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Hub Vandervoort
Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Infrastructure
Hub Vandervoort has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant and senior technology executive in the networking, communications software and Internet industries. As CTO of Enterprise Infrastructure in the Corporate Partnerships Group at Progress Software, Hub is responsible for assessing market trends and partner requirements to formulate the strategic technology direction for the company’s high-growth portfolio products, including the Progress brands: Sonic, Actional, FUSE, Apama, DataXtend, Shadow, and DataDirect. Before assuming the CTO position, he served in multiple roles within Progress, including VP of Strategic Services, CTO of Financial Services for Sonic Software, and CTO of the Americas, leading a number of strategic growth initiatives.
Prior to Sonic Software, he co-founded three start-up ventures and held senior management positions with early pioneers in the emerging message-oriented middleware market. Among these, he was CEO of Horizon Strategies, Inc., which he co-founded and merged with Momentum Software Corporation, where he then served as EVP, Strategic Planning. He was also co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of TSCentral, Inc., a leading Exchange Portal and ASP solutions provider.
Hub is a frequent speaker at industry events and contributor to numerous industry publications. He also co-founded and served on the boards of several industry associations, including the Message-Oriented-Middleware Association (MOMA).
7 Points of SOA MediationPresented By Hub VandervoortHub Vandervoort shares the 7 Points of SOA Mediation that will enable companies to achieve better business results, faster. In this podcast, Hub details how transport, semantics, location, sequence, error recovery, quality of service, and interaction will help SOA integrators connect data sources and enhance enterprise application flexibility. |
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How Do You Measure SOA Success? Try IT BacklogsPresented By Hub VandervoortHub Vandervoort discusses a simple, direct way to measure SOA success—check out the level of IT backlogs. Joe McKendrick interviewed Hub prior to the recent InfoWorld Executive Forum. For many companies implementing SOA, the overall backlog of IT requests is shrinking. Companies are seeing drastic reductions in project cycle times and consolidation in purchasing across the enterprise. |
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The Interaction Model, Part VIII on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis video focuses on the seventh point of enterprise integration mediation, The Interaction Model. It is a whiteboard presentation that presents the model mediation at its finest, creating loosely coupled technology as well as loosely coupled organizations that—with all seven points of mediation discussed—now can move in a more agile way than was possible with other technologies. |
 
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Quality of Service and Privacy, Part VII on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureIn the 7th installment of our Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series, Hub Vandervoort, talks about Quality of Service (QoS) and Privacy/Protection - the 6 point of SOA mediation. The video offers a high-level overview of the capabilities within Sonic ESB by itself, and in how its enhanced by Progress Actional. Together they create the foundation for QoS and QoP - trust and commitment. |
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Sequencing and Error Recovery, Part VI on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis is the sixth in a series of whiteboard presentations that examine integration architecture. Sequencing and error recovery are points 4 and 5 of the 7 Points of SOA Mediation. In the video presentation, you will see how and why you should delegate sequencing and error recovery completely away from web services, and how Sonic ESB is designed to handle your sequencing and error recovery processes. |
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Transport, Location and Semantics, Part V on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureWatch this video to learn more about the 7 Points of Mediation - a core consideration when building and supporting a SOA infrastructure - and the importance of each in relation to supporting a truly agile and responsive business application infrastructure. This is the fifth in a series of whiteboard presentations that examine integration architecture as a foundation for operational responsiveness. |
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Dynamic Routing Architecture, Part IV on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureIn the fourth of our enterprise integration whiteboard series, Hub Vandervoort, introduces the Progress Sonic Dynamic Routing Architecture (DRA), its purpose, and its capabilities that above and beyond other enterprise messaging-based middleware software offerings. |
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High Availability & Load Balancing, Part III on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis is the third in a series of whiteboard presentations by Hub Vandervoort that examine integration architecture as a foundation for operational responsiveness. This video examines a unique, patented technology that enables Progress Sonic to optimize the high availability of a cluster while maintaining performance. |
