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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.

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

Secure Your Services, Never Lose an Order

Listen to this podcast and hear Dan Foody, VP of Products at Progress Software, talk about the shift from processing simple web service transactions to business transaction assurance. He’ll talk about how today’s transaction complexity forces an enterprise to invest in services management software that will improve business transaction processing so that you never lose sight of critical business events.

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Progress Software Introduces Actional Diagnostics

With Actional Diagnostics, you can accelerate Web service development, testing and validation with tools to improve service quality, performance, and compliance, and simplify time consuming XML-oriented tasks. Listen to this podcast and hear Dan Foody, VP of Products for Actional at Progress Software, talk about the features and benefits of introducing a service quality and validation tool into your SOA infrastructure initiative. Register to be alerted when the FREE download is available.

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Impact of Cloud Computing to an Enterprise Architecture

Presented by David Bressler, SOA Evangelist at Progress Software

What impact will Cloud Computing have on your enterprise architecture? Why should you care? In this podcast David Bressler presents his thoughts on how Cloud Computing will make it easier for you to get business-critical information to your consumers. Allow yourself to imagine the impact of being able to easily bring information from multiple data services, and sources, into the cloud. Listen in...

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The Value of Standards in Telecommunications

Reap the benefits of standards when building a common model for your SOA infrastructure or enterprise. Industry standards in telecommunications, such as the Shared Information (SID) model from TM Forum, allow you to leverage the knowledge of a group of industry experts instead of starting from scratch. Listen to a podcast by John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector at Progress Software, as he explains the difference between using standards-based and proprietary-based data models, and how communication service providers can effectively deploy a common model. John will also talk briefly about how Progress DataXtend SI can help extend the model you are working with.

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SOA Management: Do you really need it?

What the cost is for not having it.

Did you forget to think about SOA management when you developed your SOA infrastructure deployment plan? Listen to this podcast presented by Dan Foody, VP of Products for Actional at Progress Software, and hear an example of a company that did just that and regretted it. Make your SOA more agile by making sure that the right SOA management tools are in place before you deloy.

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Cloud Computing and SOA

Listen to a brief podcast by Dan Foody, VP of Products for Actional at Progress Software, that briefly describes what "we" mean by cloud computing and how cloud computing may affect your existing SOA infrastructure.

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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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