middleware

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 465 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

Enumeration of PaaS container types

What do we need from an on-demand application platform for enterprise software? Here is a proposed classification of container types on which you can...

0 replies - 543 views - 11/10/09 by vambenepe in News

Look Ma, no hypervisor!

Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its...

0 replies - 486 views - 09/29/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API project) to abstract and access application-level...

0 replies - 678 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

REST-*: good specs, bad branding?

In an earlier post, I argued for standardization of some basic REST-inspired mechanisms for the narrow goal of supporting control interfaces for different...

0 replies - 1159 views - 09/18/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on VMWare, SpringSource and PaaS

I am late to the party for  commenting on the upstream and downstream acquisitions involving SpringSource. I was away on vacations, but Rod Johnson obviously...

0 replies - 910 views - 08/27/09 by vambenepe in News

A small step for SCA, a giant leap for BSM

In a very short post, Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components. Here is...

0 replies - 712 views - 07/27/09 by vambenepe in News

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Released

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, which introduces new capabilities in Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle WebCenter Suite,...

0 replies - 2216 views - 07/06/09 by Shay Shmeltzer in Announcements

IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware

You can call it a “Cloud operating system”, an “adaptive infrastructure framework” or simply “IT management middleware” (my vote) as you prefer....

0 replies - 421 views - 05/22/09 by vambenepe in News

William Vambenepe on SpringSource acquiring Hyperic

SpringSource’s Rod Johnson tells us today that his company just bought Hyperic. The press release is a bit more specific, announcing that SpringSource...

0 replies - 757 views - 05/05/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1116 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements

Developer Panel - Key Questions in Middleware

In this virtual panel, recorded at the recent JBoss Virtual Experience, software engineers from the JBoss division at Red Hat address several key questions...

6 replies - 5268 views - 04/15/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos