Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Making Delivery Options More Accessible to Users | Brent Lowe How to bring delivery to the users vs. having them kick off the process explicitely. Which Linux do you pick for Oracle Installations? | Tim Hall "Many of us don’t work in a world where technology is picked purely on its merits," says Hall. There's No Stopping Zero Downtime | Dain Hansen - Data Integration"Zero Downtime is clearly something much more sophisticated, as it enables a Maximum Availability Architecture,"...

Fusion Applications - What You Need To Know: SOA Rehash | Floyd Teter "You just need to have your brain wrapped around some basic [SOA] concepts to understand what's happening behind the scenes," says Teter. Oracle Unified Directory 11gR1 Released ! | Etienne Remillon Oracle Unified Directory is an all-in-one directory solution with storage, proxy, synchronization and virtualization capabilities. Open Work: Using Social Software To Make Our Work Visible Again | Dion Hinchcliffe"...

Bay Area Coherence Special Interest Group Meeting - July 21 Thursday - July 21st, 2011, 4:30pm - 8:15pm. Speakers include: Reza Shafii (Oracle), Chris Akker (F5), Paul Cleary (Oracle), Alexey Ragozin (Independent Consultant), and Brian Oliver (Oracle). Cloud for winners, going pro in IT architecture, and another chance for a virtual Oracle SOA Suite demo. If you guessed, "What's new this week in the OTN Architect Center?" -- you win! Integrated Load Balancer | The ObservatoryAn...

Communicating Change as Business as Usual | Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe - Harvard Business Review Musselwhite and Ploufe report on "an organizational model promoting change readiness [that] provides a promising new perspective on change." Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: 5 Minutes or less: Kerberos | Chris Johnson Chris Johnson concise explanation of how Kerberos works. The Open Group releases O-ACEML standard, automates compliance configuration | Jim HietalaO-ACEML...

Oracle WebCenter: The User Engagement Platform for Social Business | Brian Dirking "The benefits of social media can really be exploited when you integrate them with business processes," says Brain Dirking. Enterprise and Portfolio Governance Critical to Ensure IT is Strategically Supporting Your Agency The third in a series of posts in which the DHS CIO outlines his beliefs and real-world implementation practices that deliver successful IT programs. Blurring Face-to-Face and...

This week's update of the OTN Architect Center includes a fresh batch of blog posts (from Govert Verhoeven, David Dorf, Duncan Mills, Michel Schildmeijer, Rich Clayton, Jyothi Swaroop, Peter Paul van de Beek, Oracle ACE Director Ron Batra, and Joe Huang), a list of events that will keep you busy well beyond summer, and the following feature items: Virtual Developer Day: SOANo security lines. No lost luggage. Just live Oracle SOA product presentations and demonstrations...

What’s in a name? A change of name for our ITAC and ITSC professional certifications | The Open Group Blog "With the launch of the new Open Group website this week, we have taken the opportunity to rebrand our two skills- and experience-based certification programs," says The Open Group's Steve Philp. "The IT Architect Certification (ITAC) program has now become The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) program. The IT Specialist Certification (ITSC) program has now become...

Virtathon 2011 July 16 - 21 | Lewis Cunningham "This is a great chance to pick up some skills you don't already have, refresh some you haven't used or just nitpick the presenter's skills and knowledge," says Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham. It's all good." Large scale data management (LSDM) for Financial Services | Ambreesh Khanna Khanna diagrams the relevant technologies in Oracle's LSDM platform. Podcast Show Notes: IASA's Paul Preiss on IT Architecture as a ProfessionAn...

The latest OTN Archbeat Podcast features an interview with Paul Priess, the CEO and founder of IASA, the interntational association of software architects, in a discussion of IT architecture as a profession. Listen to Part 1 Paul discusses the the origins, background, and mission of IASA. Listen to Part 2 Paul talks about the future of IT architecture and the roles education and certification play in defining and refining the profession. You can learn more about IASA and...