In this podcast, George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization. Find out about PCIe bus extenders' advantages and disadvantages for users, the necessary steps, requirements to implementing them, and more. Listen to this podcast to learn more. 

This Forrester’s Wave report provides an unbiased evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of top ESB vendors across a range of criteria. This in-depth guide not only contains coverage of features, vendors and products, but also features real-world input from over 20 customers currently using the evaluated products. 

Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development</p> 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

In this video, FuseSource engineer Claus Ibsen introduces Apache Camel, a lightweight integration framework that can help you go from enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) to production. Hear why popular open source projects and multple enterprise service bus (ESB) servers include Apache Camel in their distributions. 

Forrester Research's 2011 Q2 Wave Report named FuseSource's enterprise service bus (ESB) offering Active MQ as its highest ranked open source ESB solution and placed it in the "Leader" category along with large, established vendors. View this webcast to get an overview and product demo of Active MQ. 

For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2. 

In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented. 

This paper  examines the big picture when it comes to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and what happens when a data packet traverses an MPLS cloud. 

Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the importance of IT strategy when budgets are under pressure. The first part of our Buyer’s Guide to virtualisation examines the barriers preventing many organisations from adopting the technology; and Transport for London’s CIO talks about how IT helps avoid Olympic travel chaos. Download the issue now. 

This paper outlines the things you must consider when thinking about the feasibility of replacing a WAN provider’s provider (P) and provider edge (PE) devices with routers. This paper examines these considerations in greater detail, to see where any potential problems might arise. 

Juniper Research defines a mobile ticketing user as “someone who stores a ticket on their mobile phone for later redemption” at the point of travel, the music venue, the cinema etc.