Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Live, in-person event: Oracle Virtualization Launch: Application-Driven Virtualization - Aug 23 - Redwood Shores, CA Tuesday, August 23, 2011. 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM PT at Oracle HQ, Redwood Shores, CA. Registration is free. Getting Schooled | Oracle Magazine Architect Community Column Education, training, and experience are stepping stones to a career as a software architect. Three community members share their stories. Improving Testing Outcomes Through Software Architecture |...

(A slow day out there among the architects of Blogville. Is everyone on vacation?) How Humanity Created So Much Data & Computable Knowledge (Infographic) | Marshall Kirkpatrick Steven Wolfram and team have gathered together a big timeline of key events in the history of systematic data and computable knowledge. Software Architecture and The Principle of Small Decisions | Nanette Brown - SEIBrown says: "Failure to be aware of, understand, and harmonize the many daily small...

Is REST the future for SOA? | Boris Lublinsky Boris Lublinsky discusses architectural difference between SOA and REST as well as using REST in SOA implementations. Understanding Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities | Bernd Grobauer, Tobias Walloschek, Elmar Stöcker In this IEEE article, authors Grobauer, Walloschek and Stöcker discuss cloud computing security and cloud-specific vulnerabilities. 5 Minutes or Less: On SAML Audiences, Entities and Issuers | Andre CorreaA concise how-to...

Amazon Builds a Wall Around Its Cloud for the U.S. Government | ReadWriteCloud"According to a cloud computing strategy report last February by U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, government information systems today may be using less than 30% of their available server capacity. And while trying to take inventory of the various information assets that may be under-utilized, Kundra and government researchers are discovering that agencies presently lack the tools to...

This week the OTN ArchBeat Podcast kicks of a two-part program that revisits the theme of careers in IT architecture, but this time from the perspective of two women in the field, Dr. Karina Ishkhanova , a system architect with TFA Wise Applications, Inc. in Toronto, and Dr. Helen Sun , a Director of Enterprise Architecture at Oracle, based in Chicago. Listen to Part 1 Dr. Sun and Dr. Ishkhanova describe their career paths and what drew them to the their roles as architects. Li...

Node Manager Security | Brian Eidelman Eidelman shows how to secure Node Manager communication and how clients authenticate themselves with the node manager. Browsers are more than just a pretty face - a new look at client-side performance tuning | JD Edwards Attitude@Altitude The browser has become less and less a "thin" part of the architecture as it may have been in the fledgling days of web browsers. Emerging Technology and Retail | David DorfDavid Dorf analyzes Gartner's...

Those interested in Oracle VM have two ways to participate in the Oracle Virtualization Launch event at 10:00am PT on Tuesday, August 23, 2011. There's a live event for those in the Bay Area. And for those unable to jet off to sunny California, there's a live webcast.  Speakers Hector Garcia-Molina, Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President,...

The Growing Importance of Sustaining Software for the DoD | Douglas C. Schmidt - SEI Blog In part 2 of his series, Schmidt describes some of the R&D activities conducted by the SEI to address the challenges of software sustainment. Oracle Virtualization Launch Webcast: Application-Driven Virtualization - Aug 23 Live webcast with Professor Hector Garcia-Molina and Oracle virtualization experts Edward Screven, Wim Coekaerts, and Hasan Rizvi. Webcast: Get Proactive with DBA Task...

Focusing on Business Outcomes through Design | Eric Stephens "The drivers for any design effort boil down to realizing business outcomes," says Stephens. "Nothing more, nothing less." Managing Failure Conditions in a WebLogic Environment | René van Wijk Oracle ACE van Wijk discuesses failure scenarios that involve JMS and JTA and the WebLogic mechanisms for recovering from these failures. Oracle SOA/BPM - Searching and Reporting Using Process Payload | Jan KettenisKettenis...