November, 2009

Grid yourself for the cloud

by Jack Vaughan

Have you heard the one about the private cloud? The IT staff took the "Data Center" plaque off the door and replaced it with a "Private Cloud" sign ... oh, and they locked the door too.

All kidding aside, "cloud computing" has been a big story this year. But, like...

SpringSource and Oracle back ‘Project Gemini,’ a boost for OSGi

This week, SpringSource and Oracle were named as the first two companies to provide committers to Project Gemini (or "Enterprise Modules"), an Eclipse runtime project meant to bring together a number of modules for enterprise application development. The project was born from the efforts of the...

Snaplogic opens an ‘app store’ for data integration

The folks at SnapLogic opened SnapStore this month, which is a bit like an Apple App Store, for their data integration product. The company's product takes a platform-neutral approach to data integration, which they prefer to call "data flow." Generalized to deploy on-premises or in the cloud,...

Microsoft making waves with Azure and Dallas at ’09 PDC

At the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) this year, Microsoft made headlines with its new "data marketplace," Dallas, and surprised analysts with the announcement that Azure would run virtual...

CEP: It’s not just for finance anymore

by Jack Vaughan This week Complex Event Processing (CEP) software house Aleri Inc. announced that Swedbank had selected Aleri’s Liquidity Risk Manager (LRM) as its liquidity risk management tool. Such tools have continued to flourish despite - or perhaps because of - a worldwide economic...

Tools add Web services to existing Java EE applications

by Jack Vaughan “The big technical challenge with using Web services for integration today typically is that you have a number of applications that don’t support Web services,” says Mark Hansen, head of start-up Proxisoft, formerly known as AgileIT. Hansen has created software that, once...

Microsoft buys Teamprise – gains Eclipse plug-in for TFS, VS 2010

By Rob Barry and Jack Vaughan Microsoft said it will purchase Teamprise, a company that has developed add-ons for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS). Notably, Teamprise...

Firm to field metadata repository supporting, SOA, WOA, Java and more

Let’s face it, on one level, service-oriented design is an effort to smooth over complexity. Wrapped in the service or at the other end of the service call is some rough hewn software artifact. Finding information about those artifacts is still like hunt-and-peck typing. So much for smooth...

Aggregate services across multiple cloud domains

Cloud computing and SOA governance provider, Vordel released a new product for aggregating and managing multi-domain services at the VordelWorld conference in Dublin, Ireland this week. The Vordel Cloud Service Broker (CSB) aggregates services from multiple domains including private, public and...

Glassfish NetBeans highlights

by Rob Barry Though Oracle has lately worked to quell concerns that it might dump support for Sun Microsystem’s GlassFish application server and NetBeans IDE, many still feel doubtful that any legitimate resources will back the open source tools. In a discussion on TheServerSide.com, some...