Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization ma...

I know, the economy is rough these days. Myself, I'm unwilling to look at my mutual funds until we're through this. However, when times are tough, markets normalize, and while the stock holders and venture capitalists out there are crying in their beers, now could be a great time to s...

DA Software offers products and services that enable enterprises to manage and reuse their SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and software development assets. The company helps clients accelerate their return on investment through the use of powerful tools and complete services. These...

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com...

Strung-out scandal-ridden Siemens wants out of its 50-50 Fujitsu Siemens joint venture. The two companies are negotiating but Reuters says Fujitsu doesn’t want to pay Siemens’ asking price for the German-based concern. So Siemens has also reportedly been having back-up talks with L...

SOA Software announced that it has hired Wolf Gilbert, an executive from Microsoft Corporation, to leads its rapid expansion into the European market. Mr. Gilbert, joining SOA Software as Vice President for European Operations, combines strong business credentials with a deep technolog...

Wall Street firms, banks and insurers are the single biggest consumers of IT and the IDC-owned Financial Insights research firm calculates that IT budgets for hardware software and service recoiled almost 6% this week because of the Lehman bankruptcy and the eleventh-hour Merrill Lynch...

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging,...

iTKO's LISA SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization solutions mitigate the business risk of change and complexity in enterprise IT environments, while increasing trust across teams and shared technology assets. LISA's Complete, Collaborative and Continuous quality coverage provides va...

Intel, a leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel XML Software Products help enhance productivity of XML and SOA application development by providing comprehensive, high performance XML processi...

MindTree announced that it has entered into a global strategic alliance with iTKO LISA. MindTree will develop a ready-to-use testing framework and deliver solutions for the Travel, BFSI, Media and Retail industries using the iTKO tool set that will be made available to MindTree's custo...

MuleSource announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to deliver a new offering that provides off-the-shelf integration between Mule and the Intel XML Software Suite. Called Mule Xpack for Intel XML Software Suite -- the new offering is a set of instructions and Mule extensions t...

How does SOA work, how can it be used? And what is WOA? With the use of a real-world example,this article describes why a properly planned and implemented Service Oriented Architecture can create a flexible way of aligning business and IT.

DataDirect Technologies is the software industry's comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect products to...

Attachmate unveiled the latest version of its mainframe application integration solution, Attachmate Verastream Host Integrator 6.6. The new version includes new features and functionality that eliminate the technical complexity and code generation associated with legacy integration, o...

Evidently HP’s acquisition of EDS persuaded Fujitsu that there’s money to be made in the services sector because it’s combining its US product and service businesses under one roof to drive revenue growth and help it compete against IBM and HP. On October 1, the doors will open o...

NaviSite unveiled the next-generation of dynamic application infrastructure platform, AppStructure. AppStructure integrates three of the most desired information technologies of the decade -- Virtualization, Social Networking and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) -- into a comprehens...

Adobe is buying YaWah ApS, a Danish maker of dynamic imaging software, to tickle sales of Adobe Scene7, its hosted rich media platform for e-commerce and multi-channel marketing users. Terms were not disclosed and Adobe said the acquisition would have no material impact on its fiscal 2...

The specification phase helps design the details of the three first-class constructs of SOA: services, service components, and flows. It uses a combination of three high-level activities to determine which services to expose, provides a detailed specification for the exposed services, ...

SOA is a simple three-letter acronym that causes a lot of confusion. What exactly is SOA and why is it at the forefront of IT initiatives around the world? Interestingly, if you ask your peers what SOA means, you'll get a wide variety of responses. Some people will talk about modular a...

Virtualization is a buzzword that is living up to its hype as it takes hold in IT. It has spawned magazine covers, conferences, and analyst reports, and all with good reason. Virtualization allows applications to be deployed in a highly efficient manner. By taking the physical servers ...

This article introduces the concept of document-centric XML processing and a set of emerging document-centric capabilities such as cutting, splitting, and splicing documents at the byte level. It also explains how it solves one of the most fundamental technical issues hampering enterpr...

Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been talking about reuse for years, but have never been able to transform that talk into full...

Here we go again. While the paint is still wet on this new Web 2.0 stuff, many SOA vendors and large analysts firms are calling their market SOA 2.0. It's one of the silliest things I've heard in a long while, and both the analysts and vendors who use this term should be ashamed of the...

Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who join...

Well, Egenera - which has no market cap at all because it hasn't gone public yet - claims it is. IDC, which coined the term, defines 'Virtualization 2.0' as the next step beyond server virtualization replete with faster provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery, resource balan...

While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are beginning to gain traction. According to Forrester Research, stateful XML, stateless XML, and even flat file exchanges are all projected to grow at a faster rate than EDI over the next few...

'Data services apply the same philosophy of reuse and flexibility that SOA offers, but to the data tier,' explains John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A. 'Data services,' Goodson continues, 'provide a level of abstraction that frees developers...

In the aftermath of the horrific events of September 11, 2001, the entire nation came together to mourn the loss of those who died and suffered, and to plan a way to recover as a society as best we could. No words that I could write here would be adequate to convey how awful the atroci...

In this webcast you will see some examples of leveraging JBoss product suite in Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture implementations. You will examine real-life case studies to clearly understand the full lifecycle of an Enterprise SOA, as well as what it takes to have the “Pract...

In a recent study, CIOs ranked "improving business processes" as their #1 priority for 2008. But the big question has always been - How does one get started with a BPM initiative? The traditional approach has been to engage external consultants and to dedicate significant time and reso...

EMC Corporation is one of the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Melding a stable enterprise architecture with the right level of technical and organization transparency involves two different perspectives. An architect can lay a SOA foundation that enables development teams to build new functionality leveraging Web Services. However, without a libr...

What could be a problem with logging in SOA in the presence of such wonderful tools like log4j, Java’s logging library and similar? Why might we need something special for SOA and why aren’t existing techniques enough? The answer is simple and complex simultaneously – in SOA we a...

GT Software announced that the automobile manufacturer Heuliez France has selected the company's Ivory Service Architect to improve and modernize its mainframe CICS applications. GT Software is a global provider of rapid service oriented architecture (SOA) development solutions that le...

The most important business benefit that service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide is the ability to respond swiftly to change - thus helping to "future-proof" a company's IT investments. On November 19-21, in the San Jose Fairmont Hotel, California, at SOA World Conference & Exp...

Composite Software provides a virtual approach to data integration. Hundreds of enterprises including five of the top six U.S. investment banks as well several Government agencies, such as the Office of Secretary of Defense and Intelligence, and software vendors including Cognos, Infor...

Web Age Solutions is a provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Web Age Solutions’ "Preferred Vendor" status with these global leaders is a result of our highly progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction. While...

SYS-CON Events' sales team replied to Scott Kelly's exhibitor inquiry, but when they never heard back from Scott, they decided to do a little Googling and here is what they found out. Mr Kelly is actually the 'Director of Product Management at TechTarget,' a technology media company th...

Active Endpoints announced the general availability of ActiveVOS 6.0, an all-in-one, standards-based orchestration and business process management system that permits Java developers, business analysts, and enterprise architects to automate business processes, collaborate across IT and...