Step 5 of 12 to SOA

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Aug 23, 20062 mins

Podcasts: The serial ‘road to SOA’ has reached milestone 5, as in Dave Linthicum’s fifth step toward service-oriented architecture. It’s a short one this week: Understand all information sources and syncs available in your domain. Tune into the SOA Report, in which Linthicum also tackles the intertwined relationship between SOA and BPM (business process management.

Test center review: Enerjy Software is forging into new terrain (and I’m not just referring to the spelling, either) with its CQ2 software for quantifying and displaying the progress of projects, including that of individual developers and teams — a roll which no previous software filled, even if point products are edging that way. “If your site relies on Java and has small developer teams, and you need better oversight of projects and developers, Enerjy CQ2 is a must-have,” advises Andrew Binstock. That’s not to say that Enerjy is without limitations and concerns, such as the fact that CQ2 does not currently ship with support for external enterprise DBMS. Read the full review.

Storage: Gunning for rival EMC, IBM offers up new ‘Turbo’ storage products that it claims bring faster performance, better systems management and lower cost of ownership than predecessors. The high-end array features what Big Blue calls an industry first: 4Gbps FICON throughput, double the 2Gbps available now.

The news beat: Microsoft adds support for Firefox to its new MSDN Wiki, previously tailored only for Internet Explorer. Both Salesforce.com and rival NetSuite enable customers to manage Google’s Adwords marketing campaigns. And a U.S. government lab offers an open source grid computing toolkit designed to make remote collaboration easier.