Forum Systems, Inc., the leader in XML web services security announced that it will present its products and solutions at Infosecurity Europe 2009 in London, UK on the 28th to 30th of April at Booth E102. The event provides an unrivalled free education program where exhibitors showcase new and emerging technologies with practical and professional expertise. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leader in messaging middleware and content networking hardware, today announced it is joining the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group. AMQP is a proposed open-standard application layer for messaging oriented middleware (MOM). AMQP specifies a wire protocol which would ensure interoperability between AMQP implementations from different vendors. Solace has been a licensed reviewer of AMQP for several months, and today is increasing its commitment by becoming a full member. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint today announced that it has integrated its composite application management solutions with IBM DataPower, the industry’s leading SOA appliance. As a result of this integration, AmberPoint can bring its extensive Business Transaction Management (BTM) as well as other critical management capabilities to application environments that include DataPower appliances. AmberPoint gives organizations visibility into not only performance metrics, such as throughput, but also the business content of the message stream, enabling users to pinpoint lost and failed transactions based on business-related data, such as customer ID or order number. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the leader in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance today announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for BEA’s Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including a wide range of support for applications exposed by ESBs , protocols and messaging and back end-databases and systems. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Astaro leading vendor of network security appliances, today announced the availability of version 7.4 of its Astaro Gateway product offering, including Astaro Security Gateway, Astaro Web Gateway and Astaro Mail Gateway. Including HTTPS URL Filtering, WAN link balancing and site-to-site SSL VPN capabilities, version 7.4 boasts more than 200 new security features and upgrades. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV) the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that company management will participate in the Pacific Crest Emerging Technology Summit, held at The St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, Calif. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of messaging middleware and content networking hardware, today announced support for the Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) specification. Ratified by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) in 2006, EDXL-DE describes an XML-based message ‘envelope’ which facilitates data sharing within and across emergency information systems. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for wireless network operators, and F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Bytemobile has enhanced its existing deployment at T-Mobile International with an F5 solution that provides scalable network capacity to serve the mobile content delivery needs of T-Mobile customers. In addition, Bytemobile and F5 have formed a partnership focused on delivering scalable and secure mobile internet solutions to wireless network operators worldwide. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today unveiled its vision for the Application Delivery Network, an application-aware infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the delivery of business-enabling applications across the distributed enterprise. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced today that Info Security Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named Radware's DefensePro x20 series as a finalist for the 2009 Global Product Excellence Customer Trust Awards in two categories including Integrated Security Solution (Hardware) and Intrusion Prevention Solution (IPS). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

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Reserve your seat now for this complimentary webcast from Layer 7 Technologies and HP as they show you how to combine governance and enforcement for proven results with a comprehensive, identity-centric governance platform. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Astaro (http://www.astaro.com), a leading network security vendor, today announced that users of Apple’s iPhone can now automatically setup a secure, IPsec VPN (virtual private network) tunnel with no technical knowledge required. This new process adds yet another method that iPhone users can use to connect to Astaro Gateway products. In addition to the iPhone’s PPTP and L2TP VPN connectivity options, Astaro users can now use the iPhones IPsec VPN capabilities—widely accepted as the best security choice for VPN tunneling—to connect to their home and business networks. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK<< MORE >>

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today introduced Citrix® Branch Repeater™ 5, a key component of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, adding significant enhancements that accelerate the delivery of virtualized applications to users in branch offices. Many businesses have realized significant cost savings by centralizing their applications and desktops in datacenters using virtualization. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETORK << MORE >>

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) delivered the first hardware offering in the company's history, TIBCO Messaging Appliance(TM) P-7500. This radical new offering from a recognized messaging industry leader shatters a previously insurmountable messaging latency problem by taking an approach that lowers latency, improves predictability, and provides increased throughput by implementing TIBCO messaging in hardware. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of messaging middleware and content networking hardware, and Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, today announced a multi-year global supply partnership whereby Solace equipment becomes the foundation of Barclays Capital’s new, enterprise-wide high-speed messaging platform. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware, (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that Network Computing Magazine (www.networkcomputing.co.uk) has named AppDirector(TM) as a finalist in its Load Balancing Product of the Year award category. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced record results for the fourth quarter and year, ending December 31, 2008. The record-setting year witnessed a year-over-year growth rate of 85% capped by the best quarter in company history. In combination with this explosive growth, the company announced 143 new customers and over 42,000 downloads in Q4 2008, increasing the customer count to over 900 enterprise, service provider and government customers using IT Search to troubleshoot network outages, investigate security incidents, and drive compliance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Optaros Inc., providers of unique, online applications for clients through the Assembled Web and MuleSource, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, today announced the successful implementation of the new open integration architecture NesOA for Nespresso. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In a move to give customers the flexibility to choose a secure multi-vendor IT environment instead of costly proprietary models, F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced that it has become a member of the HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (HP ProCurve ONE) program. F5, a global leader in Application Delivery Networking, will provide its BIG-IP® Application Delivery Controller (ADC) products to extend the flexibility, scalability, and security within the HP ProCurve ONE infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a new version of F5® Enterprise Manager™ software to provide customers with improved management, automation, and network health monitoring capabilities for their Application Delivery Networks. The enhanced solution offers F5 customers additional visibility into their network infrastructures to ensure optimized application performance and superior end-user experience. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel has launched a new channel on YouTube dedicated to news, features and 'how to' guides for its SOA / XML security appliances. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a comprehensive program aimed at assisting owners of Alteon application switches from Nortel Networks who are affected by Nortel’s recently announced bankruptcy. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Intel issues a new release of their SOA Expressway software. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

PrismTech™, an acknowledged leader in advanced software integration and infrastructure solutions, announced today that it is releasing its OpenSplice™ DDS low-latency data distribution software as Open Source software licensed under LGPL licensing. This Open Source code base is supported by a range of optional subscription packages from PrismTech that include professional support, productivity and optimization tools, connectors, and other advanced product options. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, a provider of business solutions and a division of US communication holding company AT&T Inc (NYSE:T), announced on Monday 12 January) that it has selected IBM (NYSE:IBM) as a global partner to help clients in retail and other industries simplify their IT infrastructure, reduce costs and transform business processes. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the results of an independent survey about the state of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments, and the increasingly important role Application Performance Management plays in the success of complex Web-based services. The survey, conducted online by TechWeb in the third quarter of 2008, revealed that many organizations are concerned and challenged with SOA application performance issues that can negatively impact customer service levels, relationships, IT and line-of-business operations productivity, and revenue. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Shunra Software (www.shunra.com), the market’s leading provider of WAN emulation and software development testing solutions, today announced that it has joined the Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) Program, to help closer align the WAN emulation capabilities of Virtual Enterprise (VE) Desktop with Microsoft Visual Studio. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

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Designation driven by FlexNet's unique ability to deliver a high impact, accelerated return on investment in manufacturing operations Based on its recent analysis of the manufacturing execution systems (MES) market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized Apriso's FlexNet for its 2008 Frost & Sullivan Global MES Product of the Year Award. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IDEA, an electrical industry – owned eCommerce service provider and NEMA affiliate, today announced a strategic relationship with Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) company. Under terms of the agreement, IDEA will now offer B2B on-demand services from the Sterling Collaboration Network, the company’s hosted service that provides secure connectivity and collaboration between businesses. In addition, IDEA will begin integrating Sterling Commerce services into its current suite of products to deliver a broader array of solutions to its customers, specifically in the electrical industry supply chain. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

rPath and WANdisco today announced that WANdisco has selected the rPath rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to build and maintain its Subversion MultiSite solution as a manageable set of application images for delivery in virtualized and cloud-based environments. rPath is a leader and pioneer in solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of application delivery, and WANdisco is a leading provider of distributed software development solutions. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Eric Siegel of the Burton Group revives the notion of Cisco as a Computer Company in his latest blog entry. SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Dynamic infrastructure will unleash new potentials in the network, from connectivity intelligence (dynamic links and reporting between networks, endpoints and applications) to the rise of IT automation on a scale that few have anticipated. It will unleash new consolidation potentials for virtualized data centers and various forms of cloud computing. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Presentation from GlobeCom 2008 on Service-Oriented Network Security - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The latest industry standard throughput tests, Zeus Technology, the only software-based application delivery controller (ADC), is able to provide the highest price/performance and scalability across any server platform, be it running on UltraSPARC T2, AMD or Intel X86. - SOA Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

Dell and Vordel, the XML Network management company, announced on December 18 that the Vordel XML/SOA appliances will be assembled by the Dell Industrial Solutions Group in their manufacturing facilities. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Stonebranch(R), Inc., (www.stonebranch.com) the innovation leader in Enterprise Systems Management, today announced the launch of Universal Event Monitor for SOA(TM), a component of its Universal Solutions Suite(TM) that simplifies workload integration by providing a standardized interface between Internet and message-based applications and existing system management tools. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR), today announced that it is making the InSite ExtremeXOS®, freely available for download. Through InSite, Extreme Networks offers XML Application Programming Interface (API) functionality, allowing for third party applications to securely integrate business process with the network infrastructure. Software Developers Kit (SDK) developed for its modular operating system. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Shunra Software, the world’s leading provider of WAN emulation for application development testing and troubleshooting, today announced version 4.6 of VE Network Catcher, a network behavior recording tool which brings the real-world network environment into the performance lab. The easiest to use solution on the market that quickly provides accurate, live network behavior now includes Advanced Remote Recording. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc (NYSE: T) company, today announced that it has received two awards in China for logistics and supply chain innovation. The company won the 2008 Excellence in Logistics Solution Service Provider - Innovative Award, presented at the 2008 Asia Logistics & Supply Chain Management Summit Shanghai on October 29.- The company was named Best Logistics Software Supplier at the sixth China Freight Industry Awards on November 13. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced that the privately held company enjoyed a record fourth fiscal quarter during which it shipped more than 500,000 Ethernet ports to conclude its 2008 fiscal year with 54 percent shipment growth over the previous year. In so doing, BLADE maintained its leadership in blade server networking with a 2x lead over the nearest competition. BLADE's new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) RackSwitch products, introduced in 2008, also position the company to deliver the enhanced network performance required for data center consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing. - Cloud Computing Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

ymphoniq Corp., a pioneer in real end user performance monitoring, today announced that a just-released Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) study supports the importance of monitoring the real user experience as part of Quality of Experience (QoE) initiatives. In fact, according to the EMA report, "Quality of Experience - the Ultimate Collaboration: How Real Deployments are Succeeding and Why," business prioritizes QoE (84 percent) even more than IT (77 percent). Symphoniq's TRUE (the real user experience) technology delivers end-to-end Web application performance monitoring to customers across all market segments, providing competitive advantage and related cost savings, ever-important in this economic climate. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Shunra Software (www.shunra.com), the world’s leading provider of network emulation and application development testing solutions, today announced the launch of the Application Performance Management Blog (http://www.apmblog.com); a public platform geared towards the professional needs of application developers, quality assurance and performance testers, network engineers and IT managers. The blog focuses on a broad range of issues that are core to the application performance management community including WAN optimization, website testing, application testing, IP telephony and the impact of Web 2.0. This new channel will increase collaboration between Shunra staff, product end users, and professionals working in the field of application performance management. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced today that Hotel Reservation Service (HRS), Europe's leading online hotel reservation portal, has successfully deployed Radware's intelligent Application Delivery solution to ensure the high availability and accelerated performance of HRS' network systems and offer the best user experience - simple, secure and fast. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

