IBM and Juniper in clouds

IBM and Juniper have provided a sneak peek at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources between a private and a public cloud, reports PCWorld.

Using cloud management software from IBM's Tivoli division and a Juniper network, the companies demonstrated a drag-and-drop interface for managing a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

It was the first time IBM had shown off technology for shifting work within a hybrid set-up, which the company believes will be the dominant form of cloud architecture.

After investing $17.2 billion in 2008 to expand its global network, Verizon Business says it is planning further expansion during 2009 in nearly every part of the world, iTWire reports.

"Strategic global network plans for 2009 include expansions of private IP/multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), converged packet architecture, submarine cable systems and optical global mesh architecture," the company says.

It is expanding its MPLS network in South Asia, North Asia, Singapore, Japan, Mexico, the US, Europe and the Middle East, saying that: "The MPLS network also provides the foundation for multinational customers to optimise the cost and effectiveness of operating business processes among multiple locations."

WSO2, the open source SOA company, has revealed WSO2 Carbon, the company's new fully componentised SOA framework based on the Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) specification, according to eWeek.

In addition to Carbon, WSO2 unveiled the first four WSO2 products based on the Carbon framework: WSO2 Web Services Application Server 3.0, WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus 2.0, WSO2 Registry 2.0, and the new WSO2 Business Process Server - WSO2's first business process management offering.

Adoption of the OSGi has paid off for WSO2, which refers to itself as “the open source SOA company,” as the company has reworked its application server and SOA platform based on OSGi.