SOA

If you listen to industry discussion of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you are likely to get the impression that SOA is best thought of as a technical approach for application integration. The reality is that SOA is much more.

Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1 virtualizes architecture

Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

Project reviews coupled with a greater understanding of SOA deployment is vital if systems integration is to be successful.

Forrester Research shares six steps to follow as you create and use a capability map.

Web-based apps and infrastructure-as-a-service are a hit for 2010 Census

The best-of-breed vs. integrated suite battle has been ongoing since integrated enterprise resource planning software first came on the scene. In the early days, buyers were forced to choose between stand-alone systems that performed one function very well (e.g., accounting, production planning) or one integrated system that offered modules for each function, but with varying degrees of functional depth.

Carbon platform features component management, Web services discovery

Industry watchers forecast an increase in computer hardware and equipment purchases, followed by investments in software, which both will contribute to a strong economic environment in 2010.

Salesforce.com customers were abuzz on Twitter Thursday morning as the result of what they described as a North American outage.

Like a fickle 12-year-old with a favorite pop band, the security industry has forgotten all about last year's fads and is focused on a new one: cloud computing.