Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

William Vambenepe: Generalizing the Cloud vs. SOA Governance debate To define victory in the Cloud vs SOA Governance debate, William Vambenepe says, "We need to answer this seemingly simple question: in what ways is the relationship between a VM and its hypervisor different from the relationship between two communicating applications?" (tags: oracle otn soa soagovernance cloud grid virtualiztion) Joe McKendrick: Yes, we still need design-time governance in the cloud ZDNET blogger...

Vince Casarez: What is Oracle WebCenter? (Part 2) "A critical part of the software infrastructure for Business Applications is that it must make it easy for users to get the information they need and to work with others to make the necessary changes to business applications and processes." -- Vince Casarez (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 enterprisearchitecture) Hamza Jahangir: Rethinking Information Architecture for the New World (Part 4) Hamza Jahangir continues his series of...

Mariano Benitez: The Oracle BPM Directory Explained Mariano Benitez provides an overview of the Oracle BPM Directory, covering the basic concepts behind how it is used by BPM Applications. The information is based on Oracle BPM 10gR3, but can also apply to Oracle BPM 6.0. (tags: oracle otn soa bpm)

Clemens Utschig-Utschig: SOA Suite 11g - api tricks part 3 - composite mode / state Clemens Utschig-Utschig shares the explanation he provided to a colleague about how to retrieve the state of a composite. (tags: otn oracle soa compositeapplications) BI Today More than Just a Big Fat Report Campus Technology editor Mary Grush interviews Oracle's Curtiss Barnes on business intelligence technology in higher education. (tags: oracle businessintelligence obiee)

Part 2 of Arch2Arch’s year-in-review program is now available.  Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 The panel for this 3-part series includes: Basheer Khan: Founder and CEO, Innowave Technology; Oracle ACE DirectorBlog | LinkedIn | Twitter | Oracle Mix Mark Simpson: SOA Practice Director, Griffiths Waite; Oracle ACE DirectorBlog | LinkedIn| Twitter | Oracle Mix Mans Bhuller: Senior Director,  Enterprise Solutions Group, Oracle  Blog | LinkedIn | Oracle Mix David Chappell: Vice...

Todd Biske: Governance Needs for Cloud Services It is true that if you’re leveraging an external provider, you don’t have any need to govern the development practices. You do, however, still need to govern: The processes that led to the decision of what provider to use; The processes that define the service contract between you and the provider, both the functional interface and the non-functional aspects; The processes executed when you add additional consumers at your...

Vince Casarez: What is Oracle WebCenter? (Part 1) Vince Casarez kicks sets the stage for a new series on Oracle Web Center with some background on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. (tags: otn oracle enterprise2.0 fusionmiddleware soa) Getting to Modern | Oracle Magazine Cover Feature Journalist David Baum offers snapshots on Enterprise Architecture as implemented at three very different organizations: Deutsche Leasing AG, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs,...

Dion Hinchcliffe: Fixing IT in the cloud computing era "Most would agree that something needs to change, and the cloud might actually be the first compelling way out of a long-standing conundrum: How can we connect information technology directly to the business in a much more effective and less failure-prone way than we do now?" -- Dion Hinchcliffe (tags: cloud it cloudcomputing enterprise computing enterprise2.0 hinchcliffe) IT Architecture as Taught by Monty Python | SOA World...

Data scaling at Shopzilla volumes | Shopzilla Tech Blog "Like any large scale web site, Shopzilla suffers from the same dilemma – how to scale large amounts of data, and do it fast. There are many different ways of doing this floating around the Internet nowadays. Cassandra, memcached, Hadoop, Oracle Coherence, etc. We chose the Oracle Coherence route at Shopzilla." -- Rob Roland (tags: dataintegration oracle coherence) I am an Architect | Shopzilla Tech Blog Shopzilla's Tim...