The first wave of integrating storage, computing, and networking hardware
helped businesses move from client/server to Internet-based peer-to-peer
networks. A second wave of integrating applications on top of the hardware
infrastructure promised to deliver unprecedented economies of scale. In
today's enterprise IT model, applications exposed as services need to be
integrated seamlessly with other applications distributed across the network
to generate the best operational efficiencies. Messaging-oriented middleware
is at the heart of enabling seamless or "effortless" integration between a
business's core assets: its applications and data residing on the network.
However, integrating multi-vendor applications with diverse infrastructure
and legacy applications is a daunti... (more)
The emergence of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) over the past two years has
spurred the deployment of componentized applications based on a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA enables the development of business systems
and processes with loosely coupled components (often called services)
facilitating business agility. Much of the industry's focus has been on the
architecture of t... (more)
Atul Saini is CEO and CTO of Fiorano Software Inc. Under his leadership, Fiorano has emerged as a recognized leader in the standards-based integration middleware business.
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