Cloud Conversations

March 9, 2013 Leave a comment

Recorded live at OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles in October 2012, these programs in the OTN ArchBeat podcast represent the Q&A between the audience and the experts panel assembled for the event, which included speakers from the day’s technical sessions.

  • Listen to Part 1: Dude, What’s My Role?
    Members of the Architect Day panel respond to an audience question about what happens to traditional IT roles in a cloud environment.
  • Listen to Part 2: Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
    The panel offers advice and examples in response to an audience question about dealing with mission-critical applications.
  • Listen to Part 3: All Clouds Are Not Equal
    The panel responds to a challenging question about cloud strategy with a discussion of enterprise-grade cloud services.
  • Listen to Part 4: Cloud Security and Auditing
    The last segment in the series is short discussion in response to an audience question about auditing and security in the cloud.

A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Adoption
For enterprises that seek to transform their IT capabilities and avoid disruption in the process, a structured, pragmatic approach to Cloud computing is required. You’ll find one in this practitioner guide, part of the IT Strategies from Oracle library. Read it.

Cloud Foundation
This reference architecture document from the IT Strategies from Oracle library provides architectural principles, standards, concepts, and a conceptual view for Cloud architecture. Read it.

Cloud Infrastructure
Also from the IT Strategies from Oracle library, this reference architecture document focuses on cloud computing from a provider view, covering the capabilities for public and private Clouds, and providing key architecture views to jumpstart a Cloud architecture initiative. Read it.

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“Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? By Bruce Tierney

March 8, 2013 Leave a comment

The short answer is “yes”. Connecting on-premise and cloud applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud integration touch points.

At the recent Gartner AADI conference, 230 attendees filled up the Oracle session to get a more comprehensive answer to this question. During the session, titled “Simplifying Integration – The Cloud & Mobile Pre-requisite”, Oracle’s Tim Hall described cloud connectivity and then, equally importantly, the other essential and sometimes overlooked aspects of integration required to ensure a long term application and service integration strategy. To understand the challenges and opportunities faced by cloud integration, the session started off with a slide that describes how connectivity can quickly transition from simplicity to complexity as the number of applications and service vendor instances grows:Reasons for Cloud Integration Complexity
Increased complexity puts increased demand on the integration platform
As companies expand from on-premise applications into a hybrid on-premise/cloud infrastructure with support for mobile, cloud, and social, there is a new sense of urgency to implement a unified and comprehensive service integration platform. Without getting this unified platform in place, companies face increased complexity and cost managing a growing patchwork of niche integration toolsets as well as the disparate standards mandated by each SaaS vendor as shown in the image below: Read the full article here.

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Cloud Integration White Paper – Now Available

February 11, 2013 Leave a comment

Accidental SOA Cloud ArchitectureInterested in expanding your existing application infrastructure to integrate with cloud applications? Download the new Oracle White Paper “Cloud Integration – A Comprehensive Solution” to learn not just about connectivity but the other key aspects of successful cloud integration.
The paper includes three technical examples of cloud integration with Oracle Fusion Applications, Saleforce, and Workday and follows with the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to also include service aggregation, service virtualization, cloud security considerations and the benefit of maintaining a unified approach to monitoring and management despite an increasingly distributed hybrid infrastructure.

To keep the integration architecture from being defined “accidentally” as new business units subscribe to additional cloud vendors outside the participation of IT, a discussion on the “Accidental SOA Cloud Architecture” is included:Read the article here.

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we uploaded the whitepaper cloud-integration-wp.pdf and presentation
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Markus Zirn, “Big Data with CEP and SOA” @ SOA, Cloud & Service Technology Symposium 2012

July 9, 2012 Leave a comment

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Early-Bird Registration is Now Open with Special Pricing! Register before July 1, 2012 to qualify for discounts. Visit the Registration page for details.

The International SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium is a yearly event that features the top expeclip_image003rts and authors from around the world, providing a series of keynotes, talks, demonstrations, and panels, as well as training and certification workshops – all dedicated to empowering IT professionals to realize modern service technologies and practices in the real world.

Click here for a two-page printable conference overview (PDF).

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Big Data with CEP and SOA – September 25, 2012 – 14:15

Speaker: Markus Zirn, Oracle

and Baz Kuthi, Avocent

The “Big Data” trend is driving new kinds of IT projects that process machine-generated data. Such projects store and mine using Hadoop/ Map Reduce, but they also analyze streaming data via event-driven patterns, which can be called “Fast Data” complementary to “Big Data”. This session highlights how “Big Data” and “Fast Data” design patterns can be combined with SOA design principles into modern, event-driven architectures. We will describe specific architectures that combines CEP, Distributed Caching, Event-driven Network, SOA Composites, Application Development Framework, as well as Hadoop. Architecture patterns include pre-processing and filtering event streams as close as possible to the event source, in memory master data for event pattern matching, event-driven user interfaces as well as distributed event processing. Focus is on how “Fast Data” requirements are elegantly integrated into a traditional SOA architecture.

Markus Zirn is Vice President of Product Management covering Oracle SOA Suite, SOA Governance, Application Integration Architecture, BPM, BPM Solutions, Complex Event Processing and UPK, an end user learning solution. He is the author of “The BPEL Cookbook” (rated best book on Services Oriented Architecture in 2007) as well as “Fusion Middleware Patterns”.

Previously, he was a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton’s High Tech practice in Duesseldorf as well as San Francisco and Vice President of Product Marketing at QUIQ. Mr. Zirn holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and is an alumnus of the Tripartite program, a joint European degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, the University of Southampton, UK, and ESIEE, France.

KEYNOTES & SPEAKERS

More than 80 international subject matter experts will be speaking at the Symposium. Below are confirmed keynotes and speakers so far. Over 50% of the agenda has not yet been finalized. Many more speakers to come. View the partial program calendars on the Conference Agenda page.

CONFERENCE THEMES & TRACKS

  • Cloud Computing Architecture & Patterns
  • New SOA & Service-Orientation Practices & Models
  • Emerging Service Technology Innovation
  • Service Modeling & Analysis Techniques
  • Service Infrastructure & Virtualization
  • Cloud-based Enterprise Architecture
  • Business Planning for Cloud Computing Projects
  • Real World Case Studies
  • Semantic Web Technologies (with & without the Cloud)
  • Governance Frameworks for SOA and/or Cloud Computing Projects
  • Service Engineering & Service Programming Techniques
  • Interactive Services & the Human Factor
  • New REST & Web Services Tools & Techniques

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