Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Podcast: IT Optimization - Part 1 Oracle ACE Director Basheer Khan and Oracle Enterprise Architects Alan Levine and Paul Silverstein discuss the business symptoms of unoptimized IT and how business stakeholders are sometimes unaware that there's a problem. (tags: oracle otn podcast enterprisearchitecture entarch optimization) My iPad Enterprise Rollout: 5 Surprises - CIO.com 350 iPads deployed, 650 more arriving by end of year: Florida State University CIO Rob Rennie is busy learning...

Andrejus Baranovskis: Migrating User Personalizations and Customizations in WebCenter Spaces Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovsk takes you step-by-step through the process. (tags: oracle otn oracleace enterprise2.0 webcenter)

What is Oracle Tuxedo? (Tuxedo Tidbits) (tags: ping.fm)

Todd Biske: Is an MBA good for an EA? "There are no shortage of tech-savvy people in the business, so simply being a technology expert is not going to get you as far as it did 20 years ago. I’ve seen enough headlines that say IT departments are shrinking, meaning that some of the technology knowledge needed is being provided by people outside of IT. I don’t think this trend is going to reverse itself, so those of us that want to make a career in the application of technology...

Running a enterprise on anything less than a peak-functioning IT infrastructure is like trying to run a v-8 engine on seven cylinders. The latest program in the ArchBeat Podcast kicks off a three-part series featuring a conversation on IT Optimization. Listen to Part 1 The panelists for this discussion are: Basheer Khan: Founder and CEO, Innowave Technology, Oracle ACE DirectorBlog | Twitter | LinkedIn | Oracle Mix | ACE Profile  Alan Levine: Senior Director, Enterprise...

I’m sure many within the community are aware of a recent dust-up over what appears to be blatant plagiarism. The guilty party has been outed, and his reputation will undoubtedly suffer for these offenses. But over the last couple of years I’ve encountered two cases of plagiarism of a different sort. In both cases, the offense turned out to be entirely innocent, the work of novice bloggers who wanted to share third-party information, but were simply unaware of how to properly...

SOA Today: To Agile or not Agile, that is the question (tags: ping.fm ACED) ORCLville: Oracle OpenWorld 2010 - What Looks Good To Me (tags: ping.fm oow10) New ADF Book: The Quick Start Guide to Fusion Development (Grant Ronald's Blog) (tags: ping.fm) Oracle Open World 2010 Focus on Data Integration (Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Weblog) (tags: ping.fm) Steven Pozarycki: Sizing Oracle Coherence Applications The last of  five posts in  Steven Pozarycki's list of best practices and...

Harry J Foxwell, PhD: The 9th Fallacy of Distributed Computing "if you haven't already frightened yourself examining the myriad cloud security issues, google for "cloud computing" with "jurisdiction" for some additional reading material. You'll find that, as with real estate, location is anything but irrelevant." -- Dr. Foxwell (tags: cloud) Harry J Foxwell, PhD: Is Your Head in the Clouds? Or is it Elsewhere? "For those who claim they want cloud-like data centers, do they really...

Hit the Schedule Builder Button! Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and EVP Product Development Thomas Kurian will deliver a "Java Strategy and Directions" keynote at JavaOne (JavaOne Conference Blog) The title pretty much covers it... (tags: oracle otn oow10 develop10 javaone10) Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Now Available (Oracle E-Business Suite Technology) "This release update pack (RUP) combines error corrections, statutory/regulatory updates, and functionality enhancements into...