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Management vendors team on configuration spec
Aug. 20, 2007
CMDB Federation releases a draft specification to allow multiple databases and management data repositories to share information.

Salesforce.com adds customization features
Jul. 17, 2007
Online provider coins term "platform-as-a-service" to highlight development tools to extend CRM, build custom apps that run on its hosted infrastructure.

Is on-demand CRM better than an on-premise solution? - Yes
May. 14, 2007
The many pros of on-demand CRM software solutions.

Stealthy wireless LAN start-up Aerohive promises new approach
Apr. 26, 2007
A Silicon Valley start-up is about to unveil what it says will be the next generation wireless LAN, one that will sidestep the drawbacks of today's controller-based net architecture.

SharePoint Server makes collaboration easier
Apr. 11, 2007
With the release of Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has made some dramatic changes to its popular collaboration software. Our Clear Choice Test of the SharePoint collaboration and content-management server ...

Juniper distributes policy enforcement for ipTV, video, VoIP
Mar. 20, 2007
Juniper Networks this week unveiled hardware designed to distribute and scale policy enforcement throughout a service provider network.

Cisco buys Reactivity for $135 million to bolster SOA offerings
Feb. 21, 2007
Cisco this week announced plans for a $135 million acquisition of Reactivity, a maker of XML gateway and security hardware designed to speed and secure up Web services traffic on enterprise networks.

Buzz 2001: The role of standards, 09/24/01
Sep. 24, 2001
Standards remain a huge issue for enterprise portals. XML and its Web services derivatives Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, and Simple Object Access Protocol are the critical emerging standards.

2000 Power Issue: The 10 most powerful companies in networking (IBM), 12/25/00
Dec. 25, 2000
Some lord over market segments, others just barely cling to their power. Here's a look IBM, one of this year's picks in the infrastructure category.

Object protocol advances
Jul. 11, 2000
Microsoft on Tuesday announced specifications for SOAP Contract Language and SOAP Discovery at the Professional Developer's Conference here.

Compendium: Babel Fish as threat to humanity
May. 19, 2000
Weird happenings from around the 'Net.

Vendors tackle SOA management, security
Dec. 05, 2005
As the concept of service-oriented architecture begins to find life in corporate computing, a handful of vendors this week plans to unveil software to help companies manage and secure their SOAs, as well as integrate ...

3 steps to SOA nirvana
Oct. 10, 2005
Primer on the three core concepts behind service-oriented architectures.

Taming the XML beast
Jan. 10, 2005
Traditionally, XML's biggest disadvantage has been its bloated, ASCII-text-based encoding, which requires that you send considerably more bits than in non-XML binary data transfers. Companies can't address XML's ...

Chutney seeks to speed Web services
Apr. 29, 2002
Chutney Technologies, which specializes in speeding up application processing, is turning its attention to Web services with the goal of helping companies create high-performing applications without draining IT ...

Script: XML audio primer
Feb. 04, 2002
Since its debut in 1996, there's been a lot of hype around the Extensible Markup Language's (XML) ability to easily store and share structured data across multiple platforms. In this primer, we'll take a look at the ...

2000 Power Issue: The 10 most powerful companies in networking (IBM), 12/25/00
Dec. 25, 2000
Some lord over market segments, others just barely cling to their power. Here's a look IBM, one of this year's picks in the infrastructure category.

Early adopters: SOA worth the effort
Nov. 08, 2004
Among the early adopter sect, companies have decided it's worth the effort it takes to migrate to an SOA-based infrastructure, one project at a time. Along the way, some have found SOA paybacks with reusable services to ...

Service-oriented hype to meet hard realities
Nov. 01, 2004
Hype alone would have IT executives believe that in coming years service-oriented architectures will be as standard within companies as morning coffee. But network professionals and industry analysts say it won't be ...

NetContinuum upgrades for Web services
Oct. 11, 2004
NetContinuum is unveiling upgrades to its NC-1000 Application Security Gateway lineup with Web Services Edition that let users filter Web services messages based on the Simple Object Access Protocol.

SOAPscope sorts out SOAP
Oct. 06, 2004
Even though tools for analyzing problems for Simple Object Access Protocol have been around for a while, the increasing sophistication of what we try to do with the protocol has demanded increasingly sophisticated ...

SOA and the death of platforms
Sep. 06, 2004
Welcome to the dizzying new world of SOA. Platforms are dissolving, new concepts are taking over, and Web services will become everywhere shareable and reusable.

In brief: Yahoo buys Oddpost
Jul. 19, 2004
Also: Sprint, Swedes set world data transfer record

DataPower, Reactivity add to their XML security line
Jun. 07, 2004
Amid the growing corporate interest in Web services-based infrastructures, DataPower and Reactivity this week will introduce upgrades designed to help users boost XML security.

SOAP
Aug. 01, 2002
SOAP primers, papers and other resources.