Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Rethinking Information Architecture for the New World (Part 1) (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle) "CIO's of the traditional brick and mortar companies shouldn't necessarily start panicking and sounding the alarms bells when they see their data centers exploding with new and unstructured content. Instead, they should...walk over to the CEO's office to brainstorm on strategies and business models on how to harness and exploit the new information..." - Hamza Jahangir (tags: otn or...

Using Oracle VM on NetApp Storage - NetApp - The Virtualization Effect NetApp's Preetom Goswami discusses the synergy between Oracle VM and the storage virtualization provided by NetApp. (tags: oraclevm oracle otn virtualization netapp) IOUG Data Security 2009 Report Published Today (Security Inside Out) According to Roxana Bradescu, "The study found that companies made little headway in securing data over the past year. The economic downturn kept many companies from making...

In the latest OTN Arch2Arch Podcast program, Enterprise Architects Bob Covington and Hamza Jahangir discuss the creation and mission of the Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework and its relation to Zachman, TOGAF, and other EA frameworks. Listen to Part 1 Part two will be available next week, so stay tuned.  Connect with the Panelists Bob CovingtonOracle MixLinkedIn Hamza JahangirOracle MixLinkedInTwitter - Hamza is also co-author of Applied Oracle Security: Developing...

E20 Evolved Billy Cripe's slide presentation on how you can stop being afraid of Web 2.0 and start to love the infoglut. (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 enterprisearchitecture) Triangle Circle Square: Thinking differently about application design "So what about your application?" asks Scott Wesley. "Are there points of entry that result in a large percentage of use? Is there a way to simplify the entry of key units of data? To go even more granular, are there little smarts you can...

When: Monday, October 12, 2009, 4:30 pm Where: Moscone West, 3rd Floor, Overlook III (adjacent to the OTN Lounge) Each year IT professionals from around the world are drawn to Oracle OpenWorld by the opportunity to gain insight and expertise from leaders in the Oracle community.  This year OTN is hosting an Enterprise Architect Meet-Up as a way of acknowledging the unique role Enterprise Architects play in that community. This special event is your chance to talk shop, swap...

Java / Oracle SOA blog: Deploy Soa Suite 11g composite applications with Ant scripts Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond illustrates how to deploy composite applications in Oracle SOA Suite 11g using Ant scripts. (tags: sca 11g jdeveloper oracle oracleace otn soa) The top 10 enterprise architecture blunders - SD Times: Software Development News SD Times journalist Alex Handy reports that "lack of people skills and social connection" are characteristics of ineffective enterprise architects, as...

White Paper: Maximizing SOA Returns with Enterprise Architecture The lack of an enterprise view for services has limited the returns for SOA. For many, application silos have been replaced with service silos, with each application development team and/or each LOB developing its own set of services. There is a better way. (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture soa entarch) William Vambenepe — The future (2006 version), has arrived The goods news, according to William Vambenepe, is...

Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: "What is the point of all this?" Josh Bregman from the Oracle Fusion Middleware Architecture Group offers a short list of use cases that require message level security. (tags: oracle otn security Middleware)

Oracle OpenWorld Guide: Focus On Application Grid Products: WebLogic Server, Coherence, Tuxedo, JRockit , and more (#oow09) Your guide to dozens of sessions and other OpenWorld activities covering Application Grid Products, including WebLogic Server, Coherence, Tuxedo, JRockit , middleware Virtualization, and middleware Enterprise Manager. (tags: otn oracle virtualization grid weblogic coherence openworld oow09) Linux and Virtualization Content at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 (PDF) #oow09 This...