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AOS, the Polar Opposite of SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on July 29, 2010 3:58 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I first introduced "AOS" here at ebizQ a couple of years back, and it's worth a refresh to see how far we've come. Or how far backwards we've stepped...Many organizations -- often prodded by vendors -- are setting out with... Read More..
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David versus David: Is Gartner Missing the Point on SOA's Cloudy Future?

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By Joe McKendrick on July 29, 2010 3:11 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Fellow ebizqQ contributor Dave Linthicum weighed in -- as I hoped he would -- on recent remarks by Gartner analyst David Mitchell Smith's recent remarks that SOA and cloud don't have much to do with each other.David S. said:"People will... Read More..
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Can Cloud Computing Save the Economy? Not Too Long Ago, I Would Have Laughed at this Question...

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By Joe McKendrick on July 28, 2010 6:10 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
In this week's interactive forum, Peter Schooff asks: "Can Cloud Computing Save the Economy?" Readers, you are urged to join in on the discussion.Many forum participants scoffed this notion. Cloud has no more to do with economic growth than... Read More..
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Watch Out for that Killer Asteroid: SOA Aids in Satellite Tracking

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By Joe McKendrick on July 28, 2010 10:59 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
There are more instances of service-oriented architecture being employed to support data analytics environments, and a compelling case that just came to my attention is a new implementation by the Space Data Association (SDA).SDA announced that it launched initial operations... Read More..
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Why a Data Services Layer Means Better SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on July 20, 2010 9:15 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Recently, we had a hearty discussion at ebizQ's interactive forum on the subject of SOA projects being hampered by "dirty data."  There was general agreement that data is a challenge that can make or break SOA efforts.Likewise, SOA itself provides... Read More..
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Fed Cloud Computing: Hope, or Empty Promise?

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By Joe McKendrick on July 20, 2010 8:34 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Is cloud computing really a great hope for federal government IT, or a lot of empty promises?My pal Peter Schooff just published an interesting post and podcast with Tarak Modi, vice president and CTO of CALIBRE Systems, on the prospects... Read More..
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Unclogging Enterprise Data Hairballs in SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on July 18, 2010 2:00 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Note: the following post is a distillation and update for a feature originally published in ebizQ in 2008.Service oriented architecture has been around for a while, but there are still some missing pieces. While many SOA projects may be executing... Read More..
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Enterprise Architects as Quantum Mechanics

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By Joe McKendrick on July 16, 2010 10:18 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
One of the rules of quantum physics is that events change as they are observed. Is it likely that enterprise architectures are changed by those observing it? document.cookie='MAD_FIRSTPAGE=0;path=/;domain=zdnet.com'; Yes, says Brian Hopkins, writing at the CIO site, who makes an... Read More..
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Thoroughly Modern Mainframes, via SOA

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By Joe McKendrick on July 15, 2010 9:44 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Colleen Frye over at SearchSOA hit upon a theme that goes right to the heart of many SOA projects: application modernization. Legacy applications -- defined as any system more than five years old and usually mainframes -- still power up... Read More..
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SOA Roundup: Chunks Versus Streams, Fairy Tales, Dirty Data

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By Joe McKendrick on July 10, 2010 10:45 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The summer is heating up (it got really hot here in the Northeast), and so are discussions around the next step companies should take with SOA.In a new feature here at ebizQ, Bill Briggs, director at Deloitte Consulting, says the... Read More..
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