Add Three Little Letters--CEP--to Your SOA

I've developed a minor obsession with complex-event management. CEP software is getting to where it can recognize patterns on the fly that allow enterprise IT to become much more efficient.

It's not just there to keep small problems from becoming big problems--although I don't wish to understate that aspect--and it's not just there to upsell and cross-sell, but to drive real-time IT resource adjustment, something that is enhanced by all the virtualization going on. Real-time flex as it were.

The new issue of NOW has a little sidebar about CEP for people who may not be familiar with it. You can see this article online.

If you're further down this road and have already grokked CEP, look to the right of this page and start reading the CEP blogs I've cited!