Forrester principal analyst Peter O'Neill said the problem could well be accelerated by the adoption of emerging technologies such as service-oriented architectures, in which applications are made more interdependent, and virtualisation, where it...
As companies look to use web services strategically across the enterprise, they will find that enterprise-wide identity and access management coupled with robust security policy administration and enforcement are essential precursors to building...
The advent of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) should be an absolute godsend for public sector IT, where the need to employ 'joined up' services across organisations mirrors the need to apply processes across different parts of the value chain...
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are the subject de jour with IT vendors, who have been using the term as if the concept has been totally understood by the buying audience and is well along the way to general implementation.
These include business process outsourcing; software as a service (SaaS); low-cost development environments, such as China and India, combined with modular architectures and service-oriented architectures; the emergence of third-party software...
Grid is dependent on virtualisation of the environment - of the network, storage, databases, hardware and services - and this is happening due to the move towards open standards and the acceptance of web services and service oriented architectures...