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- An Architecture for Highly Available Wide-Area Service Composition
- Service composition provides a flexible way to quickly enable new application functionalities in next generation networks. This paper focus on the scenario where next generation portal providers "Compose" the component services of other providers. Architecture has developed based on an overlay network of service clusters to provide failure-resilient composition of...
- Tags: Composition, University Of California, Service Composition, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Dependence Graphs for Verifications of Web Service Compositions With PEWS
- A web service is an autonomous software application or component accessible via Internet. Service composition is a promising idea underlying web services since it allows the definition and the implementation of new functionality by combining pre-existing services. PEWS Path Expressions for Web Services is an interface specification language that allows...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, PEWS, Service Composition, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2008-03-20
- An Access Control System for Web Service Compositions
- Service composition has emerged as a fundamental technique for developing Web applications. Multiple services, often from different organizations or trust domains, may be dynamically composed to satisfy a user's request. Access control in the presence of service compositions is a challenging security problem. This paper present an access control model...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Access Control, Service Composition
- White papers 2008-01-01
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- Blue Sparking (Mobile)
- A classical color composition background. Delight your mood and make you relax when using this theme.A product of MMMOOO Premium Service: 1. Premium class in quality & designing2. Customized service with product: You can order from us the same product with your name or brand on it3. Defined icons or...
- Tags: Phone, Theme, Mobile, Shanghai Jibiao Info Tech, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-09-23
- Twenty percent of SOA value from service reuse; where's the other 80%?
- It's all about compositionThanks for picking up on my mashup and BI hints! Services have differing levels of granularity depending on the IT function and business domain they serve. Services provide discreet value on their own but the real benefits of SOA come when services are mixed, matched, combined, and...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]
- Andrew, thanks for doing a real interviewThese days, when most bloggers just link to a PR wire story for their source, ZDNet surprises us with an actual interview. An interesting interview to boot! There is still hope for online journalism. Thanks Andrew.RE: AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the...
- Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, INTERNET, cloud computing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- The GridEcon Platform: A Business Scenario Testbed for Commercial Cloud Services
- This paper presents the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and, therefore, an environment for evaluating...
- Tags: Workflow Engine, Economics, Platform, Marketplace
- White papers 2009-06-28
- SAP & SaaS - some clarifications
- TechMarketView ran a piece today about SAP and its SaaS software as a service products/initiatives. When I read the article, I thought this couldn't be right. I was especially confused by this paragraph: SAP’s flagship mid-market SaaS offering, Business ByDesign, announced in September...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds
- Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., PaaS, TIBCO Silver, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Seven stages of SOA maturity: from silos to services
- Many of you who have visited this site over the years may have noticed somewhat of a bias toward small-scale SOA as the best way to get things rolling within the enterprise -- particularly if there is resistance or benign neglect on the part of management to new ways of...
- Tags: Business Process, SOA, Service, Chris Harding, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- SOA without service-enabled applications?
- SOA without service-enabled applications?True on the architecture partThere are definitely 2 schools of thought:SOA is a style, the SO part being applied to A where the scope of A is not addressed.SOA is an architecture, the scope of A being implicitly at the enterprise level.There are also those that agree...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Optimizing Utility in Cloud Computing Through Autonomic Workload Execution
- Cloud computing provides services to potentially numerous remote users with diverse requirements. Although predictable performance can be obtained through the provision of carefully delimited services, it is straightforward to identify applications in which a cloud might usefully host services that support the composition of more primitive analysis services or the...
- Tags: Data Analysis, IEEE, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-03-19
- 'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was
- Long the subject of countless articles, blogs, and seminars: Do IT folks "get" the business? How do we achieve "business-IT alignment"? Perhaps its time to put this tired argument to rest. IT folks not only "get" the business, they are the business. The business...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business, Fred Cummins, Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- SOA design patterns, explored in detail
- Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web Services. While no two SOA implementations are alike, Thomas Erl author of SOA Design...
- Tags: Podcast, Design Pattern, SOA, Thomas Erl, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Eighty-five paths to SOA success
- Prentice Hall just announced the release of Thomas Erl's latest work, SOA Design Patterns, the industry's first-ever catalog of design patterns for SOA and Service Orientation. Adoption of these proven patterns should help in addressing the quality and capabilities of SOA efforts. I had the pleasure of...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- SLA Requirement Generation and Implementation Algorithm Selection for Service Composition Based on QoS Reference Vector
- Under SOA, composite service is formed by aggregating multiple component services together in given workflow. One key criterion of this research is QoS composition. Most work on service composition focuses on the algorithms about how to compose services according to assumed service level agreement. This paper proposes to strengthen current...
- Tags: SLA, QoS
- White papers 2008-12-11
- Web 2.0 security? What a mash
- * Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka "mash-up") possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its user-provided content... A Web adapted to today's powerful machines, linking people together in world...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Codec, YouTube Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family today
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family todayAh...The Bauble Factory has been fired up again and is ready to blind the clueless into buying yet another brand new bauble to replace the not-so-shiny-anymore bauble.Who knows, maybe this time around they will have Invented the Subscription Service. Then we should...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., new iPod family, iPod family
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Extending WS-Agreement for Dynamic Negotiation of Service Level Agreements
- Services in commercial or scientific environments often need to be delivered at guaranteed service level. This becomes even more important, if composition of services is required. WS-Agreement is a proposed recommendation of the Open Grid Forum OGF defining a language and a protocol to create SLAs. As the current version...
- Tags: SLA, Specification, Negotiation, WS-Agreement, Service Level Management, Free Trade, It Operations, It service Management, Finance
- White papers 2008-08-29
- Creating Business Value Through Process Integration and Composition
- To move at the speed of business, your company has to leverage existing applications and processes quickly and easily. Laborious, hard-coded integration techniques don't provide the agility and reusability you need to support continuous innovation. Watch this RealTime with SAP Webcast to learn: ...
- Tags: SAP AG, Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-08-01
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