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Drool, Britannia? Is the UK Failing the Cloud?

By Roger Strukhoff

Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.

Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST

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Progressing Toward the Federated, Automated and Client-Aware Cloud

New Relic

How to build an app with Twitter-like throughput

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Computing in the Cloud Era

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Practical Cloud Migration

IBM

Re-think IT. Re-inventing Business.

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Identity Driven Security in the Cloud

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Hackers Hackers Everywhere, Is My Public Cloud That Safe?

Red Hat

Unlock the Value of the Cloud

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Mission Critical Applications and the Cloud - Myth or Reality?

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Not Your Grandpa's Cloud

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Integrating Enterprise Clouds

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Upgrade to a vCloud

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Are Financial Services Organizations Risking Security by Avoiding Cloud Computing?

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From Consolidation to Enterprise Private PaaS

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Driving the Transformation to Next Generation Cloud Data Centers

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The Inevitability of an Open Cloud

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Who Keeps the Cloud in the Air?

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Patterns for Cloud Computing

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War in the Clouds: Are you ready?

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The Big Win: Stop Playing Small-Ball with Your Cloud Strategy

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Evaluating Enterprise Clouds

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Cloud Storage: Myths and Realities

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A Rules Engine Built in PowerBuilder

By Paul Slater

BPEL is a mystery to me. EbXML? Sorry, not a clue. These things, of course, are about defining and executing business rules and processes in enterprise application servers. On my travels through the world of PowerBuilder applications I’ve frequently come across the need for business ru...

Dec. 6, 2009 11:00 PM EST Reads: 6,808 Replies: 1

Creating a Database Using HTML Forms

By Sergey Savushkin

This article is aimed at beginner and intermediate Web developers looking to make the leap into database support of their Web site. The article suggests a new declarative language based on HTML-forms, which is used for development of the database interface. HTML forms can manage not on...

Aug. 24, 2008 05:46 AM EDT Reads: 13,008

Process-Centric Realization of SOA

By Hal Hilderbrad; Nickolaos Kavantzas; Ashwini Surpur; Mohamad Afshar; Dave Shaffer

Agile and adaptive business processes and supporting IT infrastructure are the holy grail of enterprise applications. The industry is heading in the right direction to start delivering on this promise.

Nov. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 53,400

Streamline Your XML Searches

By Keith Swenson

Imagine a customer has hired you to put together a solution for managing a huge quantity of XML information. The firm's team is using XML because it gives them flexibility in how the data is structured. They like the fact that they do not need to specify a given record structure up fro...

Jun. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,330 Replies: 1

Semantic Mapping, Ontologies, and XML Standards

By David Linthicum

When dealing with application integration, as you know by now, we are dealing with much complexity. The notion of ontologies helps the application integration architect prepare generalizations that make the problem domain more understandable.

Apr. 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 31,764

PIM Realizes its Potential

By Sandeep Nawathe

Product information is one of the few remaining strategic information assets within an enterprise that does not have a dedicated system of record. This is not surprising when one considers the complexities of product information management (PIM). Specifically, a comprehensive product i...

Mar. 10, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,885

Community Integration and XML

By Scott Simmons

Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. XML-based document exchanges between companies impose new challenges on organizations building a B2B community integration solution.

Feb. 20, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,676

Tree Structured Data and XML - Visualizing and transforming data with SVG and XSLT

By Philip Burton; Russel Bruhn

XML is the appropriate format for semistructured data, that is, data with a natural tree structure. Trees are a special form of graphs, and a dialect of XML called GraphML now exists that provides a standard set of tags for describing them.

Jan. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,474 Replies: 3

Modernizing the Mainframe - Unleashing the power of XML and Web services

By Joe Gentry

Central Hudson Gas and Electric, a New York State utility company, wanted to find a way to improve its customer service by creating a Web-based platform where customers could view and retrieve bills online. Replacing or rewriting the company's 20-year old mainframe billing application ...

Jan. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,729 Replies: 1

Building a High-Traffic Web Site with Static Delivery Using XML - Dynamic and static sites: get the best of both worlds

By Todd Price

More and more companies are experiencing a need to effectively manage ever-changing content on high-traffic Web sites. These high-traffic sites receive as many as 1 million hits per day and require significant amounts of technical and financial support.

Dec. 3, 2003 10:06 AM EST Reads: 11,122

What's Your Government Doing with XML? - With the advent of XML authoring tools, it's more than you might think

By Bryan Baker

Popular wisdom dictates that governments are slow to adopt anything new, especially when it comes to new technologies. But if you look closely, you might find something unexpected.

Dec. 3, 2003 10:01 AM EST Reads: 9,097

XML Acceleration: The Truth Behind the Myths - Don't assume that bandwidth and processing will be problems

By Dan Foody

As information technology professionals progress in their knowledge and use of XML and Web services, the question of XML performance persists. In hallway chats, one might hear that 'XML takes up too much bandwidth' or 'XML takes too many CPU cycles to process.'

Dec. 3, 2003 09:57 AM EST Reads: 17,163

Open Integration and Security - XML firewalls provide ease of integration and security

By John Lilly

The good news about XML and Web services is that they're easier than ever to develop and deploy - inside the firewall between internal applications, on the Internet with your customers and partners...anywhere.

Dec. 3, 2003 09:55 AM EST Reads: 8,304

Document-Centric Software Development

By Steve Bailey

At the heart of any software program lies data, and in the case of Web services and service-oriented solutions this is presented to the underlying software as XML documents. The representation and handling of these documents within the software is a major challenge with traditional...

Oct. 3, 2003 11:22 AM EDT Reads: 12,779

Leveraging IT Assets

By Anupam Singh

XML is establishing itself as the standard for exchange of information across enterprises. However, the technology that allows enterprise-class applications to deal with XML processing is still not clearly formulated.

Oct. 3, 2003 11:19 AM EDT Reads: 11,743

XML Certification Quizzer

By Joel Amoussou

With the downturn in the IT industry, employers are getting hundreds of resumes for new job openings. The use of technical interviews and online assessment tools in screening job applicants is becoming very popular in the IT job market, and companies offering IT skills assessment s...

Aug. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,081

Using XML Schemas Effectively in WSDL Design

By Mark Secrist; Chris Peltz

Developers are beginning to develop more sophisticated Web services, exchanging complex XML documents rather than simple parameter types. As this shift takes place, development teams begin to grapple with different approaches to designing these Web services interfaces through the u...

Aug. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 38,658

Managing and Documenting Your Project XML Style

By Timothy Fisher

XML seems to be popping up everywhere. In this article, I'm going to touch on an often overlooked but potentially very powerful use for XML technology: XML for project management and documentation.

Aug. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,234 Replies: 1

The Perfect Database Round-Trip Using JAXB & JDO

By Rajesh Zade

Java Data Objects (JDO) enables Java developers to perform database transactions from within Java objects without writing database (SQL)- or JDBC-specific code. Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) and JDO provide great APIs for performing complex XML- and database-oriented tas...

Aug. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,601 Replies: 6

Creating Reusable Visual Components

By George M. Pieri

Creating Web pages with HTML can be time consuming, so it's critical to create generic visual components that can easily be reused. This will give you a consistent look and feel throughout your application.

Aug. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,650

Introducing Microsoft InfoPath 2003 Part 2

By Thom Robbins

In Part 1 of this article (XML-J, Vol. 4, issue 6) we looked at creating a solution that used a new product in the Microsoft Office System 2003 called InfoPath. In this installment, I'll show you how to extend the solution created in Part 1 using BizTalk Server 2004.

Aug. 6, 2003 11:58 AM EDT Reads: 17,048

Moving from Web Services to an Enterprise-based Architecture

By Bob Zurek

Today's software industry is moving fast to supply innovative technologies, new standards, and early customer case studies targeted at fulfilling the vision of Web services. But as these products, standards, and customers emerge, it is now time to move beyond using the simple term We...

Aug. 6, 2003 11:54 AM EDT Reads: 12,872 Replies: 1

Object-Oriented XsLT

By Pietro Michelucci

What could be better for managing content than separating data from presentation? How about separating data from data? Believe it or not, XsLT can actually be used to allow for different levels of data abstraction. In practical terms, this can reduce the complexity of managing Web ...

Aug. 6, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,973 Replies: 8

Multipass Validation with XSD and Schematron Part 2

By David Kershaw; Eric Schwarzenbach

In Part 1 of this article (XML-J, Volume 4, issue 7) we outlined why a development group might consider alternative validation schemes. An example from our experience is applying work group rules to the process of XSD design. We said rules could take the form of a Schematron schema t...

Aug. 6, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,633

Security Issues in the Service-Oriented Architecture

By Eric Pulier

Who doesn't love the service-oriented architecture (SOA)? You get efficiency in your application development, revolutionary ability to interoperate with partners and suppliers, and mastery over change management that was never before possible.

Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,528

Next-Generation Web Presentation

By David Quimby

The future of Web presentation isn't high tech, it's high concept. And it's here today. It's not an information superhighway - it's an adaptive avenue. Flexible, Web-based presentation engines are creating new options for Web presentation.

Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 10,997 Replies: 2

Multipass Validation with XSD and Schematron Part 1

By David Kershaw

If it is important that your XML documents are correct, catching mistakes early is, of course, much less costly than catching them later. This should not be news to any XML developer.

Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,196 Replies: 1

XML Certification Quizzer

By Joel Amoussou

In this month's 'XML Certification Quizzer,' we are going to review some interesting aspects of the syntax of XML and related technologies. You can learn more about the syntax of the language by running the sample code in the questions with an XML parser or an XSLT processor. The skill...

Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,753 Replies: 1

XML Authoring in the Financial Services Industry

By Max Dunn

XML is fast becoming an integral part of information management workflows in the financial services industry, and the trend is moving toward even wider adoption.

May. 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,924

Applying Design Patterns to Web Services Architectures

By Chris Peltz

From the beginnings of the well-known 'Gang of Four' design patterns book to more recent publications on J2EE design patterns, the software industry has always tried to find ways to design frameworks, ideas, and concepts that could be used repeatedly. With the introduction of Web servi...

May. 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,379

Introducing Microsoft InfoPath 2003, Part 1

By Thom Robbins

A few weeks ago I was meeting with the CIO of a local health care customer and his IT staff. They were explaining the various technology initiatives and projects that were occurring over the next year. What the CIO was the most proud of was that he had declared this a year of integrat...

May. 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 20,183 Replies: 1

Integrating Enterprise Information on Demand with XQuery, Part 1

By Mike Carey

Since the dawn of the database era more than three decades ago, enterprises have been amassing an ever-increasing volume of information - both current and historical - about their operations. For the past two of those three decades, the database world has struggled with the problem of ...

May. 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,244 Replies: 2

XML Certification Quizzer

By Joel Amoussou

Last month's column introduced you to the exam objectives for IBM Test 141 on XML and Related Technologies. This installment will present five more questions from the five different exam objectives. It can be used as a learning tool for people who are new to XML. If you are preparing f...

May. 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,477

Building a Real-World Web Service - Part 4

By Suhayl Masud

It's time for Web services to prove their worth. They've gained enough attention for people to stop and notice, to wait and expect, to speculate and argue...now it's time to show people what the fuss is all about. If the show fails to impress, Web services will slowly fizzle out like t...

Apr. 29, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,814

Database-Driven Charting Using XSLT and SVG

By Rajesh Zade; Avinash Moharil

Over the last few years, there have been significant developments in the XML world. Many enterprises have adopted XML for various purposes such as data transfer, reporting, client-tier presentation, server-to-server communication, and so on. The need for representing data in XML form i...

Apr. 29, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,980 Replies: 10

XML Certification Quizzer

By Joel Amoussou

This column has two objectives. The first is to help you prepare for IBM Test 141 on XML and related technologies. The second is to help you learn XML by offering tips for designing and optimizing XML solutions.

Apr. 29, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,801 Replies: 2

Building a Real-World Web Service - Part 3

By Suhayl Masud

Web services are the new 'it' in the IT world, and vendors are rushing in to stake claims in this landscape, each with a different marketing spin on how they 'do Web services.' However, simply sending SOAP-based messages between machines is not really 'doing Web services'; this is a li...

Mar. 28, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,081 Replies: 1

Struts and XSLT - It's Not an Either/Or Decision

By Frank Neugebauer

When developing Web applications that use Java and XML there are many options, including (among others) the Apache Struts framework and the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) language.

Mar. 28, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 15,183 Replies: 7

Integration Is the Killer App

By Simeon Simeonov

In 1975 Niklaus Wirth, the Swiss computer scientist who created the Pascal programming language, published a seminal book entitled Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. If Wirth had written about business applications, Computing + Storage = Applications would have been a better titl...

Feb. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 22,329

Building a Real-World Web Service - Part 2

By Suhayl Masud

No, Web services isn't just hype. This series of articles will show you that Web services are real and can provide great benefits to organizations today. The series demonstrates how to build a real-world Web service by combining the features of Web services with components and knowledg...

Feb. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,964