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Survivor's Guide to 2007: Application Infrastructure: Page 8 of 9

In 2007, we'll be taking a look at how well these products can handle the increased traffic and arrival rates of requests that come along with Ajax-based applications. XML-focused networking products have always been hampered by lower throughput than other networking devices, due to the compute-intensive process of parsing XML, but this weakness has always been easily dismissed because of the lack of high-volume XML in the enterprise. Ajax and a robust SOA are set to change that and bring performance of these products back into the forefront as something to consider strongly when making a purchasing decision.

You'll need to do some capacity planning in general, as the arrival of AJAX and mashups will likely strain back-office servers, maybe even put a damper on server-consolidation efforts by gobbling most of the processing power on that server you thought you were going to share with another application.

Monday Morning Quarterback

APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Last year at this time, we said ESBs were going to be important in 2006 and indeed they were. Everyone's implementing one, but most enterprises are still struggling with how to manage them.