US communications holding AT&T (NYSE:T) announced on Wednesday (10 December) that the company is joining forces with Oracle to deliver a subscription-Based PeopleSoft Solution for midsize businesses. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of cloud service gateways, today announced the availability of Sonoa Analytics, a powerful solution that enables business-level visibility and decision support for cloud services and APIs. Sonoa also announced several new customer wins for Sonoa's analytics, management and governance solutions, which provide visibility and control over cloud services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software today announced that it has been named a 2009 Hot Companies finalists by Network Products Guide. Selected from a global industry analysis of information technology vendors which included established large companies, mid-size and new start-ups, SOA Software has advanced to the finalists stage based on the “4Ps” selection criteria–namely Products, People, Performance, and Potential. The coveted 2009 Hot Companies analysis encompasses companies in all areas of information technologies including security, wireless, storage, networking, software and communications. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel, the XML network management company, today announced at the XML in Practice Conference that Mazda Australia, a subsidiary of Mazda Motor Corporation, has deployed Vordel’s XML gateway as an integral component of its roll out of a Web Services-based supply chain management solution. Vordel XML Gateway is being used to secure and manage the exchange of business sensitive information across the Mazda dealer network. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Modern applications and networks are becoming increasingly difficult to manage -- applications are moving to hyper-distributed service-oriented architectures, infrastructures are becoming virtualized and moving to the cloud, and the lines are blurring between the network and application tiers. At the same time, traditional application- and network-management tools have remained virtually unchanged for the last decade or more and simply fall short when it comes to providing much needed visibility for troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning. To meet the demands of today's complex applications, a new company called ExtraHop Networks ( www.extrahop.com) is launching its revolutionary Application Delivery Assurance Appliance to move today's IT organizations beyond monitoring and toward holistic application assurance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Tail-f Systems, the leader in unified network management solutions for network equipment providers and AFORE Solutions, a leader in the design and delivery of technology solutions for the networking industry, today announced a partnership to collaborate on sales and system design capabilities aimed at accelerating time to market for their prospective customers. Together the companies enable network equipment providers to bring enhanced XML based management capabilities to market. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Axway, the leading global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, announced today that several of its business-to-business integration (B2Bi) components are now SAP-certified for integration with SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. Axway’s Synchrony Integrator, TradeSync Integration Manager, and Synchrony Automator all received certification for integration with SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Today's SaaS deployments are no longer simple browser-based applications. Instead, SaaS delivery platforms offer complex application programming interface (API) functions and mash-up capabilities that provide new benefits, but also introduce a host of governance and security challenges. As a result, IT decision-makers are applying the same level of scrutiny to SaaS providers' integration, security, reliability, performance and service level agreements (SLAs) as that which is required for traditional, on-premise applications. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Traffix Systems announced today that it will offer a pre-validated, integrated NGN Control Plane solution based on Traffix OpenBloX™, the market standard for Next Generation Networks (NGN) signaling, and Intel® SOA Expressway, the first service router designed to address the high speed service mediation, transformation, validation, and virtualization requirements of federated SOA deployments. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Today, President and CEO, Michael Proper and his newly formed world class team of IT industry innovators, announce the launch of CentralPointe, Inc. CentralPointe integrates, simplifies and opens a core IT management and delivery platform to the world. The platform is designed to serve the unique needs of small and distributed environments that traditional solutions have not met. Michael Proper started an IT services company named DirectPointe in 2000 and grew it into the world's #1 Managed Service Provider, managing customers' IT environments in all 50 US States and 29 Countries around the world. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Certain aspects of service orientation are best served using an IBM® WebSphere® MQ cluster. The cluster provides the location independence, run time resolution of names, and concurrency required by SOA applications. For these reasons, adoption of SOA is driving migrations from point-to-point messaging networks to clustered environments. This article looks at how migration, failover, and the scaling of queue managers are affected in an SOA context. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

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F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Joyent, a leading cloud computing vendor, has successfully deployed the F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Local Traffic Manager(TM) solution in its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) server virtualization architecture. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

The rapid acceptance of Web 2.0 applications and services has provided a dramatic boost in demand for WAN acceleration technology, according to NetEx, the leader in high-speed data transport over TCP. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of secure cloud gateways, today announced outstanding results in the management and governance of SAP® solution-based deployments of Web services, based on recent tests conducted in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab. Tested in a high-scale, SAP solution-based environment, Sonoa's ServiceNet accelerates the policy enforcement and processing of large message sizes demanded by SAP enterprise services, combining the functionalities of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and traffic management into a single,high-performance device. Test results demonstrated that Sonoa's network-router-like approach provides high scalability in service performance, avoiding the introduction of latency or single points of failure to improve reliability. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AFORE Solutions, Inc., a leader in the design and delivery of technology solutions for the networking industry, today unveiled its EtherPACK™ lossless data compression and EtherSECURE™ encryption technologies as part of its Accelerated Secure Ethernet suite of solutions. AFORE is partnering with networking equipment vendors to embed its advanced technology solutions into mobile base stations, microwave backhaul systems, broadband access devices and networking gateways. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application management , scheduling and IT process automation software, today announced Intersperse 8.0, a product that monitors J2EE and .NET applications and their transaction component performance to produce meaningful metrics for managing applications and high-level business processes. The product leverages a combination of lightweight Java Management Extensions (JMX) and byte-code injection to span the need for both lightweight and deep level analysis. This provides a meaningful basis for monitoring and trending the performance of components as well as business processes. It also allows Intersperse 8.0 to deliver proactive alerts if a process encounters an error, which allows rapid identification of problems. Intersperse 8.0 can also generate an automated responses to initiate a corrective action to keep a web application running without human intervention. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, has further extended the time-to-value benefit of its Web Application Accelerator(SM) managed service with the general availability of Configuration Manager(SM), a new tool used to simplify the configuration of application-specific optimizations. Configuration Manager provides access to all the rich, flexible application delivery options for the Akamai Web Application Accelerator service through an easy to use interface enabling users to quickly configure and add new Web-enabled applications to be delivered using the Akamai Platform. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced Citrix® NetScaler® 9, the industry’s most advanced solution for radically improving the efficiency and TCO of web-based applications. As web applications multiply across corporate datacenters, most companies waste an estimated 50 percent of the cost of running these applications due to highly inefficient use of server and network resources. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Further demonstrating continued evidence that the SAP ecosystem strategy delivers additional choices, value and flexibility for customers, SAP AG and CA, Inc. today announced a global reseller agreement that will enable SAP to resell the CA Wily Introscope(R) solution as SAP(R) Extended Diagnostics by CA Wily, a comprehensive application performance management solution that helps to ensure mission-critical Web applications and Web services meet customers' business and performance goals. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced a collaboration with Arista Networks and NetEffect, an Intel company, to demonstrate how specialty hardware platforms can optimize both the peak performance and consistency of ultra-low latency data delivery under the most demanding conditions. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

OpenSpirit announces that DataFlux, a leading provider of data quality and data integration solutions, will integrate OpenSpirit technology into its award-winning software to provide increased compatibility with third-party geosciences applications and data stores. End users will be able to extract well data from OpenSpirit-enabled data stores to perform rapid data analysis and quality control tasks utilizing the DataFlux(R) Enterprise Integration Server and business rules monitoring. The data can then be leveraged in a variety of petro-technical workflows. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

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Intel released an update to its XML Software Suite, a software library that helps developers deliver the maximum XML processing performance for any Enterprise, SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 based applications. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vinci Consulting Corp., a leader in advanced networking, infrastructure and security solutions, today announced that it offers Cisco ACE (Application Control Engine) Implementation Services. This service offering includes the analysis and design of an ACE-based solution for a single load-balanced application and enables customers to rapidly deploy application optimization solutions using the Cisco ACE Service Module. ACE Implementation Services are now offered to Vinci Consulting Corp. clients in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco® Application-Oriented Networking (AON) Healthcare Services Extension for HIPAA and ePrescription is an innovative approach to healthcare information exchange. This solution greatly simplifies the secure transport, transformation, and reliable delivery of HIPAA-compliant messages directly between healthcare providers, payers, benefits managers, and governmental agencies over the Internet. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Resilient Trust Networks announced today it is launching a trust network in the state of Utah, with the Fourth Street Clinic in downtown Salt Lake City. This network will serve as a model for the rest of the nation enabling continuity and coordination of care, secure messaging for scheduling and referrals, collaborative case management, disease management, medication adherence, patient access, patient safety and surveillance, medical research, and protection from medical identity theft and claims fraud. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc. today announced that IntraLinks, the leading provider of online workspaces for secure document exchange, has selected Sonoa’s ServiceNet to facilitate the development of its SaaS API infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today introduced the BIG-IP® 6900 hardware platform, which expands F5® products’ advanced, integrated application delivery capabilities to meet the needs of a broader range of customers, including enterprises, service providers, and Web 2.0 content providers. This announcement builds on the momentum of the recently released entry-level BIG-IP 1600 and 3600 hardware platforms, as well as the high-end VIPRION® Application Delivery Controller (ADC) released in early 2008. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Today, Microsoft announced that it has joined the AMQP working group. As a founding member of the AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) working group, we at Red Hat are excited about this development. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a comprehensive suite of professional services intended to help customers strategize, design and build datacenters optimized for energy, space and cost efficiency. Continuing Sun's broad eco leadership, Sun consultants can now retrofit existing datacenters to meet minimum power and efficiency needs, or develop new modular datacenter design concepts that can maximize space utilization, increase power and minimize operating costs, based on customers' specific business needs. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

AT&T Inc. today announced the completion of its transition of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic to a next-generation, consolidated IP/MPLS backbone network, which delivers a dramatic expansion in capacity to meet the ever-growing demand for IP connectivity from consumers and businesses. The new full-mesh optical platform includes the world's largest deployment to date of 40-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) transport, the fastest backbone technology available today. The company's entire U.S. ultra-long haul network -- more than 80,000 fiber-optic wavelength miles -- now uses this 40-gigabit network technology, known as OC-768. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Faced with increased information privacy legislation, organizations must secure their online, automated business processes with partners to meet corporate governance obligations. They are challenged to achieve these goals because their information systems, such as HR, ERP, CRM, finance, and sales were not designed to provide the secure interoperability required for automating business processes. An emerging alternative model for services-oriented architecture (SOA) deployment includes a network-embedded SOA backbone that provides IT system interoperability for corporate-wide security and regulatory compliance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Dell announced today the availability of the Red Hat Application Appliance, its first entry-level open source middleware appliance for enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses in EMEA. It is jointly developed and supported by open source leader, Red Hat, and is powered by AMD OpteronTM architecture. The certified and integrated open-source platform is only available from Dell and will simplify IT operations for its business customers by significantly reducing the cost, time and complexity of deploying web and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. With certification and support provided by Red Hat, it removes the need for IT services intervention upon delivery. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Enterasys Networks Inc., the Secure Networks Company(TM), today announced that it has joined the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). MAPP is a new program from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) that provides vulnerability information to security software providers in advance of Microsoft's monthly security update release. Through this program, Enterasys will receive vulnerability information early, enabling the company to provide customers with advanced, updated protections during the window of time between the release of Microsoft security updates and customers applying them to their system. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that the company is building on its Business Smart Data Center strategy by continuing to roll out its OnDemand Switch(TM) platforms - with the introduction of its OnDemand Switch 3 next-generation application delivery platform offering throughput of up to 16 Gbps and its new version of AppDirector, integrating new on demand application acceleration services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Deploying FIPS-Certified SOA Gateways in Federal, State and Local Government Agencies. Learn why FIPS 140-2 validation is necessary for SOA Gateways used in building secure, robust and scalable Service Oriented Architecture. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

AFORE Solutions, Inc., a leader in the design and delivery of technology solutions for the networking industry, today unveiled its ASE3300™ Network Optimization Appliance, part of its Accelerated Secure Ethernet technology suite. The ASE3300 targets inter data center networks providing optimized, secure high performance extensions over diverse wide area networks (WAN). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of secure cloud gateways, today announced the closing of a $10 million Series C round of funding. This round is led by Third Point Ventures, the venture capital arm of Third Point LLC; and joins current investors Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners and SAP Ventures, a division of SAP AG. Sonoa will use the financing to expand sales, marketing and product development efforts. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco updates ACE XML Gateway with many new features to improve performance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Cisco today announced the availability of a composite application that will help organizations proactively enforce data privacy across the business network. The solution is designed to help support continuous, demonstrable compliance with data privacy policies and to minimize risks. By bringing together SAP(R) solutions for governance, risk, and compliance (SAP solutions for GRC) with Cisco(R) intelligent network services, the Data Privacy composite application by SAP and Cisco allows businesses to enforce real-time global and local data privacy policies throughout the organization. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

This IBM Redbooks publication was written for application architects and other consultants who want to include DataPower appliances in their solutions for reasons of speed, security, or ESB integration. The topics include DataPower services, Web services, security, and integration strategies. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Today, IT integrator Aipex and content networking vendor Solace Systems announced a new partnership to assist Australian financial organisations in improving the speed and throughput of their data distribution networks. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Dajeil Ltd. has cooperated with SOALogix Inc., a leading software provider of information integration solutions, to develop a secure hardware execution platform for the SOALogix Confero SOA software suites. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc (NYSE: T) company, today announced that it would be holding several speaking sessions at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo detailing the benefits of seamless process integration, secure file transmissions and supply chain optimization. The conference is the perfect backdrop to educate attendees on how integration technology is best put into practice to meet today's global climate and ever-changing business demands. Sterling Commerce executives and customers will offer seven presentations on innovative solutions that provide collaboration across customers, partners and suppliers globally for greater operational efficiency from Oct. 12-16, in Orlando, Fla. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

