Had a great conversation earlier this week with Bob Scheier. He’s currently writing a series on cloud computing for InfoWorld – his piece from last week about CTOs managing the cloud was really thought provoking and on-target for what we’ve been talking about here on Edge of the Cloud.
From the article: “Not all compute clouds [...]
Michael Richardson, CTO at a company called SelectMinds, is doing some innovative things in the enterprise social computing space today. He and I fleshed out some thoughts on this topic in a piece that was published today in ZDNet. We discuss how social computing can help your company innovate and why you should jump in. [...]
I recently sat down with my friend Aaron Smith to get his thoughts on the business benefits of APIs. You can read more of Aaron’s thoughts on APIs here.
What do you see as the business benefits of APIs?
Just like every business has its own processes and revenue models, not all will benefit from APIs in [...]
Greg Brail from Sonoa does a great job in discussing the importance of cloud services in his latest blog post here. He talks about the elastic capabilities of cloud vs. Web services and why they’re good for business.
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 [...]
I recently wrote a post for ebizQ on APIs as the key to cloud convergence, which discusses the convergence of two cloud models cropping up today – both the “outside-in” revenue and “inside-out” cost views from the cloud. More detail in the ebizQ piece.
When consuming or producing cloud services from the enterprise point of view, [...]
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,” [...]
The cloud conversation today often centers on how cloud computing can benefit the enterprise. However, it’s really those mid-sized companies and departments within larger companies that have the needs and capabilities to cloud compute.
Mid-sized companies are just trying to survive today’s shaky economic climate and they need the capability to scale with their needs quickly [...]
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 [...]
