The future of SOA

It's clear that enterprise architecture (EA) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) are delivering real value to most businesses, but there is also considerable room for performance improvement, states ebizQ.

Some trends beginning to stand out clearly right now is that modern software architecture, with SOA as the top-level organising principle, seems to have more and more trouble keeping up with the rate of change in most organisations.

Not only have the timelines and schedules of IT and architecture groups never aligned well with business activities, it's now becoming an endemic problem.

After years of ignoring the needs of the enterprise, Apple seems to be making a concerted push into the business world, but are businesses biting? asks The Industry Standard.

Once identified only among graphic artists and so-called "liberal" and more "open-minded" IT users, the deployment of the Mac in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is on the rise, as users are finding ingenious ways to work with Apple's platform, says Melvyn Chen, desktop product marketing manager of Apple Asia.

"Enterprise users of Apple's XServe server highlight our solid hardware reputation, low running costs due to the unlimited Mac OS X Server client access licence, and versatility as a virtualisation platform, or the ability to run on virtually any OS," says Chen.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is planning to build a supercomputer that will use Nvidia's next-generation graphics processing unit architecture, codenamed 'Fermi', reports CNET News.

The Fermi chip integrates three billion transistors, about three times the number of transistors in Nvidia's most powerful graphics chip now on the market.

In the future, the chip will also find its way into Nvidia's GeForce product line for PCs.