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 [...]
Jonathan Mendez wrote an AWESOME blog post on API Battle Plans: Fighting for Next. Liked the concept of CUDA – content, utility, data and analytics.
At Sonoa we completely agree with Jonathan’s assessment. As with all inflections points, we will only know after we have passed it, but it certainly fees like we have either reached [...]
Much discussion on blogshere on the public vs. private cloud debate. Good to see the discussion, but as Peter Galvin says – “opinions are inside the bldg, facts are outside.” So as always lets discuss this from a customer point of view.
Let me start by saying every customer that I have talked to in the [...]
Everyone’s been weighing in on yesterday’s Google outage experienced by 14% of their user base in Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, Blogger and AdSense. Unfortunately outages do happen inside and outside the enterprise. Some are more visible than others. For all those cloud skeptics sitting on the side lines, saying “I told [...]
Read this post on why “Cloud Computing is Not Burger King.” It claims that cloud computing hasn’t reached a mature age where customization is possible. The author, Lori MacVittie, highlights control as the key aspect that is needed by IT departments in order to effectively customize the cloud — and says we aren’t there yet. [...]
Yesterday I took part in the cloud computing panel at SIIA NetGain with moderator John Blossom from Shore Communications. We discussed the concerns for companies moving business to the cloud.
Larry Schwartz, president of a company called Newstex, approaches the cloud with what he calls a “try first, justify second” approach. This might make sense, but [...]
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 [...]
