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SOA Quality Management

SOA bring challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. Moreover, SOA requires quality management across all types of testing—functional, performance, security, and compliance. Each of these is affected by multiple factors such as the type of SOA being built, the needs of service providers and consumers, and the testing tools and techniques currently in use. Furthermore, IT quality managers must develop and implement a SOA quality program thatfurthers the organization’s goals for SOA. Success can be achieved by leveraging the right strategy, implementing the right processes and selecting the right tools. We interview Jeff Meyers to gain HP's perspective on Software Quality Management for SOA.
Jeff is a Senior Product Manager for HP Software's SOA Quality Management Solutions. 55 Minutes

Multi-Enterprise SOA

In today’s enterprise environment, growth is king. To facilitate growth, executives must listen to the marketplace, as well as their customers and partners and adapt strategies to wring value from constantly changing conditions. But if processes are to keep pace with executive decision-making, the old paradigm of IT manually automating individual, monolithic processes must evolve. Instead, IT must facilitate system heterogeneity and reusability, not only within the enterprise, but with an expanding number of partners, customers and distributors. To gain that completive advantage, IT must go beyond today’s B2B applications and processes and marry them to service-oriented architectures. We interview Russell Scherwin to gain Sterling Commerce's perspective on Multi-Enterprise SOA. Russell Scherwin is a Global Director of Product Marketing with Sterling Commerce. 40 Minutes

Messaging Security

Whether you are an enterprise, ISP, university, or government organization, you need to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential information, and encrypt sensitive emails. Otherwise you will be become part of the statistics that show the global cost of spam alone reaching $100 billion in 2007. Furthermore, your messaging security solution must be flexible, scalable, and provide high performance. TCO reductions can be achieved by selecting a solution that easily integrates with any IT infrastructure, no matter how distributed it is. To work smarter, leverage dynamic capacity planning via virtualization to manage your email volume growth. We interview Andrés Kohn to gain Proofpoint's perspective on messaging security. Andrés is the VP of Product Management at Proofpoint. 45 Minutes

Spam Fighter Drives Productivity

Spammers continue to assault e-mail inboxes around the world, and the spiraling global cost of their crimes is expected reach $100 billion in 2007. Furthermore, spam accounts for as much as 90% of all email, and much of it comes from the former Soviet Union and China. The spam frequently gets relayed in the United States by home and business computers infected with programs that turn computers into clandestine spammers. To combat this threat companies are leveraging tactics that include a perimeter defense against denial-of-service and directory harvest attacks. However, with a zero tolerance for lost email being the norm, false-positives need to be minimized while long-term spam block rates must be kept high. We interview Ron Longo to gain Red Condor's perspective on email security. Ron is the CEO of Red Condor. 35 Minutes

Semantics Battles Fraud

The perpetrators of financial crime are constantly modifying their tactics, and centralizing case management is an effective way to deal with them. Furthermore, by automating the case management process, you can monitor cases in near-real time and in-flight. This ensures that fraud cases don’t fall through the cracks, and that you are more efficient. Gaining greater business knowledge from existing fraud databases and legacy systems should be a key component of your strategy. Particularly, semantics can facilitate better trend analysis, and make it available immediately to fraud analysts. By leveraging semantics, fraud risk managers get the upper hand by obtain a contextual view of the fraud and risk exposure across your enterprise. We interview Jeff Dickerson to gain Metatomix's perspective on the role of semantics in financial services. Jeff is the CEO of Metatomix. 30 Minutes

Securing Web 2.0 Applications

Web 2.0 is not a technical term, but a term more akin to an artifact of social science that has come to vaguely describe a new vision for the Web. Moreover, Web 2.0 Applications should not be understood as a new technology, but a new use of old technologies. However, if Web 2.0 applications are more functionally interactive, could it be that they are more vulnerable to application layer attacks? We interview Mandeep Khera gain Cenzic's perspective on the extra security risks associated with web 2.0. Mandeep is VP Marketing at Cenzic. Mandeep is VP Marketing of Cenzic. 40 Minutes

Semantically Connected Intelligence

When you’re making an important business decision or reacting to a developing emergency, you want to concentrate on crucial information. Leverage typical search tools, data warehouses or publish-subscribe systems, and you might end up with a vague analysis, a slow response, and an unsound decision. Optimizing your decision process requires information from multiple sources which come in different formats, and which is organized in conflicting ways. Needless to say, the potential for confusion is huge. To makes sense this real-time information jigsaw puzzle, you need technology that understands the context of data. We interview Daniel Reininger to gain Semandex Networks' perspective on Semantically connected intelligence.
Daniel is the CEO of Semandex Networks. 37 Minutes

Semantics Drives Critical Intelligence

Jessica Lunsford was murdered by a known sex offender who did not inform the police that he had moved into her neighborhood, and who had been released earlier by a state court that did not have access to parts of his criminal record. This tragedy has caused new information-integration technologies to be adopted by the Florida court system. Those semantic technologies link data from existing disparate systems to create a more common understanding.

