<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</title><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:58:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/4/awsj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Interphase Systems Responds to Increased Demand for Virtualization Services</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/617294.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/617294.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/617294_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Interphase Systems announced it has named Lew Smith as Product Manager, Virtualization Solutions. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for leading and building Interphase's virtualization practice and offerings, with a concentration on the key technologies that will benefit the company's customers. Smith will continue to build relationships with existing technology partners, as well as engaging in new partner relationships.]]></description></item><item><title>VMware Reports Second-Quarter 2008 Results</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/617271.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/617271.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/617271_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VMware reported financial results for the second quarter of 2008: Revenues for the second quarter were $456 million, an increase of 54% from the second quarter of 2007. GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $61 million, compared to $47 million for the same period last year. Non-GAAP operating income was $112 million, an increase of 52% from the second quarter of 2007.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization Trend Enables Qatari Businesses to Fully Leverage Their Existing Technology Resources</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615607.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615607.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615607_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[EMC recently addressed Qatar's business decision-makers on how can EMC help them have a flexible and efficient IT environment by realizing the full potential and advanced functionality of virtualization solutions from VMware. Executives in Doha heard how they can use virtualization solutions to pool storage capacity together and create a more effective data protection environment. They also heard how EMC content-enabled solutions can help them bring unstructured content into the process.]]></description></item><item><title>Trustware Releases New Version Of Desktop Virtualization Security Software</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/616720.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/616720.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/616720_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Trustware unveiled a new version of its powerful security software application, BufferZone Pro 3.0. With close to 2 million installations worldwide, BufferZone has become the de-facto standard for browser and application based virtualization security. By creating a 'buffer zone' between the Internet and the users' local PC environment, consumers can browse the Web, chat on IM, open email attachments, download files and other confidential information - all without the fear of malware attacks.]]></description></item><item><title>3Leaf Systems Enables V-8000 I/O Virtualization with HP BladeSystem c-Class</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615690.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615690.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615690_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[3Leaf Systems announced that is has successfully performed interoperability testing of the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server with the HP BladeSystem c-Class and an HP StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual Array running VMware ESX. Successful completion of interoperability testing with HP marks a key milestone in 3Leaf's strategy and commitment to delivering greater data center resource utilization and reduced costs through virtualization solutions for the x86 server market.]]></description></item><item><title>Aerohive Introduces Virtual HiveManager</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/616719.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/616719.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/616719_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Aerohive announced the availability of Virtual HiveManager, a new feature of the company's HiveManager network management system (NMS) appliance. Virtual HiveManager provides network management virtualization and permits the flexible delegation of network management authority, including by company or business unit, geographic location, and user role. The capability benefits managed wireless LAN service providers and large, distributed enterprises seeking flexibility in the management of their wireless LANs. Virtual HiveManager is available as a free upgrade to all HiveManager appliance owners.]]></description></item><item><title>General Dynamics to Deliver Trusted Virtualization Environment</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615547.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615547.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615547_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[General Dynamics C4 Systems has selected the OptiPlex 755 desktop by Dell as the computer hardware to host its Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE), a High Assurance Platform (HAP)-compliant workstation intended for classified work by government users. The workstation enables individuals to use a single computer workstation to securely access information and applications from multiple networks, at different classification levels, as opposed to limiting a computer to a single security level.]]></description></item><item><title>EC Files New Charges Against Intel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614374.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614374.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614374_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[That thud you heard yesterday was the European Commission hitting Intel with a second supplemental indictment-like statement of objection (SO) charging the company with three more instances of antitrust violations designed to keep AMD out of the market. Miraculously the news arrived just as AMD was posting its seventh consecutive quarterly loss.]]