New Zealand ISP Orcon has confirmed its intention to acquire 40GBps of interntional bandwidth capacity on the New Zealand/Australia-US segments of Hawaiki Cable’s submarine cable system.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) learned a lot of lessons from the outage that affected its Dublin data center, and will now work to improve power redundancy, load balancing and the way it communicates when something goes wrong with its cloud, the company said in a summary of the incident.
Blueprints for implementing interoperable and secure web services are being amended by the Web Services Interoperability Organisation (WS-I) to incorporate the latest SOAP technology and reliable message transmission, representatives of the organisation say.
Before the recent move to service-oriented architectures, application testing mostly called for ensuring that a software application performed as it was designed, could handle specific loads and could be integrated with other isolated applications.
City Care has developed its own event management software which has both lifted service levels and provides a single view of a current contract – even to those out in the field.
Electricity wholesale market platform company M-co, also called the Marketplace Company, has been on an adventurous journey towards service-orientated achitecture (SOA). It is set to become a web-service enabled organisation, with the aid of internet-based trading system, Comit.
Buoyed up by the opportunity to easily and safely share data with customers and partners, IT departments are increasingly taking internal applications and data outside their corporate firewalls in the form of web services.
Although web services deployments are happening, a morass of complexity and a long, head-spinning list of proposed standards continues to hobble the technology, according to participants at a conference on interoperability, held last month.
In 2003 the question was what are web services; in 2005 they’ll be widely adopted
Most of the noise to date about web services has come from vendors like Microsoft and IBM, eager to promote their tools and platforms.
IT is still critical for a competitive advantage, stressed a Microsoft official at the TechEd 2003 conference in Dallas this week.
News perspective: In 2002, web services advanced on two major fronts: development of tools to extend web services functionality and standardisation of the back-end plumbing required to make web services work.
With any new technology, it becomes fashionable in some quarters to counter the hype and hyperbole surrounding it with an equal amount of disdain when that technology fails to change every aspect of the world as we know it in 12 months or less.
The NZ Software Association has set up a special interest group devoted to web services.
Here's one for the longer term. An increasing number of end-user organisations and vendors are becoming enamoured with web services, a development approach using XML-based standards to create loosely coupled applications and interlink existing legacy systems.