One of the themes we delve into in our free online framing a Cloud Computing strategy event is the emerging role of the Service Integrator. This is something I’ve been talking about for a while in discussions with clients but I thought I’d share it a bit more widely… So what is a Service Integrator? [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
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 adminUncategorized
The other day Martin Atherton over at our partner Freeform Dynamics got me thinking again about the IT service management (ITSM) / application management / business service management (BSM) hoopla we’ve long been saddled with in the IT industry. I can absolutely see why vendors would want to try and avoid being seen as “just” [...]
Posted on Monday, June 4, 2007 by adminThe ever-vigilant Redmond watcher Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s Server and Tools unit (but not the P&L – Microsoft will still report server and tools financials), which is responsible for Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center management products and Forefront security products, is now part of the Business [...]
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I spent the beginning of last week in San Diego at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), the company’s annual conference focused on all things systems management. With time to kill on the 15-hour return journey, I began to draft my thoughts only for this post from Coté over at RedMonk to pop into my feed [...]
Posted on Monday, April 2, 2007 by admin
