Virtualization of the Middle Tier

It's been interesting to see the big push for virtualization of the middle tier.    If you look at the continuing growth of SpringSource and Oracle Fusion Middleware, you can expect to see a number of presentations at VMWorld and Oracle Open World.

I'm currently spending a lot of time looking at building virtualized infrastructures for the middle tier.  I'm  seeing the tremendous demand of customers for the evolution of their physical middle-tier environments into virtualization.  Strong customer demands in this area include:

• Creation of virtualized apps that are a suite of virtual machines containing, database, application server and LDAP suites that can be deployed with the click of a button.
• Creation of development virtualized environments where it is very easy to deploy multiple development environments in Linux, Windows, for test environments.  Very easy for developers to create snapshots that they can roll back to.
• Deployment of large sets of virtualized desktops using products like VMware View.

Tools provided by VMware such as Lab Manager, vCenter Update Manager, Host Profiles and Baselines make it very easy to keep systems synchronized and agile for quickly changing development environments.  Once a virtualized environments are set up for middle-tier applications, its great to see customers saying things like "wow, its amazing how we every survived without virtualization".  Lots of great success stories in this area.

Collaborate 2010 Las Vegas - Lots of great Fusion Middleware presentations

Looking at the schedule there are a lot of great sessions on Fusion Middleware.   The nice thing about the Collaborate conference is you can attend in-depth technical sessions on Fusion Middleware at the IOUG sessions and then attend great Fusion Middleware sessions that are application related at the OAUG and Quest sessions.   Three great groups putting on a great conference.

See everybody there.

Demystifying Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Series is Coming!

When Oracle Fusion Middleware first came out I went around the United States and Great Britain and did a number of presentations called "Demystifying Oracle Fusion Middeware".  I've been involved in Oracle Fusion Middleware pack to the day when I delivered the first Oracle JDeveloper internal class at Oracle Corporation on the very first beta release of the product.  This presentation was a one hour presentation and associated white paper that explained  in layman's terms:

• They key components and products in Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• The importance and role of the different Oracle Fusion Middleware components.
• How it all fits together.
• The importance of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• Strategic Directions.

I've been asked constantly to update this presentation to Oracle 11g and make the presentation and white paper available again.  So by popular demand I am going to present a Demystifying Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g series and at the end an associated white paper.

Learning more on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g at User Conferences

I've been working with Oracle Java and Fusion Middleware solutions since teaching the first Oracle JDeveloper internal class using the first beta release of JDeveloper.  Since that time JDeveloper and Fusion Middleware has gone through a lot of changes.

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and JDeveloper 11g is the most significant release of these products since they've first come out.  The level of real declarative programming capability achieved with 11g is significant.  The new level of declarative programing now allows new middleware developers to play a larger and more productive role in middleware development projects. There are also a number of significant enhancements to all the components in the Oracle Fusion Middleware.  You can also listen to a series of Oracle and Sun strategy webinars on Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Here are some great upcoming conferences where you can learn more on Oracle 11g Middleware solutions.

RMOUG (Denver: Feb 16 - 18) - Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group - A fantastic local Oracle users conference.

Collab 10 (Las Vegas:Apr 18 - 22)  - Collaborate 10- The big Oracle users conference of the year.