Business
Process Minded0:19:23 17.7
MBA new paradigm created to empower business system analysts
by giving them access to meta-data that they can directly control to
drive business process management is about to sweep the enterprise
application arena. In an interview with ACM Queuecast host Michael
Vizard,
Oracle vice president of product development Edwin
Khodabakchian explains how the standardization of service-oriented
architectures (SOAs) and the evolution of the business process
execution language (BPEL) are coming together to finally create
flexible software architectures that can adapt to the business rather
than making the business adapt to the software.
Large
Scale Systems: Best Practices0:24:27
22.3 MBTime again companies moving to build large
scale systems and networks stumble over the same problems. In an
interview with ACM Queuecast host Michael Vizard,
Jarod Jenson, the
brains behind the Enron Online trading site, talks about the best
practices he emphasizes now that he is the chief architect for Aeysis,
a consulting firm that specializes on advising clients on how to build
manageable high performance systems.
Automatic
for the People0:21:30 19.6
MBProbably the single biggest challenge with large scale
systems and networks is not building them but rather managing them on
an ongoing basis. Fortunately, new classes of systems and network
management tools that have the potential to save on labor costs because
they automate much of the management process are starting to appear. In
an interview with Mike Vizard,
Rob Gingell, formerly chief engineer
at Sun Microsystems and now the CTO of Cassatt, explains how these
new IT automation tools are being created and what impact they are
likely to have on day-to-day IT operations.
Discipline
and Focus0:22:40 20.7
MBWhen it comes to managing and deploying large scale
systems and networks, discipline and focus matter more than specific
technologies. In a conversation with ACM Queuecast host Mike Vizard,
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says the key to success is to have a
relentless commitment to a modular computer architecture that makes it
possible for the people who build the applications to also be
responsible for running and deploying those systems within a common IT
framework.