F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Averitt Express increased performance of its web-based self-service freight booking applications using the F5® BIG-IP® WebAccelerator™ solution. Upon deployment, Averitt’s customers reported a measurable improvement in website responsiveness almost immediately. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The SOA Consortium(TM) today announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by K. Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, on "How to Fail at SOA," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The Future Internet Symposium (FIS) - to be held 28-30 September 2008 in Vienna, Austria - is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA is all about factoring business functionality into shared, reusable services, and then assembling those services into automated business processes. Because it's disruptive technology that can impact not only your company's IT department but also operations, accounting, and myriad other departments, installing a SOA in your organization will require a new level of collaboration across departmental boundaries. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - THE NEXT NETWORK << MORE >>

The soft appliance is a companion piece of technology to an ESB suite, adding performance acceleration, increasing scalability, and security mediation in a manner similar to the XML security and acceleration appliances, but in a software form factor providing for greater flexibility and reduced cost of deployment. Given this, SOA Expressway is sometimes referred to as a “hyper-esb” or “federated intermediary” to associate a label to its usage. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The DataPower device can be completely configured and managed through the XML Management Interface. If enabled, this interface allows administrators to send status and configuration requests to the DataPower appliance through a standard SOAP interface, using SOAP messages. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The combined HP and Layer 7 offering provides customers with a complete governance solution for service-oriented archtiectures (SOA) based on XML and Web services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

OpTier(R), the leader in business Transaction Management(TM) (BTM) for the enterprise, announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named CoreFirst(R) a winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

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Layer 7 Technologies partners with HP to deliver integrated SOA solutions - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

As companies embark on efforts to build loosely coupled service-oriented architectures they inevitably have to tackle the issue of securing their SOA service infrastructure, and many turn to XML security appliances to get the job done. This article helps you make the right choice<< MORE >>

Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application delivery controller software announced that ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager) has been selected by NTractive as part of its infrastructure to manage its hybrid web application, Elements SBM™. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Nastel Technologies, a premier global provider of performance management solutions for complex enterprise applications, today announced the general availability of its new product package AutoPilot M6 TM for TIBCO TIBCO Rendezvous® (RV). - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM publishes book on IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook (Hardcover)- SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Join Managed Methods for a Webcast were we discuss and demonstrate SOA transactions governance in runtime. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Citrix, the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that Citrix(R) NetScaler(R), a key member of the Citrix Delivery Center(TM) product family, has been evaluated and positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the 2008 Application Delivery Controller Magic Quadrant(1) report authored by Mark Fabbi, Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, and Joe Skorupa, Research VP. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

If you have been looking for a web service monitoring and management tool but don’t have a boatload of money, look no further – JaxView from Managed Methods is the tool for you. It is remarkably easy-to-use and provides quick time-to-value while offering a deep and wide set of governance features that are otherwise found on tools with a much larger footprint and price. You’ll love the monitoring, management, and reporting features and will find the tool easy to grow into to suit your governance needs. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products, today announced the addition of Synovus Financial to its customer list. Synovus is a financial services holding company with more than $33 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides commercial and retail banking, as well as investment services, to customers through 36 banks, 440 ATMs, and other Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Symphoniq Corp., a pioneer in real end user performance monitoring, today announced the immediate release of TrueView, ADC Edition. Designed for use with F5 Network, Inc's BIG-IP systems, TrueView, ADC Edition enables businesses to manage the Web application performance experienced by real users while leveraging their existing BIG-IP infrastructure. Powered by Symphoniq's TRUE (The Real User Experience) technology that uniquely addresses the performance issues associated with complex Web architectures, TrueView, ADC Edition reveals previously undetectable end user performance issues for any Web application and correlates them with BIG-IP device statistics and other infrastructure and network parameters. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Vordel today unveiled version 5.1 of its XML network infrastructure products, to accelerate, manage and protect XML applications. Vordel 5.1 addresses the need for lifecycle management of policy across the SOA. By combining the central management of SOA policies with distributed enforcement across a network of XML gateways, organizations generate increased returns on IT architecture and maximize their SOA investments. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

