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SOA promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with SOA, and how to capitalize on this new computing philosophy.

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'Society is making our IT decisions for us now'

By Joe McKendrick | February 6, 2012, 4:00am PST

Q&A with Ernst & Young Americas CIO David Nichols: Everyone wants cloud, but no one has a clear strategy yet for managing it.
Ajax, explained

By Joe McKendrick | February 5, 2012, 10:17am PST

For consumers, Ajax looks like magic. Developers know differently, of course.
Stanford IT professor's new venture offers free, online technology classes

By Joe McKendrick | February 2, 2012, 7:51pm PST

Free online courses from leading IT educators promise to teach students how to build a search engine or program a robotic car within a matter of weeks.
Before jumping into cloud, learn from the SOA experience

By Joe McKendrick | January 30, 2012, 3:00am PST

Companies need to look at service-oriented approaches — and what has been learned over the past decade — before taking on potentially entangling and silo-creating cloud engagements.
At last, honesty in software advertising

By Joe McKendrick | January 28, 2012, 3:50pm PST

A sign of the times, or new tactic?
5 ways cloud 'supercharges' enterprise initiatives

By Joe McKendrick | January 27, 2012, 9:46pm PST

Among other things, cloud computing’s support for rapid development and utility-style billing can counter fears about most IT shadow projects.
Tech job cuts at lowest level since 1997: report

By Joe McKendrick | January 25, 2012, 8:12am PST

Tech layoffs jumped again in the second half of 2011, but not enough to offset a very good year for the industry, according to latest Challenger findings.
SOPA: only the latest reason why technology and lawmaking don't mix

By Joe McKendrick | January 20, 2012, 7:42am PST

The Stop Online Piracy Act skirmish is just the latest ham-handed attempt to regulate something moving too fast to be regulated, says outspoken author and activist Cory Doctorow.
5 signs SOA has morphed into cloud

By Joe McKendrick | January 19, 2012, 7:57pm PST

Both SOA and cloud address IaaS, both offer location transparency, virtualization, hardware independence, and both require chargeback mechanisms. So, what’s the difference?
At last: standard for cloud Infrastructure as a Service launched

By Joe McKendrick | January 17, 2012, 7:32pm PST

The Open Group releases two new industry standards intended to more effectively integrate fundamental elements of SOA and cloud computing into a solution or enterprise architecture.
Agile versus waterfall

By Joe McKendrick | January 14, 2012, 7:27am PST

Agile versus waterfall techniques can arise in any situation, even outside the enterprise.
Enterprise architecture still a leap of faith for many companies

By Joe McKendrick | January 12, 2012, 8:54pm PST

Before enterprise architecture, companies ‘relied on individuals to do what seemed best.’ That won’t work in a hyper-competitive global economy, MIT researcher argues.
9 funky new tech job titles for the 21st-century organization

By Joe McKendrick | January 11, 2012, 8:31am PST

Prepare for new types of professionals in your enterprise, from ‘data scientists’ to ‘machine-to-machine communications enablers.’ Or have they been with us all along anyway?
MIT to open up some courses to global audience -- free, online

By Joe McKendrick | January 9, 2012, 11:06am PST

MIT to join Stanford in offering courses for global participation. MIT says it will offer certificates for successful completion.
Java tops list of software skills in demand: employer survey

By Joe McKendrick | January 8, 2012, 9:23am PST

Demand is hottest this year for Java developers, new survey of 1,200 hiring managers shows.
Big data: we have the technology, but do we have the people?

By Joe McKendrick | January 5, 2012, 8:15am PST

Big data solutions such as Hadoop ‘isn’t rocket science, people can learn it.’
Employees: we'll build our own technology solutions, thank you

By Joe McKendrick | January 4, 2012, 4:26pm PST

Intuit QuickBase survey of 900 employees find cloud is awakening a sleeping giant — DIY technology.
REST will free business process management from its shackles: prediction

By Joe McKendrick | January 3, 2012, 7:40pm PST

Growing interest in the cloud, and a desire for more vendor independence, may drive REST deeper into the enterprise BPM space.
2012: the year back-end enterprise systems open up to the world

By Joe McKendrick | December 29, 2011, 9:40pm PST

While everyone gets excited about public APIs such as Facebook and Twitter, an even bigger revolution has been quietly underway: enterprises of all sizes are API-enabling their back-end systems.
IT staffing troubles begin, especially with younger developers

By Joe McKendrick | December 28, 2011, 6:00am PST

This is a time when new technology-oriented companies and startups are bursting foward across the business landscape, and slurping up talent. CIOs say they are feeling the pinch.