XML News Desk

The Cloud Comes This Week to San Jose

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST

A round-up of the many themes and topics of interest to infrastructure architects, developers and IT managers featuring at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference is expecting a record turnout of senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, communications and networking specialists, and directors of infrastructure.

FreedomOSS Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, Nov. 19-21, San Jose, CA

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Open Source technology provider FreedomOSS named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

RightScale to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EST

Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken’s two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover:

Intel to Debut New Version of XML Software Suite at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

Intel has just released Intel XML Software Suite 1.2. This latest release helps maximize XML performance, while minimizing the effort for any Enterprise, SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 based applications. Intel XML Software Suite 1.2 optimizes XML application performance, takes full advantage of Intel Architecture, lowers total cost of ownership and allows developers to quickly and easily incorporate technologies for a faster time to market. This updated Intel XML Software Suite includes support for Intel Core i7 processors, StAX API for Java, and increased compatibility with IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic. This new version is also engineered to automatically take advantage of the new Intel Core i7 SSE4.2 processor instructions to further boost XML processing performance.

Intel Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Open Source technology provider Intel named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. Intel SOA Products division is part of Intel's Software and Solutions Group, a worldwide Intel organization with a strategic focus on enabling technologies. The SOA Products division delivers innovative platform technologies that are optimized for speed and performance through Intel's multi-core processors and servers. Learn more: http://www.intel.com/software/soae.

Cloud for Business Agility

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:31:00 EST

The events of the second half of 2008, where established financial institutions vanished overnight, have sent ripples through the entire fabric of the world’s economy. This means that nimble new competitors can seize both global and regional market opportunities that previously have been taken for granted by the established multinationals. Unfortunately, the traditional IT infrastructure, responsible for facilitating changes demanded by the business, often falls short of being able to do just that. Cloud Computing can help companies achieve their process changes faster – to gain greater speed to revenue, more cost effective operations, and bring more agility and scale.

DataServices World 2008 West: SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing - The New Frontier for Data Services

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:35:00 EST

Data services, contends Rob Steward, Vice President of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies, are critical to the predominant and emerging architectures we're embracing for building new systems. "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a standard enterprise architecture and Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) is enabling organizations to pull together data from multiple sources and services," notes Steward, who will be presenting in the Keynote Hall at The Fairmont Hotel on November 20, 2008. "Cloud computing is an architecture that provides high-performance computing, massive data storage and scalability at commodity pricing," he adds.

DataServices World 2008 West: IBM's Malaika to Present on SOA, WOA, Cloud and XML Data

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:20:00 EST

XML end-to-end architectures are a natural follow-on to SOA: XML for the user interface, XML for data interchange, and XML for storage. Universal Services are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, that expose stored XML as Web service operations.

DataServices World 2008 West: m2mi CEO Geoff Brown to Reveal the Key to Scalable Data Services

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:10:00 EST

How can security standards such as Open Authorization and Semantics be used to bind Cloud-based services to form a robust trust model? The answer to this question will be given by Geoff Brown, Founder & CEO of m2mi Corporation, in a breakout session at DataServices World 2008 West in San Jose, CA. Brown will focus on the use case of GlobalLockBox.com, one of the most comprehensive cloud-based applications available today - spanning the Apple iPhone through to the desktop and finally large scale servers.

DataServices World 2008 West: Where Are Data Services Headed?

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

DataServices World 2008 West, being held November 20 in San Jose, California, at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo, has a lineup of speakers headlined by Dr Mike Carey, one of the 50 Most Influential Computer Scientists in the world. The lineup also includes experts from Adobe, Salesforce, Yahoo!, IBM, m2mi, and DataDirect Technologies. "DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing," says Ken North, DataServices World 2008 West Conference Chair.

DataServices World 2008 West: Salesforce's Peter Coffee to Run Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:50:00 EST

In this session, a panel of instructors will conduct a Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop. The panel of experts will present a hands-on session focusing on data quality, data services and data access issues, problems and solutions. The workshop is an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the audience using walk throughs, examples, and a question and answer (Q&A) session. The operative principles are interactivity and dialogue.

XML Heaven or XML Hell?

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST

"With proper markup/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML…" So begins the introduction to one of the current crop of open source Web application frameworks on its Web site. Sadly this seems to be a common sentiment within the Java framework development community; the phrase "XML Hell" is thrown around with the same vehemence once reserved for the "DLL Hell" so characteristic of early versions of Microsoft Windows.

DataServices World 2008 West: Adobe's Principal Scientist to Present on Declarative Data Management for SOA and Web

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:50:00 EST

"Data services and rich Internet applications are improving the usability and efficiency of browser-based applications," says Jeff Vroom, Principal Scientist as Adobe and one of the distinguished speakers at DataServices World 2008 West in San Jose, California, on November 20 at The Fairmont Hotel.

DataServices World 2008 West: Yahoo! Director of Software Architecture on Data Processing in the Cloud

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:25:00 EST

Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, marting, and on occasion warehousing. In an upcoming breakout session at DataServices World 2008 West, being held in November conjunction with the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo in San Jose, California, Parand Darugar - Director of Software Architecture, Yahoo! - will be describing the programming model, capabilities, common patterns, and best-practices for Hadoop deployment and usage.

DataServices World 2008 West: Ken North to Present on The Shape of IT to Come

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:45:00 EST

Ken North will be giving a breakout session at SYS-CON's upcoming DataServices World 2008 West in which he will cover everything from software-as-a-service, rich Internet applications, and information servers, to cloud computing, data services and integration services. He will endeavor to explain the key concepts and issues that are currently shaping the direction of the computing and software industry, including the concept of "data services" - the multiple issues around architecture and technology solutions for accessing, integrating and processing data from multiple sources while guaranteeing security and scalability.

Data Access and Data Services for Grid, Cloud, SOA and WOA Computing

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

The DataServices World conference in Silicon Valley provides an opportunity on November 20, 2008 to put data services under a microscope. The conference is co-located with Cloud Computing Expo, SOAWorld and Virtualization Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San, Jose, California. The emergence of XML-based web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) accelerated a trend towards distributed computing and layered software. The adoption of component-based programming and layered software increased with adoption of client-server and multi-tier architecture for enterprise applications. Since grid computing, web-oriented architecture (WOA) and cloud computing gained traction, a design that moves data access logic into a separate data services layer has become critical for performance and scalability.

SOA Product Review: Intel XML Software Suite 1.1

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT

The one thing that unifies the distributed computing style known as SOA, in most of its manifestations, is self-describing data via the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The benefits of XML over opaque message formats in data interchange are well established. No matter if your focus is SOAP, REST, POX, or syndication with RSS or ATOM, your applications will revolve around XML processing.

The Altova MissionKit for Microsoft .NET Developers

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:48:00 EDT

Altova (http://www.altova.com), developers of XMLSpy, an industry leading XML editor, offers Microsoft .NET developers, software architects, and IT pros an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools in the Altova MissionKit. The suite of software tools works with Microsoft Visual Studio; supports the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format in 2007 Microsoft Office documents; and provides functionality for querying, designing, and editing data across the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access platforms. Additionally, the Altova MissionKit gives Microsoft .NET Framework-based developers access to a powerful suite of feature-rich software tools at a substantial cost savings. For a live demo of the features available in the MissionKit visit Altova at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC), Booth #711.

Intel Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:00:00 EDT

Intel, a leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel XML Software Products help enhance productivity of XML and SOA application development by providing comprehensive, high performance XML processing libraries that are easy to use and easy to integrate into the existing SOA and XML environments.

QuantumXML Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World and Virtualization Conference & Expo

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:30:00 EDT

Can high-performance XML be sexy? QuantumXML, the world’s fastest XML software, speeds through typical SOA transactions 10x to 100x faster than any other existing technology. You’re right, that doesn’t sound sexy. But, think of your Data Center running at a fraction of its current power and cooling costs. Imagine the possibilities; surplus processing power, a healthy bump up in the bottom line, and doing your part to save the environment. Sounding more attractive? Kick it up another notch by monetizing your web services. Visit us at the 2008 SOA World Conference and take our test drive challenge. www.quantumxml.com.

AJAX World Expo to Take Place Monday Through Wednesday in San Jose, CA

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:20:00 EDT

On Monday October 20 in San Jose, California, the top Rich Internet Applications event of the Fall opens its doors: the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, with top industry keynotes from Microsoft's Silverlight supremo Scott Guthrie and Adobe's Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Lynch, headlining a lineup of speakers that includes some of the finest front end engineers, UI experts, user experience specialists, and software industry innovators anywhere in the world.

RIA Conference Keynotes: Adobe & Microsoft

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging, effective user experiences across operating systems and browsers.

SOA World Expo - Web Services Using Apache CXF

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world. With the maturity of the specifications, Web Service technology, with its power of interoperability, is now the major enabling technology of SOA, which is being adopted by more and more enterprises to build their application integration infrastructure.

