By Carmen Gonzalez  SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ... Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,347 |
By Chris Muir  Regular readers already know that ODTUG in conjunction with Oracle Technology Network has invited a number of Oracle ACEs and ACE Directors to present down under. ODTUG has teamed with AUSOUG to give these world recognized presenters (in fact in all cases world award winning speakers) ... Nov. 2, 2009 07:50 PM EST Reads: 175 |
By Julian Jewel  So what do you really look for in an interface engine? There is more to an IE than just being a pass-through of messages. Oct. 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 580 |
By Jeff Blackwell  By Tom Hopkins
In business situations, when you are trying to reach the person who has the authority to make decisions regarding your product you are very likely to have to go through one or more people before reaching that person. For the sake of efficiency, there will likely be a re... Oct. 29, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 508 |
By Chris Muir  In the previous post we looked at how to configure the SQLAuthenticator password encryption options. Among other encryption algorithms we discovered that on creating a user from the WLS... Oct. 27, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 440 |
By Charlie Isaacs  Ok, so I am a Software guy but I am posting about hardware devices. Maybe when it comes to hardware I am easily impressed? I promised to post information about interesting products and as someone who owned one of the first 5MB hard drives attached to a personal computer I guess I am in... Oct. 25, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 434 |
By Charlie Isaacs  What can I say, Oracle OpenWorld 2009 was a great show all around. Professionally run, great companies, great exhibit areas, and exceptional presentations. The big surprise to me was seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger on stage with Larry. Which is a great segue into my first topic for my OOW... Oct. 25, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 486 |
By Charlie Isaacs  Voice-Insight (http://www.voice-insight.com ) was at the show and was demonstrating and talking about some of its technology and some of their R&D projects. Voice-Insight is not necessarily focusing on SOA or services; most of their appeal comes from integration to other technologies.V... Oct. 25, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 511 |
By Charlie Isaacs  Whether you are searching for a Cloud Computing solution for your enterprise or you want to learn about the latest and greatest Cloud Computing technology, The Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, California running from November 2 until November 4 is for you. http://cloudcomputingexp... Oct. 25, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 729 |
By Charlie Isaacs  In this tough economic environment, your boss might not be open to your trip to SF. Oracle can help you justify your visit to Oracle OpenWorld. Oct. 8, 2009 09:11 AM EDT Reads: 112 |
By Chris Muir  WebLogic Server 10.3.1 supports loading user credentials and roles from a number of different sources, such as LDAP or a database, through the concept of "Security Providers". In order to work with a database table structure a "SQL Authenticator" provider is required. Edwin... Oct. 5, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 627 |
By Mark O'Neill  Joe McKendrick kicks off a thread on the current state of SOA Security. As usual, most discussion of SOA Security applies to "how SOA can be made secure". This is understandable. And, as some commentators have pointed out, there is a body of Best Practice out there on how to secure ser... Sep. 8, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,303 |
By Chris Muir  A while back Gerard Davison blogged some simple examples of using WS-Security Policies. Gerard's specific example dealt with the WLS policy Wssp1.2-2007-Wss1.1-UsernameToken-Plain-X509-Basic256.xm... Sep. 2, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,442 |
By Jason Bloomberg  As the DoD and their contractors hammered out the details of Net-Centricity, it became increasingly clear that Net-Centricity required a broad, architectural approach to achieving agile information sharing in the context of a complex, siloed organization. At that point, SOA entered the... Aug. 20, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,186 |
By Ray DePena  In the same vein as the article on BPMS, have you considered a SaaS based IT PPMS (Project and Portfolio Management Systems) tool for your next project? If you are in that process now, you're in luck as Gartner has recently released their review of those tools. The report can be [...... Jul. 31, 2009 05:10 AM EDT Reads: 1,783 |
By Reuven Cohen  I admit it, it's taken me a while to come around to the term inter-cloud, a concept being primarily promoted by Cisco as part of their Unified Computing platform. Lately the term seems to have been picking up some steam so I thought I'd take a moment to examine it a bit further. <... Jul. 27, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,507 |
By Stephen Foskett  Much discussion in the cloud computing world has focused on a simple question: Is a private cloud infrastructure worthy of the name? It's been posed in many ways, with some going so far as claiming that there is no such thing as a private cloud. Although discussions like these are all ... Jul. 27, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,207 |
By JP Morgenthal 
"Historically, the architect has been the coordinator of all other disciplines involved in the building process. According to training and licensing exams, architects must be able to integrate all building disciplines to protect the overall health, safety, and welfare of a project. W... Jul. 20, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,509 |
By David Deans  The anticipated benefits from adopting managed cloud services have reached the executives suites of many corporations. Proactive CEOs and CFOs are pushing their IT leadership team to seek out actionable information and guidance.