></description></item><item><title>SteelEye Introduces Disaster Recovery Protection for Citrix XenServer Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615512.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615512.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615512_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SteelEye announced the general availability of SteelEye Protection Suite, a comprehensive solution that provides disaster protection of virtual machines running on Citrix XenServer. SteelEye Protection Suite delivers real-time LAN and WAN replication of XenServer virtual machines. It is designed for companies that have migrated critical enterprise applications to XenServer virtual machines and want enhanced protection against data center outages to ensure business continuity.]]></description></item><item><title>BakBone Simplifies VMware Virtualization for The Latin School of Chicago</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615548.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615548.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615548_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BakBone is providing comprehensive, easy-to-manage VMware and heterogeneous data protection solutions for The Latin School of Chicago, helping the school keep its focus on students, rather than data protection. An independent, coeducational day school located on the Near North Side of Chicago, The Latin School of Chicago ranks among the nation's best schools in the informed use of technology in the classroom and for school administration. They utilize technology to support efficient, reliable operation of the school and provide tools that enhance both internal and external communications.]]></description></item><item><title>VirtualLogix Introduces Carrier Grade Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615511.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615511.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/615511_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VirtualLogix announced Carrier Grade Virtualization, a solution that meets the performance, security, serviceability and availability needs of next generation, multicore-based carrier grade systems. VirtualLogix Carrier Grade Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of maintaining carrier grade properties in edge and core network elements such as IP Multimedia System (IMS) nodes. As a result, networking and telecommunication original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can now reuse existing investments in their carrier grade systems while gaining the benefits of using VirtualLogix VLX real-time virtualization software. These benefits include faster adoption of multicore architectures and consolidation of hardware, reduced bill of materials, increased availability, improved time to market, and more efficient designs as a result.]]></description></item><item><title>Whither VMware?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614532.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614532.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614532_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VMware is supposed to report its second-quarter results on Tuesday July 22 and people will be tuning in to see how EMC's abrupt ouster of the virtualization leader's CEO and co-founder Diane Greene last week is handled and what is added to the news that VMware isn't going to make its full-year 2008 guidance of 50% growth over 2007. Parent company EMC said last week that VMware would come in 'modestly below' its revenue goals because of a more challenging spending environment but left Q2 guidance of 55% growth in place.]]></description></item><item><title>Peer Software Partners With Parallels To Provide Continuous Data Protection On Virtualization Platforms</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614565.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614565.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614565_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Peer Software announced a partnership with Parallels. The companies are collaborating to enable customers to realize cost-savings through simplified IT infrastructures, using virtualization platforms and disaster recovery solutions with certified data protection, availability and continuous backup provided by Peer Software. Peer Software's solutions have been certified to provide Parallels Virtuozzo Containers with virtual server backup of user and application data through the PeerSync product line, and MS SQL backup and MS Exchange backup through the Peer DRS product line.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization, Microsoft, Yahoo &amp; Google</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614563.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614563.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614563_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Citrix has tapped its VP of channels and emerging product sales Al Monserrat to replace its departing sales chief John Burris, who, as previously reported, is going to Sourcefire as CEO. A couple of years ago Monserrat was responsible for Citrix' North American sales. Meanwhile, Citrix has named former PeopleSoft chief marketing officer and HP veteran Nanci Caldwell to its board.]]></description></item><item><title>Red Hat Solutions Deliver Flexibility and Reliability for InfoCamere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612998.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612998.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612998_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Red Hat announced that InfoCamere, an organization responsible for managing the IT systems that connect and secure over 100 Italian Chambers of Commerce, relies on Red Hat and JBoss solutions for flexibility, reliability and ease of use for its mission-critical systems.]]></description></item><item><title>Gizmox Brings Microsoft Silverlight to Enterprises</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612473.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612473.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612473_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Gizmox announced the release of a fully functional beta version of its Visual WebGui (VWG) with support for Microsoft Silverlight. For the first time, VWG enables Silverlight for enterprise applications by providing a RAD like Windows Forms development experience with drag & drop design that cuts development cycles by as much as 90%.]]