SOA World Magazine

Last Friday calm seemed to be descending on Round Rock, Texas. Reports were circulating that activist shareholder Carl Icahn was losing the stomach for scuttling the Michael Dell-Silver Lake Management plan to buy the company for $24.4 billion and take it private. It was said he ... (more)

Organizational structures become obsolete just like the technology that they manage. Management structures must be reviewed and replaced just like systems, software and technology - especially in mission-critical applications. In the last decade or so, more organizations have de... (more)

Our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market leader in manufacturing customized hats, decided to expand its market reach with an e-commerce site where its potential customers could choose, customize and order hats online. TescaraHats used an APM... (more)

Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. Please tell us, what  hc1.com is all about and what do you do? Brad Bostic: hc1.com is committed to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing costs.  We believe a critical ingredient to averting the current healthcare ... (more)

In his opening keynote for Red Hat Summit, Jim Whitehurst, the CEO of Red Hat asked the audience: "Name an innovation that isn't happening in Open Source - other than Azure!" I can certainly add iPhone and AWS to the mix but let me stick to the cloud topic with the following ques... (more)

There are only two certainties in life - death and taxes, said Benjamin Franklin. What the theorist and founding father clearly meant was: There are only three certainties in life - death and taxes and information security changeability. In the constantly changing dynamic world ... (more)

Over the weekend Barron's put out a piece touting AMD's chances of taking share in the mainstream server market that belongs to Intel with its SeaMicro microserver acquisition, a development that would tickle its tiny stock price, if it ever happened. But even the thought of it, ... (more)

The explosion of mobile devices, e-commerce and "The Internet of Things" is introducing massive amounts of new data into our ecosystem.  Some companies ignore this data for all but the most tactical explorations, but others are revolutionizing entire industries by recognizing the... (more)

Todd Bradley, the former Palm CEO who's been running HP's PC unit since 2005 and added printing last year when the Printing and Personal Systems (PPS) organization was formed, has apparently been pushed aside. He is trading his job running half of HP's revenue for a newly created ... (more)

MetraTech Corp., a provider of Agreements-Based Billing, Commerce and Compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced that Achilles, a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of supply chain management services, has selected the MetraNet billing and settlement platform to suppo... (more)

WHITE HALL, WV--(Marketwired - June 18, 2013) - createTank has teamed with MarcoPoloLoco and cr3473 (pronounced "create") to release free and open source (FOSS) authentication and session management libraries for Google App Engine. The libraries support App Engine Python and Java... (more)

For a while now I have been writing about how to analyze and optimize Hadoop jobs beyond just tweaking MapReduce options. The other day I took a look at some of our Outage Analyzer Hadoop jobs and put words into action. A simple analysis of the Outage Analyzer jobs with Compuware ... (more)

ROCKVILLE, Md. and SAN DIEGO, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced that Harold "Hal" Davies has joined the organization as Chief Financial Officer effective immediately. Davies will be responsible for the overall financial ... (more)

Cloud computing is the game changer for the life sciences industry, according to an article on PharmaBiz.com. Globally, pharma majors are deploying cloud technology because it provides data security, compliance and transparency, according to Vikram Anand, associate vice presiden... (more)

Red Hat made its power play Wednesday. One it's been itching to make for a couple of years. One that it hopes will ultimately jam a stick through the spokes of VMware's front wheel. And to make sure that happens it'll be telling everybody who'll listen that its widgetry is a thir... (more)

In the course of IT history, many schemes have been devised and deployed to protect data against storage system failure, especially disk drive hardware. These protection mechanisms have nearly always been variants on two themes: duplication of files or objects (backup, archiving,... (more)

Metacloud plays hardball. It has no patience with pilots or proofs-of-concept. It'll only do production Infrastructure-as-a-Service installations, which is kind of uppity for a start-up that only hit the radar last October - even if it did come out of the closet with an unidenti... (more)

A man walks into the doctor’s office. He hasn’t been feeling well. A virus has been floating around the office and the man feels he’s caught it. Doctor walks in, smiles and picks up the chart. He starts examining the man and as he writes a prescription advises he keeps sanitary an... (more)

Back in the good old 1990s we were actually concerned with software application performance factors such as processing power clock speed along with system memory and storage. While memory is still an important determining factor, the questions of microprocessor megahertz and tota... (more)

In Part 1 I talked about how there's nothing new about subscription services since they've been around for generations. Now I'll relent a little and admit that there is something new about many of the subscription services out there. What's new is what is no longer there. Tradit... (more)