Wily Technology, the leader in Enterprise Application Management, announced Wily 6, the latest generation of the most advanced solution for monitoring and improving the availability and performance of business-critical web applications.

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade(R)) , the leading provider of infrastructure for Storage Area Networks (SANs), today announced that the industry's first 4 Gbit/sec capable SAN director is now qualified for FICON(R) connectivity at 2 Gbit/sec to networked storage in IBM(R)

Do you recall BEA's Alfred S. Chuang giving interviews to the trade press as recent as early last year and swearing to God that BEA customers did not give a rat's dudu about Eclipse? Then what happened? BEA proudly announced their membership to Eclipse.org this year.

Strategic Computer Solutions, a leading IBM Premier and On Demand Business Partner, has launched a new Security and Networking Practice to complement its broad portfolio of software and hardware solutions with full-service security solutions and consulting services.

MQSoftware AppWatch configuration tool and StatWatch transaction tracking and auditing tool will integrate with Introscope to provide companies with a comprehensive solution to effectively manage and monitor the IBM WebSphere MQ family of products, the companies say.

Unification, integration, clustering, connectivity. These are words found commonly in enterprise IT and in this issue of WebSphere Journal. Picking up on last month's Non-Theme theme, we continue to provide you with a variety of articles that cover many parts of the application develop

entimo AG, a leading company providing manufacturers of the pharmaceutical and crop science industries with high quality e-business Research & Development (eR&D) products and solutions, as well as custom IT solutions for the regulatory authorities, announced it has achieved industry op

Integrated Development Enterprise, Inc. (IDe), the leading provider of product portfolio management (PPM) solutions, announced its industry optimized status with its new product suite IDeWeb in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks.

Oracle and IBM have reached agreement on an initiative to enable IBM's WebSphere products to be an additional run time environment for 'Project Fusion,' the Oracle engineering effort underway to fuse the 'best of' functionality across all Oracle applications into a single, standards-ba

Vormetric Inc., a leading provider ofsecurity solutions for protecting sensitive information, announced todaythat CoreGuard Information Protection System has achieved Ready for IBM DB2Software status. With this designation Vormetric customers can be assuredthat their CoreGuard solution

ILOG today announced it is the first Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) software vendor to offer integration with the new IBM WebSphere Process Server version 6.0, announced yesterday by IBM.

IBM is embracing SOA...in a bear hug. In a teleconference fronted by Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software Group and the General Manager of WebSphere, Robert LeBlanc, it was manifestly apparent that the company - which considers itself the world's leading

IBM today announced new software, services andan expanded partner initiative to help clients manage business processes bydeploying a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

IBM announced it has finalized the agreement to acquire DWL, a privately held company based in Atlanta and Toronto. Financial terms were not disclosed. With this acquisition, IBM will provide clients with customer data integration software that enables a single, integrated view of cust

A new report from IDC concludes that IBM Global Services is a leading 'global market maker' for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), demonstrating IBM's leadership in helping clients become on demand businesses, with business processes that are integrated across their company, as well

'We feel fortunate, as a smaller vendor and BEA/Plumtree partner, to have been selected by both vendors originally,' he said. 'And so we think this merger is a really positive development for us and our joint clients with both BEA and Plumtree. These two companies combined cover about

'Wily believes it's time to get real,' said Dick Williams, president and CEO of Wily Technology, Inc. 'Wily 6 provides end-to-end web application management that works in the real world. Critical business processes depend on applications running in highly complex heterogeneous environm

A few months back I used to this column to cogitate about the nature of a sphere. I subsequently compared that type of thinking to the wrongheaded 'the world is flat' new paradigm that is going around the world (so to speak) because of a new book with that offensive phrase as its title

The idea of a 'pure' application development continues to lose meaning in an enterprise IT world that continues to try to integrate legacy systems with server networks, local-area networks, increasing varieties of wireless networks and devices, and the latest new kids on the block who

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Ryman's blog can be read at ryman.eclipsedeveloper sjournal.com. He is the latest i-technology celebrity whose blog is syndicated on SYS-CON's branded blog-n-play community pages next to James Gosling, Marc Fleury, Ben Forta, John C. Dvorak, Alan Williamson and others.

