Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

The Start-Up of You | Thomas Friedman - NYTimes.com "Indeed, what is most striking when you talk to employers today is how many of them have used the pressure of the recession to become even more productive by deploying more automation technologies, software, outsourcing, robotics — anything they can use to make better products with reduced head count and health care and pension liabilities," says Friedman. "That is not going to change." Coming to Terms with...

Facebook's Database Architecture: Think ExaData; Exalogic? | Ron Batra Batra asks: "Would a few Oracle ExaData boxes clustered together by Infiniband and RAC take Facebook to a newer technology level?" PODCAST: Embracing EA and TOGAF® aids companies in improving innovation, market response and governance | The Open Group A podcast panel discussion on how to leverage advanced concepts in TOGAF® for business benefits... Demo: How to Harvest Run-time Metrics Into Oracle Enterprise...

In his post, EA Fundamentalism, on The Open Group's blog, Stuart Boardman offers this observation: [I]n the EA blogosphere at the moment (e.g. the EA group on LinkedIn) every discussion seems to deteriorate into debate about what the proper definition of EA is (guess how many different "right answers" there are) or which of TOGAF or Zachman or <insert your favourite framework here> is the (only) correct framework or why all of them are totally wrong, or worse still, what the...

Manufacturing: An Introduction: JDE - VCP Integration | Oracle E-Business Suite Communities Blog July 27, 8am PT / 11 am ET. This one-hour session is recommended for technical and functional users who would be willing to use and Integrate JDE with Oracle VCP Products. How to work with Technical People | Orthogonal 3 Developers are many things, but most importantly they a problem solvers. SaaS integration - making the ERP mistakes on a bigger scale | Steve JonesJones says: "One...

This week in the Oracle Technology Network Architect Center... Virtual Developer Day: SOA - This series of virtual events includes live Oracle SOA Suite presentations and demonstrations delivered by Oracle product and technology experts, along with a moderated hands-on lab where you can get in on the act -- without having to get through airport security. Events in this series are scheduled to suit your time zone and location. Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise...

Here's what you'll find in this week's update of the Oracle Technology Network Architect Center... Architects are busy people! Even with preparation for last week's Kscope 2011 in Long Beach, CA, Oracle ACE Director Guido Schmutz managed to crank out a new article, Event-Driven SOA: Events Meet Services. It's Guido's first for OTN, and he's already at work with fellow ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen on a new series of articles. In this week's update you'll also find...