Lack of governance not addressed

Asia's network infrastructure services market is expected to be worth twice as much in 2012, driven by an increased emphasis placed by IT heads in this field, says ZDNet Asia.

According to a recent study by IDC, IT professionals in Asia ranked network infrastructure consulting, integration and management services as the top priority for their organisation.

Eugene Wee, IDC Asia-Pacific's research manager for IT services, says, "Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) was ranked a close second in the study. Businesses need to rethink their approach toward BCDR, he said, adding that root causes including lack of governance were often not addressed.

WSO2 announced the availability of the open source WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), version 1.7 to support enterprises' service-oriented architecture (SOA) demands, reports Business Wire.

The WSO2 ESB 1.7 offers significant new enhancements to stability and availability - resulting in error-free connections for high-volume SOA environments, even on standard hardware.

The WSO2 ESB 1.7 also adds support for the financial services sector through two standard protocols: the Financial Information eXchange protocol and the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol.

Data Domain is adding Retention Lock to its de-duplicating storage systems, says Network World.

The software is designed to deal with regulatory compliance and IT governance issues by protecting archived data from accidental or malicious deletion.

Retention Lock will allow its storage systems to hold compliance data that requires the sort of WORM (write-once, read-many) capabilities usually associated with optical disks and specialist content archives.