Intel pulls Sarvega into software effort

“Intel can take the XESOS technology and incorporate it into other value-add products,” says Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink. While Intel would not market its own distinct products to IT shops, OEMs could marry their hardware or software to the Intel technology to take advantage of the XML capabilities.

“One theory is that Intel is looking into building out its blade-management infrastructure, and XESOS can be a good software component that helps Intel offer XML networking capabilities,” Bloomberg says. Intel’s OEMs could take those capabilities and incorporate them into their blades. Sarvega was finding a niche in the blade market, signing a deal with Egenera to integrate its XML wares into the company’s BladeFrame System.

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Intel Focuses on Security With Sarvega Acquisition

Industry researcher ZapThink projected that XML-based Internet Learn how the leader in Internet services can help you start and grow your business online. Network Solutions. Go Farther. and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008.

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Intel buys XML router company

Intel buys XML router company
Michael Singer, CNET News.com,
August 18, 2005

Chipmaker Intel signaled that it’s once again interested in selling communications equipment with its purchase on Wednesday of Sarvega, which makes network routers that use the XML standard to improve Internet traffic.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Sarvega, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., posted $7 million in revenue in 2003 and lists Intel as one of the supporters that contributed to Sarvega’s $20 million venture capital fund.

The 5-year-old Sarvega has developed what it calls an “XML router,” a device that can look at the content of a message using Extensible Markup Language and send it to the appropriate point on a network.

An XML router is meant to complement the IP routers and switches that carry the streams of data traffic across the Internet, Sarvega said.

Industry analysts at ZapThink have projected that XML-based Internet and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008.

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Intel Acquires Sarvega to Bolster Software, Enterprise Platform Strategies

Industry analysts have projected that XML-based Internet and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008.(1) [ZapThink, LLC]

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Intel Snares XML Solution

XML-based Internet and corporate network traffic will grow from 15 percent in 2004 to almost 50 percent in 2008, according to projections released last November by the research firm ZapThink.

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SAP Joined By Tech Giants In Business-Automation Push

“Bringing several major vendors together to agree to a single product approach to SOA is good for customers, because it will help make the interoperability promise of the services underlying the architecture a reality,” Jason Bloomberg, analyst for market researcher ZapThink LLC, said. “Broadly, this announcement is a signal that SOA is maturing, as incumbent vendors jump into the fray with both feet.”

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Intel Joins Eclipse Consortium

However, ZapThink Senior Analyst Jason Bloomberg downplayed that thinking, noting that it doesn’t mean Intel will support Microsoft less, “just that they will be adding Eclipse to their grab bag of software capabilities.”

“I don’t see that this announcement has any major implications for Microsoft,” Bloomberg said. “Remember, Intel wants to drive the market for their chips, so they don’t really care who’s brand of software is running on them.”

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Intel Joins Open-Source Tools Consortium

“Intel’s primary focus is to drive the market for their chips, and they don’t really care whose brand of software is running on them,” said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, a Cambridge, Mass.-based market research firm. “I doubt that Intel’s participation in Eclipse will cause any problems to the Wintel duopoly–after all, Eclipse software runs on Windows. As companies move up the layers of abstraction to Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures, it becomes less important what operating systems or hardware platforms are under the covers, so Intel is simply trying to cover their bets so that their chips are found in as many places as possible.”

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Ease of Use to Be All the Rave at JavaOne

“Sun is launching a Java labeling initiative clearly modeled after Intel’s successful ‘Intel Inside’ campaign,” said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, of Cambridge, Mass. “But while Intel’s campaign led to end users preferring hardware with Intel chips, leading directly to revenue for Intel, such a direct connection is not apparent for Sun. Just how much of the money paid for a ‘Java Inside’ mobile phone will go to Sun? The answer isn’t clear.”

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Service-Oriented Process

Business processes have always been an important, if understated, asset of enterprises. The nature and methods by which a company runs its business changes on a daily basis at various different levels in the company — from high-level strategic changes to lower-level implementation details. As a result of these changes, enterprises constantly struggle to make their businesses more responsive to business changes by connecting their business requirements to their IT and human capabilities.

However, automating business processes has historically been a difficult-to-achieve goal for most enterprises due to the flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Fortunately, businesses have a solution in Service-Oriented Process: a separate abstraction layer for business process definition and execution that leverages the capabilities of Service-oriented Architectures. Service-Oriented Process provides businesses an approach to tying business requirements to the Service model represented in the SOA metamodel, thereby providing a flexible approach towards implementing architectures that promote business agility.