Extending the capabilities of WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Platform, IBM yesterday announced the availability of new software that delivers the combined capabilities of autonomic and grid computing: WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0.

IBM today announced that Avaya has selectedIBM WebSphere Voice Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server as theinitial speech and middleware platforms for Avaya Voice Portal, Avaya's newWeb services-based speech self service platform. The combination offerscustomers the flexibility

The latest version of WebSphere Portal, which includes new features to further support customers' efforts to build service oriented architectures (SOA), is available for the IBM eServer zSeries and iSeries platforms, as well as the new IBM System z9, IBM announced yesterday.

'With this acquisition, IBM can now deliver the industry's most comprehensive set of master data management solutions on the market,' said Janet Perna, IBM's general manager, Information Management, as Big Blue today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire DWL, a leading provid

IBM made announcements across a broad spectrum of its speech offerings, demonstrating progress with open-source based initiatives that can advance the speech self-service ecosystem.

This month marks the 10th Anniversary of the JavaOne conference, sponsored and controlled by Sun Microsystems, and an annual drawing card for Java developers worldwide. As someone who played in a role in this event?s launch, I am always happy to see it succeed, to see Java and its offs

IBM has announced that it has again been positioned as the number one vendor-based software revenue in 2004, according to IDC's 'Worldwide Application Deployment Software 2004, Vendor Shares By Operating Environment,' IDC report #33697, July 2005.

IBM today announced that Cisco Systems, Inc. hasselected IBM's WebSphere software as part of its new Applicati on-OrientedNetworking technology.

The privately held Isogon Corp., headquartered in New York, is being acquired by IBM. Isogon specializes in software that automatically tracks inventory and measures usage of software running on mainframe computers. The company will be integrated into IBM's Tivoli division.

IBM and Peregrine Systems have extended their strategic alliance to develop end-to-end solutions that help global organizations better manage their IT infrastructure.

Wireless operators and handset manufacturers worldwide can develop and deliver firmware over-the-air (FOTA) update capabilities with technology from a new agreement between IBM and InnoPath. The two companies plan to co-sell and co-market the solution to wireless operators and handset

Each month, as we reach the end of the publication cycle for the print version of WebSphere Journal, a conversation ensues about the nature of this column, 'Final Thoughts.' What should it be, who should write it, should it address daily reality or long-term thinking, how technical sho

The amazing thing is that anything gets done at all. Software architects and developers, analysts and administrators, and C-level executives all share this core belief, whether they publicly state it or not. As we approach the summer months, one thinks of weekends in the Hamptons or th

DB2 Anonymous Resolution aims to address a major privacy issue by enabling financial services, healthcare, and other organizations to share individual data anonymously. Digital signatures and new correlation techniques are brought to bear on this challenge.

Hundreds of new industry-specific mandates, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and privacy requirements based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, are either in place now or scheduled to take effect in the near future. While complying with these mandates may seem dau

'If it were a fight, they'd stop it.' This expression is often employed by sports announcers during a particularly lopsided football or baseball game, and also by market watchers when one business gets a clear upper hand versus its competitors.

The creation of an impromptu shrine at former PeopleSoft headquarters in Pleasanton, CA, bemoaning the company's takeover by Oracle, apparently caught the eye of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

IBM and Cisco jointly plan to deliver speech-enabled self-service solutions designed for use in contact centers, combining IBM's WebSphere Voice Server product and Cisco's Customer Voice Portal. The solutions, planned for Q2 2005, combine IBM's integration and application infrastructu

IBM has enhanced its WebSphere business integration software to address the needs of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Specifically, IBM announced new versions of its WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server Express software. SMB is one of the largest and fa