SOA: Web serivces and, in turn, service-oriented architectures, are suffering from a standards problem. “There are too many standards, they are too confusing, and many of the standards, such as BPEL, don’t work without a ton of proprietary enhancements. Indeed the WS-* standards are actually hurting the emerging SOA space, since there are so many and some are redundant and competing,” writes Dave Linthicum. And he offers three suggestions to correct the problem, in The state of the stack: Where Web services standards are today.Podcasts: A new episode of Storage Sprawl was posted this morning. Within, you’ll hear a review of Dell’s PowerVault ML6000 — which the InfoWorld Test Center places among the new crop of tape libraries that are more modular and scalable, yet easier on the IT wallet. And the week in storage news. Best of the blogs: Paul Venezia couldn’t find a gkrellmd add-on for IPCop, so he put one together, based on gkrellm-daemon 2.2.5 and including the necessary glib2 2.4.7 libraries. Grab it right here. Columnists’ corner: IT folks sometimes wear many hats. Rarely, however, does a private investigator cap wind up in the back-office. But when the desktop support manager at a large telecom firm was asked to perform double-duty as a hardware inventory clerk, it became immediately clear that a thief was afoot. Suddenly, just when he was onto something, the tracking “wasn’t going the way I expected — although I guess one of the standard detective plots involves the PI suddenly finding himself cast as the prime suspect.” When someone is stealing your hardware.