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- Web Services
- (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct...
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- New Website for 'the architecture formerly known as SOA'
- Who said SOA types can't be the life of the party. Miko Matsumura, curator of the SOA Center blogsite, has just renamed his site the Whatever-you-want-to-call-it Center, at http://whatevercenter.com. This was done in reaction to Anne Thomas Manes' New Year's proclamation that "SOA [as we have known...
- Tags: SOA, Web Site, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- 'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst says
- Say it isn't SOA? Anne Thomas Manes declares 'SOA' a casualty of a slow economy and failure to deliver ROI by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Anne Thomas Manes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Desktop virtualization
- By 2011, there could be more than 660 million virtualized desktops. John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding current infrastructures and says that organizations deploying new systems need to think about four things--management, offline use, cost, and the user experience.
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, technology, virtualization, web services, internet, emerging technologies
- Whiteboards 2009-01-05
- SOASYNC 1.0.1 build 20081130 (Windows)
- SOASYNC, a global data synchonization software based on Service Oriented Architecture, can securely synchronize over 24 cross platform multi-vendor databases with custom cross database mapping incrementally and bidirectionally across the Internet. SOASYNC supports most Java application servers. SOASYNC comes with eclipse based client.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Soalib, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Storage, Middleware, Databases, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-01-03
- Keeping up with the Microsoft confabs
- If your travel budget hasn't evaporated into thin air -- or if you want to follow along vicariously -- here is a list of some of the conferences and events in 2009 where Microsoft will likely show and/or release new products. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Conference, Aerospace & Defense, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Security, Manufacturing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
- SOA methodologies were put to work for a range of jobs in 2008, from speeding up mergers to mainframe/legacy integration with customer systems to helping prevent black holes. by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, AbeBooks.com, Con-Way, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- BriefingsDirect analysts make 2009 predictions for enterprise IT, SOA, cloud and business intelligence
- Spending from shadow IT activities will actually grow, and that the amount of money devoted to shadow IT activities will come from outside traditional IT budgets, from a variety of different sources, maybe even petty cash, and we'll see a bit of growth in these rogue activities. Moving into these...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Network, Information Technology, SOA, Enterprise, Cloud, Obama, Clouds, McKendrick, SOA Movement, Morgenthal, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Social Networking, Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- SOA unplugged: what readers had to say about SOA in 2008
- Readers speak their minds on all things SOA, from event-driven architecture to reuse to making the business case by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- New year fast approaching, and so is the next-generation enterprise data warehouse
- This has been one of the most pivotal years in the evolution of the enterprise data warehousing EDW market. Every EDW vendor of note has firmly repositioned its go-to-market strategy around the appliance approach, with some also taking tentative steps into what is sure to be a key theme in...
- Tags: Appliance, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., I&KM, MPP, Business Intelligence, Databases, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Pricing, Programming Languages, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.
- SOA is much more than enterprise application integration 2009 by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- News to know: Facebookgate, XP, iPhone credit, greentech in 2009
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow? Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Roland Piquepaille, Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Podcasts, Internet, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Five fearless predictions for SOA 2009
- The year ahead -- SOA economics, SOA clouds, and SOA data by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- SOA for the greatest logistical night of all
- Dave Linthicum just posted this very keen look at the business and manufacturing operations at the North Pole, wondering if service oriented architecture would increase efficiency and agility. I'm sure Santa Inc.'s operations go year round, but everything has to be ready to be shipped, on time...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, SOA, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- A modest proposal for an IT bailout
- With so many industries looking for their share of the bailout pie from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program TARP, here's an idea: why not channel some of those hundreds of billions of dollars to the information technology sector? Think about it. The IT world has plenty...
- Tags: Asset, Information Technology, SOA, IT World, Asset Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint
- Moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services--or any other cloud platform--sounds like a no-brainer in many respects. You can scale up or down as needed and pay only for the computing and storage you use. The big question, however, is this: How exactly does a company migrate its infrastructure? ...
- Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Helpstream, EC2, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Retail Zip 1.0 (Mac)
- Welcome to the zip format of the future. Instead of saving files to a compress folder on your hard drive, Retail Zip saves your data to multibillion dollar secure enterprise servers from Amazon Web Services. Retail Zip file size is only 1KB and generates distribution ready pre-made URLs. The Retail...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Archiving, LAMbCast, Retail Zip Format, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-12-18
- SOAPSonar Personal Edition 4.0.11 (Windows)
- SOAPSonar provides code-free point-and-click Web Services testing. Supports SOAP, XML, REST, and WS-Trust testing types. Simple to complex test scenarios are managed through the test suite interface. SOAP data generation for Web Services is automated through the Schema Fields generator engine. Functional, Performance, Compliance, and security testing modes are provided....
- Tags: Web Service, Microsoft Windows, Simple Object Access Protocol, Crosscheck Networks, SOAPSonar, SOAP, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-18
- Could Amazon provide a home to Linked Data?
- In a press release issued earlier this month Amazon announced their 'Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services' initiative, providing a free home to potentially massive public data sets and free use of those data by developers hosting their applications in the company's data centres. Larry Dignan...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, RDF, Semantic Web, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Cloud computing: Think collective, not zero sum
- To date cloud computing and its offshoots have been described in zero sum terms: Amazon's storage system over another vendor; Salesforce.com's platform over Siebel; IBM's cloud over HP's. The reality is likely to be much more democratic. That's the big takeaway from a Briefings Direct panel hosted...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Ecosystem Theory, Cloud Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- FireDaemon Trinity 2.2.2650 (Windows)
- FireDaemon Trinity is an Enterprise Windows Service Management Platform. Trinity is comprised of three components: Enterprise Management Console, Web Server and Console Application. The Enterprise Management Console gives you control over services running on all machines on your network. The Web Server allows you to manage services via web browser...
- Tags: Enterprise Management, Web Server, Console, Microsoft Windows, Sublime Solutions, FireDaemon Trinity, Trinity, Console Application, Web Servers, SOAP, Utility Computing, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-16

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