links for 2009-04-07 (ArchBeat)

links for 2009-04-07

By Bob Rhubart on April 7, 2009 5:00 AM

And SOA on and SOA on...: Gartner's SOA Governance MQ: Good Guidance on Guidance

Gartner: "Governance goes beyond the SOA realm. Sure, governance is a natural fit for a service oriented architecture yet that's not the only use for it as it can strengthen the entire software development lifecycle."

(tags: soa soagovernance gartner magic quadrant)
Oracle VM: Part 3 - Where Does Guest VM HA Fit-in Versus Other HA Software: HA Cluster Software and Guest VM HA (Oracle's Virtualization Blog)

The third installment in Adam Hawley's series on "solidly complementary techniques that can work very well together to further improve the availability of your stack from top-to-bottom."

(tags: oraclevm virtualizaiton rac)
GSI Architecture Strategy Part 4: Project Environments & Wrap (Project Lifestyle)

Andrew Sparks concludes his series of posts on Global Single Instances with "some thoughts on the number of test environments you’ll need to support your project(s)."

(tags: gsi architecture projectmanagement)
Web 2.0 and Org 2.0 (BPM, E2.0 @Oracle)

In his excellent summary of work by Tim Harford and Paul A. David, Ali Mukadam observes that the point behind Web 2.0 "is to take advantage of what computer and networking technologies do to remake how and organization can operate, rather than to continue to operate it the same way, just with more speed or more cheaply, just as electrification and unit drive remade how a factory worked."

(tags: innovation enterprise2.0 organization web2.0)

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