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Strategies for Dealing With IT Complexity 24/12/2007 10:30:47
Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business.Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business. - +
10 tools to manage SOA 26/10/2007 12:28:21
Vendors step up to address the governance, quality and management technology triangle that ensures successful implementationsService-oriented architecture promises many positives: resource reuse, application integration, business agility and infrastructure flexibility, among others. But never do SOA proponents claim ease of management as one of the technology's glories. - +
Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04/02/2008 13:01:15
Does your executive search firm know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients?Does your executive search firm know its MIS managers from its elbow? Does it even know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients?
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Oracle on Wednesday said it is spearheading a project within the Eclipse open source community to boost the EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) 3.0 specification.
Specifically, Oracle will help build an open source EJB object-relational mapping tool under the Eclipse public license that will focus on design-time tooling and support deployment to J2EE application servers. The tool will be based on Oracle's TopLink Java object-to-relational tool and deployment platform for enterprise applications.
In bringing EJB 3.0 support to Eclipse developers, Oracle will provide access from the Eclipse IDE to EJB 3.0, according to the company. EJB 3.0 will serve as a cornerstone of the planned J2EE 5.0 release and improve application development and developer productivity, Oracle said.
Citing the benefits of EJB 3.0, Dennis Leung, vice president of development at Oracle, emphasized that the company wants to drive adoption of the specification. "Developers have to write less code [with EJB 3.0], the model is much simpler, it's much more lightweight," Leung said.
Oracle in March shipped its Oracle Application Server EJB 3.0 Preview to enable Java developers to gain experience with the specification. A technology preview of Oracle's JDeveloper environment featuring EJB 3.0 also is planned.
Oracle's EJB 3.0 endeavor with Eclipse represents a departure for the company, according to analyst John R. Rymer, vice president of application development and integration at Forrester Research. "I think it's significant because Oracle in the past has really not taken a very active role in standards that impinged on the database," Rymer said. EJB 3.0 automates interactions between the database and Java programs structured as objects, he added.
In the past, Oracle apparently did not want to surrender the database as a point of user account control, but that obviously has changed, Rymer said. "They see [the EJB 3.0 standard] as something that gives them leverage and they basically have decided that they're really going to take the lead on developing tools to support it," Rymer said.
Oracle, with its EJB 3.0 strategy, is looking to boost its application server, which is likely to form the basis of the company's Project Fusion, Rymer said. Project Fusion purports to combine Oracle's applications with the J.D. Edwards and PeopleSoft applications recently acquired in the PeopleSoft merger, Rymer said.
Rymer expressed concerns,however, about the lack of third-party involvement in the Eclipse EJB 3.0 project. "Where's IBM? Where's BEA? Where's SAP? This has to be broader," he said. Oracle's press statement on the project notes endorsements from JBoss, Sun Microsystems, and the Eclipse Foundation itself.
Oracle's EJB 3.0 effort is expected to become part of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform. The company expects the EJB 3.0 to be finalized by the Java Community Process in early 2006.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
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IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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Revolutionising Back-up and Recovery
Rapid adoption of virtual server technology, and the challenges associated with the backup and recovery of ever-growing stores of information is causing a number of IT managers to reevaluate their data protection strategies. New backup and recovery methods which use data de-duplication technology to reduce capacity and network bandwidth requirements are being deployed to keep up with explosive data growth, shrinking backup windows, compliance initiatives and security concerns. Read on to find out more.
