Yesterday Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group gave a “SOA Wake” talk at the Burton Group Catalyst 09 show - explaining what she meant by her now-famous blog post ‘SOA Is dead: long live services” As usual, good straight talk from Anne.
Her point with the original post: SOA got sold as a thing in [...]
Lots has been written about open source and cloud computing recently. Dion Hincfliffe recently wrote on a Cloud Computing and open source face off. James Urquhart generally does a great job on focusing on the customer. His recently post on Three debates that will benefit cloud computing started out well, talking about smb vs enterprise [...]
Enterprise are starting to adopt cloud computing. The ones that have web centric business models like media companies are either already doing it or are moving towards it rapidly. Financial services companies are moving slower, as compliance/API security issues have to be carefully looked at.
Michael Healey recently wrote “8 questions to ask before going live [...]
EMC’s RSA Security division released a two studies. Few comments:
- 50% of all folks interviewed (enterprises with more than $1B in revenue) are doing cloud computing
- 66% of those do not have a security strategy
- RSA has put together a “Security for Business Innovation” council comprised of 10 security executives chosen by RSA.
Kudos to RSA [...]
Many of you probably read Phil Wainewrights recent blog on “Why Bother with Multi-tenancy?” Good reading. The pros and cons for on-premise and on-demand are well known. no point of stating the obvious. The question on how to make a decision is trickier. Here is my perspective:
Market/Customer:
This is by far the most important perspective. [...]
Much debate on SOA vs. Cloud computing. Not sure it is worth having.
SOA is an approach. Much like OOP (object oriented programming). Make building and maintaining IT systems more efficient.
Cloud Computing is about enabling technology. Much like Client/Server or Web Computing, the drivers are costs and time to market/revenue.
ALL customers that we talk to get [...]
Interesting Forrester report called “Trends in Cloud Computing” by James Staten dated May 26th, 2009. Worthwhile read. Few noteworthy points:
“Cloud computing” contains the seeds of IT’s next generation – YES. This is real, much like client server and Web computing… in fact probably has benefits of both – cost and revenue.
Cloud’s customers (slide #16) – [...]
The move by enterprises to store data in the cloud is logical… but this won’t happen over night. Moving crucial data to the cloud as the sole archive will most likely be one of the last business operations to move entirely to the could. Why? Trust. Spoken before on enterprise trust issues with the cloud, [...]
Ariel Silverstone wrote last week on the dangers and opportunity of cloud security ahead. Agree with his take that time to market is one of the biggest drivers for cloud computing. Going from months to weeks in set-up time increases productivity and potential revenue. Silverstone also notes that standards are important – the CSA [...]
Early last month I took part in a cloud panel at the SIIA NetGain Conference in San Francisco. I posted my thoughts here right after, and the video is now up on the NetGain site. Some interesting presentations from a couple of other information cloud companies… the video also gives some background on how Sonoa’s [...]
