MTV3 is Finland’s biggest commercial TV channel. For MTV, the high availability of IT systems is fundamental, since they control the guidance instructions of the programme, advertising materials and advertising sales. ”The programme and advertising data needs to be transferred to the broadcasting systems without interruption under all circumstances. This places great demands on the reliability and availability of the IT infrastructure,” Systems manager Jari Koponen from MTV’s IT administration explains. < Case Introduction [pdf] > < LifeKeeper Solution >

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform provides Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), application and business-process integration capabilities in a single, easy-to-consume enterprise distribution. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the first comprehensive open source SOA product offering, designed to accelerate business execution within and across enterprises.  < Read more > < Nordicmind is your authorized Red Hat Distributor >

Interview with Bob Williamson, Senior Vice President, SteelEye Technology.  SteelEye - the leading developer of high availability clustering solutions recently announced that LifeKeeper supports also Microsoft Exchange 2007 both in LAN and WAN environments. We interviewed Mr. Bob Willamson who explains the challenges and options when securing business critical Exchange server. < Read More >

LANDesk - the most sold centralized management solution in the world keeps winning objective comparisons against competing solutions. Take a look at the most recent ones:

• Network World: LANDesk wins client management shootout
• Government Computer News:  LANDesk Application Virtualization wins the shootout

Contact Nordicmind when you are considering reliable and flexible client management solution.

Arkeia solutions have been deployed throughout nine of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) major flight and research centers, three of the United States Army divisions, three of the United States Drug Associations divisions, and throughout city offices from Los Angeles to Key West. “Arkeia has proven scalable and flexible, and their deep support for Linux has made them an ideal fit for NASA,” said Tomik Abrahamian, storage consultant at Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, California. < Read More >

According to Gartner, SOA usage will increase up to 80% in business critical applications during next three years. However, fulfilling enterprise requirements with SOA is a challenge itself. Key factors for that are fragmented data sources and process relationships between items. In order to resolve these challenges and make SOA integration smoother, JBoss has released MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services platform:

• One view for multiple data sources
• Data sources can be any type of sources (for example different type of databases, excel files, xml, SAP)
• Bidirectional data transfer between view and data sources
• Capture relationships among the data sources

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