AmberPoint Introduces Industry's First Agentless SOA Runtime Governance.Next-generation SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Runtime Governance Governance makes decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes. Sometimes people set up a government to administer these processes and systems. Architecture Brings New Capabilities for Leveraging SOA Platforms and Infrastructure OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint today announced that it has introduced the industry's first agentless system for SOA runtime governance. With its ground-breaking new architecture, AmberPoint has decoupled the enforcement of SOA runtime governance policies from the execution of those policies. AmberPoint can now delegate A person who is appointed, authorized, delegated, or commissioned to act in the place of another. Transfer of authority from one to another. A person to whom affairs are committed by another. A person elected or appointed to be a member of a representative assembly. policy execution to existing SOA infrastructure, enabling organizations to better leverage the intrinsic intrinsic /in·trin·sic/ (in-trin´sik) situated entirely within or pertaining exclusively to a part. in·trin·sic adj. 1. Of or relating to the essential nature of a thing. 2. and increasingly sophisticated capabilities of XML appliances  This article or section appears to contain a large number of buzzwords and may require cleanup. , Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs), application servers, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and other SOA infrastructure. "Although many SOA infrastructure products implement native support for security and other infrastructure capabilities, each product uses a different mechanism to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. policies, resulting in an administrative nightmare," said Anne Thomas Manes manes (mā`nēz), in Roman religion, spirits of the dead. Originally, they were called di manes, a collective divinity of the dead. Manes could also refer to the realm of the dead and, later, to the individual souls of the dead. , vice president and research director at Burton Group. "Being able to configure and manage the native capabilities of the SOA infrastructure products via a single administrative console is definitely the way to go." "We continue to see a steady evolution of SOA infrastructure," said Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. SuEirez, system support manager at Miami-Dade County. "To streamline our SOA initiatives and get the most from our investments, we need to make optimal use of this infrastructure while also making the whole environment simpler to govern." AmberPoint's industry-leading SOA runtime governance system simplifies real-time visibility and control at each stage of the SOA lifecycleCofrom development and QA through production use. AmberPoint utilizes a policy-based approach to governance in order to manage the health and well-being of SOA applications. Leveraging Policy-Capable Infrastructure AmberPoint's new architecture now offers agentless policy enforcement options in addition to existing agent-based mechanisms. AmberPoint delegates runtime policy execution to the SOA infrastructure whenever policy-capable infrastructure is in place, leveraging as much of the native policy execution capabilities of the runtime infrastructure In computing, run-time infrastructure (RTI) is a middleware that is required when implementing the High Level Architecture. RTI is the fundamental component of HLA. It provides a set of software services that are necessary to support federates to coordinate their operations and as possible. As a result, enterprises realize greater returns on their investments in SOA platforms and runtime frameworks, while fully utilizing their SOA infrastructure. "AmberPoint's agentless capabilities represent a significant innovation in the SOA runtime governance market," said Jeff Browning Jeff Browning is an American ultrarunner. He was the 2005 and 2006 champion of the Big Horn 100 Mile Wild and Scencic Trail Runs in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. His 2006 performance was also a course record of 20 hours, 24 minutes. , director of product management at F5 Networks. "At F5, we believe that an intelligent network working in concert with application services See ASP and Web services. is critical to SOA success. AmberPoint's rich integration with F5's BIG-IP enables our shared customers to not only auto-discover existing BIG-IP policies and correlate them with AmberPoint policies, but also to update and create policies from within AmberPoint's management framework. The result is a better integrated SOA infrastructure delivering increased runtime management efficiencies." With this fundamental enhancement to its architecture in place, AmberPoint will be able to release expanded functionality and support for many additional application servers, appliances, ESBs, and other SOA infrastructure in the months ahead. Agentless Policy Enforcement: * Capability-based Delegation of Runtime Policies: Not all infrastructure and platforms are created equalCotheir runtime execution capabilities and policy support vary. AmberPoint is flexible enough to easily adapt to the different types of capabilities across varying components. * Fire-and-Forget Policy Rollout: AmberPoint guarantees the delivery of each policy in an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. fashion by tracking the runtime infrastructure and facilitating management of the SOA system as a whole. * Transparent Support across Platforms: Recognizing that standards for SOA management are evolving, AmberPoint transparently maps runtime policies onto both platform-specific and standards-based interfaces and protocols. Benefits: * Greater ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). from SOA Infrastructure: Ensures optimized execution of SOA runtime governance policies by leveraging built-in platform capabilities. * Streamlined Administration of Runtime Policies: Instead of administering each policy individually, users can now govern the running SOA environment in an end-to-end fashion. * Visibility of All Policies System-wide: AmberPoint delivers a single, comprehensive view of all SOA runtime policies across the environment. Users can see what policies exist, where policies are being executed, which services are using them, the policy status, etc. * Uninterrupted Runtime Governance: Seamlessly enforces runtime governance regardless of hardware and software. * Business-centric Policy Decisions: Removes concern for infrastructure from decisions about runtime governance. "Our agentless enforcement is an outgrowth of our close relationship with the leading SOA infrastructure vendors, and reflects our commitment to helping our customers reduce the time-to-ROI with SOA," said Sean Fitts, chief architect at AmberPoint. "We're pleased to introduce agentless enforcement and its many benefits to the market." About AmberPoint AmberPoint is the industry's leading provider of SOA runtime governance solutions. More than 100 customers, including Best Buy, H&R Block, MedicAlert Foundation, Motorola and the U.S. Department of Defense, have chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for Java and .NET. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software. |
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