All the fanfare about service-oriented architectures falls short when IT teams still learn the hard way on these projects. Best practices are emerging, but some analysts say it's too soon to rely on early lessons.
Here's how to look for warning signs that might indicate future problems, and how to balance your design decisions accordingly.
Many companies moving towards SOA and legacy integration may not be prepared to deal with the disconnect between the mainframe and other developers responsible for the enterprise architecture. Overstaffing and stratification of roles can create an information Tower of Babel, with different languages, redundant apps, and overly complex interfaces.
We have yet to agree on a sharp-edged definition of "Web 2.0," but many of the technologies coalescing around this loosely defined, hyper-hyped buzzword—everything from Web services, the Ajax Web development technique, and service syndication, to wikis, tags, podcasts, and even blogs—should begin figuring into every IT leader's business strategy.
In fact, say Gartner analysts, all revenue-generating channels should be operating in a Web 2.0 architecture by 2008.
Big Blue announced initiatives to help programmers and ISVs get that old-time mainframe religion
How a pair of protocols and unique interconnect software can lead the way to inexpensive storage
BPM is both a management discipline and a technology platform; modeling complements -- and is a critical aspect of -- a larger BPM strategy.
Just in time for JavaOne, the JCP approves the openly developed Java EE 5 spec unanimously. The latest platform offers ease-of-use features and an overhauled programming model.
Forget the tape versus multi-hop-mirroring battle. Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, has some suggestions.
Successful service-enablement requires a high degree of visibility into an organization’s IT inner workings.
Enterprise architects are poised uniquely to make distributed development more effective. Apply five practical strategies to communicate effectively and drive business forward.
In the age of IP standards, what should IT do to secure its network?
For a starting price of $100,000, customers get Big Iron hardware and software along with specialty processor engines
Several service-oriented architecture vendors have joined forces to support SOA Link, an end-to-end SOA Governance Interoperability Initiative.
Patching remains a manual, time-intensive process, despite more automated tools.
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.
As companies become ever-more reliant on IT, system availability becomes essential. Application performance management tools can help.
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.
In an exclusive interview, John deVadoss discusses software architecture and Microsoft's new certification program.
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.