Cloud Computing Books
Posted on 09. 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 [...]
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Clouds and SOA: A powerful combination
Posted on 07. May, 2009 by vbrown.
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 data centers – are continuing to evolve to a central virtualized platform that offers maximum flexibility and use of computing assets [...]
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SOA Discovers MDM
Posted on 02. May, 2009 by vbrown.
If you asked a random sample of CIOs how they feel about their data strategy, most would probably respond that it’s in good shape. They’ve implemented data warehousing, business analysts have access to BI repositories and tools, data security is tight, and they may even have a data governance function in place. Generally, they recognize [...]
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SOA at the “Structural Break”
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by vbrown.
Those of us who are IT strategists and practitioners – and especially if we’re SOA advocates – can gain some critical insights from an excellent article in the McKinsey Quarterly by Richard Rumelt. Rumelt is Professor of Business and Society , Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles. In his article, he describes [...]
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Are We Any Better Than We Used to Be?
Posted on 17. 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 [...]
