Enterprise Architecture News & How-To


Maximizing the Benefits of Capacity Planning

IT is the epicenter of your company's nervous system. Capacity planning can keep it healthy. We examine planning methods and highlight their pitfalls.

Corporate E-Mail Security: Compliance Swamps IT Staff

IT managers look to better tools, including self-service retrieval for employees

BPM suite stacked on top of an SOA

Tibco Software says it has integrated its BPM suite with its business integration products, enabling its customers to layer BPM on top of an SOA.

Saving money with a service-oriented outlook

The world's largest companies can save up to $53 billion in IT spending over the next 5 years by implementing SOAs, according to a new report from AberdeenGroup.

Quest for service-level agreements in an SOA world

After the service-enablement message has been spread as far as it will go, what will become of service-level agreements?

Using Architecture To Combat Increasing IT Complexity

Explore how companies can conquer issues associated with IT complexity and achieve success in their architecture initiatives through the appropriate mix of people, process, and technology.

Profile: Flickr's Photo Synthesis

Flickr Architect Cal Henderson provides a snapshot of the popular photo-sharing Web site and its beginnings.

A Few Bright Spots in Storage as 2006 Unfolds

As the first month of 2006 comes to a close, our curmudgeon of a storage analyst finds several companies deserve praise for their storage efforts.

The Shape of Endpoint Security to Come

Will 2006 be the year of endpoint security? A number of network-access-control approaches are finally coming to fruition.

SOA’s Impact on SLAs: Trouble Ahead

Organizations may see service-enablement, and the next generation of SLAs, as a chance to improve the responsiveness and dynamism of their IT departments.

Careers: IT Employment Rebounds

It’s worth remembering how much the employment outlook has improved in the last half decade—and how far we have still to go

Careers: Strong Demand Continues for Information Security Jobs

With information security increasingly a boardroom-level concern, job prospects continue to be good, according to a new study. Training and certification are becoming increasingly important for candidates and companies alike.

OMG announces SOA, MDA and Web Services Workshop

The Object Management Group today announced the program for its Service Oriented Architecture, Model Driven Architecture and Web Services Workshop: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond.

Oracle jumpstarts SOAs for ISVs

Complementing today's introduction of the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle launched a series of hands-on workshops designed to provide independent software vendors with tools and skills to help their customers build, deploy and leverage SOAs.

Oracle unveils hot-pluggable SOA suite

Oracle today announced availability of the Oracle SOA Suite, a standards-based set of middleware products used to build, deploy and manage service-oriented architectures.