BEA readies &quot;Diablo&quot; server
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BEA Systems said it will release a test version of its latest WebLogic Server software later this month and detailed product delivery plans for next year.
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IBM next week will begin shipping the second generation of its rack-mounted dual processor servers based on Advanced Micro Devices&#39; Opteron microprocessor.
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BEA Systems on Monday is releasing a version of its application infrastructure suite designed to enable ISVs to deliver products for SOAs (service-oriented architectures).
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Blog: Software maker says it's ready with a near-final "release candidate" version, which will find its way on to servers later this year.
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InfoWorld - BURLINGAME, CALIF.-- BEA Systems is expanding the open source Beehive initiative but still has no plans to participate in the Eclipse open source tools organization, despite the embrace of Beehive by Eclipse.
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IBM announced that it will begin shipping its new eServer 326 server to its enterprise clients starting next week. This server will be an upgrade from the company&#39;s previously released eServer 325 model.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (http://bea.com/more_info.jsp?p%8&amp;r=1.4.6 ) -- BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS), the world&#39;s leading application infrastructure software company, today announced
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WebLogic weight loss Next year will see BEA Systems' first implementation of a slimmed down application server. Codenamed 'Essex', WebLogic Server version 10.3 will launch by March 2008 - BEA said at BEAWorld this week - and marks the debut of an architecture that lets developers remove modules they don't want prior to installation.â¦
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Join Apache and BEA developers as they provide an overview and status update on the Apache Beehive project.
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(InfoWorld) - Capitalizing on the industry's virtualization trend, BEA Systems has fashioned a per-instance model for its virtualization software in an attempt to do what a company official said better reflects usage patterns. The strategy affects BEA WebLogic Server -- Virtual Edition. Instead of a per-CPU pricing based on the deployment of the software, users instead will pay $13,000 for each instance of the application server running in its own virtual machine, said Mark Pritchard, BEA director of product marketing for BEA virtualization tools. "We believe [the pricing model] is unique in the industry," Pritchard said. WebLogic Server -- Virtual Edition is a Java environment for virtualized hardware. Featuring BEA's application server, a Java Virtual machine and operating system compression, more applications per server are enabled. The product is shipping now. "What we realized is that once we moved into this new world of virtualization, we need to think again about how we price our software," said Pritchard. For applications running on dedicated servers, CPU-based pricing is common, he noted. But virtualization breaks new ground. "The reality is that virtualization opens up many exciting new opportunities about how customers can choose to deploy their applications and how they can respond to business and operational needs in a flexible way," Pritchard said. The CPU-based pricing model is not appropriate as customers moved to virtualized data centers, according to Pritchard. The per-instance model is suited for disaster recovery scenarios and where an application workload changes over time, Pritchard explained. BEA's per-instance plan "absolutely makes sense," said Chris Wolf, senior analyst at Burton Group. "It's not uncommon for a virtual machine cluster to be comprised of physical servers with different CPU characteristics (two-way, four-way, etc)," Wolf said. "That being said, simply having a VM fail over from a two-way server to a four-way server would violate WebLogic licensing per the old model. The new licensing model is much more reflective of the modern virtualized data center and is one that other ISVs should follow." Asked if customers would end up paying more money to BEA under the new per-instance model, Pritchard noted that customers can deploy the software on systems running many CPUs. A customer may be deploying to a 16-CPU box, he said. "Here, your pricing is tied directly to how much you're using the software," Pritchard said. BEA will examine whether to price its other technologies using the same per-instance paradigm, but right now the plan is limited to the Virtual Edition, said Pritchard.
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BEA Systems on Thursday is unveiling a free Web-based tool to measure a customerâs âbaselineâ for pursuing an SOA (service-oriented architecture), and also is bolstering professional service offerings.
