Something that’s been sloshing gently around in my head for a little while came into focus the other day on reading a post by Brenda Michelson: Unintentional Cloud Watching >> Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architects. Namely, that the link between cloud computing and SOA has multiple angles. It’s becoming clearer that, true to Tim O’Reilly’s [...]
Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 by admin
A few days ago the results of our second CIO UK poll were published in this piece – CIO Debate: Collaboration is building momentum in 2009. The poll corroborated earlier research that we carried out for our Collaboration advisory service in the summer of last year, in conjunction with the guys at Freeform Dynamics. The [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 by admin
James Governor’s Monkchips » The REST of The Cloud Thought-provoking stuff from Mr Governor.
Posted on Sunday, February 15, 2009 by admin
Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Release 2 of Office Communications Server 2007. Where the first release of the product (which was launched in October 2007) was geared around conferencing in general, this release is very much focused on the telephony aspect of unified communications. For example, among the main enhancements in R2 are: [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 by Angela Ashenden
Is the BPMN/BPEL Debate a Dead Horse? « Go Flow Wow. Very nicely put, Keith.
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 by admin
As one of the biggest buzzword in the industry today, software-as-a-service (SaaS) amongst other things offers an alternative delivery model for organisations without the capacity to host software on-premise. The collaboration software market is well-represented in the line-up of services available via SaaS, which prompts the questions: what are the opportunities and challenges associated with using [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 by Angela Ashenden
Over the last few months I have heard and read commentary after commentary about how to weather out the recession. Whilst there is no silver bullet, there are plenty of good tips to follow that, valuable during good times, are essential in the bad. The global financial meltdown means that IT vendors are facing the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 by admin