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Clusters and Transparency, Part II on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis is the second in a series of whiteboard presentations that examine integration architecture as a foundation for operational responsiveness. In this video, Hub Vandervoort, explains how clusters and clustering are necessary for achieving three characteristics vital to distributed networks: performance, scalability, and reliability. These characteristics, in turn, are necessary for operational responsiveness. |
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Messaging Architecture, Part I on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureTo benefit fully from the capabilities of the Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) solution suite requires the right foundation - a services and application platform architecture whose key elements provide services, information, and operational enterprise integration. This short whiteboard presentation explains how the foundation of a strong messaging architecture will help you achieve actionable insight into the events that affect your business day in and day out. |
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Introduction to Whiteboard SeriesTo benefit fully from the capabilities of the Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) solution suite requires the right foundation - a services and application platform architecture whose key elements provide services, information, and operational enterprise integration. This short whiteboard presentation introduces the foundation of RPM - the basic first steps to helping you achieve operational responsiveness. |
SOA At The Edge Of The Enterprise
In the real world if you break a window, a door doesn’t fall down. But in the IT world, small changes in data or policy can have a big impact on the success of SOA. Listen as Hub Vandervoort tells us how advanced service-oriented architecture (SOA) toolsets in 2012 empower multiple dimensions (of) integration – service mediation, data semantics, policy and governance – to enable business agility and asymmetric change across extended internal and external SOA environments. This presentation was given at the February 2012 IDN SOA Summit.
Next-Generation SOA for Next-Generation Agility
Learn how you can enable change – without impacting your business operations – and improve the effectiveness of your SOA team. Don’t miss this must-listen to interview with one of the industry’s leading gurus - Progress Software's Hub Vandervoort.
Customer Transaction Management, Gaining Visibility, Control and Reliability
If you don’t have real-time visibility across all of your business transactions, how will you respond to failures or interruptions? Start getting the level of visibility you need to optimize business processes and give your customers the service they deserve. Watch this Bank Systems & Technology-moderated webcast to learn more.
Mainframes Made Visible in Banking
Listen to this archived webinar and find out how banks are adopting solutions to gain the visibility into legacy systems in order to address the regulatory issues and market dynamics that are demanding greater transparency into all banking transactions. This webinar is moderated by Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Director Greg MacSweeney
A "New Economy" Approach to Event Driven Integration
Prioritize business ROI with SOA, BPM and events. In this 20 minute videocast hosted by Integration Developer News, you’ll find the key to aligning SOA to business priorities. During this videocast Hub Vandervoort, CTO – Americas, at Progress Software, discusses how IT architects can shorten time to value of BPM, how you can leverage SOA for new levels of process optimization, and how to connect federated functions of the business to increase potential for process optimization.
Enable Agility and Change
Listen to the intro of Hub Vandervoort's recent keynote at Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum. Get insight into the 7 Points of Mediation and the importance of building for change and change management. Today’s integrated infrastructure isn’t just about an ESB, it's about the transparency, policy management, semantics, visibility and governability of your web services.
The Data and SOA Collision – Is Your Organization Ready?
This webinar provides ‘a day in the life of a developer’ format to explain how SOA creates data integration complexities that are often magnified by reconciling differences between applications and services with hand-coded point-to-point mappings.
Integration Infrastructure: More Than Meets the Eye
What happens when poor application integration decisions are made? As you know, various aspects of integration infrastructure are all connected but when you choose to address one aspect and ignore another, you make trade-offs that may not be immediately apparent. Listen to an archived webinar presented by Hub Vandervoort and get some thoughts on how you can make better decisions that will ensure your integration success.
Socially Oriented Architecture: Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges
Are you finding it difficult to align your SOA across your extended enterprise?
SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents–using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. Hub shares the three critical factors that will determine the success of any SOA initiative: free connection of interactions, active mediation of policy, and precise control of semantics. And he will also share success stories of how organizations who are focusing on the social challenges are gaining SOA success. Download the companion E-book too!
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