SOA World Magazine

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! There's no denying the opportunities that Open APIs and Business to Developer initiatives offer today, but for many businesses APIs are going to be a huge driver of business partner programs. Successful B2B API programs introduce a complete... (more)

IBM reportedly wants to dump its x86 server business and, according to CRN, Lenovo, the Chinese company that bought its PC operation in 2004 and now wants to grow its server interests, is likely to buy it since it's the only company in active acquisition negotiations. Big Blue w... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that Impetus Technologies, a Big Data thought leader and innovation-based software services company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10-13, 2013, at the J... (more)

Typical cloud computing conferences feature a large contingent of pay-to-pay sponsors who are looking primarily for ROI from marketing budgets at these shows. It is always refreshing to attend a sponsored event where speakers focus instead on energetic presentations and panel d... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Social media streaming and satellite imagery stored as Big Data in the cloud is changing the way we understand our world. By being able to tap into these new Big Data collections of real-time social media and up-to-date world-wide imagery w... (more)

Staying current with the latest and greatest in hardware and technology is challenging for organizations of any size, but especially so for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) who are often extra challenged with limited resources and personnel. It's no surprise then that toda... (more)

In recent years, IT departments have been confronted with the convergence of several highly disruptive trends that have fundamentally altered the enterprise IT landscape, particularly when it comes to how data and applications are managed. Mobility and the rise of BYOD (bring you... (more)

"The open development business model positively impacts the cloud ecosystem by fostering much-needed cloud standards and removing the fear of "lock-in" for cloud customers," stated Joan Rothman, CMO at CoreMatrix Systems LLC, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair... (more)

As the proliferation of the cloud continues, Cloud Protection Gateways are increasingly being discussed as a way to address security issues surrounding cloud adoption. Whatever stage of cloud adoption your organization is in, a thorough vetting of the different gateways available... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Building solutions that process Big Data are complex in general, particularly when dealing with a constant stream of data - not data resulting from interactive sessions, but a continuous stream of data. Design for infinite scale is a huge s... (more)

A few weeks back webserver request queueing came under heightened scrutiny as rapgenius blasted Heroku for not using as much autotune as promised in their “intelligent load balancing”. If you somehow missed the write-up (or response), check it out for its great simulations of loa... (more)

You don’t have to be a pre-cog to find and deal with infrastructure and application problems; you just need good monitoring.  We had quite a day Monday during the EC2 EBS availability incident.  Thanks to some early alerts - which started coming in about 2.5 hours before AWS star... (more)

At the OpenStack Summit this week NetApp submitted a prototype and proposal for consideration by the OpenStack Foundation Technical Committee and the unity at-large for file share service capabilities. OpenStack doesn't have native management support for file-based storage syste... (more)

“Force Majeure” – An event that is a result of the elements of nature, as opposed to one caused by human behavior. This nugget is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the ... (more)

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporations suffer severe losses when web services are disrupted, and denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become a legitimate concern for any corporation that relies on the Internet to deliver services to its customers. In recen... (more)

NEW YORK, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Mobile VAS Markets, Applications, and Opportunities - Third Edition http://www.reportlinker.com/p01162470/Mobile-VAS-Markets-Applications-and-Opportu... (more)

CUPERTINO, Calif., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --"The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet." -Marc Andreessen [1] (Logo: http://photos.prn... (more)

Sometime this quarter Intel expects to close on its just revealed intended purchase of Mashery, a seven-year-old multi-tenant SaaS start-up that manages API technology - APIs being the lingua franca of the Internet. Intel already has its own Expressway API Manager. Terms were not... (more)

USA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAT) (“USAT”), Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Michael K. Lawlor, will be presenting at two separate sessions at the NAMA OneShow being held in Las Vegas, April 24-26, 2013. Titled, Technology’s Impact on the Bottom Line,... (more)

The  continuing transformation of the IT industry around the externalization of  service components constitutes an exercise in abstraction.  The transformation assumes that any IT  application can be recursively decomposed into constituent services.  An application that has been ... (more)