Evaluating (Enterprise) Middleware Technologies

Jeff Gosper
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences

Tuesday 25 June at 11am

Abstract

Mission critical enterprise and e-business systems, are required to be highly available, i.e. 24x7. This implies fault tolerant, robust systems with fail-over capabilities. These systems are also required to cope with high throughput, particularly intermittent/surge behaviour, maintain data integrity/consistency across a variety of sub-systems and grow as the enterprise grows. All enterprises need to consider what software infrastructure is best for their specific situation.

The MTE project has been established that evaluate 'commercial-off-the-shelf' enterprise software infrastructures. These evaluations aim at assisting enterprises in making the right choices when they designing, purchasing, and deploying such infrastructure. Our evaluations are based on real experience to produce 'hard figures' on competing enterprise middleware technologies. The talk will cover the objectives, methodologies, and outcomes, as well as our i-Mate process for middleware selection.

Short resume

Jeffrey Gosper is Group Leader of the Software Architectures and Component Technologies (SACT) at the CSIRO and is heading the Middleware Technology Evaluation project. Jeff has taken up this role after being tempted back from the UK, where he had resided the last decade. Previous to the working at the CSIRO, Jeff was a Senior Software Consultant with the Tripos Software Consultancy Service (UK). In this role he was responsible for complete life cycle software development and project management in informatics solutions primarily targeting data/application integration via distributed object computing. His skills include customer interfacing, technology evangelism, requirements gathering, object oriented analysis and design, as well as data analysis and visualization with implementation skills in both Java and VB. He holds an MSc in Advanced Computing from Kings College London and a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. He has extensive experience in teaching and research (being a university lecturer for almost 10 years) and has published many papers as well as speaking at numerous industry and scientific conferences.

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