With its innovative ServiceNet network appliance, Sonoa Systems offers a next-generation platform that enables enterprises to connect to the Web and provide services with secure data protection, flexible access control and interoperability, and significantly enhanced performance. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOUCE NETWORK << MORE >>

This article covers SOA Gateway deployment best practices, benefits and requirements with a focus on service virtualization, message privacy and integrity, and message control and auditing. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Segovia, a global provider of Internet Protocol (IP) satellite network solutions, announced its plans to voluntarily adopt guidelines proposed by the U.S. Federal Chief Information Officers Council Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, related to facilitating service-oriented architecture (SOA) for enterprises. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today named Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as chief executive officer. Upon his arrival in September, Mr. Johnson will also be appointed to the board of directors. The company also announced today that Scott Kriens will continue as chairman of the board and will remain active in the areas of strategy and leadership development. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of software and appliances that help the enterprise and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers deliver customer-facing Web services, today announced that Sterling Infosystems, the leading provider of pre-employment screening and background-checking information and solutions, has selected its ServiceNet solution to more effectively operate Sterling's SOA infrastructure and ensure enterprise-class security, manageability and performance of these customer-facing Web services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today introduced the BIG-IP® 1600 and 3600 hardware platforms, which deliver enhanced application delivery capabilities to meet a broad range of enterprise customer requirements. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

In the forthcoming book The Business Value of Virtual Service-Oriented Grids, the authors provide insights on how virtualization and service orientation work; and how these technology used in conjunction with grid computing. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance networking, today marked the 10th anniversary of on-time consecutive quarterly releases of JUNOS(R) software. Over the past 10 years, Juniper has consistently designed, developed and delivered new releases of JUNOS software on a time-tested quarterly release cycle to address the evolving high-performance networking requirements of more than 30,000 service provider, enterprise and public sector customers around the world. JUNOS software provides carrier-class continuous systems availability, automated network operations and the open innovation that businesses demand to quickly align their networks with changing business requirements, while reducing complexity, cost and risk. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco has extended its Data Center 3.0 initiative with the launch of new products and professional services. It includes Cisco Data Center 3.0 announcements include: Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software release 4.1; Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) software release 3.1 for the ACE 4710 application switch; Cisco VFrame Data Center software release 1.2; and new Cisco Data Center 3.0 professional programs and services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the next generation of its best-in-class WXC application acceleration platforms--the WXC 1800, WXC 2600 and WXC 3400 appliances. The new WXC appliances provide distributed enterprises with a more scalable, modular and cost-effective approach to delivering fast and consistent application response across the WAN to help ensure uncompromised access to mission-critical applications and services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Morphing the ESB into the clouds is the next step in the evolution to Cloud Computing. Jim ponders on how this might happen. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI), a provider of silicon, systems and software technologies and a Microsoft Gold Technology Innovation award winner, announced on Thursday (10 July) the expansion of its offering to include content processing solutions for the Microsoft Silverlight platform. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products, today 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. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Forum Systems, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Gateway, Forum Sentry, today announced it has partnered with Techlogix to bring SOA products to markets in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific. Techlogix will supply Forum Sentry with installation and architecture consulting services to its large customer base across Asia-Pacific and United Arab Emirates. In United Arab Emirates, many financial institutions and multi-national companies have started adopting SOA for adding efficiencies to their business. UAE companies are some of the most advanced in deploying technology standards in banking and telecom sectors. A healthy economic outlook for the region combined with a desire to create more efficiency in the region's electronic business processing system has created momentum for SOA. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

WhiteHat Security today announced the general availability of an integrated solution with F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. The new offering allows enterprises to attain expert-level Web application security and mitigate the Web application software flaws that leave corporate and customer data at risk. With the announcement of their partnership in March, the companies committed to providing integration between WhiteHat Sentinel, the industry-leading SaaS-based (Software-as-a-Service) website vulnerability management solution, and the award-winning F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Application Security Manager(TM) (ASM(TM)) Web Application Firewall. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the results of testing of its guaranteed messaging solution with the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC). Testing revealed that a single high-availability pair of Solace routers configured for guaranteed message delivery is able to process and correctly deliver as many as 100,000 messages per second with sub-millisecond latency and zero message loss. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The National Recruiting Center of TEKsystems has an immediate need for an ESB Data Power Developer to work on a contract-to-hire basis in the Washington, DC area. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco today announced that Eurobank EFG in Serbia has implemented the Cisco® Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) and Cisco Branch Optimization solution to create a network that serves as the platform for rapid growth. The architectural approach gives Eurobank EFG a foundation for employee collaboration, new services to customers and tight cost control. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