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(InfoWorld) - SAN FRANCISCO -- Positioning itself as the industry's first provider of a native SOA platform, BEA Systems unveiled SOA 360 -- as in 360 degrees -- at Tuesdays' BEAWorld 2006. The vagueness of the announcement, however, has at least one analyst claiming the company still has a lot of explaining to do. SOA 360 spans three BEA product families -- Tuxedo, WebLogic, and AquaLogic -- and features an SOA collaborative tooling environment, called BEA WorkSpace 360. Another key element is the company's "microServices Architecture," aka mSA. Based on SOA and the concept of a services network, mSA features modular services based on BEA products, is event-driven, and uses notification services to publish and discover modular components or "microServices." WorkSpace 360 includes a product family due in 2007. It is geared to enable business and IT professionals to collaborate and work individually and features roles for the business analyst, enterprise architect, developer, and IT operations professional. Working with the role-based products is WorkSpace Central, which is designed to provide SOA lifecycle management and centers around the company's metadata repository, AquaLogic Enterprise Repository. "SOA 360 is a governing approach to modeling, creating, developing, and deploying a full lifecycle SOA application. It is a unifying methodology," featuring all of BEA's SOA products, said Rob Levy, executive vice president and CTO of BEA. "I'm here to tell you with confidence that SOA is very real," BEA Chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang said in a keynote presentation focused on SOA. Details provided during presentations on Tuesday, however, were too vague, said Shawn Willet, principal analyst at Current Analysis. "There's just too many unanswered questions right now," Willett said. For instance, it is unclear what makes something mSA-enabled, Willett said. He did, however, praise BEA for being ahead of the pack when it launched its unified middleware platform, BEA WebLogic Platform. BEA's modularization plans for its WebLogic Server application server were revealed in March. But the company now believes this approach can work for all its products, said Bill Roth, vice president of the BEA tools unit. Modularization provides the right services to the customer, Roth said. "Modularization will be a key design point for us, and ultimately this microServices Architecture will have an effect across all of our products," Roth said. BEA has set a goal of having all its products leverage mSA by the end of 2008. MSA will key in on backplane components, application frameworks, activity services, presentation services, and infrastructure services. The architecture will leverage industry protocols and standards such as OSGi, SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, WS-Security, and SAML. Also at the show on Tuesday, BEA: * announced the release of AquaLogic Enterprise Repository 2.5, a metadata repository based on the company's recently acquired Flashline technology; * launched its AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.5, which provides a virtual, unified view of data regardless of type or location; * unveiled BEA Guardian Support Service, providing predictive and pre-emptive software support; * and announced the general availability of SALT (Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo) 1.1, which is intended to allow Tuxedo applications to be exposed as Web services.
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(InfoWorld) - BEA Systems will enter the event-driven architecture space Monday with a product geared for SOA in Java environments. This unveiling of BEA WebLogic Event Server will be coupled with an upgrade to the company's real-time server. Together, they can be used as part of a solution for high-speed, high-volume transaction environments or XTP (extreme transaction processing). Event Server is a Java application server for handling large volumes of streaming data. It meets needs for predictable response times and complex event processing, the company said. High volumes of events are handled with the speed expected in C and C++ environments but with the lower total cost of ownership enabled by Java, according to BEA. With Event Server, information is aggregated from distributed systems in real time. Rules are applied to discern patterns and trends, giving users the ability to respond to opportunities and threats posed by seemingly unrelated events. "What people are trying to do is drive data to knowledge," said Guy Churchward, vice president of WebLogic Products at BEA. "As we come out of the gate, we're going to provide 50,000 complex events per second," putting the product on par with C and C++ offerings, he said. The product serves as an infrastructure for SOA aspects by enabling high-performance computing without modification of current or planned SOA infrastructure, BEA said. When used with BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition and the new BEA WebLogic Realtime Time 2.0 product, Event Server can work in XTP environments. Part of the company's microService Architecture for SOA, Event Server supports simple Java programming, or "plain old Java objects," and the Spring Framework as well as event processing language. A public beta for WebLogic Event Server begins on May 29 with general availability planned for this summer. BEA's entrance into the event-processing market is another sign that the market is going mainstream, said analyst Roy Schulte, vice president of Application Strategy and Governance at Gartner. "Oracle and Tibco are also already active in this market, and IBM, Microsoft, and SAP are expected to expand their event-processing offerings during the next 18 months," Schulte said. "The product is potentially applicable anywhere there are high-volume event streams and a need to detect threats or opportunities quickly [with sub-second latency]," Schulte said. "Until recently, this kind of scenario was only found in niche applications, such as financial trading, telco, and network management. During the past several years, however, many new types of stream processing applications have emerged in such areas as customer experience management, credit card security and fraud detection, transportation operations, and compliance." BEA also is announcing WebLogic Real Time 2.0, which provides guaranteed microsecond pause times for standard Java applications. Guaranteed worst-case pause times of 10 milliseconds are offered with average pause times in the sub-millisecond range. Previously, the product offered a 30-millisecond worst case. "The neat thing about WebLogic Real Time is it gives real-time, predictable behavior to an application without having to rewrite the application, so it's automatically inherited," Churchward said. Real Time 2.0 features a latency analyzer tool providing developers with the ability to analyze sources of latency in applications. General availability for Real Time 2.0 is slated for this summer.
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IBM is expected to disclose on Wednesday features of the forthcoming version of its WebSphere application server, which will center on improving performance and administration.
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Latency obvious BEA Systems is adding go faster stripes to its Java application server, with two products designed for time-critical work environments.â¦
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IBM today announced that Websphere 6, the long awaited-update to its application server software, will be available by the end of the year.
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BEA Systems is readying the release of new software that will combine an enterprise service bus (ESB) and Web services management software into one product, a company executive said Friday.