CIO Job Description And The Need For Technical Experience: Beyond Blinking Lights and Acronyms Great post by Mike Schaffner – stuff that organisations should be looking for when writing CIO job specs
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Joe McKendrick (once again!) has another post which caught my blogreader today. This time he is pondering the relationship between SOA and data governance: If data governance is inadequate — information is outdated, out of sync, duplicated, or plain inaccurate — SOA-enabled services and applications will be delivering garbarge. That’s a formula for SOA disaster. [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Joe McKendrick over at ZDNet has been pondering CIO “SOA Advisor” Nicholas Petreley’s definition of SOA: a networked subroutine No wonder Joe’s not sure about it! Nicholas’ definition is closer to that of a web service and even that’s being generous! Joe rightly points out that the definition completely ignores the ‘A’ of SOA and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 by adminelemental links: Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) Symposium take-aways Interesting roundup from EPTS from Brenda Michelson – some points we need to pick up on in our forthcoming event processing report…
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 by adminVMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com More on VDC-OS. Still likes Virtual Infrastructure with a new label to me
Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 by adminService Architecture – SOA: IT Hype and the valley reality distortion field Great stuff from Steve Jones on filtering out the hype in assessing the suitability of suppliers
Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 by adminVMware (and Citrix) get cloud friendly | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Virtualisation players make bid for the virtual cloud. VMware partners with hosting providers – Citrix does the same under the banner of C3 (Citrix Cloud Center) and VMware announces VDC-OS, which seems to be nothing more than a branding execise.
Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 by adminAs part of our Collaboration Continuous Advisory Service, we are carrying out twice-yearly market studies to understand the level of adoption of collaborative working practices and different types of collaboration software within the European market. We’ve now finished analysing the results of the first study, and the corresponding report is published today. Perhaps the most interesting insight from [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 by Angela AshendenUncategorized
Tony Baer’s one of the analysts who’s picked up on Microsoft’s recent announcement that it’s joining the OMG and backing UML and BPMN. His post is pretty interesting and outlines some of the relevant history – particularly relating to DSLs and the OMG’s UML. But I’d like to add to that, and talk a bit [...]
Posted on Saturday, September 13, 2008 by adminPing Identity: PingFederate 5.2 – Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound Ping Identity builds on the acquisition of Sxip's Access to provide SSO, provisioning for Google Apps and Salesforce Phil Windley – BYU: Jamie Lewis on the Importance of Relationships (DIDW 08) Jamie Lewis' thoughts on relationships, trust and reputation. I particularly [...]
Posted on Saturday, September 13, 2008 by admin
