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Flight Plan: Into the Clouds

Posted on26. Oct, 2009 by vbrown.

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Ok. You’ve heard enough to be convinced that there could be tangible benefits from adopting a Cloud Computing strategy – everyone seems to be doing it. Next big question… what benefits can you realize, and how? Can a Cloud Computing strategy support your mission and corporate goals? I’m going to “talk” about why and how [...]

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The Best Clouds Will Use SOA

Posted on28. Sep, 2009 by vbrown.

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I think that one of the most significant benefits from the over-heated interest in Cloud Computing may be the result of a change in the way we think about Services (SOA). Effective use of a Cloud - especially IaaS and PaaS - will essentially mandat

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Cloud Computing: More Substance than Hype!

Posted on03. Sep, 2009 by vbrown.

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I have this strong tendency to view any new technology, methodology, or any claims made by those who have “the answer”, as suspect – and that’s a big understatement! I’ve watched too many Silver Bullets wiz by over the years, only to miss their targ

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Cloud Computing Books

Posted on09. May, 2009 by vbrown.

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Ok. Cloud Computing is hitting the mainstream! (I know, for many of us it is already mainstream and we’re deep into it!) I offer as evidence the emergence of a couple of excellent books on the subject. ”Cloud Application Architectures”, by Ge

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Clouds and SOA: A powerful combination

Posted on07. May, 2009 by vbrown.

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As evidenced at IBM’s Impact event in Vegas this week, internal/private “Clouds” are a natural evolution (marriage) of platform virtualization and SOA. In leading enterprises, traditional data centers – often a proliferation of internal stovepipe da