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Is the Cloud the Path to Broad scale SOA Adoption?

The recent announcement of Apple’s cloud illustrates yet again that a new era is about to start: that of the cloud - and with that, the massive adoption of service oriented architectures (SOA). This will have an impact so huge that it is hard to underestimate.

Some of the obvious changes that will happen are most likely the following:

- Infrastructure (operations) will become agile - at the expense of IT jobs in operations. Applications will be deployed with unprecedented ease and speed. This is because the Cloud infrastructure will transparently allocate the resources that now are allocated by human administrators. 

- SOA will become mainstream. This is because event the most common infrastructure services will be virtualized, running in the same or a different VM from the application and scaling up and down as needed. 

The interesting part - at least to us - is that transactions will become more distributed than ever. We are ready for this change - are you?   Send us a note at info@atomikos.com and tell us what you think. 

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So How Do You Leverage Atomikos in the Cloud?

Data consistency in the Cloud is a totally different ball game, as illustrated by this newsletter article from ZapThink. Essentially, you have to cope with some form of partition tolerance and stale data values in chaches. This is usually summarized as the CAP issue (see the ZapThink post).  Luckily, you can find the solution to this problem in our solution to the CAP problem. 

Announcing End to End Support

We are going through exciting times here at Atomikos! Today, we are pleased to announce that we will be offering single-point-of-contact, end-to-end support across different back-end systems for the following database vendors, which means we can now offer you support from the queue to the database and back again, without you having to worry about different support channels. 

Database vendors include:

- Oracle

- DB2

- SQLServer

- Sybase

- Informix

…and the following queuing vendors:

- MQSeries

- ActiveMQ

- SonicMQ

This is an initial list that will probably grow over time (so stay in touch to find out). End to end support is NOT included in our standard support subscription. Contact us to find out more and to upgrade your support at info@atomikos.com. 

Atomikos is a Proud Supporter of ECOWS '11 - Lugano Switzerland

The 9th annual European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) will be taking place September 14-16 at the Universty of Lugano, Switzerland, and Atomikos is a proud supporter of the event.   ECOWS will attract researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web services includes prestigious invited speakers, in-depth presentations of contributed research papers and an industrial track with the participation of top industry researchers, experts and practitioners. Together with its satellite workshops on focused topics, ECOWS 2011 will also feature a doctoral symposium for PhD students.  You can follow ECOWS on Twitter @ECOWS2011, and an Early Bird Registration rate is available until July 15, 2011 off the conference's Web site. 

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