This forum will provide access to and contributions from Intel XML software, marketing, and training engineers that specialize in Intel® XML Software Suite and Intel® SOA Security Toolkit. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

QuickStart for WebSphere® DataPower® guides you through those first technical hurdles, offering you two WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances as well as eight days of IBM's design and implementation expertise, enabling you to experience the benefits of SOA for a business scenario of your choice—all with reduced risk and a minimal investment. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

To help clients further simplify their SOA deployments and integrate existing Web services and legacy applications IBM is adding to its existing QuickStart portfolio of WebSphere Application Server and Portal offerings with the announcement of the new QuickStart for WebSphere DataPower. These fixed-scope services let clients address multiple core infrastructure issues through an integrated offering, in this case linking WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with services from IBM Global Technology Services (GTS). By using a proven services methodology, delivery assets and mentoring, IBM can help clients quickly take advantage of an SOA to address business challenges identified through their key agility indicators. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced new feature-rich Carrier Ethernet service delivery switches and other enhancements to its Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery Portfolio, a key part of Ciena’s vision for transforming networks into programmable service-delivery engines. The new additions enhance the portfolio’s ability to combine low-touch devices and intelligent software to simplify and scale Carrier Ethernet service delivery by automating and accelerating service creation and activation in access and metro networks. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sun Microsystems Inc. and RadView Software Ltd. announced today a joint promotion that aims to Accelerate the performance of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). This attractive promotion consists of Sun's prominent CMT SPARC based servers and RadView's WebLOAD Professional for application performance testing. Companies who register for the promotion will be entitled to purchase RadView's WebLOAD Professional at 30% discount from standard list price. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and Service Providers are developing and deploying a new generation of network devices that leverage Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and other content-aware functionality. This technology introduces millions of new variables that impact performance and security, adding significant cost and complexities. New testing solutions are needed that not only validate performance and functionality under realistic conditions, but also accelerate development and time-to-market while reducing costs in R&D, QA and operations. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

AGNITY, a leading global technology and consulting services firm for communications and enterprise applications, today announced at the BROADSOFT Connections Users Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, the AGNITY® ACONYX™ service-oriented communication architecture, a software components framework for the design, development and deployment of multiple communication services into business processes. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the recent release of 'JUNOS(r) for Dummies,' (Wiley Publishing, Inc; ISBN: 9780470277966; $29.99) a practical guide to JUNOS software, the trusted network operating system driving Juniper Networks' high-performance network infrastructure. This latest 'For Dummies' reference guide provides a practical, fast-track approach to learning and using JUNOS software to manage high-performance networks with Juniper Networks routers, switches, security appliances and other network components. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT), today announced the release of nGenius® Performance Manager and nGenius InfiniStream version 4.5 software, and the evolution of its nGenius InfiniStream continuous capture Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices, the company’s next step in executing on the integration of its acquisition of Network General. The result is a powerful, unified solution that raises the bar in service assurance and performance management by combining extensive early-warning capabilities, real-time and historical application flow analysis, and deep-packet forensics. The result of this evolution will have a profound impact on IT operations by enabling network, datacenter and application managers to dramatically improve productivity through more effective collaboration to address the operational challenges of managing the modern IP network posed by virtualization, convergence, SOA and highly distributed network-centric operations. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a global leader in information technology (IT) and business process services is pleased to announce that it has joined Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the availability of its new Application Ready Network (ARN) solution for Siebel. With this announcement, F5 is expanding on the previously announced ARN for Oracle to provide tested and documented deployment, configuration, and optimization guidance for customers using F5 and Oracle's Siebel CRM applications in concert. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. company, today announced a new alliance strategy designed to help companies innovate in global commerce by productively collaborating inside and outside their enterprise. As part of that strategy, the company has extended its relationships with leading systems integrators in which each firm will incorporate Sterling Commerce solutions in their portfolio offerings and Sterling Commerce will leverage the firms' world-class systems integration and consulting services to enable companies to address key vertical industry challenges. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

MuleSource, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, today announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to deliver a new offering that provides off-the-shelf integration between Mule and the Intel(R) XML Software Suite. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

JSE-listed ICT solutions and services specialist Faritec has become the first IBM partner in South Africa to be awarded accreditation to sell and implement IBM DataPower Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) appliances. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation, a leading provider of application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that Artix(R) Data Services has earned the SWIFTReadyTM Messaging Data Services label. The prestigious SWIFTReady label program certifies that SWIFTTM Solution Provider applications and middleware products support SWIFT messaging services and provides customers of SWIFT services with a demonstrated and verified assessment of vendor capabilities. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

DataSynapse, Inc., a leader in dynamic application service management software for the next-generation data center, today announced integration of its FabricServer® software platform with Cisco’s VFrame data center provisioning and infrastructure orchestration product. As a result of this technology integration, enterprise data center architects can now dynamically scale a complete application service stack as virtualized application and hardware infrastructure objects. As a result, IT organizations can reduce capital and operating costs while delivering significant improvement in time to market and service levels for critical business applications. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK<< MORE >>

NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT), the industry leader in advanced network and application performance management, today announced that the company has been invited to participate on two panel discussions at this week’s Interop New York 2008, where attendees will be exploring some of the crucial techniques that IT organizations must use to better manage and control network performance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.) is proud to announce the addition of two new clients, 37signals and SparkPeople, to their roster of enterprise users on the company's Dynect Platform. Both companies chose the Dynect Platform to meet their DNS and web presence needs. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Grupo Acotel today announced that it will launch new SWIFT-ready services to help corporate and bank customers in Spain better manage financial communications via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) platform. Based on the Sun Microsystems Open Suite for SWIFT, the Acotel solution is a cost-effective, fully managed service that allows customers to process payments and facilitate SWIFT communications including account statements, payments, transfers and debit services without the need to set up, integrate and support complex infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) company, today announced a pre-built, single application file gateway solution that offers point-and-click configuration within a rules-based architecture. Sterling File Gateway extends the value chain with managed file transfer (MFT) capabilities to handle everything from high-frequency messages and huge periodic file transfers to high volume loads of real-time data while leveraging the power of business-to-business (B2B) integration to move data in transit in a manageable way. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The Butler Group has performed an independent analysis of Vordel's XML Gateways and associated Vordel products (policy management, monitoring, XML acceleration). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOALogix, a leading service oriented architecture (SOA) solution provider, today announced that its Confero SOA appliance is optimized to enable sophisticated data mashup capabilities by delivering inline analytics and two-way communication between the source applications and the mashup. Confero SOA is the first integration appliance to go beyond simple data mashups to solve complex data federation and data integration challenges with a single appliance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking hardware, today announced the expansion of its global presence with the addition of offices in Atlanta, Palo Alto and Tokyo. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced its support of Microsoft’s Get Virtual Now launch event. Through tightly coupled integration efforts, F5 and Microsoft’s solutions together enable organizations to unlock the power of a comprehensive virtualized ecosystem—from the data center to the desktop. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The focus of many Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives has commonly been focused on "behind the firewall" or internal systems and processes. But the recognized benefits of SOA and Web services in particular can add even more value when applied to sharing resources and data across multiple domains inside and enterprise or between partners. Managing the construction of these multi-domain SOA's requires an ability to bridge disparate message oriented middleware domains, identity domains, security domains and diverse communication protocols and standards. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances represent an important element in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The appliances are purpose-built, easy-to-deploy network devices that simplify, secure, and accelerate XML and Web services deployments while extending an SOA infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel, the XML network management company, today announced the speaker line up for Vortex 2008, it’s 4th annual SOA user conference. Vordel will play host to speakers from such illustrious companies as BT, CA, CSC, Dell, EBS, nCipher, O2, TIBCO, Washington Mutual and many others. The venue for this year’s user conference is the world famous Guinness Storehouse brewery. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., today released a detailed test methodology and video series that enables network engineers to test the deep packet inspection (DPI) features of content-aware network devices. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® SOA Appliances are purpose-built network devices that offer a wide variety of functionality such as the securing and management of SOA Applications, Enterprise Service Bus Integration, and high speed XSL execution. A hardened appliance, DataPower provides robust security features including tamper protection of the device itself. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Ritz Interactive, Inc., a leading e-commerce network, has upgraded its infrastructure with the F5® BIG-IP® WebAccelerator™ solution to provide its customers with a faster and more convenient online shopping experience. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURE NETWORK << MORE >>

OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new group to define a lightweight subset of the Web services protocol suite that will make it easy to find, share, and control devices on a network. The OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile (WS-DD) Technical Committee will enable printers, storage devices, sensors, building security devices, entertainment systems, energy management equipment, hand-held computers, cell phones, remote controls, and many other devices to be identified, communicated with, and controlled using Web services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Avineon, Inc., a successful provider of IT, geospatial, engineering and program management services, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced that it will demonstrate the power-saving benefits of utilizing hardware-based XML accelerators in conjunction with multi-core processors at the Intel Developer Forum, August 19-21 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, Calif. XML is the dominant transactional data format used in enterprise applications, SOA and Web Services. The use of XML acceleration points the way to significant reductions in data center power consumption, which is forecasted to double in the next five years. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Averitt Express increased performance of its web-based self-service freight booking applications using the F5® BIG-IP® WebAccelerator™ solution. Upon deployment, Averitt’s customers reported a measurable improvement in website responsiveness almost immediately. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The SOA Consortium(TM) today announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by K. Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, on "How to Fail at SOA," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The Future Internet Symposium (FIS) - to be held 28-30 September 2008 in Vienna, Austria - is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA is all about factoring business functionality into shared, reusable services, and then assembling those services into automated business processes. Because it's disruptive technology that can impact not only your company's IT department but also operations, accounting, and myriad other departments, installing a SOA in your organization will require a new level of collaboration across departmental boundaries. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NEXT NETWORK << MORE >>

The soft appliance is a companion piece of technology to an ESB suite, adding performance acceleration, increasing scalability, and security mediation in a manner similar to the XML security and acceleration appliances, but in a software form factor providing for greater flexibility and reduced cost of deployment. Given this, SOA Expressway is sometimes referred to as a “hyper-esb” or “federated intermediary” to associate a label to its usage. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The DataPower device can be completely configured and managed through the XML Management Interface. If enabled, this interface allows administrators to send status and configuration requests to the DataPower appliance through a standard SOAP interface, using SOAP messages. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The combined HP and Layer 7 offering provides customers with a complete governance solution for service-oriented archtiectures (SOA) based on XML and Web services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

OpTier(R), the leader in business Transaction Management(TM) (BTM) for the enterprise, announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named CoreFirst(R) a winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

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Layer 7 Technologies partners with HP to deliver integrated SOA solutions - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

As companies embark on efforts to build loosely coupled service-oriented architectures they inevitably have to tackle the issue of securing their SOA service infrastructure, and many turn to XML security appliances to get the job done. This article helps you make the right choice<< MORE >>

Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application delivery controller software announced that ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) has been selected by NTractive as part of its infrastructure to manage its hybrid web application, Elements SBM™. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Nastel Technologies, a premier global provider of performance management solutions for complex enterprise applications, today announced the general availability of its new product package AutoPilot M6 TM for TIBCO TIBCO Rendezvous® (RV). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM publishes book on IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook (Hardcover)- SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Join Managed Methods for a Webcast were we discuss and demonstrate SOA transactions governance in runtime. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Citrix, the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that Citrix(R) NetScaler(R), a key member of the Citrix Delivery Center(TM) product family, has been evaluated and positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the 2008 Application Delivery Controller Magic Quadrant(1) report authored by Mark Fabbi, Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, and Joe Skorupa, Research VP. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

