May 2009 Archives

At the March SOA Consortium meeting, Cory Casanave, CEO, Model Driven Solutions & ModelDriven.org, gave an overview presentation & demo on Enterprise SOA Modeling with the new OMG SoaML UML profile. (pdf) SoaML is a UML profile and metamodel for... Read More..

Did you hear SOA died again last week?  Does this make SOA more dead?   Finally dead?  Or, on par with Jason from Friday the 13th, deadish, but always lurking for a sequel?  Bad analogies aside, this time Anne is much... Read More..

Alistair Croll is interviewing Amitabh Srivastava, Senior Vice President, Windows Azure, Microsoft.  Amitabh is responsible for Azure, his background is core O/S.  Once again, I've captured some, but not all of the conversation. AC: Are you faced now with open... Read More..

Alistair Croll is "interviewing" Lew Moorman, CSO, of Rackspace.  I've captured some, but not all, of the conversation. AC: From your recent filing, you have 62,078 servers.  69% are cloud. Rest are managed.  What's the difference? LM: Cloud is set... Read More..

Paying for It: Cloud Costs and Billing Models Moderator: Allan Leinwand, Venture Partner, Panorama Capital Speakers: Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, Rightscale Grace Kim, Sr. Manager, Marketing, WebEx (Cisco) Jesse Robbins, Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode Richard Dym, Chief Marketing... Read More..

What Elasticity Really Means Moderator: Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic Speakers: Jon Beck, SVP Sales and Client Services, OpSource, Inc. Scott Clark, Director of Engineering Infrastructure, Broadcom Josh Litwin, President and CEO, Memento Press Geir Magnusson, Consulting Architect, Platform, Gilt Chad... Read More..

This morning's focus in on the business case for cloud computing, ROI & migration.  "What's the promise? Despite the downsides, there's little doubt that on-demand computing services are the future of both consumer and enterprise IT." First up in a... Read More..

This evening, we are at Cloud Camp.  For background, check out this interview with Cloud Camp co-founder Dave Nielsen.  Dave is also our host today.  The lightening rounds are done.  For insights, search on twitter with either of these tags:... Read More..

Session: Security, Risk, Legislation, and Compliance: Pandora's New Box.  Speakers: Drew Bartkiewicz, Vice President of Cyber Risk and New Media Markets, The Hartford Robert Parisi, SVP & National Technology, Network Risk & Telecommunications Practice Leader, FINPRO, Marsh USA I happened... Read More..

Where Can Things Go Wrong? Moderator: Greg Ness, Marketing Executive, Infoblox Panelists: Peter Coffee, Director, Platform Research, salesforce.com Randy Rowland, General Manager, Managed Hosting & Cloud Computing Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Geva Perry, Founder, Thinking Out Cloud Bill McGee, Vice... Read More..

Alistair Croll is "interviewing" Werner Vogels in Fireside chat.  Some of the conversation points: AC: Where all are the enterprise use cases?  WV: Talks about enterprise IT challenges - thousands of enterprise application, cost, time to value.  Then, potential cloud... Read More..

Session: Different strokes for different folks: a taxonomy of cloud offerings Peter just left Oracle, was there via BEA, for Tendril Networks (startup).  Peter has done a lot of research, thinking, on cloud computing and related players.  We were handed... Read More..

How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Cloud Computing, Paul Mockapetris, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Nominium, Inc. Paul credits that his (Lessig styled) presentation is adapted from a work by Benjamin Black History Lesson: 1. Packet Switching, 1960-62,... Read More..

"While clouds are awesome, they aren't for everyone.  Better said, look different for enterprises versus startups." After a bunch of housekeeping, Alistair is now talking cloud.  Starts with, Nick Carr's Big Switch and electricity analogy.  (required reading for cloud speakers,... Read More..

As I mentioned last week, I'll be live-blogging and tweeting from the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop today and tomorrow.  The agenda is a mix of speakers, panels and an interspersed 'real-world' demo series, where representatives from Amazon, RightScale, SOASTA,... Read More..

During today's event processing roundtable on ebizQ, Joe McKendrick asked us to comment on the relationship, or continuum, between complex event processing and business intelligence.  I went first and spoke of a continuum (or flow) that exists with the introduction... Read More..

Next week, I’m taking my cloud watching on the road to Vegas.  I’ll be attending and blogging from Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas on May 18-19.  “Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop is the industry's only event focused on... Read More..

On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, I’ll be participating in an ebizQ roundtable discussion on Managing Events in an Eventful Year.  Fellow roundtable participants are David E. Olson, Director of CEP Product Marketing, Progress Software and Joe McKendrick, Contributing Editor and... Read More..

The McKinsey Quarterly just published a good article on how to communicate the business value of IT to the business community.  The article is a “memo” from the CTO to the CEO articulating the “lack of shared understanding” between business... Read More..

For the last two weeks, I've had a tab open to Nick Malik's Toward an Enterprise Business Motivation Model article in The Architecture Journal, and finally, this afternoon I had time to give the work the attention it deserves.  Read:... Read More..