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Secret No. 2 - The Myth of Five Nines

Lets continue to pull back the covers on highly available integration infrastructure.

Listen now to Part 2 of the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure podcast series: The Myth of Five Nines.

Presented by Hub Vandervoort, CTO, and Ken Rugg, VP and General Manager, Integration Infrastructure, Progress Software, this is the second of five new interview-style podcasts that reveal the software industry’s five "dirty little secrets" or misconceptions of a so-called highly available integration infrastructure.

Three minutes of downtime may not seem detrimental now but if that failure occurs during peak transaction times, it will result in lost revenue and poor customer service. In this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to deliver a highly available enterprise infrastructure.

> Secret No. 2 - The Myth of Five Nines

Tune in next time for Secret No. 3 - Recovery Time.

Secret No. 1 - Highly Available Integration Infrastructure

Get ready to pull back the covers on highly available integration infrastructure.

Listen now to Part 1 of the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure podcast series: Hidden Costs and Complexity.

Presented by Hub Vandervoort, CTO, and Ken Rugg, VP and General Manager, Integration Infrastructure, Progress Software, this is the first of five new interview-style podcasts that reveal the software industry’s five "dirty little secrets" or misconceptions of a so-called highly available integration infrastructure.

In this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to manage the cost and complexity associated with delivering a highly available enterprise infrastructure.

> Download Secret No. 1 - Hidden Costs and Complexity

Tune in next week for Secret No. 2 - The Myth of Five Nines .

Metadata in Data Integration

When we refer to "meta data" when talking about data interoperability, we are talking about data that describe or accompany other data. DataXtend SI uses metadata at design time to describe components of the exchange model. It uses metadata at runtime to configure and manage the operation of data services. An analyst can incrementally redefine and redeploy components of the metadata, such as rules, without redeploying the services themselves.

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Integration Tax

When we talk about data interoperability, many people ask, "What is an Integration Tax?" Well some technologists refer to the cost associated with bringing systems together as an integration tax. Progress Software believes that by deploping a common information model that will mediate data transfers and ensure data consistency across legacy, and new, systems, the enterprise will reduce their integration tax. Listen to a brief podcast by Ken Rugg, VP of Products for DataXtend & ObjectStore at Progress Software, to learn more.

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Common Data Models Being Used Today

In a previous podcast Ken Rugg, VP of Products for DataXtend & ObjectStore at Progress Software, defined what a common model is and how it improves SOA infrastructure initiatives. In this 5 minute podcast, Ken Rugg talks about what common models are being used today, how they fit in, and how Progress’ is helping you realize the value of deploying a common model within your enterprise application infrastructure. One common model being deployed today is TM Forum’s Shared Information/Data (SID) model. By using the SID model, telecommunication companies are reducing costs because they can deploy new services faster and maintain semantic consistency across different services and systems.

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If you are a telecommunications architect looking to learn more about the SID Model, download the DataXtend SID Model Browser - it's free. You will be able to use the SID Model Browser to gain an understanding of the structure and details of the SID. Starting at the highest level, you can navigate through any of the eight distinct domain areas of this common model, inspecting the hierarchy within a specific domain, and the details of the classes and attributes contained within the hierarchy.

Data Integration in SOA

As we talk to customers and prospects who are beginning to plan or enhance their SOA, we've realized that data is often overlooked in the development of a SOA infrastructure. As a matter of fact, some SOA technologists refer to it as the "day 2" problem. Why? Well, we think it might be because application and data architects may have difficulty making informed architectural decisions about it. Below is a 6 minute podcast by Ken Rugg, VP of Products for DataXtend and ObjectStore at Progress Software, that talks about the importance of data integration in SOA, why people may forget to plan for it, and some concepts related to smart data mediation.

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What is a Common Model?

Ken Rugg, VP of Products for DataXtend & ObjectStore at Progress Software, talks about what a common information (or data) model is and how a common model it fits into SOA infrastructure.  By adopting common data model architectures and ensuring data interoperability across enterprise systems, company's can avoid challenging, costly and inefficient new service deployments and at the same time maximize the potential of SOA. Listen to this podcast and learn how a common data model greatly facilitates data translation, data aggregation, rule execution, and other features required for data interoperability. Hear why some companies resist using a common model, how to get a common model, benefits acheived when adopting a common data model and more.

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