If you have been looking for a web service monitoring and management tool but don’t have a boatload of money, look no further – JaxView from Managed Methods is the tool for you. It is remarkably easy-to-use and provides quick time-to-value while offering a deep and wide set of governance features that are otherwise found on tools with a much larger footprint and price. You’ll love the monitoring, management, and reporting features and will find the tool easy to grow into to suit your governance needs. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products, today announced the addition of Synovus Financial to its customer list. Synovus is a financial services holding company with more than $33 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides commercial and retail banking, as well as investment services, to customers through 36 banks, 440 ATMs, and other Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Symphoniq Corp., a pioneer in real end user performance monitoring, today announced the immediate release of TrueView, ADC Edition. Designed for use with F5 Network, Inc's BIG-IP systems, TrueView, ADC Edition enables businesses to manage the Web application performance experienced by real users while leveraging their existing BIG-IP infrastructure. Powered by Symphoniq's TRUE (The Real User Experience) technology that uniquely addresses the performance issues associated with complex Web architectures, TrueView, ADC Edition reveals previously undetectable end user performance issues for any Web application and correlates them with BIG-IP device statistics and other infrastructure and network parameters. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel today unveiled version 5.1 of its XML network infrastructure products, to accelerate, manage and protect XML applications. Vordel 5.1 addresses the need for lifecycle management of policy across the SOA. By combining the central management of SOA policies with distributed enforcement across a network of XML gateways, organizations generate increased returns on IT architecture and maximize their SOA investments. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

With its innovative ServiceNet network appliance, Sonoa Systems offers a next-generation platform that enables enterprises to connect to the Web and provide services with secure data protection, flexible access control and interoperability, and significantly enhanced performance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOUCE NETWORK << MORE >>

This article covers SOA Gateway deployment best practices, benefits and requirements with a focus on service virtualization, message privacy and integrity, and message control and auditing. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Segovia, a global provider of Internet Protocol (IP) satellite network solutions, announced its plans to voluntarily adopt guidelines proposed by the U.S. Federal Chief Information Officers Council Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, related to facilitating service-oriented architecture (SOA) for enterprises. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today named Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as chief executive officer. Upon his arrival in September, Mr. Johnson will also be appointed to the board of directors. The company also announced today that Scott Kriens will continue as chairman of the board and will remain active in the areas of strategy and leadership development. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of software and appliances that help the enterprise and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers deliver customer-facing Web services, today announced that Sterling Infosystems, the leading provider of pre-employment screening and background-checking information and solutions, has selected its ServiceNet solution to more effectively operate Sterling's SOA infrastructure and ensure enterprise-class security, manageability and performance of these customer-facing Web services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today introduced the BIG-IP® 1600 and 3600 hardware platforms, which deliver enhanced application delivery capabilities to meet a broad range of enterprise customer requirements. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

In the forthcoming book The Business Value of Virtual Service-Oriented Grids, the authors provide insights on how virtualization and service orientation work; and how these technology used in conjunction with grid computing. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance networking, today marked the 10th anniversary of on-time consecutive quarterly releases of JUNOS(R) software. Over the past 10 years, Juniper has consistently designed, developed and delivered new releases of JUNOS software on a time-tested quarterly release cycle to address the evolving high-performance networking requirements of more than 30,000 service provider, enterprise and public sector customers around the world. JUNOS software provides carrier-class continuous systems availability, automated network operations and the open innovation that businesses demand to quickly align their networks with changing business requirements, while reducing complexity, cost and risk. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco has extended its Data Center 3.0 initiative with the launch of new products and professional services. It includes Cisco Data Center 3.0 announcements include: Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software release 4.1; Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) software release 3.1 for the ACE 4710 application switch; Cisco VFrame Data Center software release 1.2; and new Cisco Data Center 3.0 professional programs and services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the next generation of its best-in-class WXC application acceleration platforms--the WXC 1800, WXC 2600 and WXC 3400 appliances. The new WXC appliances provide distributed enterprises with a more scalable, modular and cost-effective approach to delivering fast and consistent application response across the WAN to help ensure uncompromised access to mission-critical applications and services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Morphing the ESB into the clouds is the next step in the evolution to Cloud Computing. Jim ponders on how this might happen. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI), a provider of silicon, systems and software technologies and a Microsoft Gold Technology Innovation award winner, announced on Thursday (10 July) the expansion of its offering to include content processing solutions for the Microsoft Silverlight platform. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products, today announced support of REST style services to their patent pending Agentless deployment options. JaxView has several different deployment options including XML/Firewall, Agentless, Agent stub and ESB integration. Although JaxView has had support of REST services in other deployment options, the agentless option only supported SOAP standard based services, until now. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Forum Systems, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Gateway, Forum Sentry, today announced it has partnered with Techlogix to bring SOA products to markets in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific. Techlogix will supply Forum Sentry with installation and architecture consulting services to its large customer base across Asia-Pacific and United Arab Emirates. In United Arab Emirates, many financial institutions and multi-national companies have started adopting SOA for adding efficiencies to their business. UAE companies are some of the most advanced in deploying technology standards in banking and telecom sectors. A healthy economic outlook for the region combined with a desire to create more efficiency in the region's electronic business processing system has created momentum for SOA. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

WhiteHat Security today announced the general availability of an integrated solution with F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. The new offering allows enterprises to attain expert-level Web application security and mitigate the Web application software flaws that leave corporate and customer data at risk. With the announcement of their partnership in March, the companies committed to providing integration between WhiteHat Sentinel, the industry-leading SaaS-based (Software-as-a-Service) website vulnerability management solution, and the award-winning F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Application Security Manager(TM) (ASM(TM)) Web Application Firewall. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the results of testing of its guaranteed messaging solution with the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC). Testing revealed that a single high-availability pair of Solace routers configured for guaranteed message delivery is able to process and correctly deliver as many as 100,000 messages per second with sub-millisecond latency and zero message loss. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The National Recruiting Center of TEKsystems has an immediate need for an ESB Data Power Developer to work on a contract-to-hire basis in the Washington, DC area. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco today announced that Eurobank EFG in Serbia has implemented the Cisco® Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) and Cisco Branch Optimization solution to create a network that serves as the platform for rapid growth. The architectural approach gives Eurobank EFG a foundation for employee collaboration, new services to customers and tight cost control. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

"Business Machines, Again". This is my inspiration. Tivo gets it. IBM gets it... And our customers are starting to really buy into it in a big way. It's all about time-to-value and total cost of ownership/operation. And appliance like our WebSphere DataPower XI50, deliver on these attributes. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has won an initial $89-million information convergence contract from the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to help enhance the performance of the military’s distribution network. The Lockheed Martin team, including SAIC, Data Networks Corporation, PRTM, BearingPoint, Rainbow Data Systems, Innolog, Business Objects, Teradata and Oakland Consulting, was awarded the fixed-price, multi-year contract, which includes provisions for supplemental task orders in future years. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Saugatuck sees the data center focus of both firms as a solid long-term strategy that – if executed according to their plans – could shift RedHat and VMware into mainstream IT relationships and purchasing processes. Both firms’ executives are smart enough to realize that once they are established as Master Brands in the user data center, it is difficult and unusual to lose such positioning and relationships. But, RedHat’s and VMware’s strategies are not synergistic or symbiotic. Both are seeking to become the defacto standard for data centers. In fact RedHat also announced a virtualization offering and committed to management tools which directly compete with VMware offerings. This area will surely spark competitive battles in user data centers, and cloud-based IT services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards" - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Continuing to fulfill and expand the Cisco® Data Center 3.0 initiative launched at last year's CiscoLive! event, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new products and professional services that will help customers virtualize data centers for greater operational and energy efficiency. The new offerings make the virtual network a highly efficient platform for delivering data center services -- accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of software and appliances that enable the enterprise and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to deliver customer-facing Web services, today announced that several new customers have selected Sonoa ServiceNet to free their applications from the security, interoperability and performance complexities that arise when delivering Web services at cloud scale. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Deloitte and Cisco today announced a collaborative initiative that combines the intelligence in Cisco’s network platform with Deloitte’s broad array of business process and technology consulting capabilities. Deloitte and Cisco have entered into a go-to-market agreement focused on developing service offerings that take advantage of the intelligence of the network to enhance business processes. The Deloitte and Cisco collaboration will map business processes to network intelligent services, such as communication and collaboration, user identification, and wireless location detection, so businesses can achieve more visibility, control, and responsiveness across the enterprise while leveraging their existing business applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise MRG V1, which offers significant Red Hat Enterprise Linux realtime enhancements as well as a high performance, multi-platform messaging system. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP today announced multiple ground-breaking projects coming out of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, located at the SAP campus in Palo Alto, California. Among the projects that are being created and developed in the lab are a private online collaboration workspace, support for enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) management, a disaster recovery solution, a real-time reporting solution for manufacturers, and solutions that help companies improve business performance. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers” report. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced a broad set of enhancements to Artix™ Data Services, designed to offer customers the broadest and richest financial messaging data services development and deployment platform. The latest release includes the most comprehensive implementation of SWIFTNet™ MT Standards Release 2008 (SR2008) and the launch of a new free online validation service. IONA is also announcing new solution offerings for OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives processing and payments straight-through processing (STP) designed to reduce risk exposure and operational costs for financial firms. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance appliances for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), today announced it has joined the HP Internet Software Vendor (ISV) Marketplace Referral Program to facilitate the companies’ collaboration in the field and accelerate the adoption of joint solutions. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today released the first solution that enables multi-national organizations to automate electronic invoicing processes worldwide, while maintaining conformity with individual tax regulations mandated by multiple countries. Sterling e-Invoice Gateway eliminates the need to support separate solutions for isolated geographies; reduces risk and exposure by complying with ever-changing electronic invoicing tax regulations; and improves efficiencies and contains costs by automating both buyer and seller electronic invoice processes in compliance with country-specific tax regulations. SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SEEBURGER Inc. announced today that it has been named to the “Leaders” category in the new Gartner Inc. Magic Quadrant analysis of business-to-business gateway providers released this month. SEEBURGER’s Business Integration Server and associated products are used by more than 7,500 companies around the world to automate trading relationships throughout the supply chain, offering a single integrated and highly scalable global platform with automated workflow, advanced message tracking, and the ability to integrate 100% of an organization’s trading partners including those that still do business on paper. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced its plans for creating software-enabled, service-driven networks that turn seemingly disparate network elements into an intelligent, cohesive platform that can be controlled on-demand. Transforming networks into programmable service delivery engines through its FlexSelect™ Architecture, Ciena enables service providers to adapt and scale their networks to address emerging services, turn unpredictability in service demand into business opportunities and eliminate barriers between creating and monetizing new services. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

How should network vendors approach this market, now that they are competing against major software vendors and outside the traditional network space? - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Azul Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class application performance and IT solutions for Java™ applications, and Axway, a leading provider of collaborative business-to-business (B2B) solutions, today announced that they are working together to address complex and demanding application performance needs for global financial businesses. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc., the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products today announced availability of their flagship SOA management product JaxView as a soft appliance. JaxView has several different deployment options including XML/Firewall, Agentless, Agent stub and ESB integration. JaxView is offered as an appliance in all of its deployment options. As well, JaxView is the only agentless SOA runtime governance solution to be available both in software and soft appliance form. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM introduces a Redbook for Problem Determination for SOA Appliances - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today announced the expansion of Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN), the company’s hosted service that provides secure connectivity and collaboration between businesses, into Japan, Australia and China. With this solution, more companies will be able to securely and reliably exchange business documents, making it simpler to automate the processes they share with customers, partners, and suppliers and, therefore, increase their competitiveness and productivity. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced the availability of a webinar entitled Unlocking the Hidden Value of Your Network, featuring Gartner Research Vice President Joe Skorupa. The webinar focuses on the network’s value and explains how Application Delivery Networks yield compelling application performance and security advantages while enabling growth opportunities as well—even in challenging economic times. Upon attending this webinar, viewers will learn how ADN enables enterprises to do more with less. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected Workd - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Microsoft has embraced these popular ideas—ESB and SaaS—and has blended their most compelling characteristics into a new idea it calls the Internet Service Bus (ISB). The ISB model is similar to ESB in terms of functionality. However, ISB is made available at the broader Internet scope, so it's similar to the SaaS model in terms of standards, reach, and scalability. The Microsoft® ISB, in a nutshell, makes it easier for companies to adopt ESB infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced a collaboration with Sun Microsystems to help secure and govern Web services built using the Sun JavaTM Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS). Sun customers will be able to purchase Layer 7 products globally through Sun Professional Services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Customers looking to replace Juniper DX load balancers/application accelerators after they are discontinued later this year will have to look to other qualified vendors, Juniper says. The company announced end-of-life for the boxes earlier this year but didn't issue formal notice about what customers should do if they want additional DXs in the future. SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

