SOA in the Cloud on Ulitzer
It's Thursday morning, you're the CEO of a large, publicly traded company,
and you just called your executives into the conference room for the exciting
news. The board of directors has approved the acquisition of a key
competitor, and you're looking for a call-to-action to get everyone planning
for the next steps.
You talk to the sales executives about the integration of both sales forces
in three months time, and they are excited about the new prospects. You talk
to the HR director who is ready to address the change they need to make in
two months. You speak to the buildings and maintenance director who can have
everyone moved that needs to be moved in three months. Your heart is filled
with pride.
However, when you ask the CIO about chang... (more)
The Gartner Group just listed "9 ways to measure SOA success.” Not to take
anything away from Gartner, but theirs is a pretty basic list, if you ask
me. Indeed, these nine measurements are really about any successful
architecture, using SOA approaches or not, which is fine. However, I have a
few of my own that are more specific to SOA.
Here are Gartner's nine:
1. Improved efficiency, par... (more)
Yes, but it's not the only driver. There can be substantial cost benefits
when leveraging cloud computing but, as we pointed out, your mileage may
vary. You have to consider the cost holistically with other factors,
including strategic benefits that are typically harder to define but are
there nonetheless.
It's easy to determine that cloud computing is less expensive than
traditional on... (more)
Want to know what gets my blood pressure up? It's when there's both a huge
shift in thinking around how we should do computing, namely cloud computing,
and at the same time, there's a bunch of information out there that causes
confusion. As cloud computing hype spikes to a frenzy, so does the number of
less-than-intelligent things that I hear about it and its relationship to
SOA.
We've ... (more)
Dave continues the discussion around the McKinsey report on Cloud Computing.
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Dave is an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today.In addition, Dave is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON's 
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