Viral Data in SOA – An Enterprise Pandemic

 

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Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic by Neal Fishman

Leading IBM information forensics expert Neal Fishman helps you identify the unique challenges of data quality in your SOA environment–and implement solutions that deliver the best results for the long term at the lowest cost. Writing for both business and technical professionals, Fishman shows how to think about data quality on a risk/reward basis…establishing an effective data governance initiative…how to evaluate data quality, and overcome its inevitable decay…and, last but not least, how to actually derive a data quality initiative that works.

 

Coverage Includes

 

• Why poor-quality data in SOA can be dangerous to an organization

• Practical solutions for assessing, improving, and sustaining trusted information

• Why data governance is so critical–and realistic models for implementing it

• Benefits of data provenance

• Why business data is a form of metadata

• Programming and database design techniques to improve data quality

 

 

The Green IT Report

I just finished reading the Green IT Report from Semantic.  It was just released in May of 2009. 

The key findings of the 2009 Worldwide Green IT Report are:

1. Green IT is now an “essential”

2. Green IT budgets are rising

3. IT is willing to pay a premium for green equipment

4. IT is at the heart of enterprise green efforts

5. Green IT initiatives are more of a priority

There’s lot of good stuff in this report. 

John Lamb’s, The Greening of IT,  is such a timely piece of work.  I particulary liked how Thomas Duff was right on the money in his review of the book.  He talks about the need to understand the Greening of IT as a way to gain new work or be part of the intitiatives taking place at your organization. 

“Having your Operations Center management or senior IT leadership read this book could mean the savings of millions of dollars every year (that should keep a few more jobs around). And if you care to study up on this yourself, you might find that you’ve been given the opportunity to be part of a project that will have an ROI measured in months rather than years. And for you consultants out there, you might want to consider this niche area that isn’t well covered for smaller businesses…

Even if you’re a head-down coder, reading The Greening of IT will open your eyes to changes that either are occurring or need to occur on a daily basis wherever you work.”

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Not Attending the Rational Software Conference?

 

The following books were available at the conference bookstore:

Requirements Management Using IBM Rational RequisitePro

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Implementing the IBM Rational Unified Process and Solutions: A Guide to Improving Your Software Development Capability and Maturity 

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IBM Rational Unified Process Reference and Certification Guide: Solution Designer

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131562924?ie=UTF8&tag=dylanisms-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0131562924

An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer: A Guided Tour

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Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM Rational ClearCase

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Implementing IBM Rational ClearQuest: An End-to-End Deployment Guide

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IBM Rational ClearCase, Ant, and CruiseControl: The Java Developer’s Guide to Accelerating and Automating the Build Process

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Project Management with the IBM Rational Unified Process: Lessons From The Trenches

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321336399?ie=UTF8&tag=dylanisms-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0321336399

 

Portal, Portlet and WebSphere Books

IBM Press Books

 

Looking to expand your expertise with WebSphere?  Here’s a nice place to start:

Check out the following books:

Programming Portlets: From JSR 168 to IBM WebSphere Portal Extensions

Application Architecture for WebSphere: A Practical Approach to Building WebSphere Applications
Programming Portlets

Rapid Portlet Development with WebSphere Portlet Factory: Step-by-Step Guide for Building Your Own Portlets

WebSphere Engineering: A Practical Guide for WebSphere Support Managers and Senior Consultants

 

Pre-order discounts on SOA and DB2 books

Amazon is offering some whopping discounts on new titles that will be publishing from IBM Press books.

Discounts range from 34%-37% off.  Take advantage of these amazing discounts on pre-orders.

Here’s the hot discounting pre-orders:

DB2 pureXML Cookbook: Master the Power of IBM Hybrid Data Server

In DB2 pureXML Cookbook, two of IBM’s leading experts provide the single most comprehensive coverage of DB2’s pureXML capabilities. This book explains DB2 pureXML in over 700 practical examples, including 250+ XQuery and SQL/XML queries, taking the reader from simple introductions all the way to advanced scenarios. The authors have distilled their hands-on experience with many pureXML applications so that you can benefit from best practices, tips & tricks, performance guidelines, and other gems that are not documented elsewhere.

Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility

Top IBM SOA architect Marc Fiammante walks readers step-by-step through integrating BPM and SOA, and using them together to build a more flexible, dynamic enterprise. Throughout, he emphasizes hands-on solutions based on his unsurpassed expertise supporting dozens of enterprise SOA implementations. Coverage includes:

•  Moving from simplified integration to dynamic processes
•  Streamlining enterprise architecture to support BPM
•  Implementing dynamic enterprise information and business processes
•  Tooling for design and development in a dynamic enterprise 
•  Managing and monitoring a dynamic environment, and much more

Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic

 

DB2 Purexml Cookbook – Get your recipes

Well I have seen it - all.  At IBM Press books, we are coming out with a new book – DB2 pureXML Cookbook: Master the Power of IBM Hybrid Data Server. 

Today we discovered that Kitchenperfect.com is actually promoting the “cookbook”.  Just think – add garlic, pasta and some DB2.  Chances are your dinner will actually come with some “data” mixed in.

But seriously folks, Amazon is offering an amazing 37% retail on the book if you pre-order.

Here’s what you will learn:

The topics are organized by typical user tasks throughout the life cycle of XML database projects, from planning, designing, and implementing databases all the way to tuning, problem determination, and application development. It includes code samples for Java, .NET, COBOL, PL/1, C, PHP, and Perl programmers. The DB2 pureXML Cookbookprovides proven recipes rather than a mere reference of ingredients.

• Unique and comprehensive coverage of pureXML on all supported platforms: DB2 9.x for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and DB2 9 for z/OS.
• Written for database administrators and application developers, beginners and advanced DB2 users.
• More than 700 “recipe-style” examples of XML queries, updates, schemas, indexes, storage objects, application code, and database maintenance tasks.
• DB2 pureXML best practices, tips, and tricks based on the author’s extensive hands-on experience in pureXML deployments.
• Coverage of brand-new XML features that IBM intends to make available in the next release of DB2 

Enjoy your recipes!

 

Support the Green Effort – Get the Electronic Version of The Greening of IT

 

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The Greening of IT – How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment is available for download.

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The Greening of IT

 

The Greening of IT – How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment

Pre-order today.  The book will be available at the end of April, 2009.

Drawing on leading-edge experience, John Lamb helps you realistically assess the business case for green IT, set priorities, and overcome the internal and external challenges to making it work. He offers proven solutions for issues ranging from organizational obstacles to executive motivation and discusses crucial issues ranging from utility rate incentives to metrics. Along the way, you’ll discover energy-saving opportunities—from virtualization and consolidation to cloud and grid computing—and solutions that will improve business flexibility as they reduce environmental impact.

 

Lamb presents case studies, checklists, and more—all the practical guidance you need to drive maximum bottom-line value from your green IT initiative.

 

Free SOA ebook

 

Enjoy a free downloadable SOA eBook: Patterns, Mashups, Governance, Service Modeling, and More with chapters from eight popular books by industry leaders, including Thomas Erl, Michael Ogrinz, and Sandy Carter.

IBM Press Books on SOA – check out the links to Amazon.

SOA Governance

Executing SOA

SOA Compass

The New Language of Business – SOA and Web 2.0