In a recent post Nicholas Carr calls out a recent Harvard Business Review article (currently freely accessible) by Andrew McAfee, whose work I highlighted in August. In the article, McAfee sets out to help managers grapple with the challenges of technology adoption in the face of an abundance of technologies, a chequered history of IT [...]
Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 by adminWe must be doing something right as we seem to be getting invited to participate in a whole bunch of podcasts at the moment. The vast majority seem to be on SOA, which is fine – it’s something we know something about…. ;-) Here’s another one, done as part of our role as ebizq contributors. [...]
Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 by adminFollowing a series of announcements and counter-announcements over the past year, I confess to being left a little flummoxed at Microsoft’s attitude to its partners and customers. First it says it is going to charge for every virtualised server instance as part of the virtualisation capabilities planned for Longhorn, then it changes its mind – [...]
Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 by adminI’ve just had my first cross-atlantic Podcasting experience, with Dana Gardner and Steve Garone in Dana’s BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition. That was a lot of fun – we covered virtualisation and ERP, Oracle and EMC’s stealthy plans, and plenty of things to do with SOA of course! Do tune in – or download the transcript. [...]
Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 by adminIt ain’t over, so they say, until the oversized dame trills, but it looks rather like my and Neil Macehiter’s alma mater, Ovum, is very soon going to be part of Datamonitor. I’m not really an analyst of analyst firms (I’ll leave that to people like Duncan) but of course I have an interest in [...]
Posted on Friday, October 20, 2006 by adminWhat a cracking idea this is – a preconfigured data centre from Sun in the shape of a container (well, it is a container), that doesn’t even need to be forklifted into the building. While it is targeted at data centre expansion projects, it brings commoditisation to a new level. Sun, perhaps with a hat-tip [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 by adminI recently participated in the inaugural session of BriefingsDirect SOA Insights, a weekly SOA-related discussion featuring a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests. I was joined on the panel by Dana Gardner, founder and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions who put it all together (thanks Dana) and Steve Garone, a reseach partner at [...]
Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 by adminLast week, the Liberty Alliance announced the final version of its Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) – I briefly touched on ID-WSF back in April when discussing Liberty’s approach to user-centric identity. I have to admit, I have always struggled to get my head around ID-WSF, which Liberty defines as providing: the framework for building [...]
Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 by adminMarketing departments love jumping on ‘new’ ideas and adopting them as their own, which can muddy the waters for those who have been using the concepts for years. Cf SOA, which is becoming an increasingly chaotic area – ironic really, given that it is rooted in some really quite simple concepts. Our pals over at [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 by adminWill they never learn! News.com reports on Symantec’s vision for a new generation of security products and services for the connected world and, yes, you’ve guessed it: it’s Security 2.0. And what makes it 2.0? Well, according to Symantec’s CEO John Thompson: It’s about integrating software, services and partnerships to protect customers’ most important assets: [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 by admin
