona upgrades ESB with SOA management, orchestration Iona on Tuesday is introducing Version 4.1 of its Artix ESB, featuring integration with the AmberPoint SOA management platform, as well as orchestration capabilities. 9:00 p.m. PDT WebEx offers SOA-based integration platform WebEx, a provider of on-demand Web conferencing and interactive online products, launched the WebEx Connect platform last Monday, following SaaScon, a software-as-a-service conference. Powered by the MediaTone Network, a composite collaboration and application platform, the WebEx Connect platform will allow users to integrate data from more than one application to create a collaborative workspace custom designed for their workflow or business process. Using open protocols and WebEx connector APIs, developers can adapt on-demand, desktop and enterprise applications to the platform or create new composite applications. October 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Interview: BEA CTO details SOA platform BEA Systems at the BEAWorld 2006 San Francisco conference this week stressed SOA as a core technology and unveiled its SOA 360 platform. Comprising multiple BEA products, some of which have yet to be released, the ambitious SOA 360 strategy features multiple role-based offerings for IT as well as a services architecture and modularization of existing BEA products. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Rob Levy, BEA executive vice president and chief technology officer, at the conference about SOA 360 and BEA's growth as a middleware company. September 21, 3:00 p.m. PDT BEA executives preach atop SOA 360 soapbox BEA Systems on Wednesday continued to promote SOA 360, its newly announced SOA platform, at the BEAWorld 2006 San Francisco conference. The company is making SOA, in which applications are offered as componentized services and combined for new applications, its focal point. BEA officials touted SOA 360, announced Tuesday and featuring BEA AquaLogic, WebLogic, and Tuxedo product lines, as well as a collaborative tooling environment called WorkSpace 360. Also critical to SOA 360 is BEA's microService Architecture (mSA), featuring the concept of a service network and notification services for publishing and discovering modular components. September 20, 4:30 p.m. PDT Exclusive: Software AG crossvision suite takes on SOA The basic goal of an SOA is to make resources available on a network in such a way that the resources are accessible by client applications without the applications having to resort to low-level (language- or platform-specific) APIs. The resources often have processing capabilities and are therefore referred to as services. In that sense, accessing a service looks a lot like making a very elaborate remote procedure call. September 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT webMethods buys semantic metadata technology for SOA With a focus on SOA, webMethods on Monday will announce its acquisition of technology assets from Cerebra for use as a federated metadata repository. The repository will be featured in the webMethods Fabric business process management and integration platform in version 7.0 of Fabric this December. August 20, 9:01 p.m. PDT Virtualization free-for-all Barely 10 years ago, I ventured that all systems would be virtualized, and that IT law would dictate that no OS may have unregulated direct contact with system or storage hardware. July 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Suzanne Peck Suzanne Peck signed on as CTO for Washington, D.C., in summer 1998. At the time, the city had a crazy quilt of 370 obsolete systems and no Y2K program in place. “We had 8,000 rotary telephones, no wide area network, and several e-mail systems, the most sophisticated of which would pass maybe 200 messages per day,” she recalls. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT ActiveGrid speeds Web application development “It’s really hard to build an HTML application that talks to one database, yet IT developers have a huge backlog of requested applications that talk to multiple databases,” says Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid. His company aims to solve that problem, in part by doing away with the traditional three-tiered model of Web application development. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sustainable SOA Here at the InfoWorld home office, we’re in the feverish last stages of preparation for next week’s two-day SOA Executive Forum, our sixth foray into wild, woolly SOA-land. If you’re planning to be in the New York area on May 16-17, I encourage you to attend. As of this writing, we still have a few seats left. May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Platforms |
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