Tracking Service-Oriented and Web-Oriented Architecture

SOA & WOA Magazine

Subscribe to SOA & WOA Magazine: eMailAlertsEmail Alerts newslettersWeekly Newsletters
Get SOA & WOA Magazine: homepageHomepage mobileMobile rssRSS facebookFacebook twitterTwitter linkedinLinkedIn


Top Stories

"There is a tremendous opportunity for Adaptive Computing to apply its multi-dimensional decision engine to enable customers to better address and solve critical challenges in the data center, and positively impact their business" Adaptive Computing, a provider of cloud systems management and Optimized Dynamic Cloud solutions, today announced that IT management and their staff no longer need to accept static cloud environments. The latest release of Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.1, a cloud decision engine, features extended dynamic cloud capabilities, accelerates workload management processes, maps and manages service component relationships to improve reliability and consolidates cloud event reporting. Enhanced dynamic cloud management capabilities in Moab allow IT departments to deliver applications, expand resources and keep services running optimally, all at ... (more)

Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2011

The Hype-Cycle for Emerging Technologies for the year 2011 has been released by Gartner. As has been the trend from the past less than 60% of the technologies listed last year find a place in this year’s report. Unlike last year, there are not many glaring omissions. (Here is an analysis of last year’s report). However, as is the case like last year, few technologies appear from nowhere on: Climbing the Slope Consumerization The trend for new information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business organizations (see this) QR/Color Code Quick ... (more)

Tier 3 Expands to Equinix

Come the fall Tier 3, which styles itself the enterprise cloud house, is going to have two new data centers inside Equinix, where it expects to attract some of Equinix’ enterprise customers to its hybrid platform. And some of those customers may want access to a public cloud too and handily Amazon is also moving into Equinix for its Direct Connect widgetry, which will deliver data to and from AWS and Equinix customers through dedicated private links. Anyway, Tier 3 currently operates two data centers out west and, unlike Amazon, it doesn’t expect its users to supply their own con... (more)

BMC Software Announced Cloud Operations Capabilities to Safeguard Cloud Users

"The goal of cost optimization and increased business agility through the cloud will only be realized with processes and tools that are designed specifically to address the new operational issues that cloud-based services present," said Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc. "IT organizations seeking to remain relevant in a new world of choices will seek to optimize their client's satisfaction by making their transition to the cloud as transparent as possible while they (IT operations) do the heavy lifting." BMC Software on Tuesday announced additional capabiliti... (more)

Best Practices for Cloud Workload Management

The biggest issue for the today's enterprises is the ways and means of measuring their computing / processing workloads that need to run their business and then work on the ways and means of optimizing the same. Workload is the amount of work assigned to, or done by, a client, workgroup, server, or Internetwork in a given time period. For example if we take a manufacturing organization, a workload can be a combination of: Interactive or Network Intensive Workloads: The amount of online entry of sales orders, program planning, warranty claims that are referred to a help desk and s... (more)