David Linthicum

SOA in the Cloud on Ulitzer While there are many attempts to fix the badly broken IT architectures within our enterprises, most ‘solutions' just put another technology layer on top of the existing technologies in hopes that the technology will somehow fix the issues. As you may ... (more)

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 ... (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... (more)

Dave talks about how to put private clouds in thier place. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (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... (more)

The idea of governance is to provide command, control, discovery, and monitoring, as well as design and development support for services that make up your architecture, including on-premise and in the cloud, and either leveraging virtualization.  Most people get that, but in some... (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. Howe... (more)

Dave talks about how to use goverance to make cloud computing work. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

Those who approach virtualization these days are often taken aback by the complexity of the architecture when faced with the number of layers they must deal with to deploy virtualization. Most typically consider virtualization around data center optimization or private clouds, an... (more)

The value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the concept of agility, or the ability to limit risk by managing change. Today, many enterprises are fighting to make this a reality, yet few approach SOA using the right methodologies and technology, and most have yet to define... (more)

Dave talks about the tradeoffs when dealing with interoperability and cloud computing. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

Dave discusses the debate around private vs. public clouds. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

Dave discusses the recent Forrester report, warning companies about cloud computing. Also, the recent Google outage. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

A cross-cast with the SOA Consortium, Dave points out the intersections between cloud computing and SOA. Slides are at www.slideshare.net/linthicum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

A cross-cast with the SOA Consortium, Dave points out the intersections between cloud computing and SOA. Slides are at www.slideshare.net/linthicum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

A cross-cast with the SOA Consortium, Dave points out the intersections between cloud computing and SOA. Slides are at www.slideshare.net/linthicum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

A cross-cast with the SOA Consortium, Dave points out the intersections between cloud computing and SOA. Slides are at www.slideshare.net/linthicum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

A cross-cast with the SOA Consortium, Dave points out the intersections between cloud computing and SOA. Slides are at www.slideshare.net/linthicum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

A cross-cast with the SOA Consortium, Dave points out the intersections between cloud computing and SOA. Slides are at www.slideshare.net/linthicum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)

A cross-cast with the SOA Consortium, Dave points out the intersections between cloud computing and SOA. Slides are at www.slideshare.net/linthicum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... (more)