The evolution of software architecture is contributing to increasing energy consumption.

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...

on Thursday its prediction that such architectures will become the dominant designs for networked business systems by 2006. And analysts at Gartner are predicting that service-oriented architectures ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Service-oriented data transmission operates on an “on-demand” basis—a sender only transmits data when at least one receiver in the network needs this data, avoiding unnecessary data loading on the ...

An interview with IBMers Robert Duffner, Doug Wilson, and Fernando Salazar on SOA and its relevance to the IBM Workplace product family: How do you think SOA is going to shape the future of the ...

This analyst report from Macehiter Ward-Dutton explores the various perspectives tied up with the question of what constitutes an IT service and shows how to avoid the risks of missing the real point ...

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The IT industry is notorious for pushing the next big thing, and for several years now the primary object of its hype has been SOA, or “service-oriented architecture.” The idea behind this concept is ...

Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...