by Larry Barrett, InternetNews.com, January 25, 2008IBM on Wednesday made its first significant foray into the emerging but relatively low-profile complex event processing (CEP) market with its acquisition of privately held AptSoft. CEP applications aggregate information from corporate databases and applications in real time and applies rules to discern patterns and events that otherwise would [...]

ARMONK, N.Y. – January 23, 2008 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is expanding its business event processing software portfolio by acquiring AptSoftCorporation, a privately-held software company based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Financial details were not disclosed.AptSoft technology helps businesses uncover the cause-and-effect relationships among seemingly disparate business events that occur in milliseconds or throughout [...]

Part 2: Requirements for a future epidemic early warning system
by David Luckham
This is the second of three articles on future event-driven early warning systems for epidemic outbreaks
I will ask you to suspend disbelief for a moment. The overall task from a top level point of view is monumental. Your primary reaction will be “how could [...]

by Cath Jennings, ComputerWeekly.com
A few years ago, everyone was talking about the real-time enterprise and how it was destined to be the future. The idea was that companies would be instantaneously aware of any important business events taking place so that they could respond appropriately and immediately.
But that has not happened because of both the [...]

by Kim Zetter, WIRED
Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane’s control systems, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
The computer network in the Dreamliner’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is connected to the [...]

by Joe McKendrick, ZDNet, 01-04-2008The drums keep beating louder for the impending marriage of SOA with Event Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing. This is top of the news for many analysts, and something IBM, Oracle, and other vendors are positioning future offerings around. Is this the year when organizations will start linking SOA efforts [...]

Part 1 The Present Situation (revised 1-10-2008)
by David Luckham
This is the first of three articles on event-driven early warning systems for global epidemic outbreaks.
Isn’t it about time that monitoring for outbreaks of highly transmittable diseases throughout the world is based on a real time, autonomous, event processing infrastructure? Especially since in this age of [...]

Read Wired Magazine’s Q&A with Author Nicholas Carr
“on the Terrifying Future of Computing”

Nicholas Carr is high tech’s Captain Buzzkill — the go-to guy for bad news. A former executive editor of Harvard Business Review, he tossed a grenade under big-budget corporate computing with his 2004 polemic Does IT Matter? (Answer: Not really, because all [...]