Had the opportunity to meet and interact w/ Vivek Kundra at the NASA Ames Research Center yesterday. GREAT guy.As everybody knows, very big proponent of cloud computing.
The good news is that he is driving the agenda with a focus on time to solution and costs.
The hard part is going to be to get folks set [...]
There is a lot of talk about interoperability between cloud providers. Let me explain the use case. Enterprise A uses a cloud and wants to make sure that they can ’switch’ to another cloud provider. The reasons for switching can be many – costs, better technology fit with new provider etc.
A couple of important considerations [...]
Interesting article in the wsj.com recently. Authors argue that the pace of change is quickening- with compelling examples of entire industries – recorded music business and the newspaper business (and soon network television and book publishing) – that have been rearranged in only a few years.
Lots of parallels to draw with what is happening with [...]
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 [...]
Watching technology companies figure out their channel strategies is very interesting. Ask anybody who has run a technology company or a division of a large company and they will tell you the ‘how to ’scale’ the sales process’ is one of the hardest things – even harder than technology problems. Why? Because it involves people and [...]
