Interesting article from Dion Hinchcliffe on running your SOA like a Web start up. As with most of Dion’s writing, well worth a read. The difference between SOA and cloud computing/APIs is well understood. Blogged on it recently. The question is how can we apply Web principles to the enterprise computing? Lets start by understanding [...]
Here at Sonoa we are in the API business – helping companies open and consume. Today is an API Revolution of sorts. So, the question we sometimes encounter is what’s an API and why should your company have one?
So why do you need an API? For one thing, everyone else is diving into the API [...]
Julian Goldsmith wrote last week on a recent Silicon.com survey of CIOs about whether cloud computing is “part of their IT strategy to cut costs.” The majority of those surveyed said no, they are not looking to cloud computing to cut costs today. This resistance is to be expected and really comes as no surprise. [...]
David Linthicum wrote an interesting piece the other day about “What SOA Can Learn from Cloud Computing and Vice Versa.” He includes some valid points about what companies need to address when building out services for the cloud and how they can learn from SOA.
I agree with the need for what David calls “service expandability,” [...]
A few months ago, we had the opportunity to speak with Jeff Kaplan – a leading influencer in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing and managed services and managing director of THINKstrategies Inc. You can read his personal work on the Thinkstrategies blog. This week, I reconnected with him and heard more of his specific [...]
In talking to companies that are at various stages of making the leap to the cloud, invariably the biggest concern is trust. They want to know that their transactions and interactions with customers will be secure, in compliance and performing at optimal speeds with zero disruption. These are big issues and they’re not to be [...]
