Community Roundtable: Agility versus Architecture [May 2012]
by Bob Rhubart
What happens to architecture in the rush to deliver solutions? A community panel discusses finding a balance.

Securing Heterogeneous Systems Using Oracle Web Services Manager [May 2012]
by Ronald van Luttikhuizen and Jens Peters
A case study on using use Oracle Web Services Manager to secure interactions between Web Services exposed by Oracle Service Bus and an employee portal built in Microsoft .NET and Silverlight.

Interview: Oracle IT Architecture Certification from Oracle University [May 2012]
by Bob Rhubart
A conversation with the people behind the new Oracle IT Architecture Essentials certification from Oracle University.

Unit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI [February 2012]
by Daniel Amadei
Thanks to its support for Mocking and WS-Addressing, soapUI can be used to test asynchronous BPEL processes. Daniel Amadei shows you how.

Increasing Application Availability by Using the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Live Migration Feature [February 2012]
by Orgad Kimchi and Roman Ivanov
This white paper describes how to take advantage of the Live Migration capability in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.1 software to increase the availability of an Oracle Database 11g Release 2 single-instance database.

Start Small, Grow Fast [January 2012]
by Edwin Biemond, Ronald van Luttikhuizen, and Demed L'Her
This article presents a set of pragmatic best practices for deploying a simple and sound SOA footprint that can grow with business demand.

Oracle Information Architecture: An Architect’s Guide to Big Data [February 2012]
by Helen Sun and Peter Heller
Planning a Big Data architecture is not about understanding just what is different. It’s also about integrating what’s new with what you already have. Helen Sun and Peter Heller explain.

Enterprise Architecture as the Foundation for a Sustainable Architecture [February 2012]
by Hamidou Dia
Enterprise Architecture (EA) aligns IT activities with an organization's high level business strategies. Fundamental to EA is having a blueprint and roadmap that allows an organization to meet its business objectives.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Database Growth Management Strategy [January 2012]
by Michael Bousamra, with Deepak Arora and Sai Sudarsan Pogaru
This white paper highlights the need to implement an appropriate strategy to manage the growth of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g database.

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