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Does SOA + Agile Programming = Crappy Business Agility?

By ⋅ April 29, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Service oriented architectures (SOA) and agile programming techniques are about changing complex business applications at faster rates.  However, true business agility is not about doing more application changes faster.  True business agility is about doing more application changes faster without sacrificing the application’s performance or quality of service. From my perspective, achieving that second part [...]

Troubleshooting heaven for Dev and Ops?

By ⋅ February 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Strange as it may seem, I had a hallelujah moment at IBM Pulse. I was sitting through a session about enabling development and operations to work together more effectively. They were talking about how IBM was integrating the Rational Asset Manager with Tivoli CCMDB data repositories. This is necessary and important work, but not terribly [...]

Oracle buys Amberpoint

By ⋅ February 9, 2010 ⋅ One comment

AmberPoint becomes the latest addition to Oracle’s charm-bracelet of application management companies.  It seems that Oracle is cherry-picking the business transaction management technology for integration into their Fusion Middleware SOA Management Solutions architecture. Which makes sense given Oracle’s other acquisitions have already filled in other strengths that AmberPoint touted as a standalone solution: Web Services [...]

SOA + Workload Management + Application Infrastructure Virtualization: The Winning Combination for Meeting Service Delivery Goals

By ⋅ October 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

IT enables enterprise success by providing an agile and elastic infrastructure to support dynamic business services. Long-term solutions such as cloud computing appear near but the path forward still depends upon advancing with and evolving today’s infrastructure, architectures and management tools. Meanwhile, meeting service delivery goals remains fundamental to enterprise success. Meeting those goals renews [...]

Sonoa Systems: Top Service Performance for SaaS APIs, Web Services and Enterprise Mashups

By ⋅ January 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Cloud computing represents a very mixed bag for Enterprise and IT management. In the midst of financial turbulence, it provides a cost effective opportunity of using outsourced resources to quickly enhance and expand business service offerings without adding to the burden of large capital IT equipment costs. On the other hand, the very act of [...]

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