Joe McKendrick Resources on ZDNet

ZDNet Author Biography: Joe McKendrick is a nationally published known author and consultant with deep knowledge and insights regarding trends and developments in the technology industry.He is a contributing editor to a number of national and international publications and Websites including Database Trends & Applications, Webservices.Org, ENT Online, and Enterprise Systems. He...; more about Joe McKendrick »

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Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?: "What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....; Tags: Hype, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day?: What is event processing and how could it make a difference? Here is one example of where it could take us: Scientists are talking about the possibility of an in-body network that could detect heart attacks or diabetic collapses and alert emergency services. A typical company deals...; Tags: Event, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Goodbye real-time era, hello 'event-driven' era: If banks are so smart with their terabytes' worth of customer information, why do you have to keep reminding them what language you speak every time you interact with them? 100 million events a month, but few are tied to data in databases Speaking...; Tags: Bank, Event, Storage, ATM, Databases, Financial Services, Networking, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Analyst: Start SOA governance now, even if its just on Excel: It's 11:00 -- do you know where your services are? Today's enterprise has a hodgepodge of services coming from all different directions -- from enterprise packaged applications, Web 2.0 and cloud applications, and devices of every size and sort. 'Just because you aren't aware of services doesn't...; Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Microsoft Excel, Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Microsoft's Oslo connections begin to bud: Microsoft took another step in unveiling its "Oslo" SOA strategy, with a sample application intended to not only demonstrate the vendor's interoperability as a SOA platform, and also show how it can automatically scale to meet the increased and unpredictable workloads SOA will bring to data centers. ...; Tags: Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-29

Analogy: WOA treats symptoms, but SOA the cure for IT complexity: "There is a very specific disease of Enterprise IT that SOA cures. It cures chronic ESSD, or Enterprise Software Stupidity Disease." Leave it to Miko Matsumura (Software AG) to come up with a clever analogy for all things service-oriented. Miko has been following the WOA-SOA brouhaha I...; Tags: Patient, Information Technology, SOA, Business User, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-28
'WOA: the SOA that works': "WOA: the SOA that works." That's how fellow ZDNet blogger and analyst Phil Wainewright described the Web Oriented Architecture phenomenon that has been a topic of hot discussion as of late, at the latest Analyst BriefingsDirect podcast we just wrapped yesterday. The podcast (audio...; Tags: SOA, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-25
SOA management, SOA governance -- keep them separated: What's the difference between "SOA governance" and "SOA management?" Aren't they essentially the same thing? Not so, says Eric Roch, who claims some analysts wrongly are lumping the two into a single solution category. Governance is about the business, management is about technical monitoring ...; Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, SOA Governance Tool, SOA Management Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-25
SOA makes even the US Marines nervous: Many analysts and pundits are fretting about the poor adoption of SOA within today's corporations. Maybe their concerns are well-founded, because it looks like even the US Marines are worrying that they may not be getting SOA right. A recent report in Federal Computer Week notes that...; Tags: SOA, Marines, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Whoa, WOA: Are acronyms clouding up the cloud?: ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner points to Michael Meehan's recent post on the Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) -- Mike spoke with some industry practitioners who apparently didn't think too much of the "WOA" moniker, striking them "as redundant and nothing particularly new, an empty suit if you will." Just another fancy...; Tags: Web, SOA, Web Oriented Architecture, SOA Folk, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Are SOA-related business concerns outside the IT 'comfort zone'?: Those folks at Burton Group really know how to rattle our cages. A few weeks back, Anne Thomas Manes declared that she has yet to see any solid SOA success stories, and reportedly is still looking for one. When the subject of SOA business value came up,...; Tags: Information Technology, Business, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Carbon management dashboards and SOA's uncertain role in Green IT: There's been plenty of discussion about 'Green IT' over the past year, but, as far as I can tell, there has been little discussion about SOA's role in all this. It can be assumed that as data centers are consolidated and streamlined, SOA methodologies will be employed to play some...; Tags: Green IT, Dashboard, SOA, Carbon Credit, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?: Just how valuable will Cloud computing be to organizations? The ease of deployment and pay-as-you-go pricing model offered through Amazon Web Services, and now Google with its Google App Engine (with no pricing model) could be a honey trap, as some of my esteemed colleagues here at ZDNet warn. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Dion, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-13
When software and politics mix, quality suffers: In my last post, I talked about the challenges in quality assurance across complex SOA environments -- and how quality is important in SOA, because SOA is built on trust. Without trust in the viability and reliability of services, SOA collapses. How 'technopolitics' rushes good software and...; Tags: SOA, James McGovern, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-10
Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindset: Forget QA as you knew it -- as it seems to do with everything else, SOA upsets the apple cart. Quality assurance assures more trust in SOA -- and SOAs need trust SOA has a lot of moving parts, so more traditional QA processes...; Tags: Asset, QA, SOA, Wayne, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-08
Something strange in your SOA... who you gonna call?: In the US presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's ads have been asking who is the most qualified to be picking up that 3am emergency call. Why is a service malfunctioning? Who knows? When it comes to SOA, who should be picking up those 3am SOA...; Tags: Team, SOA, Service, Management Solution, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-06
The sometimes stormy politics of service-enabling: I've been meaning to link to Dana Gardner's latest piece on SOA cultural issues for some time now, so here it is. SOA is messy for now -- but that's okayAs his title so aptly puts it: "We know that SOA depends on culture shifts, but -- like the...; Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-04
World's biggest compute job... to be done by pen and paper: The US Census Bureau, which is charged with counting and analyzing the nation's 300 million residents in 2010, has just admitted that its technology is not ready for the job. And what was originally touted to be the first "high-tech count in the nation's history" will still be a highly...; Tags: Job, CNBC, Bureau, Temporary Worker, Handheld Computer, Computer, Handhelds, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Leapin' Linthicum!: Anyone who has seen Dave Linthicum in action at IT conferences knows this guy is one ball of fire. He entertains, cajoles, incites, and educates on the perils and possibilities of SOA and integration. Dave is also my SOA blogging counterpart over at InfoWorld, and a seasoned...; Tags: StrikeIron, SOA, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Sluggish economy may spur more, but smaller, SOA projects: Will 2008 be a year of retrenchment of our expectations of SOA, or will things really take off? There's a debate as to whether a slow economy would help or hurt SOA. It's worth noting that the case for SOA, in tandem with Web services, was forged...; Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-03-27