Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Gartner: You want cloud? You need SOA first | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com "SOA is evolving into the underlying enabler for private clouds, to the point where they almost can be considered one in the same. SOA has often been a tough sell. The good news is that the business readily grasps — and even likes — the idea of private and public clouds as a way to better organize and manage computing resources." - Joe McKendrick (tags: cloudcomputing soa gartner)

Forty-eight hours from now I'll be several miles above and several hundred miles west of my current location, on my way to San Francisco and Oracle OpenWorld 2009. This will be my second OOW. Last year I was a newbie not only to the event but to Oracle itself, having officially joined the OTN team the previous June after the BEA acquisition. What was fantastic then, and what I'm very much looking forward to this year, is the opportunity to meet face-to-face with people that I...

The ORACLE-BASE Blog - People, guns and headache pills… "I’m sitting at Birmingham airport about to embark on my trip to OOW 2009. I’m always a bit nervous before OOW. It’s so big and so daunting. I know I’m going to enjoy it, but the prospect seems a little overwhelming…" - Oracle ACE Director Tim Hall (tags: oracle otn travel oow09) FeuerThoughts: Software Developers as Gods "Can you imagine telling a god that it has to test its creation before we are expected to live in it?...

Tips for your initial SOA project Launching a new SOA project using Oracle middleware? Oracle ACE Director Hajo Normann points out some critical considerations. (tags: oracle otn oracleace Middleware soa enterprisearchitecture) SOA Suite 11g Set Up on Solaris (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle) Pat Shepherd shares his recipe for setting up Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle Service Bus on Solaris. (tags: otn oracle soa solaris enterprisearchitecture) Oracle Security Worst Practices Pete...

Parts one and two of my interview with Hamza Jahangir and Bob Covington are now available.  Hamza and Bob are part of the team behind the development of the Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework (OEAF). In the just-released second and final segment of the interview Hamza and Bob talk about what they see as the biggest obstacles to the implementation of any enterprise architecture framework, and voice their opinions on the perception that Enterprise Architecture kills...

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...