></description></item><item><title>StoneFly Upgrades StoneFusion Network Storage Virtualization Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/613930.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/613930.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/613930_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[StoneFly unveiled StoneFusion 6.1, a new more robust release of the company's intelligent network storage platform, which is integrated into all StoneFly IP SANs to provide block-level provisioning and centralized storage management, control and monitoring of logical storage volumes.]]></description></item><item><title>SAP Launches Co-Innovation Lab in Tokyo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612681.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612681.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612681_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SAP announced the opening of a second SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Ohtemachi, Tokyo, Japan. Joining the co-innovation lab, located in Palo Alto, California, the addition further broadens efforts by SAP to work with software solution partners, technology partners, service partners and customers to accelerate the innovation and delivery of solutions designed to address industry-specific business issues for companies around the world.]]></description></item><item><title>Axon Signs MRO Co-Development Agreement with SAP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610558.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610558.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610558_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Axon announced it has signed a co-development agreement with SAP for the integration of a new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business solution with the SAP ERP application for aviation and aerospace organizations. The new MRO industry solution, called iMRO, is intended to improve productivity and planner visibility and reduce variations encountered between planning and operations, allowing higher asset utilizations to be realized for large and small airlines, manufacturers and third-party MRO providers. iMRO, together with MRO solutions from SAP, will deliver built-in best practices for maintenance engineering, maintenance planning, maintenance operations and business support processes.]]></description></item><item><title>Carbonite Announces Virtualization Partnership Agreement with Lifeboat Distribution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612679.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612679.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/612679_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Carbonite announced a partnership agreement with Lifeboat Distribution. The agreement will enhance distribution coverage within North America. Carbonite will have access to Lifeboat's North American network of more than 4,500 resellers, value-added resellers, consultants and systems integrators. Among the partners expected to resell the Carbonite Online Backup solution are Wayside's separate subsidiaries - Programmer's Paradise and TechXtend - that sell software and hardware solutions to U.S. and Canadian corporations, universities and government organizations.]]></description></item><item><title>How Linked Data and AJAR Changes Everything</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609523.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609523.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609523_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Web has evolved into a structured data space of loosely connected databases, enabling granular data access-by-reference to Web-accessible entities, courtesy of HTTP. This evolution and the emergence of AJAX-based RIA technologies lay the foundation for a new generation of libraries, widgets, and frameworks, that together embrace and extend enterprise data access practices of yore. This session will cover access and exploitation of Web-accessible Linked Data using AJAX- and AJAR-based technologies (Asynchronous JavaScript and RDF).]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Adds to Cloud-Based SOA Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614541.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614541.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/614541_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft added this week workflow capabilities to BizTalk Services, the company's platform-in-the-cloud project for SOA and business process management.]]></description></item><item><title>Server-Side, PHP-Generated AJAX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609521.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609521.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609521_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As Web-based applications are pushing the 'Rich User Experience' envelope, AJAX is quickly becoming a standard front-end for any PHP application. But unfortunately as PHP applications that utilize AJAX are being forced to morph from two-tier to three-tier architectures, pushing code to the client adds inherent issues with security and code maintenance. New techniques are being developed which focuses on server-side generated AJAX, allowing developers to code AJAX applications in PHP instead of JavaScript. This session will discuss and demo many of these new techniques which will allow for the development of rich, AJAX user experiences without needing to code any JavaScript whatsoever.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX in Enterprise Portals</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609520.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609520.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609520_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Not only enterprise portals integrators are using AJAX at the portal level but now they can also use it for the development of more user-friendly JSR-168 portlets. With the arrival of new standards, AJAXified JSF Components like IceFaces ot RichFaces became a reality that can be portable across the many JSR-168 portlet containers implementations, in the commercial or open source worlds. During his presentation, we will explain how this has been made possible and how one can write such portlets.]]></description></item><item><title>Hitachi Extends Virtualization Partner Network in Saudi Arabia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610244.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610244.