IBM Threatens To Drop Out of Standards Bodies That Don’t Meet Its Standards

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:00:00 EDT

In a snit that Microsoft was able to push its OOXML file format through to ISO standardization, IBM, a big backer of the OOXML-opposing ODF file format, has instituted a new corporate policy that suggests it will pull out of standards bodies whose rules don’t conform to what it thinks their process, membership and IP policies should be. It said it was going to embark on a review of its memberships and is encouraging other companies to adopt similar principles.

MuleSource Integrates Intel XML Software Suite in SOA Solution

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:30:00 EDT

MuleSource announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to deliver a new offering that provides off-the-shelf integration between Mule and the Intel XML Software Suite. Called Mule Xpack for Intel XML Software Suite -- the new offering is a set of instructions and Mule extensions that improve XML processing performance for SOA deployments.

SOA with Document-Centric XML Processing

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:00:00 EDT

This article introduces the concept of document-centric XML processing and a set of emerging document-centric capabilities such as cutting, splitting, and splicing documents at the byte level. It also explains how it solves one of the most fundamental technical issues hampering enterprise SOA and XML application development: the redundant serialization and de-serialization of object-oriented XML processing models such as DOM.

Building Blocks of SOA Governance

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:00:00 EDT

SOA initiatives have gathered momentum in the past year with more enterprises either implementing SOA or considering implementing in the near future. The implementations we studied reveal that one of the critical challenges in SOA is designing an effective governance mechanism. A good understanding of governance concepts is essential to implementing and operating a successful SOA. Reliable governance for SOA leads to a manifold increase in an enterprise's ability to achieve the goal of business agility through SOA.

From Enterprise to Cloud, Virtualization Today on SYS-CON.TV

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:00:00 EDT

Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who joined me in the 4th Floor Reuters TV Studio overlooking Times Square in New York City for a special SYS-CON.TV "Virtualization Power Panel."

EDI to XML: A Practical Approach

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:45:00 EDT

While EDI transactions account for most worldwide commercial activity, XML-based alternatives are beginning to gain traction. According to Forrester Research, stateful XML, stateless XML, and even flat file exchanges are all projected to grow at a faster rate than EDI over the next few years. The firm predicts stateful XML transactions will be required for a growing number of B2B process-oriented transactions and are projected to exceed the growth of EDI transactions over the next five years.

SOA World Expo - Top SOA Providers to Compete for "Best of Show Awards"

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:00:00 EDT

The most important business benefit that service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide is the ability to respond swiftly to change - thus helping to "future-proof" a company's IT investments. On November 19-21, in the San Jose Fairmont Hotel, California, at SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West Sponsors and Exhibitors will be viewed as the leading companies driving the future of Enterprise IT and delegates will have the opportunity to cast their vote for their favorite SOA technology providers.

ESB Testing Strategies with Mule

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:30:00 EDT

To be able to do anything useful, an ESB must be configured with all sorts of parameters, from endpoint connection URIs to message transformation scripts to content-based routing definitions. Moreover, ESBs like Mule can host custom components, which will process messages and perform user-specific actions on them.

OOXML Standardization Naysayers Apparently Throw in the Towel

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:40:00 EDT

Representatives of the state IT organizations of Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela, three of the four countries that protested ISO’s standardization of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, have apparently thrown in the towel on taking their appeal any further. India, the fourth protester, has not been heard from.

Appeals Denied, OOXML Inches Toward Apotheosis

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

ISO said Friday that the appeals made by Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela protesting the standardization of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) file format hadn’t gone anywhere – it was unclear whether any of them had any standing anyway – but since they “failed to garner sufficient support” from the ISO/IEC technical committees, as ISO put it – the standards body is going to go ahead and publish OOXML as an ISO/IEC International Standard, ISO/IEC DIS 29500 – or it will provided another, effective appeal isn’t registered.

i-Technology Viewpoint: The Performance Woe of Binary XML

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:40:00 EDT

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes five to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store.

Vordel 5.1 Puts Policy Control at the Heart of XML Networks

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Vordel unveiled version 5.1 of its XML network infrastructure products, to accelerate, manage and protect XML applications. Vordel 5.1 addresses the need for lifecycle management of policy across the SOA. By combining the central management of SOA policies with distributed enforcement across a network of XML gateways, organizations generate increased returns on IT architecture and maximize their SOA investments.

