EGUIDE - The enterprise service bus (ESB) and what it does are still points of confusion and contention. Read this expert e-guide to find out why an ESB is indispensable to any application integration project. Also, find out how open source ESB options are changing the market and why this will matter to buyers.
Posted: March 21, 2012 | Published: March 16, 2012


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | ESB | Messaging Middleware | Open Source | SOA | Systems Integration | Systems Integration Services

EGUIDE - According to Enterprise Integration Patterns author Gregor Hohpe, a new set of architectural techniques could help designers to better understand the elaborate conversation, workflow and event patterns that are seen more often these days. Read this e-guide to discover software that visually connects components in Apache Camel-based integrations.
Posted: March 1, 2012 | Published: February 29, 2012


Topics:  Apache | Application Development and Integration Services | Application Integration | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | ESB | Integrated Development Environments | Messaging Middleware | Open Source

WHITE PAPER - Mobile, social and cloud application complexities are requiring organizations to modernize their application platforms. This IDC paper presents the structural changes and functionality––including lightweight frameworks, in-memory data management, application management, and more––required in order to evolve to a cloud-ready application platform.
Posted: February 10, 2012 | Published: June 30, 2011


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Messaging Middleware | Platform as a service

RESOURCE - Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf documented their combined experience in the integration space and created the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" (EIP), which has since been adopted as the standard for describing messaging solutions. Check out this deck of flashcards to find definitions of integration design patterns based on EIP.
Posted: December 8, 2011 | Published: December 8, 2011


Topics:  Apache | Application Integration | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | ESB | File Transfer Protocols | Integrated Development Environments | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Protocols | Messaging Software | Open Source | Open Source Software

CASE STUDY - Read this paper to find out why the FAA's System Wide Information Management program selected four open source service-oriented architecture (SOA) components to combine with its other development and management tools to create an enterprise infrastructure that will be deployed between 2010 and 2015 to support NextGen satellite air traffic control.
Posted: December 7, 2011 | Published: December 7, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | Data Integration | Interface Design | Interoperability | IT Infrastructure | Messaging Middleware | Open Source | Open Source Software | Routing | SOA | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - Forrester Research's 2011 Q2 Wave Report named FuseSource's enterprise service bus (ESB) offering Active MQ as its highest ranked open source ESB solution and placed it in the "Leader" category along with large, established vendors.
Posted: December 1, 2011 | Published: November 30, 2011


Topics:  Apache | Application Integration | Data Integration | ESB | High Availability | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Software | Open Source Software | Routing | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the critical requirements - reliability and availability, scalability, security, and performance - of an SMB messaging environment and describes and end-to-end messaging solution that meets those requirements.
Posted: May 1, 2010 | Published: April 29, 2010


Topics:  Email Server Software | Fax Software | Instant Messaging | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Software | Microsoft Exchange | Productivity | Server Hardware | Small Businesses | SMBs | Storage Hardware