India turns to SOA for growth
Service-oriented architecture gives Indian companies the chance to cut development costs.
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How do Vyatta's open source routers stack up to Cisco? David Davis took one for a test drive to find out.
Find more stories in: Networking, LANs and WANs, Network administration/implementation, Routing/switching, Open sourceGet online with SOA masters
SOA evangelist Miko Matsumura hopes to engage IT pros in an online community for sharing SOA best practices and collective problem solving.
Find more stories in: Software, XML, Web servicesSOA governance overlooked in Asia
Companies still lack governance and planning skills needed to make service-oriented architecture projects succeed, industry observer says.
Find more stories in: Infrastructure/architecture managementIBM centers to spread SOA gospel
IBM looks to partner with universities, businesses and the community as it opens two SOA centers of excellence in France and Dubai, with plans for four more.
Find more stories in: Web servicesSOA raises security worries
Service-orientated architecture technologies could open up a security-based can of worms as they begin to move beyond the walls of individual businesses, warns analyst house.
Find more stories in: Web servicesIBM beefs up SOA business
Rallying around the move toward services-oriented architecture, Big Blue rolls out a bevy of updated services.
Find more stories in: Web servicesSAP eyes 'third way' for software--using SOA like a gearbox
The software giant will focus on enhancement packages, allowing customers to choose how they want to innovate.
Find more stories in: Business applications, Strategy10+ things you should know about SOA
A fair amount of confusion and misconception surrounds the service oriented architecture (SOA) approach. This list demystifies key SOA concepts and looks at the benefits you can achieve by implementing a services architecture.
Find more stories in: Web services, Software integrationCompanies clueless about software architecture
IT project failures can be prevented, if only businesses realize the benefit of having blueprints, says software industry association IASA.
Find more stories in: Infrastructure/architecture management, Software engineering/development, Professional DevelopmentNational ICT Security and Emergency Response Center
The National ICT Security and Emergency Response Center (Niser) was set up in 2000 by the National Information and Communication Technology Council in Malaysia to manage the country's cyber security and ICT concerns.
Online criminal activity has risen in the country--Niser reported that the number of phishing, Internet scams, credit card fraud and online impersonation incidents in 2005 increased by over 400 percent over 2003.
Being a national body, Niser is heavily dependent on state-of-the-art IT architecture, to deliver on its promise to provide specialized ICT security services as well as identify gaps that could pose a threat to Malaysia's national security.
Getting a grip on SOA
There are varied approaches to the technology, but the industry is singular in singing its benefits--enabling IT infrastructures to be more flexible to change.
Find more stories in: Software integration, Web servicesBT's model of SOA development
BT aims to increase the flexibility of the group's internal systems by adopting a service oriented architecture. Its lead architect shares what's behind the move.
Find more stories in: Web servicesDetails on Intel's beta Mac development tools
Intel has released betas of its software development tools for Mac OS X running on the Intel architecture.
Find more stories in: Processors, Mac OS, Software engineering/developmentSonic builds a model ESB
Sonic Software creates a formal model of its interpretation of the Enterprise Service Bus architecture in UML.
Find more stories in: Software integration, Web servicesLinux software RAID with mdadm
tutorial Software RAID is an inexpensive way to create instant backups and protect your systems against data loss in the event that one drive fails. Learn some basic RAID management.
Find more stories in: LinuxService comes first
CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich is hedging his bets on services-oriented architecture to drive the next chapter of Software AG's growth.
Find more stories in: Software engineering/development, Growth strategies and tools, Software integration, Web servicesBuilding an SOA: Do's and don'ts
expert's view A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is commonly acknowledged as the best way to integrate disparate information systems. Here are 10 do's and don'ts to get you started.
Find more stories in: Enterprise resource planning (ERP)SOA do's and don'ts, part II
expert's view This second of a two-parter article presents the 10 "do's" and "don'ts" of SOA that perhaps best summarize the most important practices emerging in this field.
SOA do's and don'ts
expert's view 10 do's and don'ts for building a service oriented architecture (SOA) with Web Services.
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