We interview Howard Greenblatt to gain Metatomix's perspective on how semantics drives mission critical actionable intelligence. Howard is the CTO of Metatomix. 35 Minutes

Ajax Optimization

Ajax is emerging as the preferred development approach for web 2.0 applications. While the asynchronous nature of Ajax applications makes them fundamentally different from standard Web applications, Ajax applications are still built upon standard Web infrastructure. Moreover, Ajax behavior does not obviate the benefits of application acceleration. Indeed, this asynchronous behavior can make request switching and high-availability functionality more important to an Ajax application than to a standard Web application. We interview Prabakar Sundarrajan to gain Citrix Systems' perspective on optimizing Ajax applications. Prabakar Sundarrajan is the CTO of Citrix Systems’ Application Networking Group.
36 Minutes

ID Theft Law Compliance

California’s security breach notification law calls for notification of California residents following some kinds of security breaches, and requires businesses to protect certain personal information. Moreover, companies must implement reasonable security procedures and practices to prevent the unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of that personal information. Assessing your application security vulnerabilities is key to complying with those ID theft laws. And application security tools play a crucial role in preventing unauthorized disclosure of personal information available through web applications
We interview Mandeep Khera to gain insight into application security tools.
Mandeep is VP Marketing of Cenzic 31 Minutes

Warding Off Web App Attacks

The dynamic nature of Web applications can increase the number of high-value transactions. However, there is a dark side to this technology. If web applications are improperly implemented, people with malicious intent can turn it against the enterprise to cause considerable damage to a company’s bottom line and reputation. To meet this challenge, enterprises have turned to many different security technologies that front-end the Web applications. But, to achieve a complete web application security program, enterprises must leverage Web application code security testing.
We interview John Weinschhenk to gain insight into secure enterprise applications.

John is Cenzic's CEO. 24 Minutes

Big Four Trumped With SaaS

The expanding use of the internet for business operations has alerted the threat landscape. Attackers are now more professional, and they are driven by profit, rather than notoriety. Moreover, strong network defenses have been deployed to fend off those attackers. Consequently, they have moved down the stack to the point that they are targeting the application layer, especially the web application layer. This tactic is leveraged because the web application layer is outward facing and a breach in this layer will get hackers directly to the data they want.
We interview John Weinschhenk to gain insight into web application security.

John is Cenzic's CEO. 33 Minutes

IT Lifecycle Management

The use and exposure of PCs has changed significantly. To address this change, IT Lifecycle Management solutions offer configuration functions through a single console and include consolidated reporting. Moreover, application virtualization and the convergence of security and operations are key drivers in this space. But, the key benefit is lowering your total cost of managing client systems. Furthermore, PC management can enhance business agility by reducing risk, enabling mobility, and speeding your time to market.

We interview Holger Maul to gain matrix42's perspective on IT Lifecycle Management.
Holger is the CEO of matrix42. 55 Minutes

Machine Self Dependency

Complexity is driving the high cost and time-intensive nature of machine management. However, this challenge can be met with automated M2M intelligence which leverages a standardized semantic web communication format. This universal language is being applied to provide a more 'machine readable' format for Machine-To-Machine Intelligence. Consequently, it is taming Complex Adaptive Systems such as Grid, Internet Multimedia Systems (4G IMS), Financial Services (Risk), and The DoD’s Global Information Grid. We interview Geoff Brown to gain m2mi's perspective on Machine Self Dependency. Geoff is the CEO of m2mi. 35 Minutes

DRM For Information Assurance

The use of sensitive and mission critical information in electronic processes is essential for business and government agencies. Being able to securely extend those business processes outside the firewall to collaborate with partners and suppliers is key. Leveraging persistent protection and control over sensitive data will drive the management of legal and regulatory obligations, and guard intellectual property from left.
We interview Duane Nickull to gain insight into information lifecycle security.

Duane is a Senior Technical Evangelist with Adobe Systems.

48 Minutes

Bullet Proofing Web Services

Good web services design fosters SOA discipline which in turns yields business agility. However, there are numerous opportunities for things to go wrong with web services development. Even the slightest mistake can cause a propagated error that could adversely effect system reliability and security. Leveraging a systematic approach to error prevention is key to bullet proofing your web services and optimizing your SOA.
We interview Wayne Ariola to gain insight into SOA testing and business continuity planning.

Wayne is Vice President of Corporate Development at Parasoft. 33 Minutes

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