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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).
Secret No. 2 - The Myth of Five NinesPresented By Hub Vandervoort , Ken RuggThree minutes of downtime may not seem detrimental now but if that failure occurs during peak transaction times, it will result in lost revenue and poor customer service. In this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to deliver a highly available enterprise infrastructure. This podcast is the 2nd in a series of 5 that unveil the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure. |
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Secret No. 1 - Cost and ComplexityPresented By Hub Vandervoort , Ken RuggIn this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to manage the cost and complexity associated with delivering a highly available enterprise infrastructure. This podcast is the 2nd in a series of 5 that unveil the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure. |
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Progress Software Buys IONA, Mindreef: Expands Options for Business-Critical SOA, ESBPresented By Hub VandervoortFeaturing: Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and Integration Developer News |
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Multiple ESBs: SOA Reality in a Federated EnvironmentPresented By Hub VandervoortFeaturing: Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and an industry expert from Gartner, Inc. |
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SOA: Time to Value for ITPresented By Hub VandervoortHub Vandervoort discusses the steps for bridging the gap between formulating new business plans for change and creating the information technology in an SOA to support them. |
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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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Is SOA a Step Closer to the Code Reuse Panacea?Presented By Hub VandervoortProgress Software has been touting code reuse dating back to the days of client/server application development. How does Software Oriented Architecture (SOA) expand those goals and move developers a step closer to true code reuse? Progress CTO Hub Vandervoort explains on this edition of Network World Panorama. |
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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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SOA: Time to Value of ITPresented By Hub VandervoortHub Vandervoort discusses the steps for bridging the gap between formulating new business plans for change and creating the information technology in an SOA to support them. |
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Why the Enterprise Service BusProgress CTO Hub Vandervoort answers the question: Why the Enterprise Service Bus. |
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