ENTNET is a long-running conference organized under the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for the purpose of promulgating an understanding of the development and evolution of enterprise-level networking technologies. Over the years the conference has been bringing together a rich diversity of leading-edge telecom experts from industry, universities, and government. The popularity of the conference continues to grow as the premier forum for researchers, engineers, and business executives in the networking space drawing an attendance from all over the world. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sun Microsystems Inc., today announced the immediate availability of Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6, the latest version of its flagship service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business integration software. Sun also released a new master data management (MDM) suite, a high performance and unified solution that gives users a single view of their customer data and helps them more effectively manage customer relationships. Java CAPS 6 is the first SOA platform by a major technology provider built on open source through the Open ESB community. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

A successful SOA implementation depends as much on the flexibility of your network as much as the services that will be delivered on it. In other words, networks that can't adapt to changes in demand have been shown to hinder the success of SOA implementations. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., the content-aware network and application testing company, today announced support for 50 application protocols, IPv6 and SSL transport protocols, as well as new security testing, test automation, and real-time reporting capabilities in Version 1.2 of the BreakingPoint testing software. The new features enable network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers to accelerate the development of content-aware network devices and services with comprehensive Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) testing functionality. BreakingPoint's solutions validate performance and reliability under the most realistic and current conditions, while reducing time-to-test by more than 50 percent. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Forum Systems, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Security and Management products and Crosscheck Networks, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Testing and Governance Tools today announced an industry-first webinar on techniques in identifying and mitigating SOA Web Services-based vulnerabilities. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Appliances are part of the Software AG Business Infrastructure Suite, enabling companies to achieve business results – faster. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Using the code-name "BizTalk Services," Microsoft is building a set of "cloud" technologies that are developed and operated by Microsoft as a logical extension to the .NET Framework and the Microsoft SOA technologies. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Liaison Technologies, Inc., global provider of integration and data management services and solutions, announced today that it is providing a free 14-day evaluation copy of its market leading Contivo Analyst software. Contivo Analyst software may be downloaded at www.liaison.com. Data transformation and mapping represents an enormous and costly challenge. Today’s business-to-business (B2B), enterprise application integration (EAI), service oriented architecture (SOA) and extensive markup language (XML) integration projects all require an effective information architecture to manage complex data. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the appointment of Wojo Zielonka as chief financial officer. Mr. Zielonka will be responsible for steering Solace’s financial and operational planning as the company grows. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Web services, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced its go-to-market partnership with Steria Benelux. Steria will act as a channel partner for Layer 7’s SOA gateway products in Belgium to offer leading SOA security, governance solutions and support to its current and prospective customers. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This paper describes how a pervasive, reliable network assures that all elements of highly distributed composite applications operate quickly, efficiently, and securely. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Are you a DataPower Consultant or are you looking for a DataPower Consultant - Check out www.soaappliances.com - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

TheInfoPro (TIP), an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry, today announced its Networking Wave 4 Exciting Vendors List. This list is compiled on the basis of feedback from Networking professionals regarding which of the Networking vendors and products they consider to be the most exciting. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco trys to "Etch" out a new messaging protocol as an alternative to SOAP. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Today at Citrix Synergy', the event where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced an agreement that will make it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company's web application delivery offerings into integrated solutions that enhance the performance, scalability and security of enterprise web applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

White Paper from Forum Systems on the Best Practices, Benefits and Requirements for SOA Gateways. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced the latest release of Artix™ Data Services, an open and standards-based development tool for building model-driven data services, and a key component of IONA’s Artix advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Artix Data Services shortens the data services development, test and maintenance lifecycle and improves the quality of data as it flows across heterogeneous environments. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"Business networks are relevant to everyone," said Kagermann, "and true business network collaboration can only be conducted on a services-based IT infrastructure that is flexible and efficient enough to allow companies to adapt their business processes to business needs. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Azul Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class application performance and IT solutions for Java applications, today announced the availability of the Vega™ 3 Series appliances, which provide breakthrough performance and a cost effective way for companies to run, process, and manage Java applications for their business critical needs. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the appointment of former Goldman Sachs executive Ralph Frankel as chief technology officer, financial services. Mr. Frankel will be responsible for steering the company's technology vision and working closely with financial services customers to help them derive maximum value from their investment in hardware-based high-speed messaging and content networking. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Rohati Systems today unveiled the industry’s first high-performance network-based entitlement control (NBEC) solution: the Rohati Transaction Networking System™ (TNS™) platform. Rohati’s breakthrough redefines entitlement management by enabling enterprises to easily define and enforce per-transaction policies across all types of users and applications. Rohati’s solution uses the policy-standard XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language) for the first time in a network platform, eliminating the need for client or server agents, or changes to network topology. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected Worldk - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel, the XML network management company, today announced the opening of new offices in Washington DC to directly serve Vordel’s growing US Federal customer market. Following the recent appointment of Greg Hudson as President of US Operations for Vordel, this office will complement the company’s existing operations by delivering in-market support services and training from a state-of-the art executive briefing center. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems today announced a partnership agreement with TIBCO Software Inc. to help develop and manufacture a hardware appliance that capitalizes on TIBCO's leading messaging software technology and integrates fully into the TIBCO Rendezvous® product family. The TIBCO Messaging Appliance™ will offer unprecedented throughput with ultra-low latency allowing organizations to accelerate data delivery while simplifying operations and substantially reducing datacenter footprint. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Rolling Review which was suppose to start 6 months ago, fixes flat tire and starts reviews of SOA Appliances again with Layer 7 Technologies. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Learn how to use IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® SOA Appliances to query information from IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository using the REST API and SOAP API. Reusable stylesheets are provided to serve as standard query components to be used throughout DataPower configurations. Step-by-step examples show how these assets can be used to query WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware , the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that it has joined the Juniper Networks J-Partner Solutions Alliance Program. The interoperability of Radware's AppDirector application delivery controller and the Juniper Networks Secure Access SSL VPN appliances and Unified Access Control (UAC) solution provide customers with a more comprehensive application delivery solution. - SOA Network Architect - Application Delivery in a SOA World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Please join Managed Methods for a Webcast were we discuss one of our customers agentless deployment of JaxView to quickly provide visibility and control into their Web service and SOA environment. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

NEI (NASDAQ: NENG), a leading provider of server appliance products and services for storage, security and communications software vendors, has been named a “Cool Vendor” in the Cool Vendors in Infrastructure Appliances, 2008 report by Gartner’s research director L. Frank Kenney. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® SOA Appliances multistep processing policy system is a key part of appliance configuration. Version 3.6.1 of the firmware includes a number of enhancements to multistep that provide functionality familiar to programmers, including loops of actions, conditional execution of actions, and the ability to execute actions in parallel. Explore how you can combine the new features in multistep 3 to build an RSS feed aggregator. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Financial Services client, is searching for a DataPower Consultant to assist with an upcoming implementation. (5 months) - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Forum Systems announced the availability of FS Sentry 7.1, the SOA Gateway product. FS Sentry 7.1 enables rapid integration within a SOA without compromising security. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

VeNotion Technologies Ltd., the leader in SOA Business ServiceWare automation for Global 2000 has been included as a "Cool Vendor" in the April 2008 “Cool Vendors in emerging technologies, 2008” report by Gartner, Inc. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In this webcast, Phil Walston, VP Product Management, Layer 7 Technologies discusses what service level performance means within the context of a Service Oriented Architecture based on XML or Web services.<< MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced it has been selected as a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in SOA Governance, 2008 report. Layer 7 provides flexible and simple-to-use gateways for defining, managing and scalably enforcing policy-based governance policies in SOA. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced today the release of JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that simplifies application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. The release of JBoss ON 2.0 represents continued momentum for the Enterprise Acceleration initiative announced earlier this year, which is aimed at fostering adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware by increasing its capabilities for large-scale enterprise use. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods today announced the availability of their industry leading Web Service management portal JaxView 4.0. While providing full support for the SOA and Web service management for the IT operations, JaxView 4.0 offers expanded features with the Agentless Web services management and SOA visibility functionality. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM adds new features and enhancements to DataPower SOA Appliances. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint announced today that it has extended the reach of its runtime SOA governance software across a broad set of additional platforms. These new capabilities, which result from enhancements to the company’s ground-breaking architecture for distributed SOA governance, extend AmberPoint’s industry-leading visibility and control across the wide range of components used in today’s SOA environments, including Cisco, Oracle, BEA, JBoss and Apache. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application delivery software, today announced the release of ZXTM 5.0 (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager). This latest version is equipped with Java™ Extensions, enabling application architects, administrators, and developers to control their application delivery using policies that build on the robust, rich and powerful body of reusable Java application code. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) today announced a significant addition to the company's market-leading messaging technology, unveiling a Solace hardware messaging appliance specifically designed to accelerate the capabilities and performance of TIBCO Rendezvous(R) software. Building on TIBCO Rendezvous' breakthrough reliability, predictability and manageability, this tightly integrated hardware/software combination will offer improved application-to-application, ultra-low latency messaging throughput for mission critical data. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"SAP and Microsoft , along with other founding members, have created the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). The goal of BIAN is to help banks ease the transition to an SOA by gathering together a community of industry-leading players and global banks that will openly share domain and technical expertise to apply SOA principles and methodologies. In employing these principles, banks globally will be able to better respond to changing customer needs and reduce risk and cost of re-engineering legacy systems toward a more flexible operational environment." - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in Berlin is one of the first research partners to use AXP/Javalin modules as part of the latest generation of Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISR). This new router generation enables researchers and developers to implement complex network functionalities directly in network nodes – with the aim of providing direct network support for services and business applications through comprehensive self-management of central network nodes and standardized interfaces. At the Fraunhofer FOKUS Future Internet Lab a number of FOKUS working groups are engaged on the development of future Internet structures based on the principles of service orientation that will integrate infrastructure components and applications in one single seamless concept and make network administration and use much easier. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM) today announced it has acquired InfoDyne Corporation, a privately held software company based in Park Ridge, Illinois. InfoDyne is a leader in high-speed platforms and data feed connectors which combined with IBM's WebSphere technology will help clients extend transactional integrity to low-latency environments. Financial details were not disclosed. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel, the XML network management company, today announced the appointment of Mr. Greg Hudson as VP of Sales for the company’s US based North America operations. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced its new NetScaler MPX line of web application delivery systems. The new NetScaler solutions feature a massively parallel multi-core system architecture that significantly increases datacenter capacity and delivers 2.51 times more web applications with the same infrastructure footprint. Citrix® NetScaler® MPX also provides unmatched performance when delivering applications that demand the highest security and best end-user experience. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Ixia, a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, and F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that they will be jointly demonstrating F5® VIPRION™ on-demand Application Delivery Controller (ADC) capabilities at Interop Las Vegas, April 27 – May 2. A demonstration showcasing high-volume web and video traffic performance will be available in Ixia’s booth #2011. A demonstration in F5’s booth #627 will focus on how enterprises can scale their application-delivery infrastructures with VIPRION, while reducing data center power consumption, rack space requirements, and management overhead. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that it will present the results of research and benchmarking tests conducted using Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology to couple high-performance Tarari(R) content processing accelerators and Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors at the RSA Conference 2008, held April 7-11 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced its featured industry analyst presenters for Citrix Synergy™ 2008, the all-new industry conference where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet. Industry analysts participating at the conference will discuss best practices and reveal proven tactics for success in today’s ever-changing business environment, offering a holistic perspective on emerging enterprise technology. Citrix Synergy will take place May 20 to May 23 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Coming Soon - Cloud Computing Architect - Building the network infrastructure for Cloud Computing - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The network is a uniquely qualified IT resource to enable virtualization, providing a pragmatic adoption path toward service-oriented infrastructure and SOA. Using the SONA framework, organizations can reap the benefits of end-to-end virtualization and policy-driven service orchestration. This shared services architecture enables flexibility and agility while streamlining resources and reducing operational expenses. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Strangeloop NetworksTM Inc., today announced the WS1000 Web Services Accelerator, the first appliance that accelerates enterprise applications in Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) environments by automatically caching web services. Deployed as an appliance that sits between web applications and the back-end servers, the Strangeloop WS1000 Web Services Accelerator addresses the inevitable performance bottleneck that enterprises encounter as they use web services to create seamless data flow among their composite applications, improving web service response times by up to 30 times. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA/WOA Continues to Gain Momentum on the Web and becomes known as SOWA. SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco Systems Inc. envisions using the network as the platform for SOA, says Mark Weiner, director of product management and marketing for Cisco's Applications Delivery Business Unit - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) carries promises of greater interoperability, agility, and cost savings in managing business services. The deployment of loosely-coupled systems, however, presents challenges for development and operations teams. Effective SOA management requires visibility into the performance, usage, availability, security, and policy compliance within the Web services messaging environment. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today launched the Solace 3260 Content Router, the next-generation platform in its 3200 Series Content Networking System product family. The robust Solace 3260 holds up to 10 special-purpose hardware networking blades to provide the best-in-class performance, manageability and low cost of ownership required by today’s distributed application architectures. The Solace 3260 Content Router adds more muscle to the product lineup that is built around the Solace 3230 Content Router, which is currently in production with customers around the world. SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

