Enterprise Architecture News & How-To


Why Automated Patch Management Remains Elusive

Patching remains a manual, time-intensive process, despite more automated tools.

Oracle's horizontal move into the telco vertical

Oracle unveiled a major platform initiative Tuesday aimed at telecommunications providers. The new Oracle Service Delivery Platform (SDP) is designed to support carriers, network operators and systems integrators who are moving to service-oriented architectures.

Managing Data Center Performance and Availability (Part 1 of 2)

As companies become ever-more reliant on IT, system availability becomes essential. Application performance management tools can help.

Mainframes plug into SOAs

SOA Software has begun shipping its Service-Oriented Legacy Architecture or SOLA, a platform that exposes CICS mainframe apps as Web services. The company claims it’s the first to bridge the gap between mainframe databases and apps and the distributed world.

The Future of Software Architecture

In an exclusive interview, John deVadoss discusses software architecture and Microsoft's new certification program.

Enterprise service bus for serviced-enabled environments

New features in IONA Technologies’ Artix 4.0, the latest version of the company's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, address the needs of customers deploying SOA in highly complex, mission-critical heterogeneous environments.

Enterprise Search: IT Faces the Google Phenomenon

Oracle enters the already-crowded enterprise search market, as IT moves to supply fast but secure search results.

Q&A: Straight Talk on Mainframe Futures

Seagull Software’s Andre Den Haan isn’t a knee-jerk contrarian—but he also isn’t afraid to call it as he sees it

Infravio and Layer 7 announce SOA governance interoperability

Partnerships to provide interoperability among products designed to support governance of service-oriented architectures continue to be announced this week. Infravio and Layer 7 Technologies have completed integration between their respective SOA solutions, X-Registry Platform and SecureSpan.

Lawson Release 9 provides SOA to unite Landmark apps with IBM’s middleware platform

Lawson Software today announced Lawson Release 9, which the company says lays the foundation for a service-oriented architecture and prepares customers for Lawson's next-generation Landmark applications.

Getting Started on Data Management

The only way to solve the seemingly intractable problems of storage management is to do so strategically.

The Mainframe Capacity Conundrum: Getting Better All the Time

What’s not to like about z/Linux and other cheap mainframe workloads?

SOA vendors partner with LogicLibrary to create integrated governance platform

Service-oriented architecture vendors Blue Titan Software, TopCoder and Metallect have joined forces with LogicLibrary to support an end-to-end approach to SOA governance, from development through deployment.

SOA Software is first with registry independent SOA suite

SOA Software is launching what it claims is the first registry-independent SOA platform.

Destroy, Shred, Disintegrate: Guidelines for Securely Decommissioning Storage

Thanks to improved corporate information security practices, attackers are seeking new methods for accessing sensitive corporate information, putting storage media more at risk than ever. We offer several recommendations for destroying data.