Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Rittman Mead Consulting: Realtime Data Warehouses Rittman Mead Consulting's Peter Scott with a preview of his Real Time Data Warehousing talk at Collaborate 10. (tags: oracle otn rittmanmead collaborate2010 datawarehousing) Arun Gupta: Java EE 6, GlassFish, NetBeans, Eclipse, OSGi at Über Conf: Jun 14-17, Denver "Über Conf is a conference by No Fluff Just Stuff gang and plans to blow the minds of attendees with over 100 in-depth sessions (90 minutes each) from over 40 world class...

  The latest OTN Arch2Arch podcast is Part 1 of a three-part series featuring a discussion of a broad range of SOA  issues with three members of the small army of contributors to The Red Room Blog, now part of the OJam.biz site, the Australia-New Zealand outpost of the global Oracle community. The panelists for this program are: Sean Boiling - Sales Consulting Manager for Oracle Fusion MiddlewareLinkedIn | Twitter | Blog Richard Ward - SOA Channel Development Manager at OracleLin...

James McGovern: Enterprise Architecture and Social CRM "With a few exceptions, the vast majority of enterprise architects I know spend an awful lot of time focused on internal issues whether it is rationalization, the cloud, storage governance, data center consolidation, creation of reference architectures, portfolio management and other considerations that aren’t even visible to customers. One should ask whether IT can be truly successful if we are busy listening to the...

Dean Halbeisen: Best Practices for Network Backup (Sun StorageTek) Dean Halbeisen's white paper describes the Oracle reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup software. (tags: entarch oracle otn sun enterprisearchitecture storagetek)

@fteter: Let's Talk iPad "How long it will be before some cutting-edge enterprise architect includes the iPad in the technology layer of his or her future-state EA?" (tags: oracle otn oracleace ipad enterprisearchitecture) Vijay Tatkar: Using Oracle Solaris Studio to Develop Optimized Applications for Intel Vijay Tatkar gives it up in this review/preview of Mike Mulkey's new white paper on Open Solaris. (tags: sun solaris oracle intel xeon) Geertjan's Blog: Climate Monitoring in Denmark...

Jeff Victor: Solaris Virtualization Book Jeff Victor with an update on the status of the book, "Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials." (tags: sun solaris virtualization) Mitch Denny: Architecture vs. Design It's an old post but it still resonates: "In the consumer electronics business, some people are actually hired to go through a system and remove components until it stops working – they do this to remove the cost before they go into mass production. We need more...

Jason Williamson: Oracle Releases New Mainframe Re-Hosting in Oracle Tuxedo 11g Jason Williamson's update on new features in the latest release of Oracle Tuxedo 11g. (tags: otn oracle entarch) Jeanne Waldman: Using Oracle ADF Data Visualization Tools (DVT) Line Graphs to Display Weather Information Jeanne Waldman illustrates the nuts and bolts of modifications she made to a a simple JDeveloper Fusion application that retrieves weather data. I have a simple JDeveloper Fusion...

All three segments of my conversation with Oracle ACE Director Hajo Normann, SOA author Jeff Davies, and enterprise architect Pat Shepherd are now available. This conversation was recorded on March 9, 2010, and covered a lot of territory, from the lingering fear of SOA among many in IT, to the misinformation behind that fear, to a discussion of the future of enterprise architecture. Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 If you’d like to engage any of the panelists...

Andy Mulholland: Rethinking the narrow and deep expertise model "We increasingly realise that we have to read requirements in a more open way to decide what techniques can be used, what business experience can be added, etc, so the whole idea of encouraging ‘cross’ discipline understanding seems to look increasingly necessary as we look at how technology touches every part of business, and/or any other aspect of life. It is time to rethink the narrow and deep expertise model...