For those that are interested in reading documentation you can get the latest Getting Started Guide for the Cisco Ace XML Gateway here. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"Connectivity, a critical aspect to any IT solution has received little attention of late. This article presents a broader view of how organizations may approach connectivity through the definition of 4 dimensions; internal, external, industry and hosted connectivity." - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new social network focused on advancing service oriented architectures (SOA). IBM's SOA Social Network brings together a like-minded, global community of thought leaders, information technology (IT) and business professionals, university professors and students, and other interested parties through both online and in-person forums designed to help members build skills and share best practices. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SearchSOA awards Gold to IBM DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40 for SOA Security Appliance - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Nasdaq traders bid up Citrix stock Tuesday on takeover rumors that have either IBM or Cisco purchasing the application delivery vendor. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel CTO, Mark O'Neill, is speaking at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco this week. His presentation will provide interesting insights to the challenges and opportunities presented by Web Services within the financial services sector. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Network Federal, a leading information technology reseller and channel program provider today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Nastel Technologies, a leading provider of solutions for application monitoring and management that maximize application up-time. Nastel's AutoPilot Suite enables cross-functional IT teams to manage and support the complex infrastructures that integrate critical business applications to help them meet crucial Service Level Agreements (SLAs). - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced today that Pantech, the leading Korean mobile handset manufacturer, has deployed Radware's APSolute application delivery controller (ADC) solution combining AppDirector and AppXcel. - SOA Network - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOALogix, a leading service oriented architecture (SOA) appliance provider, today announced the general availability of its Confero EPM (Enterprise Project Management) integration appliance. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

For the latest News, Blogs, Careers, Events and Resources for Cloud Computing check out the CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORK www.cloudcomputingnetwork.net - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of appliances that offer simplicity, control and performance in SOA and Web Services environments, today announced that it is integrating with products from the BEA AquaLogic(R) family to help optimize, accelerate and improve visibility and performance in distributed and heterogeneous environments. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"Many corporations are transitioning enterprise applications toward Service-Oriented Architecture, or SOA, a new, Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based approach to software that provides business advantages, such as data flexibility and reduced IT overhead costs. However, SOA can expose an organization to numerous new security risks. These risks can be serious enough to compromise a successful Sarbanes-Oxley, or SOX, compliance process if there is not an effective IT layer risk management process in place. This article will examine some of the most pressing compliance and security risks raised by SOA at the network layer, and explore cost-effective approaches to risk mitigation." - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, is proud to announce today a global partnership with BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented integration architectures, today announced a go-to-market partnership with Novell to secure programmatic Web services, leveraging Novell eDirectory and Novell Access Manager identity solutions. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Riverbed Technology, the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that its Riverbed® Steelhead® appliance running the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS(TM)) version 4.0 has achieved SAP® Certified Integration for third-party networking appliances that interoperate with SAP solutions using the SAP NetWeaver® platform and an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). Enterprise SOA enables customers to create a highly-flexible, open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. With SAP's certification of integration of the Riverbed Steelhead appliance, customers can be assured of interoperability within SAP application-based landscapes. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In this second edition of what is arguably the industry’s most extensive single-source reference on application delivery, Jim explores a very wide range of topics covering all aspects of application delivery. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IONA® Technologies, a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments today announced a new integration testing solution. The Interface Simulation and Testing Framework (ISTF), which is part of IONA's Artix' advanced SOA infrastructure suite, allows IT developers to test application integration scenarios early in the development lifecycle. With early detection and repair of software defects customers can dramatically reduce the time and cost of testing application integration scenarios, helping deliver their IT projects on time and on budget. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Network Automation, Inc., the leader in automation software, today announced record sales results for the fourth quarter and calendar year of 2007, increasing 23% and 27% for each period, respectively, over comparable 2006 figures. Buoyed by the introduction of AutoMate BPA Server 7, as well as a strengthened partner relationships and increasing brand awareness, Network Automation has advanced its standing as the leading Business Process Automation (BPA) provider in the industry. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

OpTier(TM), the leader in Business Transaction Management (BTM), today announced that its CoreFirst software is the first product to extend transaction visibility to virtual environments to help IT meet dynamically changing business needs. CoreFirst provides organizations with the insight and stability required to manage mission-critical applications running in production within virtualized environments. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"A clearly defined path for total lifecycle management of mission-critical applications within the network must be put in place - and a supporting level of investment in hardware resources must also be present for enterprises to gain the most from the various new enterprise networking architectures." - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Get to know grid types, grid computing, and Global Information Grid (GIG). This article focuses on issues related to harnessing unused resources for computer power that's too intensive for a stand-alone machine. Explore examples of solutions, such as monitoring change in grid scale, grid coupling switch, and GIG and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing methodology. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Coming Soon! The World's Largest Open Source Resouce Network for BPM. THE BPM NETWORK will provide the latest news, blogs, careers, events and resources for BPM. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Coming Soon! - The World's Largest Open Source Resouce Network for SAAS. THE SAAS NETWORK will provide the latest news, blogs, careers, events and resources for SAAS. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The World's Largest Open Source Resouce Network for Web 2.0. THE WEB2 NETWORK will provide the latest news, blogs, careers, events and resources for Web 2.0. - Coming Soon! - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has extended its Application Ready Network (ARN) for Microsoft to include Windows Server 2008. Building on the previously announced solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Exchange Server 2007, and Office Communications Server 2007, F5 is the only Application Delivery Networking vendor to offer validated, application-specific solutions to optimize end-to-end performance, availability, and scalability for key Microsoft applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM releases Redpaper Part IV of a 4 Part RedBook Series on WebSphere SOA Appliances. This series of redpapers cover the implementation details that help identify the circumstances under which DataPower appliances should be deployed. It provides a sample implementation and architectural best practices for SOA message oriented architecture in a production ESB legacy environment. In this document you will also find information describing ways to integrate the DataPower appliance with other products such as Websphere Registry and Repository (WSRR), Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA (ITCAM SOA) and Tivoli Composite Application Manager System Edition (ITCAM SE). This publication series is targeted at architects and administrators who need to understand the implemented architecture in WebSphere DataPower appliances to successfully deploy it as a secure and efficient Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a relationship with the EMEA Network Solutions unit of HP that provides a defined platform and important new route for F5 to deepen and extend its application optimisation and availability offerings for Global 1000 companies facing issues caused by network traffic volume increases. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Crossgate, AG, the global expert for business-to-business (B2B) integration and electronic data interchange (EDI), today announced a strong positive response to its recently announced B2B 360° Services for use with SAP® solutions. Customers around the globe are eager to learn about this new Business Ready Network solution that has the potential to effect profound changes to the landscape of the B2B infrastructure market, and 16 end users are already reaping the benefits. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and performance solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced the availability of its SecureSpan™ Mainframe SOA Gateway, a secure high performance mainframe SOA appliance. The appliance is used to expose mission-critical mainframe applications, business logic and data as a composite business service without costly coding or porting efforts. The SecureSpan Mainframe SOA Gateway offers support for industry standards and runtime orchestration technology powered by GT Software, a provider of rapid SOA development solutions that leverage mainframe resources. - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"A handful of US companies is set to dominate the emerging market for “cloud computing”, which will assume a central role in the information technology world, according to Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft."<< MORE >>

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a product integration that brings together the HP SOA Systinet governance software with Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway. The solution provides a unique ability for enterprises to ensure that information access policy designed into their service oriented architecture (SOA) applications is enforced at run time. This enables enterprises to maintain strict control on access to its private information while automating its business processes. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Symphoniq Corp., a pioneer in real end user performance monitoring, will be co-hosting a Web seminar entitled, “Poor Performance Is A Silent Killer: Learn How to Improve Your Online Business With Real End User Monitoring.” This complimentary seminar, broadcasted by InformationWeek, will educate attendees on the benefits of real end-user performance monitoring, and how to leverage this information to improve customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Summary of recent announcements for Alcatel-Lucent and HP Partnership on SOA Security and SOA Governance - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Symphoniq Corp., a pioneer in real end user performance monitoring, today announced the immediate release of TrueView for SOA (service oriented architecture). Designed to manage distributed environments by monitoring from the browser through every backend application server and service, TrueView for SOA offers the first truly end-to-end web application performance monitoring solution for SOA. Powered by Symphoniq’s patent-pending TRUE technology, TrueView for SOA provides visibility into where SOA services live and how usage and performance affect the end user. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

HP has adopted an Alcatel-Lucent web services security appliance, to help corporate developers build web services applications that comply with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco® today announced new products and services that extend its Application Network Services (ANS) portfolio to enable end-to-end application delivery networks. The company also announced that it has validated enterprise software application performance over these networks with the support of industry-leading software vendors, including Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. The new offerings make the network a highly efficient platform for application delivery -- accelerating and securing business-critical applications while dramatically improving end-user application experience and productivity. Application delivery networks mark the next milestone in Cisco's Data Center 3.0 initiative, which extends the benefits of the data center to the connected enterprise. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

New blog will focus on SOA Networking in the Healthcare Industry and new web site will provide the latest news, blogs, careers, events, and resources for Service-Oriented Architecture in the Healthcare Industry. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Alcatel-Lucent and HP today announced the integration of their respective products for managing and securing Web services-based networks. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"Switch vendors want to sideline servers by making their devices smarter. Now IT must decide if this is a brave new world ... or a nightmare of lock-in and higher costs" - see article by InfoWorld - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK<< MORE >>

Check out the Official SOA Appliances Web Site for the latest News, Vendors and article at www.soaappliances.com - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM releases Redpaper Part III of a 4 Part RedBook Series on WebSphere SOA Appliances. This series of redpapers cover the implementation details that help identify the circumstances under which DataPower appliances should be deployed. It provides a sample implementation and architectural best practices for SOA message oriented architecture in a production ESB legacy environment. In this document you will find information describing how the DataPower appliance can be used to secure incoming Web Services within an SOA environment. It also describes how to integrate your DataPower appliance with WebSphere Message Broker and how you can provide protection against security attacks such as XML Denial of Service (XDoS). - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced that MIB, Inc., the premier provider of fraud detection services to the North American life and health insurance industries, is building a service oriented architecture (SOA) using IBM technology to better serve its clients. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that luxury cruise specialist Crystal Cruises has significantly upgraded its onboard computer network with the F5® BIG-IP® WebAccelerator™ product to provide its guests with a fast and convenient Internet experience no matter where in the world its ships travel. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that Wawasan Open University (WOU) has successfully deployed Radware's APSolute Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution, combining AppDirector and LinkProof platforms, to build a business-smart network infrastructure for its distance learning network. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies announced today its XML Firewall and XML Networking Gateway software products support the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS) running on SPARC platforms from Sun Microsystems. Layer 7 is the only XML security and networking vendor to offer server software for Solaris 10 OS running on SPARC and x86 platforms through an upgradeable family of XML appliances for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web 2.0 applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Well, it sure looks like IBM is keeping all its supercomputing bases covered these days, with it not only working on a chip-sized supercomputer, but a global-scale shared computer that'd be capable of "hosting the entire internet as an application." - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the general availability of its F5® Acopia™ FreedomFabric™ Network Operating System Software Version 3.0. In addition, the company today announced a new product, the F5 Acopia FreedomFabric Network Manager, delivering the industry’s first independent management platform for intelligent file virtualization networks. Together, they help customers better manage the growth, complexity, and escalating expense of their file data storage. The F5 Acopia family of products extends Application Delivery Networking to include automated management of the data storage layer, and today’s announcement is another milestone in F5’s continued execution of this strategy. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Research and Markets has announced the addition of SOA and the Network to their offering. This report takes a look at industry trends and projected requirements to manage SOAs across the network. As SOAs move from the data center to the NOC, what do you need to know and why? It discusses the multiple ways of deploying SOA with particular emphasis on Web Services-based SOA applications. This paper adds clarity to a fundamental problem confronting the industry: how does deployment of distributed composite applications and services affect the network, and what can we do to ensure adequate performance? This analysis entails an examination of the ways in which applications and networks intertwine, and the ramifications for both application and network design going forward. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

