New F5 bladed chassis enables large enterprises and service providers to easily manage a complete application-fluent infrastructure; VIPRION gives customers control over management, power, space, and operating expenses
For networkers to successfully deliver applications, it is not just a matter of adding more capacity or connectivity. A higher degree of automation, integration, and architectural design is required, with network-based intelligence as the foundation.
Jeff Browning, director of product management for F5 Networks, looks at how network technology has evolved to better support service oriented architectures, and why incorporating a service oriented network is critical for SOA success.
Leading industry analyst firm places F5 at the market share forefront of ADC vendors
NAS devices are easily deployed but capacity limited, leading to an administratively unmanageable number of NAS devices as mount/share points multiply. This administrative quagmire is further complicated with a multi-vendor NAS data center where cross-vendor functionality is often lacking.
Joe McKendrick is analyst and editor with Webservices.org. He is also a research consultant and author specializing in information technology and management trends. He is a regular commentator on Web services and SOA issues for ZDNet – his Weblog, “Capitalizing on Service-Oriented Architecture,” appears daily on the ZDNet.com site. His monthly columns on IT management issues also appear in Database Trends & Applications. He also authors the Evans Data survey series on Web services and SOA trends
The summer vacation season is upon us (at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere), and thus, time for casual, light reading - SOA-style, of course.
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