Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Today's Quote "On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks." -- H. Allen Smith Today's Links 4 cloud myths that won't go away | David Linthicumwww.infoworld.com "Although most in enterprise IT are getting smarter about cloud computing, they continue to get some basic assumptions wrong." Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users | Monica Kumarblogs.oracle.com"The survey pool was comprised of The Linux Foundation End...

Today's Quote "Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." -- Author Unknown Today's Links Enterprise Architecture vs. SOA Architecture Part III | Pat Shepherdblogs.oracle.com Pat Shepherd takes a stab at defining and differentiating SOA and Enterprise Architecture. Oracle cloud migration success starts with designsearchoracle.techtarget.com Another excerpt from Migrating to the Cloud by Tom Laszewski and Prakash Nauduri. Designing for Fault Tolerance in the Cloud | Brian...

Today's Quote "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays." -- Douglas Adams Today's Links Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Javaoracle.6connex.com Date: Tuesday February 14th, 2012 9:00am to 1:00pm PT / Noon to 4:00 PM ET You're real -- the event is virtual. Everything you wanted to know about Java, including Java SE 7, JavaFX 2.0 and the roadmap to Java SE 8. ODI 11g in a Services Oriented Architecture. Part III. Consuming a RESTful web...

Today's Quote "When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." -- John Wyndham Today's Links Building an Exadata Compute Node USB imaging drive | Jason Arneiljarneil.wordpress.com A detailed how-to from Jason Arneil. Portal and Content - Components, part 1 – UCM, Site Studio and Templates (2 of 7) | Stefan Krantz blogs.oracle.com"Oracle WebCenter Portal core architecture is designed around several well...

Today's Quote "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today's Links Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center plug-in for Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c is now available | Anand Akelablogs.oracle.comAnand Akela shares details on the systems monitoring plug-in to connect Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1.0) and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 11g...

Today's Quote "Fridays are not pants-optional." -- Bart Simpson Today's Links Webcast: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture and Oracle Exadataevent.on24.com Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012 Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET Speaker: Joe Meeks, Director of Product Management, Oracle Demand for cloud jobs is now stratospheric | David Linthicumwww.infoworld.com The small pool of experienced cloud talent will pose a challenge to employers and opportunity to IT pros. ConferenceBrowserFX...

In my conversations with IT architects, whether for the ArchBeat Podcast, or for my Oracle Magazine column, or just in casual gab sessions, the importance of communication and other soft skills comes up with surprising regularity. These soft skills are as essential for effective architecture as they are for the success of individual IT architects. Two recent posts on the Harvard Business Review blog come at the idea of soft skills from different angles. Each is worthwhile...

Today's Quote "I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for." -- April Winchell Today's Links Oracle Enterprise Management Online Forumevent.on24.com Event Date: January 25, 2012 | 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ETGet your questions answered about the different phases of the cloud lifecycle--from justification and planning to implementation, user adoption, and ongoing management. Learn about common challenges and how Oracle Enterprise Management keeps you in total...

Today's Quote "They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday." -- Robert Heinlein Today's Links Cloud Candidate Selection; Bite-sized SOA Governance; Fusion Evolutionwww.oracle.com This week on the OTN Architect Home Page. Software Engineering Meets Services and Cloud Computing | Stephen S. Yau and Ho G. Anwww.infoq.com In this IEEE article, authors Stephen Yau and Ho An talk about application development using service-oriented architecture and cloud computing technologies. Ev...