BEA Demonstrates Industrys First Hot-Swappable Application
Server and Announces New Customers and Acquisition at BEAWorld 2005
Kickoff
New Hot-Swappable Capability Enables IT Managers to Upgrade
Applications with Zero Downtime; BEA Aims to Deliver Complete and
Easy-to-Use Development Environment for Developers with M7
Acquisition
SAN JOSE, Calif.October 3, 2005BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), a
world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, demonstrated at
BEAWorld 2005 a version of BEA WebLogic Server that incorporates
the industrys first hot-swappable application technology.
Conference attendees saw the first-ever demonstration of this new
capability that can help IT managers to perform routine maintenance
upgrades with zero downtime.
Currently, IT managers typically perform maintenance during the
slowest part of the week. However, in todays Internet age, most
businesses cannot afford any downtime as businesses are now finding
themselves responding to customer service requests 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Laptop Battery Bill Roth, vice president of solutions and product
marketing, BEA Systems Inc.,
demonstrated the new hot-swappable application server with an
application that simulated multiple users making real-time stock
transactions. While transactions continued to take place, Roth
uploaded and deployed a new version of software with a single
mouse-click. The entire process was seamless and transparent to
users without affecting any real-time transactions.
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
Thinkpad Imagine changing the engine of a race car during the race,
Alfred Chuang, chairman and chief executive officer, BEA Systems,
Inc., told approximately 2,000 delegates at the company's users'
conference on infrastructure software and Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) in Santa Clara, Calif. We've got the first
hot-swappable application server. With this technology, IT managers
experience zero downtime. Features like this, plus our softwares
speed, stability and compliance with J2EE and open source
applications can help makes enterprise computing fluid and
simple.
A computer language announced by Sun MicroSystems in 1995 that allows desktop computers on a network to access only the portion (called an Applet) of an application they will need. The application itself resides on a networked server, eliminating the need for a software application to be registered and paid for every user. It also enhances websites on the internet by making it easier to integrate video into a homepage.
Microsoft As part of his keynote, Mr. Chuang emphasized that BEA is the
only software company dedicated to the power of and. IT is no
longer a world where customers have to choose one vendor over
another. Instead, BEA is committed to delivering solutions that are
open source, interoperable and platform agnostic. This type of
liquid thinking goes back to the fundamental ideas on which BEA was
founded more than a decade ago: to lead the industry by making
enterprise computing fluid and simple. Chuang emphasized that the
main theme of BEAWorld 2005 was Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
and the unique business value BEA can deliver its customers with a
software suite that is easy-to-use, offers a lower total cost of
ownership and gives customers a proven competitive advantage.
"Computer industry analysts estimate that some 60 percent of all corporate data exists only on desktop and laptop computers, " said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "Incorporating Acronis True Image with New Mexico Software backup server is the ideal solution to capture that corporate data and ensure that it is not lost. While traditional server backups are effective for protecting server data, every company should have a combination of server and workstation backup plans."
Laptop Computers BEA Chief Technology Officer Mark Carges jumpstarted the second
day of BEAWorld with a keynote address highlighting three key areas
where BEA can help companies simplify their infrastructure and
become more agile. The first area is the need for Service
Infrastructure, which is required to manage, monitor and compose
services in a SOA. Carges described how the AquaLogic product
family enables composite applications and services to be composed
from .Net or J2EE services without necessarily involving
development, providing the infrastructure to deploy, manage, and
operate a full SOA.
What is a Network Interface Card (NIC) The most important PC device is the network interface card (NIC). Each computer on the network, including the servers, is required to have one installed. It is the NIC that provides connectivity between the PC and the network's physical medium, optic cable. Most of the new motherboards available today for PCs and servers have the network interface card integrated with the motherboard. Older computers and some newer computers do not provide onboard network interfaces which will equire a NIC to be added.
Laptop Computer The second area is about simplification of Enterprise Java and
mixing and matching the best of both worldsopen source and
commercial productsusing BEAs blended development and deployment
approach. After highlighting the benefits of leveraging open source
innovation, Carges described how WebLogic Server provides
administrative tooling and capabilities for the Spring open source
framework and Apache Tomcat that goes even beyond the native tools
available. He announced the acquisition of M7, makers of NitroX, an
Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). NitroX,
available now from http://m7.com, supports sophisticated
development of web applications based on industry standard and open
source frameworks, including Struts, Hibernate, Java Server Faces
and JavaServer Pages. BEA plans to merge its existing BEA WebLogic
Workshop developer tools capabilities with the M7 toolset to
create the BEA Workshop for Java
IDE. With the acquisition of M7, BEA is taking bold, new steps
to deliver to developers a more complete and easy-to-use
development environment on the Eclipse platform supporting the
blended development and deployment model.
Acronis True Image comes in a desktop version which customers can download directly, as well as enterprise versions available through solution providers. The Enterprise Server and Server for Windows versions allow customers to create an exact server disk image over a network and backup and restore individual files and databases. They also allow the recovery of crashed servers, as well as instant bare metal restores. Bare metal restore applications provide fast, based recovery for enterprise servers, workstations, or desktops by restoring the operating system and data in case of a complete system failure.
Desktop Computer The third area is all about the advances in the BEA JRockit Java
Virtual Machine (JVM) taking Java in new demanding areas where
utilizing Java had not been an option. Carges pointed out that BEA
JRockit is at the cutting edge of JVM innovation, delivering
industry-leading
performance and reliability. In
addition, BEA JRockit is now the only JVM with deterministic
garbage collection and therefore the ability to guarantee
unprecedented latencies.
Notebooks During the three-day event in Santa Clara, BEA showcased several
demonstrations targeted at executives, architects, IT professionals
and developers. BEA demonstrated to executives how BEA technology
enables improved customer experience for their customers and makes
business processes more fluid by for example enabling a customer
facing application with Voice over IP (VoIP). IT professionals were
introduced to new ways of aligning business and IT, to break down
stove pipes of information and make the business more agile.
Architects were shown how to build an implementable roadmap for
successful SOA deployment that delivers business value and is
relying on BEA products built from the ground up for SOA. And BEA
demonstrated to developers how they can get their projects done
writing less code and following best practices while leveraging all
the best of open source and BEA technology for rock solid
results.
Lenovo For more information on BEAWorld news, press releases, keynotes,
sessions and community, please visit www.bea.com/news and click on
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Hard Drive About BEAWorld
Travelstar BEAWorld is the annual infrastructure software technology
conference designed to provide critical insights, hands on
instruction, best-practice strategies, and opportunities for
interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders,
visionaries and expert practitioners.
Gateway In addition to working to make SOA a successful reality,
BEAWorld delivers the latest information on BEAs infrastructure
technologies including BEA Tuxedo, the BEA WebLogic products, the
BEA AquaLogic products and a Partner Showcase to highlight the
latest and greatest developments from the extensive BEA partner
community. To register or receive more information about the Santa
Clara event, please visit www.bea.com/beaworld.
Laptop Parts Additional events are scheduled to be held throughout the year
in the following cities: London (Oct. 11-12); Paris (Oct. 13-14);
Prague (Oct. 18-19); Tokyo (Oct. 25-26); and Beijing (Dec.
7-8).
Software About BEA
Hard Drives BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise
infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to
accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product
lines WebLogic, Tuxedo, JRockit, and the new AquaLogic family of
Service Infrastructure help customers reduce IT complexity and
successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve
business agility and efficiency. For more information please visit
www.bea.com.
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