November 2010 Archives

Over the past year, there has been plenty of discussion about the value offered by private clouds, which are seen as a more secure alternative to public clouds. The road to private cloud is seen through virtualization and service oriented... Read More..

Where are we at with complex event processing (CEP)? In a new post, Colin Clark, CTO for Cloud Event Processing, says the market is still struggling to reach the multi-billion-dollar potential promised in recent years by analysts and vendors alike.... Read More..

Over the years, we've talked a great deal about how service oriented architecture is breaking "outsourcing" as we knew it into smaller chunks, delivered more as cloud services than large megadeals. Well, SOA is still behind some of the old-model... Read More..

Call it "Session's Law": "the larger and more expensive an IT project is, the more likely it is to fail.Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch, in a recent NetworkWorld interview, even puts a cost threshold on IT failure: A system that... Read More..

"Everyone wants governance, but nobody wants to be governed."-Ron SchmelzerRon's words came to mind while I was reading a recent post by Todd Biske, enterprise architect extraordinaire and author of SOA Governance, on making governance stick in enterprises.Governance is a... Read More..

Where did SOA go wrong?  Did SOA even go wrong? My colleague Peter Schooff took a pause in his globe-trotting schedule to host a rousing discussion on what people see as the "failure" of SOA. For starters, many participants in... Read More..

About half of 556 global executives responding to a recent survey say they have an "IT risk management" program in place within their organizations. In addition, many feel they have a good handle on risk. However, what are the riskiest... Read More..

My colleague Jack Vaughn is out at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2010 in Los Angeles, Calif., and provides some fresh new perspectives on the relationship between SOA and cloud computing. Namely, that to get to cloud,... Read More..

One of the leading standards bodies in the Web services space is announcing "mission accomplished."The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I; http://www.ws-i.org) says it has successfully concluded its charter to document best practices for Web services interoperability across multiple platforms, operating... Read More..

My colleague Dave Linthicum picked up on a new proclamation out of Burton Group, signifying that the concept of service oriented architecture is rising from the ashes.  It was Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group that issued the proclamation... Read More..

Sure, there's no shortage of debate and grumbling about the changing demands and uncertainties around enterprise architecture. But it's a better job than... any other job you can think of.  A recent article in Money magazine, which looked at the... Read More..

The goal and vision behind service oriented architecture is that of shared services, in which multiple business units inside and outside the firewall can access functions and applications needed to complete business processes. Getting everyone across the enterprise in sync... Read More..