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610244_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hitachi announced that is has signed two new partnerships in Saudi Arabia with Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) and Business Management Company (BMC), as part of the vendor's strategy to strengthen its presence in the Kingdom. Both MIS and BMC will work with customers across the various tiers of Hitachi Data Systems solutions, from low-end and modular storage to high-end enterprise.]]></description></item><item><title>User Experience and RIAs: How Does It All Come Together?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609493.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609493.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609493_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[RIAs provide the promise of an excellent User eXperience, but the ultimate success of the UX is driven more by the skill of the developer than the tool selection itself. This session will discuss the foundation and importance of the application of cognitive science techniques to the process of designing and building a rich Web application. The presentation will provide: Overview of Human Factors/Usability and how these techniques have been applied to the Web, Basic concepts (heuristics) that should be met in any web application, and Resources so that attendees can perform this sort of work independently.]]></description></item><item><title>Mavirroco Cuts Application Development Time with WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610736.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610736.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610736_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[WaveMaker announced that Mavirroco Consulting has successfully built and deployed an open source web directory and content management system for the Medical College of Tarijas using WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio. The new internal Web application, called 'ColMed,' allows doctors to securely share contact information, schedules, events and collect payments.]]></description></item><item><title>InteleCom Launches Web 2.0 Viral Communication Tools Through Its Social Network</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610671.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610671.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610671_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[InteleCom announced that its new Web 2.0 Social Network toksee successfully launched 3 new viral communication tools or widgets for easy copy and placement on websites and blogs. All 3 immediately received top rankings from Widgetbox. The toksee chat or video messaging widget allows toksee Members to talk with and see their friends and family who also have the toksee online conference system.]]></description></item><item><title>Content Virtualization Company Orb Celebrates Bastille Day With Seven Million Users</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610555.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610555.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610555_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Orb Networks announced that its user base is now over seven- million strong. Orb's French-born co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Luc Julia, drew parallels between this industry milestone and the French national holiday.]]></description></item><item><title>Preparing Your Brand for the Mobile Web Experience</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609473.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609473.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609473_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As the mobile Web matures, we see more and more people running around airports with their mobile devices in hand, searching for hotel rooms, reading the news, or just playing video games. People are more connected with their mobile phone today than any other electronic device they use. What was once a nice-to-have is now the norm, and is quickly becoming an integral part of our culture and society. But how do you connect with users through mobile web sites and create exceptional experiences that are both functional and captivating?]]></description></item><item><title>BlueBear Virtualization Product Announced</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609674.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609674.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609674_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BlueBear, LLC announced beta availability of Kodiak, the virtualization industry's most innovative management application. Kodiak addresses the many limitations in existing management software and empowers IT professionals with split-second reaction time and maximum situational awareness.]]></description></item><item><title>Understanding iPhone JavaScript Extensions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609432.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609432.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609432_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Apple has introduced a number of extensions to the JavaScript programming language to assist iPhone Web developers. Including new fast lookup functions, native SVG graphics processing, CSS effects, database storage and full screen mode. These new functions will transform the way Web and AJAX developers look at the iPhone for application development. This session introduces the JavaScript extensions, and shows practical examples of their usage.]]></description></item><item><title>Web 3.0 and the Age of Intelligence</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609086.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609086.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609086_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Often called the Semantic or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0 brings a level of artificial intelligence to transform the Internet from a searchable catalog to a personal guide that can reason in a human-like fashion and provide users with more services and options for social networks. This session will map out the world of Web 3.0, exploring the unique benefits for end users, as well as opportunities for businesses. Using specific examples, Jon Doyle will demonstrate how Web 3.0 will change the way users interact with the Web - from planning and booking an entire vacation to automatically scheduling doctor's appointments based on personal preferences.]]></description></item><item><title>Showtime: Bringing the Co-Web to a Screen Near You!