I’ve previously gone on record saying that HP should drop the “adaptive infrastructure” tag, but I’m changing my mind. I’m at an analyst event today, where HP have been explaining how they are approaching customer engagements with a consolidated solutions portfolio, plus a services-based approach that leads with finding out the maturity of the customer, [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 by adminUncategorized
I just came across (well, Neil pointed me to it) this post from Todd Biske, an SOA Enterprise Architect at MomentumSI in which he discusses the implications of a service-oriented approach for identity. Todd raises an important question: what “identity” is in the context of service security This is something I discuss in our identity [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 by adminWhen I first kicked off our reports covering IT service management some 6 months ago, I can remember what I said at the time with alarming clarity. “That should be quite straightforward,” I said, “It’s just a case of writing it all down.” Such remarks can come back to bite you. As it turns out [...]
Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 by adminI just came across this post from David Berlind over at ZDNet which discusses Steve Ballmer’s claims that Linux uses Microsoft intellectual property. I have to say the fact that this is recent news came as a bit of a surprise to me. Not because I know there’s Microsoft IP in Linux (I am far [...]
Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 by adminI was in transit to Germany when the news of Microsoft’s Interop Vendor Alliance winged its way into my inbox and prohibitive WLAN pricing at the conference hotel meant I haven’t been able to comment until now. This is just the latest in a series of interoperability-related announcements from Microsoft, including the formation of its [...]
Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 by adminMy latest podcast appearance, together with Dana Gardner, Steve Garone and Joe McKendrick is now available (or you can read the transcript here). This episode focusses on SOA-related news from Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, including some of Oracle’s Web 2.0 aspirations, and concludes with a discussion of the company’s Unbreakable Linux announcement.
Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 by adminThose of you who subscribe to our monthly newsletter will be aware that Neil, Jon and I together with Dale Vile from our partner Freeform Dynamics are in the process of writing a book on IT-business alignment for John Wiley & Sons: The Technology Garden: Cultivating Sustainable IT-Business Alignment. Rather than pontificate from our respective [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 by adminYesterday, a friend of mine sent me an email from his Flickr account, asking me to hook up with him. The surprise to me was that I even had a Flickr account – I created it back in May 2005, probably in a frenzy of pre-2.0 excitement, and hadn’t touched it since; indeed, I hadn’t [...]
Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 by adminI’ve been meaning to blog on this story from the Register for ages, but it got lost somewhere deep in my pile of “blog on these things” messages to myself… It’s no secret that IT industry standards bodies are hotbeds of jockeying and jostling – especially as vendors get ever smarter about ways to use [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 by adminIn the film ‘The Blues Brothers’, Jake and Elwood go into a bar. “What kind of music do you play?” one of them asks. “We got both kinds,” says the lady behind the bar, “Country and Western.” While this might be quite a limited perspective on music, information technologists have often been even more myopic. [...]
Posted on Monday, November 6, 2006 by admin
