Application Grid
Sponsored by Oracle
The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, Oracle Fusion Middleware software spans portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise content management and business intelligence. Oracle Fusion Middleware enables organizations to increase their capacity for growth and change; improve insight into business operations; mitigate risk and drive compliance; and connect with customers, partners, and workers. More than 50,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including market-leading independent software vendors, value-added resellers and system integrators.
Sponsored Content
Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness
This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications.
Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g: Benefit Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
Read this white paper to learn how this innovative middleware tool offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.
Application Grid: The Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation
This white paper examines the opportunity for consolidation of middleware — Java application servers and related technologies — and how application grid fits into that approach.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission-Critical Applications
This white paper discusses a middleware platform that enables companies to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards-oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications.
Mainframe Rehosting with Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization
Read this data sheet to learn how to achieve a foundation for rehosting intact mainframe applications and data on lower-cost platforms without losing business value or sacrificing Quality of Service (QoS).
Oracle WebLogic Server: A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture
This white paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using an innovative new Web server application.
Mission-Critical Java
Read this white paper to learn how you can achieve extreme and predictable performance with Java; real-time, real-world memory leak detection and application performance analysis; and increased enterprise performance, manageability and simplicity.
Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.
Blogs
A Fresh Look at SOA Governance
Honestly, I'd rather write about anything besides governance, particularly SOA governance. I'm not sure what it is, but despite my high tolerance for tedious topics – I actually enjoyed covering planning and zoning as a journalist – the very term “governance” causes me to lose focus and drift off...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 >
Moving to the Cloud: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
During a recent podcast, SearchSOA.com Jack Vaughan asked David Linthicum why, in his new book, he said that cloud computing could “devastate” enterprise IT in much the way the Web did . It's a frightening word, “devastate,” and it's tempting to dismiss as hyperbole .... except the results...More >
Articles & Interviews
Getting a Rein on Untethered Applications
The cost benefits of virtualization and are very seductive. Fewer physical servers in the data center leads to reduced power and cooling costs, not to mention savings on server hardware and related maintenance over time. At a time when IT departments are driven to cut costs, virtualization... More >
Joe McKendrick on The Evolution of SOA
Analyst and popular SOA blogger Joe McKendrick is conference chair for the ebizQ's conference, “ SOA in Action – SOA Means Business,” a two-day virtual event scheduled for Oct. 28 and 29 . He explained to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson the meaning of the conference's premise,... More >
In Defense of the Enterprise Architect
JP Morgenthal, the Tech Evangelist blogger and a principal architect, explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson why and how the enterprise architect role should be different from previous positions that promised to transform the business and align IT with business goals. Read the first part of... More >
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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 >
Informatica 9 Launched
Informatica is releasing the ninth iteration of its namesake data-integration software. Informatica 9, which comes with data-quality tools, a data-exchange capability, information lifecycle management tools, support for complex event processing and programming processes that can be used to integrate the data-integration... More >
IBM Offers New Software Framework for Government Agencies
IBM is offering a new software framework designed for government citizen agencies. According to The Register , IBM Government Industry Framework is geared toward five domains IBM sees as in need of IT overhauls: tax and revenue management; safety and security; social services and social security; integrated urban... More >
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