It will be interesting how far they can run with this niche which lies smack dab between SOA Vendors and Networking Vendors. With no real competitors in site, they might take this a long way! - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The opportunity derives from an impending 'inflection point' towards a third generation of networking, says Hitesh Sheth, the executive VP and general manager in charge of Juniper's switching lines. He says that the arrival of unified communications, software-as-a-service (SaaS), service oriented architectures (SOA) and the like, means that converged global networks have become critical to business success - and so therefore has network reliability. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced it will establish the first Cloud Computing Center for software companies in China, which will be situated at the new Wuxi Tai Hu New Town Science and Education Industrial Park in Wuxi, China. The center will offer emerging Chinese software companies the ability to tap into a virtual computing environment to support their development activities. It will be established through an agreement signed today between IBM and Wuxi Tai Lake Industry Investment and Development Company Limited. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Looking for a way to manage the interoperability among applications using different protocols that need to exchange confidential data? Consider combining the functionality of IBM® WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus and IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. Find out how you can get a secure, agile, and extendible solution with a little effort in terms of code. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM releases Redpaper Part II of a 4 Part RedBook Series on WebSphere SOA Appliances. This series of redpapers cover the implementation details that help identify the circumstances under which DataPower appliances should be deployed. It provides a sample implementation and architectural best practices for SOA message oriented architecture in a production ESB legacy environment. In this document you will also find information describing ways to integrate the DataPower appliance with other products such as Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) and Tivoli Directory Server. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint today announced the results of its State of SOA Adoption Survey, which the company conducted to gauge the use of SOA in the enterprise. The research revealed a healthy success rate for SOA as well as notable heterogeneity in SOA environments. According to the survey, SOA applications are most often implemented to solve integration issues, most production SOA systems span multiple departments and the majority of organizations that have deployed SOA applications are meeting their desired goals. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced today the launch of the WSO2 Mashup Server 1.0. The open source Mashup Server for the first time combines the simplicity and richness of mashups with the reusability, security, reliability and governance required for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In doing so, it allows enterprises to empower their Web developers, business analysts, and other power users to develop valuable situational applications. These mashups can be published, shared, rated, tagged, commented upon, and searched to maximize their value to the enterprise. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today fortified its enterprise strategy and announced the expansion of its high-performance network infrastructure offerings with a new family of Ethernet switches. With an expanding range of best-in-class technologies, Juniper Networks is uniquely positioned to help high-performance businesses create responsive and trusted environments for accelerating the deployment of service-enabling applications that build differentiation and sustainable growth. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

NetQoS® Inc. has teamed with Cisco® to help network engineers quantify the performance improvements derived from Cisco Application Delivery Networks deployed using Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) modules and appliances, and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) products. In July 2007, NetQoS and Cisco together announced a management interface for Cisco WAAS to provide accurate response time monitoring in a WAN-optimized environment. Today, NetQoS is announcing advanced analytics support for Cisco ACE modules and appliances via the NetQoS Performance Center. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced its OnDemand Switch(TM), a new hardware platform for Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) that delivers breakthrough performance and superior scalability through an easy-to-upgrade license approach, for additional throughput and services. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA Network << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of appliances that offer simplicity, control and performance for service-oriented architecture (SOA) runtime governance, today announced that it has become a member of the HP Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF). Sonoa Systems' ServiceNet, a Service Delivery Controller (SDC) for runtime policy enforcement, will support the necessary standards for interoperability to enter the GIF program. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

XML network management company Vordel today announced product interoperability under the HP Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF). As a consequence of the agreement, customers can use HP SOA Systinet as the system-of-record for the policies used in Vordel’s XML Network Management products. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM releases Redpaper Part I of a 4 Part RedBook Series on WebSphere SOA Appliances. This publication series is targeted at architects and administrators who need to understand the implemented architecture in WebSphere DataPower appliances to successfully deploy it as a secure and efficient Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Video on Next-Generation Grid Enabled SOA by David Chappell - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

At its Lotusphere 2008 event earlier this week IBM announced Lotus Foundations, a set of easy-to-install-and-use, autonomic server appliances, based on Intel hardware and the Linux operating system, that offer up a bundle of collaboration features targeting small to mid-sized companies. IBM said a limited beta, with about 500 companies, of this first appliance – targeting collaboration – is already under way. The collaboration beta includes Domino mail/collaboration, file management, directory services, firewall, back-up, recovery and the Lotus Symphony productivity applications. A communications server is in the works, and other Foundations servers will follow, some incorporating offerings from IBM’s ISV partners. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods, the supplier of JaxView tools for visibility into Web Services operations, announced a strategic partnership with The SOA Monitor, an industry leading SOA and BPM consulting and training company. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. FFIV, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced a new modular, bladed chassis hardware system, VIPRION(TM). It is the industry's first Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that scales seamlessly with an organization's business -- without sacrificing manageability or simplicity. VIPRION enables organizations to deploy a flexible Application Delivery Network (ADN) right out of the box. Deploy the solution with one or two blades today, and as the infrastructure grows, VIPRION will grow with it. One blade or four, VIPRION looks like one device to users, applications, and administrators, which allows organizations to scale their infrastructure while keeping management costs fixed. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

As part of its application delivery strategy, Cisco is now rolling out a series of products that tie together to handle application and WAN acceleration for both office and remote users. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced that Bank Negara Indonesia, one of Indonesia's largest financial institutions, has boosted efficiency and productivity with a service oriented architecture (SOA) powered by IBM Software helping it to more quickly meet the demands of its increasingly tech-savvy customers and strengthen its market position in Indonesia's banking industry. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware , the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced the next wave of its business growth strategy. After 10 years in the application delivery marketplace, Radware has developed a product range that encompasses high availability, optimized performance and complete security. Armed with the expertise and innovative capabilities, Radware aims to provide even more innovative offers to its customers in the enterprise and carrier spaces. By building more solution-oriented offers Radware customers and partners will be able identify the most appropriate solutions to fulfill their particular business needs more easily. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods, announces the latest release of its free solution for monitoring Web service availability. Managed Methods enhances its offering to customers looking for simple availability in smaller environments. - SOA Network Architect - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced it has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner’s 2007 Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets. Layer provides simple-to-use gateways for defining, managing and scalably enforcing WS-Policy compliant governance policies. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In this second part of a two part series, Dave Chappell expands on his vision (Oracle's Vision) of the SOA Grid. This article also compares when to use an ESB versus a SOA Grid. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that it has officially opened its Solutions Lab, providing a cost effective, quick and easy way for partners and customers to experience hands-on, the deployment of Radware application delivery and security solutions combined with their mission critical applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively. From a technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Part 2 - Interview with Toufic Boubez of Layer 7 Technologies talks about SOA Vituralization, Access Control and WS-Policy - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In part 1 of this interview Toufic Boubez discusses the status of WS-Policy and the need for Practical Operational Governance. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) roots are based in Enterprise Architecture however the tipping point is coming where Service-Oriented Web Architecture (SOWA) is becoming the focus. - SOA Network Architect - SOWA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

With the increasing adoption of Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and nonrepudiability of XML messages has become an essential component of secure and robust messaging infrastructures. Using a sample scenario, this article walks you through how to use Apache WSS4J and IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® SOA Appliances together to enable the signing and verification of XML documents. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This article shows you how to get started using the WebSphere Transformation Extender Design Studio with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. The article describes WebSphere Transformation Extender and its integration with DataPower, and uses examples to show you how to design transformation maps for the DataPower Appliance. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA, SAAS and Virtualization are impacting our networks and requires a fundamentally different approach to manage. Peter Williams reflects on the need to re-assess your Network Management Software - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Predictions for 2008 - The Year of the SOA Network - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

CEO Predicts Increased Customer Activity Around Business Network Transformation as the Speed of Business Change Accelerates and Companies' Business Networks Become the Primary Source of Competitive Differentiation. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Appliance web site will feature the major players in this space. If you are a SOA Appliance Vendor submit content. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Alcatel-Lucent today announced the availability of the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway (WSG), the industry’s first network appliance that allows controlled access to sensitive information across multiple IT systems, by implementing stateful information access policies, organization-wide and in real-time. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG is the only network-embedded solution available today, which supports and secures automated business processes while ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting sensitive corporate information from misuse and ensuring its availability when and where it is needed. It enables corporate-wide interoperability among business-critical internal information systems and external partner networks, providing a corporate wide compliance infrastructure reducing costs and risk. - SOA Network Archtitect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK<< MORE >>

Foundry Networks Inc., a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced its ServerIron(r) Release 10 family of application delivery switches achieved SAP(r) Certified Integration for third-party networking appliances that interoperate with SAP business software solutions using an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and the SAP ERP 6.0 application on the SAP NetWeaver(r) 7.0 platform. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 Can Help Organizations Achieve Faster ROI with Easy-to-use, Code-free and Configuration-based Service Integration; Designed to Scale to Enterprise-wide SOA Deployments that Involve Building Composite, Cross-domain ApplicationsCore News Facts:1. With the release of BEA AquaLogic(R) Service Bus 3.0, BEA delivers a comprehensive enterprise service bus (ESB) that is designed to improve the integration process for enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments.2. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 is a comprehensive, light-weight SOA backbone designed to help IT organizations create configuration-driven and reusable service components, service enable existing legacy applications and quickly build new SOA-based applications for enabling enterprise agility.3. BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 offers new features and customer benefits such as an enterprise-wide service network comprising multiple SOA domains, enhanced embedded management and quality of service, optimized native transports for leading enterprise resource planning and packaged applications, integrated unified design environment for SOA and business process management and seamless integration with the BEA SOA Governance solution. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of content networking solutions for enterprises and service providers, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Actel, a strategy and technology consulting firm specializing in the Asia Pacific and Middle East Africa regions, to resell Solace's complete family of content networking products in China. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Now, Cisco and SAP have collaborated to create the market’s first enterprise risk management environment that spans the entire enterprise and acts instantly on events. The solution, which combines Cisco Service Oriented Network Architecture and SAP governance, risk, and compliance software, facilitates both realtime event capture across the extended enterprise and instantaneous contextual analysis and response. The result is a much more complete and dependable defense against costly breaches of security and data privacy, exposure to violations of service level agreements, and negation of compliance controls. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Networked World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Microsoft will re-engineer a number of its products, such as Visual Studio, BizTalk Server and the .NET framework, so they will work more seamlessly with one another under the Oslo configuration. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Designed for complex, heterogeneous IT environments, Artix Registry/Repository enables customers to design, build, deploy and manage a network of business services by providing a complete system of record of services in a distributed SOA environment, including the policies, contracts, implementation artifacts and dependencies that control their usage. The unique ability to drive and streamline the deployment of services into a distributed SOA network differentiates Artix Registry/Repository from all other governance solutions. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

A successful SOA implementation relies as much on the flexibility of your network as it does the services which will be delivered on it. Just as brittle, inflexible application integration technologies have been deemed unsuitable and unable to meet today’s volatile business needs, so too have the static, inflexible network technologies of the past become a hindrance to the delivery of dynamic, flexible service oriented applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat unveiled on Tuesday software that combines messaging, real-time, and grid capabilities for enterprises that need an OS that can process messages and transactions at lightning speed, such as those in the financial services industry. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that the company’s application acceleration platforms have achieved SAP® Certified Integration. The certified integration affirms that enterprises deploying services and applications using an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) can achieve improved performance optimization, security and access reliability when integrating the Juniper Networks DX 5.3 load balancing and application acceleration platform in data centers, and improved performance optimization when integrating the Juniper Networks WX™ 5.5 application acceleration platform into their SAP solution-based WAN environments. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Enterprises are widely adopting and deploying solutions based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Many SOA implementations rely on message formats defined with XML. The extensibility and structured nature of XML allows it to be used for communication between different systems. The verbosity, extensibility and flexibility of XML messages can create performance challenges for software developers to overcome. Intel® XML Software Suite is a comprehensive suite of high-performance C++ and Java* software-based runtime libraries for Linux* and Windows* operating systems. Intel XML Software Suite is standards compliant, to allow for easy integration into existing XML environments and is optimized to support complex and large-size XML document processing. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Bob Callaway has recently published his preliminary PHD Exam on his work on Service-Oriented Networking. Check it out. SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"The SOA network also has taken on the burden of increased operational complexity and, inherently, a whole range of security vulnerabilities because it is no longer just one application; it has become a set of user interfaces that must be kept operationally stable." - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Apriso’s operations execution system, FlexNet, has been recognized to seamlessly integrate with IBM’s suite of SOA-enabled applications, providing a unified platform to achieve collaborative manufacturing operations management. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware , the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business- smart networking, announced today at the Gartner 26th Annual Data Center Conference its new Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution. Radware's APM provide customers with a fully integrated solution to effectively ensure service level agreements (SLAs) and resolve performance issues. The use of Radware's application delivery and security products in conjunction with APM will also enable customers to increase IT productivity whilst reducing capital and operational expenses. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