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609064.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609064.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609064_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Co-Web, the collaborative, media converged Web, is upon us. The Co-Web is interpersonal; it is about getting work done together. It is much more than surfing a YouTube/Google Map mashup while Twittering with co-workers. Showtime uses those same technologies to build a Co-Web page where we all interact on the same data at the same time, see the same context and make better decisions as a result. A Showtime Co-Web application uses the same standards as a normal mashup - OpenAJAX plus XMPP, RTP/RTSP and H.264 - yet remakes the mashup as the Co-Web. For the Co-Web - It's Showtime!]]></description></item><item><title>JavaScript: The Good Parts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609063.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609063.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609063_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval in the lab when it could be tried out and polished. JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. The best nature of JavaScript was so effectively hidden that for many years the prevailing opinion of JavaScript was that it was an unsightly, incompetent abomination. This session will expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable and maintainable.]]></description></item><item><title>Software AG Produces SOA Survey</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610421.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610421.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/610421_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A new global survey issued today suggests that enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 'crossed the chasm'. Users also identified SOA governance as a key component of sustainable implementations with holistic, lifecycle approaches viewed as a core requirement. However, the overall maturity of their adoption was regarded as moderate with the state of their governance practices considered lacking. The Best Practices for SOA Governance User Survey (Summer 2008) was produced by Software AG.]]></description></item><item><title>The Business Value of Social Networking on Corporate Intranets</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609062.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609062.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609062_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This Session will demonstrate why social networking is more than just marketing buzz; it is a relational model that has been used for years to define the way human beings interact, and it is the next step in the natural evolution of the Web. Learn how organizations can improve workflow and productivity by utilizing social software and online collaboration. See how social networking can be used to efficiently define and enable how work actually gets done on your intranet. Discover how your intranet can become a dynamic corporate knowledge base that will scale with the company as it grows and will still maintain usability on it own. Understand why no single user, even the administrator, can possibly identify all of the assets, users and groups and how they need to be connected to each other for your intranet to be a truly collaborative business tool. See how social networking will naturally scale your intranet to define these nodes and ties.]]></description></item><item><title>Use JavaScript 2 Today with OpenLaszlo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609041.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609041.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609041_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JavaScript 2 is becoming increasingly important. Learn how to take advantage of JavaScript 2 while still running in today's browsers. Leverage your current JavaScript and HTML skills to build applications that run in Flash 7-9, DHTML and more with no code changes! OpenLaszlo 4.2 includes a new JavaScript 2-based compiler that translates JS2 syntax to a variety of formats, including JS 1.5, Actionscript 1 & 2 and Actionscript 3. When Firefox 4 is out, we'll be ready with native JavaScript 2.0 support! Come learn about this exciting new development, and about the new features designed to make developing complex apps easy, including cross-browser history and vector graphics support.]]></description></item><item><title>Who Says Web 2.0 is Hard? Modernize Your Applications without Needing a PhD in AJAX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609566.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609566.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609566_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Web applications continue to evolve to support a far richer user experience than in the early days of the Internet. However, delivering these solutions adds complexity and demands additional programming skills. This session provides an overview of how the innovative IBM Rational technology delivered through its new Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) capabilities, helps dramatically simplify the construction of rich user interfaces and their integration with back-end services, transactional systems, and data sources for any platform, including System z and System i. This revolutionary approach enables companies to leverage their valuable IT assets into state-of-the-art SOA-based and web solutions in record time while leveraging existing skills.]]></description></item><item><title>AppTrigger integrates SOA solution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609518.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609518.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609518_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AppTrigger extended its capabilities for market-leading messaging provider Unisys and their customers by expanding its features for the Unisys Application Session Controller (ASC) offering. AppTrigger?s latest product release has coincided with the expansion of the Unisys Application Session Controller (ASC) offering to customers of the Unisys UVMS/VSE550 solution.]]></description></item><item><title>EXTOL Supports IBM i 6.1, SOA Features</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609472.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609472.