"Business Machines, Again". This is my inspiration. Tivo gets it. IBM gets it... And our customers are starting to really buy into it in a big way. It's all about time-to-value and total cost of ownership/operation. And appliance like our WebSphere DataPower XI50, deliver on these attributes. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has won an initial $89-million information convergence contract from the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to help enhance the performance of the military’s distribution network. The Lockheed Martin team, including SAIC, Data Networks Corporation, PRTM, BearingPoint, Rainbow Data Systems, Innolog, Business Objects, Teradata and Oakland Consulting, was awarded the fixed-price, multi-year contract, which includes provisions for supplemental task orders in future years. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Saugatuck sees the data center focus of both firms as a solid long-term strategy that – if executed according to their plans – could shift RedHat and VMware into mainstream IT relationships and purchasing processes. Both firms’ executives are smart enough to realize that once they are established as Master Brands in the user data center, it is difficult and unusual to lose such positioning and relationships. But, RedHat’s and VMware’s strategies are not synergistic or symbiotic. Both are seeking to become the defacto standard for data centers. In fact RedHat also announced a virtualization offering and committed to management tools which directly compete with VMware offerings. This area will surely spark competitive battles in user data centers, and cloud-based IT services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards" - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Continuing to fulfill and expand the Cisco® Data Center 3.0 initiative launched at last year's CiscoLive! event, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new products and professional services that will help customers virtualize data centers for greater operational and energy efficiency. The new offerings make the virtual network a highly efficient platform for delivering data center services -- accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of software and appliances that enable the enterprise and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to deliver customer-facing Web services, today announced that several new customers have selected Sonoa ServiceNet to free their applications from the security, interoperability and performance complexities that arise when delivering Web services at cloud scale. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Deloitte and Cisco today announced a collaborative initiative that combines the intelligence in Cisco’s network platform with Deloitte’s broad array of business process and technology consulting capabilities. Deloitte and Cisco have entered into a go-to-market agreement focused on developing service offerings that take advantage of the intelligence of the network to enhance business processes. The Deloitte and Cisco collaboration will map business processes to network intelligent services, such as communication and collaboration, user identification, and wireless location detection, so businesses can achieve more visibility, control, and responsiveness across the enterprise while leveraging their existing business applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise MRG V1, which offers significant Red Hat Enterprise Linux realtime enhancements as well as a high performance, multi-platform messaging system. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP today announced multiple ground-breaking projects coming out of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, located at the SAP campus in Palo Alto, California. Among the projects that are being created and developed in the lab are a private online collaboration workspace, support for enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) management, a disaster recovery solution, a real-time reporting solution for manufacturers, and solutions that help companies improve business performance. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers” report. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced a broad set of enhancements to Artix™ Data Services, designed to offer customers the broadest and richest financial messaging data services development and deployment platform. The latest release includes the most comprehensive implementation of SWIFTNet™ MT Standards Release 2008 (SR2008) and the launch of a new free online validation service. IONA is also announcing new solution offerings for OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives processing and payments straight-through processing (STP) designed to reduce risk exposure and operational costs for financial firms. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance appliances for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), today announced it has joined the HP Internet Software Vendor (ISV) Marketplace Referral Program to facilitate the companies’ collaboration in the field and accelerate the adoption of joint solutions. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today released the first solution that enables multi-national organizations to automate electronic invoicing processes worldwide, while maintaining conformity with individual tax regulations mandated by multiple countries. Sterling e-Invoice Gateway eliminates the need to support separate solutions for isolated geographies; reduces risk and exposure by complying with ever-changing electronic invoicing tax regulations; and improves efficiencies and contains costs by automating both buyer and seller electronic invoice processes in compliance with country-specific tax regulations. SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SEEBURGER Inc. announced today that it has been named to the “Leaders” category in the new Gartner Inc. Magic Quadrant analysis of business-to-business gateway providers released this month. SEEBURGER’s Business Integration Server and associated products are used by more than 7,500 companies around the world to automate trading relationships throughout the supply chain, offering a single integrated and highly scalable global platform with automated workflow, advanced message tracking, and the ability to integrate 100% of an organization’s trading partners including those that still do business on paper. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced its plans for creating software-enabled, service-driven networks that turn seemingly disparate network elements into an intelligent, cohesive platform that can be controlled on-demand. Transforming networks into programmable service delivery engines through its FlexSelect™ Architecture, Ciena enables service providers to adapt and scale their networks to address emerging services, turn unpredictability in service demand into business opportunities and eliminate barriers between creating and monetizing new services. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

