Security: The software-as-a-service model has been spreading throughout other areas of IT and, now, is becoming nothing less than the future of security, so say executives from McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro. “IT budgets are not growing, but the threats and regulatory demands are, and customers are finding themselves thin on resources,” according to Jeff Hausman, Symantec’s senior director of product management as quoted in Security by subscription. “SaaS will be a great way for businesses to save on infrastructure and maintenance costs while improving protection.” SOA: The discussion around SOA governance continues at David Linthicum’s blog, where some fellow SOA pros agree and others pushback against his spin on nailing down a definition, or two, for SOA governance. “SOA governance is indeed something you do, and there is some good technology supporting the notion,” he writes in this Real World SOA entry. “That technology has certain emerging patterns that allow you to better define the features and function of the tools.” Related: Defining SOA governance. Data management: Database and insurance are not exactly two words that go together naturally, which is all the more reason to examine the concept. “DBAs are an insurance policy. Sure, they’re there to guide your data efforts, but they’re mainly there in case of a serious disaster,” Sean McCown writes in Database insurance. “Be mindful of the type of DBA you have in your shop, however. If you want someone to work on all the projects and do lots of coding, etc., then you want a database dev, not a DBA. DBAs are systems folk.” Save Windows XP: Sign the petition. Security