September 2008 Archives

Google and the floating data center (yes - its on water)

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By Ronan Bradley on September 30, 2008 7:47 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I had to read this report by Rob Daly twice, check the posting date wasn’t 1st April and then go check other sources. Apparently, Google is attempting to patent the concept of a datacenter-on-a-boat! The US patent application also includes... Read More..
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Oracle's beehive – social insects but no social computing

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By Ronan Bradley on September 24, 2008 9:43 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Oracle launched the latest generation of their collaboration suite called beehive. While I know it takes a while for mergers to bear fruit, I was disappointed to see no mention of BEA’s Enterprise Social Computing concept and related products or... Read More..
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Financial IT: Can we cope with the next wave of regulation?

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By Ronan Bradley on September 22, 2008 5:29 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
While the radical reshaping of the US investment banking industry is still a work in progress, it is probably reasonable to say that political realities will ensure that the pay-back for government intervention will be more regulation. And this will... Read More..
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Saas: Life beyond CRM in financial services?

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By Ronan Bradley on September 18, 2008 7:12 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
SaaS has been touted as the next big thing in the application space for quite a while (in fact pretty soon after ASP morphed to become SaaS in the early 2000s). Since then SaaS has become a popular choice for... Read More..
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Excel: The deadly poison for data integration

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By Ronan Bradley on September 16, 2008 5:19 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
As people who have read my blogs over the last few years will know I have always been a strong proponent of a data centric view of the integration world (covered in more detail here for instance). However when we... Read More..
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SOA versus WOA: not a holy war – its just horses for courses

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By Ronan Bradley on September 11, 2008 8:28 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The war has broken out again between proponents of a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and SOA. I say war has broken out but really the vast majority of the fighting is coming from the WOA community. Frankly, I find much... Read More..
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CEP, Algorithmic trading and the leading edge of technology

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By Ronan Bradley on September 9, 2008 6:35 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The announcement by Bank of China International’s selection of Progress Apama’s CEP/algorithmic trading platform highlights a number of trends in financial services. (1)This announcement reinforces the importance of algorithmic trading for all of the Complex Event Processing vendors. While there... Read More..
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OSS and the enterprise: Time to play fair or pay fair?

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By Ronan Bradley on September 3, 2008 6:41 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
We still have a way to go before establishing an Open Source business model which works for smaller product categories (the largest categories – operating systems, databases etc – clearly have the scale to allow the IBM, Oracle, Sun, Red... Read More..
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DKW downsized: Consolidation in banking will damage IT innovation

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By Ronan Bradley on September 1, 2008 5:49 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
That Dresdner Kleinwort will be radically downsized as part of the take-over of Dresdner by Commerzbank is a sad announcement on a number of fronts – not least of course for the individuals who will lose their jobs in the... Read More..
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Ronan Bradley

Ronan Bradley has specialized in business integration technologies and their application for over 15 years, most recently as CEO of ESB startup PolarLake and prior to that as Vice President of Product Management in IONA Technologies. A widely published writer and consultant, Ronan now focuses on addressing the key business and technology issues associated with the adoption of SOA in addition to lecturing at The Dublin Institute of Technology. Ronan can be reached at ronan@ebizq.net


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