There's also a constant stream of service providers an... Jul. 19, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,192 |
By Liz McMillan  The research showcases which vendors enabled client success based on the value delivered and the ability of the vendor to support and service its clientele. According to John Pearson, VP Competitive Intelligence Products for Aberdeen, "The 32-page vendor assessment is based on two key ... Jul. 18, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 662 |
By Alan Murphy  I’ve written a good bit here about the various ways Microsoft and Citrix overlap in the hypervisor space, ranging from topics like shared code base through competition for the desktop space. To me, these two players have always been the underdogs battling for the right to go head-to-he... Jul. 17, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,977 |
By JP Morgenthal  As part of my job, I help customers to select the appropriate software to either fulfill a need or as a component of a larger solution. Fulfilling this role means comparing similar software offerings and selecting the best fit. The challenge in this goal is to map the vendor offering... Jul. 17, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,648 |
By John Cowan  In theory, migration to the Cloud makes business sense; you’re enabling companies to rent computing power that would cost them too much to buy. I won’t bore you with yet another blog post on the ‘what is it’ topic. There is a great synopsis of Cloud Computing published by Mache Creeg... Jul. 16, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,891 |
By Don MacVittie  It amuses me when people start throwing about phrases like “interoperability” and “federation” in a space still hopping in the middle of the hype cycle.
You would think that with our long and growing history, we in IT could be realistic about the prospects of any early implementers... Jul. 15, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,573 |
By Miko Matsumura  Today, Chuck Phillips, president of Oracle, said that Oracle was committed to provide “A Single Stack of Technology to Simplify Enterprise IT”. In order for a “Single Stack” to successfully simplify IT, Enterprise Software practitioners must commit their entire Enterprise Architecture ... Jul. 5, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,419 |
By Dave Chappell  Today is the day we officially launch Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. The major areas of investment have been the completion of the integration between Oracle and BEA products into unified suites. This matches to the month the schedule that we had committed to publicly when announcing t... Jul. 1, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,206 |
By Dana Gardner  The whole SQL databases and associated tools and modeling ecosystem is ripe for tumult. My best guess is that Oracle's pending Sun Microsystems purchase will provide offense via MySQL, and the associated community, to target the Microsoft SQL Server franchise. Jun. 29, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,736 |
By Chris Muir  (This is a reprint of an article published in the UKOUG's Select magazine early this year) When talking about Oracle Forms and JDeveloper, one Oracle personality stands out among others - long time blogger Grant Ronald from Oracle Corporation UK. Grant has for a long time “p... Jun. 9, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 819 |
By Lori MacVittie  We’ve been having quite a few discussions with analysts over the past few months on the subject of “cloud”. The interesting thing about these discussions is the vast array of points of view from which those analysts are viewing “cloud”. Some are focused on the network aspects, others o... May. 28, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,767 |
By Jeremy Chone  If you are lucky, and curious enough, Oracle can be the best place to learn the enterprise software market. I have worked at Oracle for about seven years and, in my entire career, it is where I have learned the most about enterprise software. When Oracle announced it was buying Sun... May. 19, 2009 12:14 PM EDT Reads: 1,302 |
By Java News Desk  Charles Fitzgerald suspects IBM is going to regret not acquiring Sun, and letting Oracle do so instead. "They regretted giving Microsoft control of the software crown jewels for the PC; they may face similar situation now on the server." Fitzgerald knows whereof he speaks, having been ... Apr. 22, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,880 |
By  Larry Ellison has always wanted to be the Steve Jobs of the enterprise. With this morning’s announcement that Oracle will buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, he took a big step towards making Oracle more of a soup-to-nuts provider of enterprise technology. With Sun, he will now be a... Apr. 20, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 686 |
By Reuven Cohen  One topic that keeps reoccurring in my various conversations is the sudden interest in cloud centric M&A activities thanks in part to the recent IBM / Sun rumors. Being that I continuously find myself in the midst of a lot of the back room, off the record type conversations I thought I... Apr. 6, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,408 |
By Greg Ness  The cloud computing meme continues to billow as Juniper and IBM announce a cloud management partnership rumors swirl about heavy petting between VMware and shareholder/partner Cisco. A few months ago it seemed like every cloud discussion included Google and/or Amazon; now it appears t... Feb. 21, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,644 |
By Pat Romanski  Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management... May. 29, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 31,297 |
By Frank Cohen  For BEA, I was hoping they would succeed at combining the power of JRockit with AquaLogic to build scalable workflow (a la BPM) services. Instead, we users and developers will be waiting for years to see WebLogic and AquaLogic integrated into the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. For MyS... Jan. 20, 2008 06:15 PM EST Reads: 15,180 Replies: 1 |