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- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula
- News items 2009-11-17
- Google's Schmidt makes enterprise app case as consumer, corporate lines blur
- In a room full of chief information officers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made his case for the search giant's enterprise products adding that the boundary between a corporate user and a consumer "is becoming less and less." Speaking at the Gartner IT Symposium 2009 in Orlando in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- SmartPlanet: Disney buys Marvel for $4 billion; here's why it's a smart business move
- we'll see if it's a smart dealDisney is generally toted as children's media. If anyone has seen a Marvel Comic in recent history, they're anything byt kid's media. If this deal censors Marvel's comics, it's a blatent F U to their fanbaseI cannot see that happeningDisney does not...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Miramax, Disney Corp., ABC Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Avoid accidental complexity, and 96 other things every software architect should know
- Favor simplicity. Avoid accidental complexity. Don't worry about building the 'perfect' beast. Don't worry about future-proofing. Treat people with respect. These common-sense pearls of wisdom come from a book titled 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, edited by Richard Monson-Haefel, that is packed with truisms...
- Tags: Solution, Complexity, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- News to know: Steve Jobs; iPhone 3GS; Google Voice; RIAA victory; FCC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights Andrew Nusca: WSJ: Jobs had...
- Tags: FCC, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Voice, RIAA, Apple iPhone 3G, Sam Diaz, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Federal Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- SOA economics: addressing 'boundary costs'
- Who's going to pay for this SOA? Often, the costs of handling and processing SOA-based services gets spread all over the map. This has implications as SOAs grow in scale and complexity. Oracle's Dave Chappell discusses the matter of "boundary costs" as part of...
- Tags: XML Document, SOA, Boundary Cost, Application Grid, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, XML, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- DRM licensing group plan to plug analog hole
- DRM licensing group plan to plug analog holeI don't piratebut I hate DRM. It's a huge scam that penalizes legitimate users and doesn't do anything to stop real pirates. It makes me disrespect the industry and less likely to buy encumbered products. In my life, I have bought a total...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, analog output, piracy
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Hearing the Call: A Promethean Encounter in Copenhagen?
- [caption id="attachment_634" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Cate Blanchett: A Promethean Encounter with CEOs in Copenhagen?"][/caption] The great and the good of global business got together in Copenhagen last week to try to reach consensus on what the private sector message should be to the UN...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Copenhagen, Climate, Deforestation, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- A Twitter driven social experiment
- According to my Twitter account, I have 3,852 followers. I follow about 1,500. I have no idea how many are active, passive or dead though I'm sure someone out there will have a tool that tells me. Anyhoo - over the weekend I tried an experiment...
- Tags: EPIC, Twitter, Stacey Monk, Web Site Development, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Oracle Beehive Activity Starts Buzzing
- David Gilmour, senior vice president, Collaboration Technologies, Oracle. Oracle Beehive, which quietly launched a year ago this month, and was more noisily celebrated at last fall's OpenWorld, has some additional new functionality updates announced this week. "As organizations rely increasingly...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Beehive, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?
- Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?Wonderful for AustraliaJust imagine not having to deal with Comcast, and having real, actual, broadband without a fascist corporation looking at all your packets.Bass ackwardsThat said Australia?s concept?form a government-private sector joint venture and then make it totally private when the network...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Broadband Internet, Optical networking, Fiber optics, government, broadband, broadband penetration, FTTH
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Enterprise 2.0: innovation is the name of the game
- I'm at the Microsoft FastForward conference in Las Vegas, and seeing and hearing quite a bit about the growing movement to open up enterprises and drive greater innovation with Enterprise 2.0. Here are some observations: There's what I call it the LIFT phenomenon -- Linked In, Facebook,...
- Tags: Game, Innovation, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Is UAC broken in Windows 7 beta?
- Is UAC broken in Windows 7 beta?Hmm..."UAC is totally useless on accounts in Windows 7 beta with admin privileges" Isn't that exactly the same as Vista?Fortunate then that this isn't the default, isn't it?Definitely broken.With this change we're essentially back to pre-Vista levels of security. Microsoft needs to change the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- Interview: HP’s Tim Hall on heightening roles of governance in SOA, cloud and managing dynamic business boundaries
- SOA governance heightens the business benefits of services, increases IT efficiency returns, and reduces the risk that complexity could undermine the services lifecycle in large organizations. Services governance also sets the stage for leveraging cloud and third-party services, while managing the boundary between internal and external services. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, SOA, SOA Governance, Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- IBM Event Processing Solutions for Business Risk Management on System z With CICS and WebSphere Business Events
- Managing business risk is an increasing requirement for enterprise lines of business and for IT departments. IT managers, solution architects, business analysts and IBM CICS specialists are often responsible for implementing governance and compliance solutions for enterprise business applications on the IBM System z platform. Compliance is ensuring that business...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Compliance, Risk Management, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?
- Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?We've been dealing with this test for 2 yearsThis new legal test is nothing new, but it won't kill software or business method patents. It merely moves to boundary a little bit inwards... but the U.S. Patent Office has been applying this...
- Tags: patent, tech innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- PBWiki: growing in a recession
- Earlier today I had a conversation with Chris Yeh, VP enterprise marketing at PBWiki. He brings an honesty and refreshing spirit to the business of building a startup. PBWiki is a company that everyone kinda knows but doesn't always see. They're not big on the blah-blah circuit...
- Tags: Collaboration, Recession, Environment, PBWiki, Chris Yeh, Wiki, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- SOA soon part of the 'cloud'? Hold that thought
- There has been a fair share of speculation that SOA will blend in one form or another into Web Oriented Architecture or Software-as-a-Service SaaS in the foreseeable future, and this discussion has appeared frequently on this blogsite. (A discussion on SOA and WOA posted here. I also posted an account...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
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