TIBCO Software Inc. today announced the general availability of TIBCO Rendezvous(R) 8.0, the latest release of its leading low latency messaging software. The latest version of TIBCO Rendezvous provides even lower and more predictable microsecond latency, improves manageability, and delivers the reliability to address IT challenges and aid business responsiveness to threats and opportunities relevant to the financial services and other real-time data-driven industries.- SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Science Applications International Corporation today announced an initiative to collaborate on service oriented architecture (SOA) interoperability standards for the energy market. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"Just as the iPod simplified the way the world listens to, integrates, shares and manages music and other media, IBM SOA appliances are game-changing innovations for SOA. These SOA appliances present a flexible and agile option for your enterprise architecture – speeding the return on your investment, and making it easier to realize your own game-changing innovations by getting to the business benefits of SOA in less time, with less risk and lower cost." - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Radware , the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced its partnership with MSPX, an established provider of technology and strategic consulting services. Together Radware and MSPX will provide complete end-to-end solutions, specifically tailored to government agencies seeking to seamlessly incorporate leading next generation technology in their existing infrastructures. SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cloud Computing is acually a variant of a type of a SOA Network - a "Mesh SOA Network". SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK<< MORE >>

XML network management company Vordel, today announced that CA, one of the world's largest information technology management software companies, has licensed Vordel's XML gateway technology as a component CA SOA Security Manager, the latest addition to CA's industry-leading identity and access management (IAM) solution. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Article from Microsoft's THE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL explains in more detail the concept of a Internet Service Bus. SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

In Shanghai today, IBM unveiled plans for "Blue Cloud," a series of cloud computing offerings that will allow corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet by enabling computing across a distributed, globally accessible fabric of resources, rather than on local machines or remote server farms. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

CA will refresh Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite with two batches of releases; the first group will be released before year-end, while the second is to ship by spring. Included in the first wave of releases will be CA SiteMinder, the single-sign on product for web access; SOA Security Manager, the successor to CA's TransactionMinder; SOA Security gateway appliance, which is OEM'ed from Vordel; CA Directory; plus a batch of mainframe security products. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

To meet the growing customer demand to align communications with business process, Nortel today unveiled a comprehensive strategy that leverages SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and Web Services for the simple, rapid and efficient delivery of communication-enabled applications and business processes. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

There's a new paper by David Chappell that is worth checking out. Entitled "Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF Communication Options in the .NET Framework 3.5", it discusses WCF and its applicability to REST as well as WS-* style communications. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Article speculates on a possibility of a Business Intelligence DataPower Appliance from IBM. I guess we have to wait and see. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connnected World << MORE >>

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Virtualized Application Delivery with Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE)" and "Network Implications of Server Virtualization in the Data Center," both by Cisco Systems. Download from Webtutorials. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Entuity™ today announces the newest release of their award-winning Eye of the Storm® (EYE) network management suite: EYE 2008. The employee productivity and financial gains provided by today’s distributed applications, software as a service (SaaS), and virtualized environments will never be realized on an insufficient network infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

THE SOA NETWORK becomes the largest "Open Source" Resource Network for Service-Oriented Archtitecture. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

All your news on how SOA is impacting your World from RFID to XML. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its strategy to solve the key problems facing IT by enabling increased operational choice, flexibility and efficiency. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in the connected World << MORE >>

The SOA Appliance market is constantly evolving will it ever gain traction? - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced its participation in Oracle OpenWorld 2007 in San Francisco, Calif., from November 11-15, 2007. Juniper Networks will be exhibiting the company's high-performance networking solutions at booth #3441 and in the Security, Risk and Compliance Pavilion. SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

OpTier, the leader in Business Transaction Management, today announced that it has been named "Most Promising Start up 2007-2008" by top Israeli business outlet "Globes" and Ernst & Young, as part of the organizations' 11th Annual Journey Conference. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Symphoniq Corp., a pioneer in real end user experience monitoring, today announced the release of TrueView Express, designed for use with F5’s BIG-IP systems. In less than an hour, businesses can implement powerful real user monitoring capabilities to understand web application performance, leveraging their existing application delivery infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the Application Ready Network™ for Oracle. This new iteration of F5’s expanding Application Ready Network (ARN) portfolio helps ensure the successful deployment and delivery of Oracle® applications over the network. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Together, and less than one year after the announcement of their partnership, Radware and Forum Systems developed a complete solution that enterprises can use to optimize and manage their web-based activities. - SOA Netork Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

So what is SOA going to look like beyond the enterprise? How are we going to manage services amongst a number of enterprises. While the Enterprise Service Bus works well within an enterprise SOA environment - will it scale for multi-enterprise SOA Environments? - SOA Netork Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Scott Kriens is heading up the company and its drive for better products and more efficiencies. He recently spoke with Investor's Business Daily about the company and its growth prospects. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a means of integrating disparate applications within an enterprise, improving reuse of application logic while eliminating duplication of production environments. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced the availability of additional security enhancements for the service-oriented architectures (SOA) created or managed with the webMethods product suite. Under the terms of a new license agreement with Layer 7 Technologies (Layer 7), Software AG will now offer and support Layer 7’s SecureSpan SOA security and policy enforcement solutions to customers on a global basis. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Forrester defines SOA Management as: "Software infrastructure to ensure that the production operation of SOA-based services delivers on QoS expectations for technical performance and availability and, optionally, on QoS for security, business operations, and general policy compliance" - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Learn about techniques for performing the integration so that IBM® CICS® and IMS™ legacy applications can be reused and participate in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The IMS SOAP Gateway, CICS Web services, and IBM WebSphere® DataPower SOA appliance are discussed. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Harris is highly experienced in the development and application of mission-critical SOA networks, including the all-digital FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) network, and we are also the leading provider of weather systems and products to the FAA. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

THE SOA NETWORK adds two new web sites: SOA Community Network and Open Source SOA Network - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

To meet the challenges of globalisation many companies are shifting from a 'push' supply chain model to a flexible, demand-driven one by applying service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology, according to an IBM study. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Major Magazine finally recognizes impact of SOA on Networking. Check out the latest articles at Network World. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World<< MORE >>

Nastel Technologies, a leading global provider of business application performance management and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance solutions, today announced the general availability of The AutoPilot(TM) M6 Suite, its next generation of software products for ensuring optimum performance of complex business critical applications, and the AutoPilot M6 for WMQ solution package, which provides comprehensive management and control of the IBM WebSphere MQ middleware components of complex IT infrastructures. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

This study proposes a new operational framework for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) network security. Computing & Software Systems Institute of Technology University of Washington, Tacoma & Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity University of Washington, Seattle - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced the results of tests conducted within SAP’s Enterprise Services Community Networking Lab (ENL). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Sentilla Corporation today announced an entirely new approach to pervasive computing -- the use of small wireless computers with programmable intelligence deployed en masse to interact with the physical world. Sentilla's new software dramatically speeds time to market and reduces cost of pervasive computing solutions. - SOA Network Architect- THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

A Service Delivery Controller (SDC) brings the same benefits to your SOA application that an Application Delivery Controller brings to a web-based application. Download these free White Papers from Zeus Technology - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of appliances that offer simplicity, control and performance in Web 2.0 environments, today announced that it is working with IBM to provide the Info 2.0 Appliance, the first integrated offering which allows non-technical users to build new Web 2.0 applications while providing IT departments with enterprise-level control. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Service- and application-oriented networks represent an area of convergence between communications and computing, based on modular, distributed and re-configurable capabilities, and blending network and service functions in a way that emphasizes end-user and business functionality. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

This paper presents the design and implementation of Dynamo, another highly available and scalable distributed data store built for Amazon’s platform. Dynamo is used to manage the state of services that have very high reliability requirements and need tight control over the tradeoffs between availability, consistency, cost-effectiveness and performance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World<< MORE >>

Cisco's Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA), an architectural framework that delivers business solutions to unify network-based services, has a strong focus on security, which can be used as a building block for ensuring compliance according to Cisco VP - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

SOA Appliance Vendors like Layer 7 Technologies move into the ESB Appliance market to extend ESB's beyond the Enterprise. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA Network - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

This article shows how the DataPower XS40 enhances a Message Broker flow with WS-Security, with security of the connection to Message Broker provided by HTTPS. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Click Commerce, Inc., a leading provider of aftermarket and fulfillment supply chain solutions, today announced that Tolt Service Group, a leading provider of managed services for technology equipment, implemented the Click Commerce Returns and Repair solution to help increase customer satisfaction. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Verizon Business has selected the WXC platform, a highly scalable WAN acceleration solution, for a new Managed WAN Optimization Service. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

An upgrade to WebSphere DataPower XML Security Gateway is being introduced for hardware-based security for XML and Web services. REST (Representational State Transfer) Web services will be supported. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

SOAP may be on the ropes for the short term while REST adoption takes off. However Vendor support for SOAP means it will likely win out in the longer term. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Vordel announced today at its 3rd annual SOA Security Conference, the availability of Vordel 5, a family of network infrastructure products designed to accelerate, manage and protect XML applications. With this announcement Vordel addresses the issues encountered by enterprises with early stage tactical service level integration right through to full blown SOA implementations requiring policy-centric control of Web Services networks for SOA Governance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

BMC Software today announced it has acquired privately held Emprisa Networks, a leader in smart network compliance, change and configuration management and automation solutions. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc., today introduced multi-enterprise service oriented architecture (SOA) during the Gartner ITxpo conference. The conference -- a forum for introducing innovative information technology (IT) solutions -- is the ideal backdrop to discuss multi-enterprise SOA. Multi-enterprise SOA is the market-leading approach to creating and managing flexible business processes that span global value chains. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

SOA has been around for a number of years now and we still can't agree on definitions. To call SOA a form of Network-Oriented Computing (NOC) is just a step backwards and is a joke. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Don't be fooled by this latest article in SOA Magazine it's not about SOA Grid Networking but rather it is a Grid of the latest SOA Standards. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World<< MORE >>

Given the increase in real-time and multimedia traffic, networks are expected to be smarter than ever. The problem is that sometimes a so-called “intelligent network” is really an idiot savant: very good at executing a few specific things at lightning speed, but lacking judgment as to their relevance or appropriateness, and unable to perform some essential tasks. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

XML security gateway vendor Vordel is launching version 5 of its product line at its Dublin user conference today. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the appointment of Mark Bauhaus to the position of executive vice president and general manager, service layer technology. Most recently an executive-level technology consultant, Mr. Bauhaus joins Juniper Networks following 20 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served as senior vice president, service oriented architecture software. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA in a Connected World << MORE >>

Managed Methods, the supplier of JaxView tools for visibility into Web Services operations, announced a strategic partnership with Gigamon Systems, the leading supplier of next-generation data access switches, to expand options for scaling JaxView in large SOA deployments. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

McDonald Bradley, Inc., a rapidly growing secure information sharing and IT solutions provider to the government announced today that it has been selected to perform an interoperability study for the Department of Defense that will define a future information-sharing framework to serve the needs of the armed forces. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETOWRK - SOA in a Connect World << MORE >>

On-line Magazines killing printed Magazines. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The Enterprise Services Community (ES Community) is a program to gather customers, systems integrators, ISVs and infrastructure vendors around business themes so they can define enterprise services and other solutions that will service enable and support the SAP platform. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Wachovia Bank, N.A., today announced the launch of TradeXchange, a secure, Web-based messaging platform designed to provide greater visibility throughout the financial supply chain from purchase order delivery through invoice settlement. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In short, the SOA grid helps you attain a much faster response time with more predictable QoS. It can accomplish this with minimal configuration overhead using self-healing functionality to automatically adjust to server outages. The addition of an SOA grid as part of your fundamental infrastructure will eliminate numerous traditional inhibitors and help you realize a successful implementation and, ultimately, drive the aggressive and accelerated adoption of service-oriented computing initiatives. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Service-Oriented Network Computing will provide the foundation for the Service-Oriented Semantic Web. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Introducing my new blog "Semantic Web Architect" - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK