Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA’s evolution

SOA Software, iTKO team up to offer SOA lifecycle management and QA

SOA Software and iTKO have teamed up to offer enterprises continuous management and quality assurance across the entire lifecycle of service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. The new offering incorporates the LISA Testing, Validation, and Virtualization Suite from Dallas, Tex.-based iTKO and Policy Manager and Service Manager from Los Angeles-based[...]

SOA Governance: When, Where, and How

SOA Governance is a complicated topic. There are so many things associated with SOA Governance it can make your head spin. There are technology elements, like registries/repositories, policy management, policy enforcement agents, security providers, service virtualization, and what seems SOA Governance: When, Where, and How[...]

HP ramps up integrated SOA management and lifecycle offerings

HP has unleashed a slew of product updates and enhancements to provide lifecycle services quality and management support, moving ever closer to a comprehensive mission-critical SOA maintenance portfolio. Today’s launch covers a wide range of products and includes new versions of Service Test and Service Test Management. At[...]

ITIL’s influence extends beyond IT operations to enhance SOA, portfolio management and change management

Listen on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) advances have helped IT departments recast themselves as mature and process-oriented. But the role and influence of ITIL, especially version 3, is extending well beyond IT organization and operations improvements to impact such essential endeavors as as[...]

Software Evolution

# Hardcover: 347 pages# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 2008)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 3540764399# ISBN-13: 978-3540764397 Book Description Software has become omnipresent and vital in our information-based society, so all software producers s… Software Evolution[...]