Juniper and Cisco always try to keep the other down by launching newer and advanced router technology. For a while Juniper lost its market to Cisco, however it is trying to regain that by pinning all its hopes on T1600, its newest router, that offers better technology with less space.

Software AG recently unveiled crossvision, a product the company claims offers a comprehensive and innovative approach to synchronizing business with IT. SDA Asia's Sophia Mayengbam caught up with Ivo Totev to talk about crossvision, SOA, Software AG's Eclipse contributions, business breadth and future roadmap....

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is any of the strategies and technologies employed in the information technology industry for managing the capture, storage, security, revision control, retrieval, distribution, preservation and destruction of documents and content. ECM especially concerns content imported into or generated from within an organization in the course of its operation, and includes the control of access to this content from outside of the organization's processes. SDA Asia spoke to Interwoven’s Vice President of Asi apacific James Murray to find out more about ECM...

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...

SDA Asia spoke to Low Li Kiang the Solutions Director, Asia Pacific, Hitachi Data Systems, to understand the challenges faced by the industry with regard to content. Low explains the face-off between regulatory compliance and corporate litigation on the one hand and relentless data growth on the other that is driving fundamental changes in the way content is being managed in organisations today. 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...

SDA Asia spoke to Hugh Sutherland, Vice-President, Asia Pacific Operations, Enterprise Content Management, IBM Software Group, to understand the big blue's business strategy post acquisition of FileNet in October 2006, the customer and market driven growth opportunities for Asia Pacific, the technology roadmap going...

The contact centre market in Asia is ready to adopt platforms that enable recording, analysis and agent performance improvement, in the effort to compete more effectively in global markets. etalk, an Autonomy company, provides an enterprise platform for call recording, quality monitoring and speech analysis...

The personal computer is not immune to attacks by malicious users and hackers. This is true even of large enterprises that place their buck on a large network of computers and computer-based operations. Enterprises must take extreme care to see that their intellectual property is well protected from external and even internal threats. Dilip Thomas spoke to Mihai Rusescu on computer security...

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...

Myriad security solutions of varying complexity have been flooding the market for years, yet there remains "critical gaps" in today's infrastructure that still allow some viruses and worms to penetrate the normal defenses provided by antivirus, intrusion prevention/detection, patch management and vulnerability assessment tools. Businesses are increasingly recognizing this "reactive security" reality...

A recent study by Springboard Research shows a massive chasm between countries in the APAC region, with countries like New Zealand and Australia investing up to USD 200 per capita on IT, while India and China spend a dismal USD 1. As Asia inches towards becoming a better economy in totality, backed by IT-equipped governments, SDA Asia speaks to Dane Anderson of Springboard Research to explore the reasons...

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".

"We see CRM becoming more interconnected with BI or Business Intelligence. However, BI has become a mission-critical need, it has continued to face several challenges that have impacted adoption", said Terence Chan, Regional Managing Director, East Asia, Siebel Systems.