Clouds and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Do they conflict as IT strategies? Are they flavors of the same approach – service orientation? Can you even adopt Cloud Computing without SOA? How do they relate and complement each other? There are almost as many variations in opinions as there are industry pundits! Some are very wise [...]
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SOA is growing up. In fact, for many of SOA’s early or mid-term adopters, SOA is in late adolescence or early adulthood. By that I mean that the application and disciplines of service-based architecture and applications have matured and are being applied to realize most of the benefits we were promised in the beginning, including:
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Don’t miss the truly strategic opportunities offered by the various forms of Cloud Computing!
Cloud Computing, like any innovation, will progress through the cycle of early excitement, followed by disillusionment as stories surface about early failures to live up to unreasonable expectations. Then, as successful experiences and best practices evolve, we’ll begin to see the real, sustainable [...]
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I don’t often address the deep technologies that enable the IT strategies that are the normal topic of this blog. However, very often the failures associated with even the most compelling and sound leading-edge strategies – particularly those that are enabled by a new technology evolution — are due to poor practices in the use [...]
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How do you leverage the Gartner Hype Cycle?
For the past 7 or 8 years we’ve relied on the Hype Cycle to provide interesting, and often useful, information. Most of us refer to it to assess the progress of emerging technologies. And many of us leverage it to support our positions for or against a new [...]
