Secondly, knowledge of grid computing has reached a point where users are ready to differentiate between the grid types that can be utilised - from constrained cluster grids used for running a single application or set of services, to enterprise...
The problem is that the service-orientated approach can expose organisations to new risks that current security solutions, from firewalls to SSL, cannot mitigate. As companies look to use web services strategically across the enterprise, they will...
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...
These areas include not just finances and pressure on resources but the need to satisfy growing IT demands caused by trends such as service-oriented architectures (SOA), web 2.0 and software-as-a-service (SaaS) architectures, Rold said.