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Sponsored Content

Automating IT Configuration Controls with Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Change Console

This white paper discusses the unique capabilities of the Configuration Change Console, helping you define, track and enforce IT policies; automate IT compliance processes; and reduce the effort and cost of managing business applications.

Composite Application Management: Bridging the IT Visibility Gap in Complex Composite Applications

This white paper describes why a composite Application Management approach is critical to providing enterprises the hierarchical visibility necessary to effectively manage today's composite applications.

Enterprise Management Flyover

Read this IDG eBook to discover practical ways that, even in this tough economy, allow you to take big steps to reduce IT complexity and drive your organization forward.

Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures

This white paper discusses the testing challenges presented by Web services, and introduces best practices to ensure SOA application quality through the use of an application testing solution.

Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability

This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.

Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to do Load Testing

Watch this video to learn about rapid bottleneck identification (RBI), a new testing methodology that facilitates the discovery of Web application performance limitations their impact on the end user experience.

Blogs

IBM Draws Networking Strength

HP has networking in-house. Cisco started out with networking and now has its own server line. So if you're IBM at a time when fully integrated data center platforms are all the rage and you've stacked your deck with server and storage technology, how do you reassure customers that you have the...More >

The Quiet Success of Web Services 'SOA'

While experts debated the definition of service-oriented architecture, its state (alive or dead?) and the significance of ESBs for SOA, a funny thing happened. Service-oriented, if not SOA per se , quietly became ubiquitous, argues Hugh Taylor, author and a marketing director of an LA enterprise...More >

Oracle Integrates GoldenGate, Pervasive Offers More Options and Help Integrating Macs

What is it with November and data-integration suites? I feel like I'm hearing a new announcement every day. Well. To be fair, I've heard of four, and one's under embargo until next week. Still. This week brought the unveiling of the new data-integration platform, Informatica 9. As I shared...More >

Articles & Interviews

Communities Have Gone Virtual, Why Not the Legal System?

Lora Bentley spoke with Charles Moore, CEO of RocketLawyer , regarding the gradual movement of today's law practice and legal system from bricks and mortar to virtual environments. Australia, he says, is the first country to start going down that road. Bentley: Does the legal system need to... More >

Wireless and the Coming Battle over Net Neutrality

One of the thorniest issues that the newly installed leadership of the Federal Communications Commission is dealing with is net neutrality. In the long run, it’s likely that the trickiest part of the overall topic will be the application of the concept to the wireless world. The net neutrality... More >

Viewing OpenWorld With An Open Mind

Regarding Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009, I find his continued reference to Netezza as a baseline against the now-defunct HP version of Exadata a stark reminder of what Netezza has achieved in the past few years. In 2002, while Oracle was fighting other enemies, Netezza... More >

Apparent Networks Launches Cloud Performance Center

Mike Vizard over at our CTO Edge site discusses a free service from Apparent Networks that sets out to allay fears businesses have regarding the network performance of the wide area networks that link them to their cloud computing providers. Apparent Networks' Cloud Performance Center offers performance data on... More >

Xangati Gives Service Providers More Visibility

Unfortunately for ISPs, its difficult for them to get a good idea of who is consuming what type of content on their networks. Xangati hopes to help with this problem. Our CTO Edge site reports that Xangati is releasing a version of its application management software that will show ISPs what types of... More >

WSO2 Extends SOA into Cloud Computing

The WSO2 launched the WSO2 Cloud Platform yesterday. According to the press release, published on dBusinessNews , the platform, which extends SOA into cloud computing , features the company's Cloud Virtual Machines, Cloud Connectors and WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service. In a statement released by the company, WSO2 CEO... More >