How should network vendors approach this market, now that they are competing against major software vendors and outside the traditional network space? - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Azul Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class application performance and IT solutions for Java™ applications, and Axway, a leading provider of collaborative business-to-business (B2B) solutions, today announced that they are working together to address complex and demanding application performance needs for global financial businesses. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc., the provider of cost effective agentless SOA management products today announced availability of their flagship SOA management product JaxView as a soft appliance. JaxView has several different deployment options including XML/Firewall, Agentless, Agent stub and ESB integration. JaxView is offered as an appliance in all of its deployment options. As well, JaxView is the only agentless SOA runtime governance solution to be available both in software and soft appliance form. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM introduces a Redbook for Problem Determination for SOA Appliances - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) subsidiary, today announced the expansion of Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN), the company’s hosted service that provides secure connectivity and collaboration between businesses, into Japan, Australia and China. With this solution, more companies will be able to securely and reliably exchange business documents, making it simpler to automate the processes they share with customers, partners, and suppliers and, therefore, increase their competitiveness and productivity. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced the availability of a webinar entitled Unlocking the Hidden Value of Your Network, featuring Gartner Research Vice President Joe Skorupa. The webinar focuses on the network’s value and explains how Application Delivery Networks yield compelling application performance and security advantages while enabling growth opportunities as well—even in challenging economic times. Upon attending this webinar, viewers will learn how ADN enables enterprises to do more with less. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected Workd - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Microsoft has embraced these popular ideas—ESB and SaaS—and has blended their most compelling characteristics into a new idea it calls the Internet Service Bus (ISB). The ISB model is similar to ESB in terms of functionality. However, ISB is made available at the broader Internet scope, so it's similar to the SaaS model in terms of standards, reach, and scalability. The Microsoft® ISB, in a nutshell, makes it easier for companies to adopt ESB infrastructure. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced a collaboration with Sun Microsystems to help secure and govern Web services built using the Sun JavaTM Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS). Sun customers will be able to purchase Layer 7 products globally through Sun Professional Services. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Customers looking to replace Juniper DX load balancers/application accelerators after they are discontinued later this year will have to look to other qualified vendors, Juniper says. The company announced end-of-life for the boxes earlier this year but didn't issue formal notice about what customers should do if they want additional DXs in the future. SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

ENTNET is a long-running conference organized under the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for the purpose of promulgating an understanding of the development and evolution of enterprise-level networking technologies. Over the years the conference has been bringing together a rich diversity of leading-edge telecom experts from industry, universities, and government. The popularity of the conference continues to grow as the premier forum for researchers, engineers, and business executives in the networking space drawing an attendance from all over the world. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Sun Microsystems Inc., today announced the immediate availability of Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6, the latest version of its flagship service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business integration software. Sun also released a new master data management (MDM) suite, a high performance and unified solution that gives users a single view of their customer data and helps them more effectively manage customer relationships. Java CAPS 6 is the first SOA platform by a major technology provider built on open source through the Open ESB community. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