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/609472_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[EXTOL International, Inc. a provider of integration software applications for both internal and external collaboration, announced support of IBM?s i 6.1 operating system. EXTOL solutions enable companies to exchange and integrate transactions and documents, regardless of form or format, between their applications and those of their partners.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo Strives To Disrupt the Search Market, Opens Up Its APIs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608310.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608310.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608310_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['BOSS opens up the playing field for developers and companies to disrupt the search market, become principals in search and build new Web search experiences that offer more choice for users,' said Prabhakar Raghavan, chief strategist for Yahoo! Search, as Yahoo! Inc. yesterday introduced a new open Web services platform called BOSS (for Build Your Own Search Service) - aimed at giving third parties an unprecedented level of access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results.]]></description></item><item><title>Leveraging SCA for Standardizing the Composite Application Ecosystem</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608764.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608764.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608764_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Composite applications are the new breed of applications that are built rapidly by composing ready-made configurable and customizable service components together. This is similar in spirit to creating new recognizable objects by snapping together pre-fabricated Lego blocks in unforeseen ways.]]></description></item><item><title>Managed Methods Adds REST Support to JaxView&apos;s Agentless Deployment Option</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608866.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608866.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608866_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Managed Methods has announced support of REST style services to their patent pending Agentless deployment options. JaxView has several different deployment options including XML/Firewall, Agentless, Agent stub and ESB integration. Although JaxView has had support of REST services in other deployment options, the agentless option only supported SOAP standard based services, until now.]]></description></item><item><title>Choosing the Right Middleware Stack for Your SOA in Health Care</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608659.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608659.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/608659_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When there are lots of solutions, choosing the right products to build your software is really challenging. Identifying the right combination of middleware products to build your SOA is key to its success. This article discusses an approach to using non-functional requirements in choosing these products, using SOA in health care as an example.]]></description></item><item><title>DreamFactory Offers Cloudware Suite on Intuit QuickBase Development Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607644.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607644.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607644_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DreamFactory, a pioneer in cloud-based Web applications and development tools, announced the company will offer its entire DreamFactory Suite on the new Intuit QuickBase Development Platform. DreamFactory's project management and collaboration cloudware will soon be readily available to millions of businesses using Intuit software.]]></description></item><item><title>LeftHand Networks Partner Program Expands From Worldwide Demand for Virtualization Solutions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607503.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607503.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607503_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[LeftHand Networks announced that the company's Advantage Partner Program is growing at an accelerated rate, adding 145 new VARs to its global program since November 2007. At more than 425 partners worldwide, the program's strong growth is attributed to the expanding iSCSI SAN market and LeftHand Networks' focus on its channel partner business model worldwide.]]></description></item><item><title>Laurello Elected Board Chairman of Stratus Technologies</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607502.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607502.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607502_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[David C. Laurello, president and chief executive officer of Stratus Technologies, has been elected as chairman of the board of directors. Former chairman, Stephen C. Kiely, continues to serve the company as a member of the board.]]></description></item><item><title>Network Virtualization Company BLADE Joins Climate Savers Computing Initiative</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607324.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607324.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607324_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BLADE Network Technologies announced that it has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing computer power consumption by 50 percent by 2010. As a pioneer of energy-efficient data center networking, BLADE is recognized on AlwaysOn's GoingGreen 100 list of the world's foremost 'green' companies. BLADE views organizations such as the Climate Savers Computing Initiative as key to the energy-efficient data center of the future.]]></description></item><item><title>TechInsights to Offer Comprehensive Analytics of Apple&apos;s 3G iPhone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607018.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607018.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/607018_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[TechInsights will analyze the Apple 3G iPhone, to be released on July 11. TechInsights' divisions, TechOnline, Portelligent, EE Times and Semiconductor Insights, will collaborate to investigate the second-generation handset to provide technical detail about the new iPhone for readers, customers and the media.]]></description></item></channel></rss>