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Leveraging the Hype Cycle
Posted on10. Nov, 2009 by vbrown.
How do you leverage the Gartner Hype Cycle?
For the past 7 or 8 years we’ve relied on the Hype Cycle to provide interesting, and often useful, information. Most of us refer to it to assess the progress of emerging technologies. And many of us leverage it to support our positions for or against a new [...]
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Cloud Computing Books
Posted on09. May, 2009 by vbrown.
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 George Reese, was released in April, and David Linthicum ’s new book, “Cloud Computing and SOA [...]
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Are We Any Better Than We Used to Be?
Posted on17. Mar, 2009 by vbrown.
Yesterday, a younger colleague and I were brainstorming about a particularly sticky issue we were facing-involving technology, best practice, and how to communicate benefits to stakeholders-problems we all deal with every day. At the end of our session, where lots of extremely brilliant ideas and insights were exchanged, he asked me a simple question. I [...]