How to Enable High Speed Parsing of Very Large XML Files

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT

As the number of XML files in enterprise organizations significantly increases, architects, application developers, and data integration specialists must deal simultaneously with the growing number of XML formatted messages on the network as well as their rapidly expanding file sizes. While XML has become the 'de facto' standard for transferring data from one step to the next in a business process or between applications, there are more and more occasions when files are easily exceeding 50-100MB in size, causing performance slow downs and memory overloads.

DataDirect Technologies Introduces the DataDirect Data Integration Suite

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EDT

DataDirect and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation announced the availability of the DataDirect Data Integration Suite. The new offering combines DataDirect Technologies' existing XML-based technologies in one package with a single, simple installation. Software developers now have the combined power of the DataDirect XQuery, DataDirect XML Converters (Java and .NET) and Stylus Studio products to meet their immediate data transformation and aggregation needs.

Minimize XML Performance Challenges and Boost Productivity

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Today's applications rely on data feeds from many sources, using technologies that are based on the use of XML. XML data descriptions can be complex often creating performance and scalability challenges for the enterprises. Efficient XML processing is the cornerstone of almost every Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment, regardless of the language or data center environment.

TX Text Control With Office Open XML (DOCX) Support

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EDT

TX Text Control has been setting the standard in the software component industry for more than seventeen years. Today, The Imaging Source - the manufacturer of these word processing components - has just announced version 14.0 with many improvements and much technical innovation. Demand from the component's customer base to add support for MS Word standard Office Open XML (DOCX) has been strong.

Free Guest Passes for the SOA World Conference & Expo in New York City

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON's upcoming '3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo' faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods), Alan Chhabra (Egenera), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Andrew Conte (APC), Andy Astor (EnterpriseDB), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Bill O'Conell (IBM), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Bob Quinn (3Leaf Systems), Brian Martin (IBM), Carlo Innocenti Ph.D. (DataDirect Technologies), Chris Shayan (Ashna Samane), Chris Wiborg (Cisco), David Kleidermacher (Green Hills Software), Doc D'Errico (EMC Corporation), Donato Buccella (Certeon), Dror Gill (Ceedo), Etay Bogner (Neocleus), George Pradel (Vizioncore), Geva Perry (GigaSpaces), Gordon Hunt (Real-Time Innovations), Gregory Brail (Sonoa Systems), Greg Lyon (Egenera), Harry Petty (Brocade), Hezi Moore (Reflex Security), Hubert Yoshida (Hitachi Data Systems), Ian Thain (Sybase), Jacek Kruszelnicki (Numatica Corporation), Jeremy Geelan (SYS-CON Media), Jerry Melnick (Marathon Technologies), Joe McKendrick (WebServices.org), Johan Nordin (Software AG), John Goodson (DataDirect), John Senor (iWay Software), JP Morgenthal (Avorcor), Julian Weinstock (Desktone), Keith Swenson (Fujitsu), Ken North (Computing, LLC), Kenon Owens (VMware), Kevin Epstein (Scalent Systems), Koen Aers (Red Hat/JBoss), Kurt Daniel (Parallels), Kurt Ziegler (SIMtone), Kyle Gabhart (Web Age Solutions), Mark Davydov Ph.D. (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Mark Hapner (Sun Microsystems), Mark Milligan (VirtualLogix), Matt George (Fidelity Investments), Michael CareyPh.D. (BEA Systems), Michael Gorman (Whitemarsh Information Systems), Mike Pizzo (Microsoft), Miko Matsumura (Software AG), Nikita Ogievetsky (Morgan Stanley), Parviz Peiravi (Intel), Paul Lipton (CA), Paul Vasquez (VMware), Peter Manca (Egenera), Phil Morris (Sun Microsystems), Pierre Fricke (Red Hat / JBoss), Ravi Gururaj (VMLogix), Rich Lechner (IBM), Rich Schreiber (Nastel Technologies), Richard Mark Soley (OMG), Rick German (Stoneware), Robert Steward (DataDirect), Ron Williams (Tivoli Software), Sean Derrington (Symantec), Shai Fultheim (ScaleMP), Simon Crosby (Citrix), Stefanos Damianakis (Netrics), Stephen Herrod (VMware), Stephen Pollack (PlateSpin), Tom Bishop (BMC Software), Ursula Sinkewicz (Fidelity Investments), Victoria Livschitz (Grid Dynamics), Yakov Fain (Farata Systems), Zoran Cakeljic (Virtual Iron).