Ever since I read Geoffrey Moore’s Future of IT paper introducing the concept of systems of engagement (published last year), I’ve had a slight uneasiness about the ongoing discourse. For a long time it was nothing I could put my finger on, but in some recent conversations about how technology can improve business agility, I [...]
Posted on Friday, January 13, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week I spent three days in Manhattan, attending the International Association of Software Architects (IASA)’s IT Architecture Regional Conference (ITARC) in NY. That’s a long time for me to be anywhere – so why did I do it? The first answer is the speaker lineup – there were keynotes from Len Bass of Carnegie-Mellon’s [...]
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 by adminUncategorized
On the fifth attempt, I finally managed to attend CloudCamp London earlier in the week. I’m glad I went – the “camp” format isn’t for everyone, but it works well for topics like Cloud Computing where most of the value is in networking and hashing out ideas/arguments. The latter part of the evening was given [...]
Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 by adminUncategorized
In last week’s post on the seven elements of Cloud computing’s value, I said that the simple model I put forward looked like being a nice way to compare different Cloud approaches and offerings and see what’s really being offered. There’s a lot of people jumping on this particular bandwagon, and a lot of the [...]
Posted on Friday, July 3, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Last week I was invited to speak as part of the London leg of TIBCO’s NOW roadshow, which focused primarily on Cloud computing and TIBCO’s new Silver offering (you can see what we think about that specifically in this report). My job was to talk about “articulating the value of Cloud computing”. This was a [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 by admin
