For Asia Pacific organizations, data center requirements are rapidly changing. C-Level executives are increasingly looking for solutions to address data center sprawl, aging facilities, energy and capacity limitations, and operational vulnerabilities and technology constraints that limit business growth and flexibility....

IPTV (IP Television) is growing in the Asia Pacific and is estimated to reach 8.1 billion by 2011 according to In-Stat. SDA Asia catches up with Richard McBee, President of Tektronix Communications to find out what is driving this market, where the IPTV “hotbeds” in Asia are and what Tektronix has in the works to exploit this lucrative market.

The real money lies in value added businesses, content distribution will become main revenue streams for telecom players. Concepts like VOIP, Video on Demand, Web TV and IPTV will be the next phase in this space.

SOA has been around for years but why is there a sudden growth in popularity and why should businesses implement a SOA architecture? Or should we say, what are the implications of a business not adopting SOA? SDA Asia sits down with Ross Altman, Cheif Technology Officer of SOA and Business Integration in Sun Microsystems to get the answers.

It has been 10 years since the arrival of Visual Studio. Some of the salient benefits of Visual Studio 2008 are productivity, support for the latest platforms and team development. Visual Studio 2008 delivers improved language and data features that help developers in rapidly creating modern software. For example, Visual Studio 2008 provides innovative new technologies, such as the Language Integrated Query (LINQ), that make it easier for individual programmers to build solutions that analyze and act on information...

EMC made headlines in Asia with the opening of the South Asian Development Lab in November-- an innovative executive briefing center poised to bring closer all of EMC’s partners and customers within the region. SDA finds out exactly what are the main intentions behind this new initiative, how EMC sees this growing its business in the region and the impact the new center will have on businesses.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) recently reported a quarter of many firsts. SDA sat down with Girija Pande who heads the Asia Pacific region for TCS and found out what else is in the cards for this organisation in terms of financial growth, employee growth, the new services it has ventured into and how it plans to face the competition.

SDA India spoke to the Marketing Director for Alliances and Teleweb sales for Sun Microsystems in India, KP Unnikrishnan on how Sun is making sure that Sun technologies are known by every stakeholder or every prospective stakeholder for Sun, how Sun runs strategic initiatives to increase sales, making sure that we are constantly growing double than the industry standard, and, generally, outperform the competition...

Service Oriented Architecture enables innovation in business by ensuring that IT companies can adapt quickly, easily and economically to support rapidly changing business needs.

Many organizations are discovering a fast growing need to virtualise applications as they struggle to deal with two opposing forces of modern businesses: increasing dispersed and external workforces with an increasingly stringent need for security and control of data....

Industry analysts predict that BPO will slowly give way to the BPU. It is said that as the BPO market continues to move toward mass customization, business processes will increasingly be accessed as utilities, offering common services to multiple clients, making way for the BPU. SDA India spoke to C.V.Prakash, CEO of Gradatim, a BPU services provider, who uses platforms built using principles of SOA...

Collabnet is a collaboration company that makes open source software a real collaborative effort. The Collabnet platform supports globally distributed teams in a centralised, cost-effective manner, which can yield 20-30 per cent annual savings through reduced development infrastructure costs, increased productivity, improved project visibility and shared access to software assets. SDA caught up with Isabella Dumont; Taki...

There is no widely agreed upon definition of service-oriented architecture other than its literal translation that it is an architecture that relies on service-orientation as its fundamental design principle. Service-orientation describes an architecture that uses loosely coupled services to support the requirements of business processes and users. Resources on a network in an SOA environment are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation. These concepts can be applied to business, software and other types of producer/consumer systems. SDA Asia spoke to Juniper’s Regional Enterprise Solutions Manager Abby Tang to find out more about SOA...

While SOA is not a new term, it has gained industry momentum as a new software category that encompasses collaborative and groupware applications; development, deployment and information access; and system infrastructure. SDA Asia spoke to—Mark Greeff of Sofware AG, to understand the company’s take on SOA governance. Greeff talks about how SOA governance makes it easier for developers and architects to collaborate create and manage world-class business applications, while delivering the next generation of design-time SOA governance via a closed loop process. Read on...

Many organisations are jumping onto the SOA bandwagon, which allows them to extend and reuse existing IT systems and create new solutions and services based on SOA principles. The flipside is that the services can grow chaotically within a company— a development that SOA aims to prevent. This is where SOA governance comes into play...

According to Rick Jackson, Borland has had a long, and successful history of supporting software development, and that continues to be the case as we move forward. For many years, that support was best expressed via Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) focused on developer productivity. But the world of software has evolved dramatically. Most companies...

Sven Haiges spoke to Ajit Jaokar, an advocate for innovation within the mobile data industry to better understand Mobile web 2.0, and the wider impact of web 2.0 on the mobile data industry. Ajit is also a recognised author and a champion in the industry for his views on OpenGardens i.e. opening up the walled gardens of the telecoms industry...

The new breed of BRMS addresses the needs of all the constituents in the business rule lifecycle–-from developers, to system administrators and business users. SDA Asia's Sophia Mayengbam spoke to Foo Jong Tong, General Manager, ILOG Asia Pacific, to understand the importance of BRMS in businesses and the best ways to implement it.

On how Borland plans to integrate Legaderos' technology into its Software Delivery Optimisation (SDO) vision, Julian Quinn, Borland's VP of APAC commented, "Legaderos’ technology expands our existing ALM product suite with new capabilities for demand management, project portfolio management, resource management and process and asset management".