Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

OAM 11g: Configuring Data Sources | @FusionSecExpert Vinay shares an experience he encountered recently while configuring the Oracle Access Manager Console. Coherence in SOA Suite 11g | A-Team - SOA Another installment of "random ways to tweak your SOA environment." Full access to MDS Repository | Olivier LeDiouris LeDiouris shares a way to access documents in an MDS repository from the command line WebLogic Scripting Tool. Mastering BPM 11g Webinar Series | Manoj DasAgenda...

A free lunch for your brain: OTN Architect Day - Redwood Shores, CA - Aug 30 OTN Architect Day,Redwood Shores, CA - Tuesday August 30, 2011. Registration is free. Seating is limited. Exalogic Networking Part 1 | The Old Toxophilist The Old Toxophilist ( it means "a collector of bows and arrows" ) looks at the low level creation and configuration of vNICs, vIPs, vLANs, and BONDs, and at simultaneous configuration of all Exalogic Compute Nodes. Success Comes From Better Data, Not...

Protecting Against Insider Threats with Enterprise Architecture Patterns | Andrew P. Moore - SEI Moore's post describes the work of the CERT Insider Threat Center to help protect next-generation DoD enterprise systems against insider threats. Using Weblogic Server ActiveCache for Coherence | David Felcey Felcey shows how a J2EE web application can be packaged, deployed and managed in WLS to seamlessly take advantage of a data caching tier. Oracle Linux 5 update 7 on edelivery |...

Webcast: Get Proactive with DBA Task Automation Aug 16. 10am PT / 1pm ET. Speakers: Jagan Athreya, Scott McNeil. Are you getting the most out of your Exadata performance? Part 1 | Tanel Poder "In almost all of the Exadata migration projects I've been part of, the client sees immediate speedup and performance increase," says Poder. Free-range Bay Area IT Architects in their natural habitat - OTN Architect Day - Redwood Shores, CA - Aug 30Bringing together architects from a broad...

This week in the Oracle Technology Network Architect Center: Read Marc Chanliau's new OTN article on how an Entitlements Server allows enterprises to externalize fine-grained authorization from an application’s logic. Register for Oracle Technology Network Architect Day at Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores, CA on Tuesday August 30. Listen in as SOA gurus Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes discuss how to deal with SOA foot draggers and the impact of cloud computing on SOA. Part 2 of a...

Fun with JRockit | René van Wijk Van Wijk looks at virtualizing WebLogic Server by using JRockitVE and at the experimental plug-in for JRockit Flight Recording. Couple of things you need to know about the User/Role API | Andre Correa Correa alerts you to two important User/Role API caveats. Agile Software versus Agile Software Development | Douwe Pieter van den Bos "Software build with SOA-tooling and related technologies is not per se Agile," say Van Den Bos. The Smart Grid's...