A successful SOA implementation depends as much on the flexibility of your network as much as the services that will be delivered on it. In other words, networks that can't adapt to changes in demand have been shown to hinder the success of SOA implementations. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., the content-aware network and application testing company, today announced support for 50 application protocols, IPv6 and SSL transport protocols, as well as new security testing, test automation, and real-time reporting capabilities in Version 1.2 of the BreakingPoint testing software. The new features enable network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers to accelerate the development of content-aware network devices and services with comprehensive Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) testing functionality. BreakingPoint's solutions validate performance and reliability under the most realistic and current conditions, while reducing time-to-test by more than 50 percent. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Forum Systems, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Security and Management products and Crosscheck Networks, Inc., the leading provider of SOA Testing and Governance Tools today announced an industry-first webinar on techniques in identifying and mitigating SOA Web Services-based vulnerabilities. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Appliances are part of the Software AG Business Infrastructure Suite, enabling companies to achieve business results – faster. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Using the code-name "BizTalk Services," Microsoft is building a set of "cloud" technologies that are developed and operated by Microsoft as a logical extension to the .NET Framework and the Microsoft SOA technologies. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Liaison Technologies, Inc., global provider of integration and data management services and solutions, announced today that it is providing a free 14-day evaluation copy of its market leading Contivo Analyst software. Contivo Analyst software may be downloaded at www.liaison.com. Data transformation and mapping represents an enormous and costly challenge. Today’s business-to-business (B2B), enterprise application integration (EAI), service oriented architecture (SOA) and extensive markup language (XML) integration projects all require an effective information architecture to manage complex data. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the appointment of Wojo Zielonka as chief financial officer. Mr. Zielonka will be responsible for steering Solace’s financial and operational planning as the company grows. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Web services, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced its go-to-market partnership with Steria Benelux. Steria will act as a channel partner for Layer 7’s SOA gateway products in Belgium to offer leading SOA security, governance solutions and support to its current and prospective customers. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This paper describes how a pervasive, reliable network assures that all elements of highly distributed composite applications operate quickly, efficiently, and securely. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Are you a DataPower Consultant or are you looking for a DataPower Consultant - Check out www.soaappliances.com - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

TheInfoPro (TIP), an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry, today announced its Networking Wave 4 Exciting Vendors List. This list is compiled on the basis of feedback from Networking professionals regarding which of the Networking vendors and products they consider to be the most exciting. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco trys to "Etch" out a new messaging protocol as an alternative to SOAP. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Today at Citrix Synergy', the event where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced an agreement that will make it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company's web application delivery offerings into integrated solutions that enhance the performance, scalability and security of enterprise web applications. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

White Paper from Forum Systems on the Best Practices, Benefits and Requirements for SOA Gateways. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced the latest release of Artix™ Data Services, an open and standards-based development tool for building model-driven data services, and a key component of IONA’s Artix advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Artix Data Services shortens the data services development, test and maintenance lifecycle and improves the quality of data as it flows across heterogeneous environments. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

"Business networks are relevant to everyone," said Kagermann, "and true business network collaboration can only be conducted on a services-based IT infrastructure that is flexible and efficient enough to allow companies to adapt their business processes to business needs. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Azul Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class application performance and IT solutions for Java applications, today announced the availability of the Vega™ 3 Series appliances, which provide breakthrough performance and a cost effective way for companies to run, process, and manage Java applications for their business critical needs. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced the appointment of former Goldman Sachs executive Ralph Frankel as chief technology officer, financial services. Mr. Frankel will be responsible for steering the company's technology vision and working closely with financial services customers to help them derive maximum value from their investment in hardware-based high-speed messaging and content networking. - SOA Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Rohati Systems today unveiled the industry’s first high-performance network-based entitlement control (NBEC) solution: the Rohati Transaction Networking System™ (TNS™) platform. Rohati’s breakthrough redefines entitlement management by enabling enterprises to easily define and enforce per-transaction policies across all types of users and applications. Rohati’s solution uses the policy-standard XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language) for the first time in a network platform, eliminating the need for client or server agents, or changes to network topology. - SOA Network Architect - SOA in a Connected Worldk - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

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