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Service Oriented
Service technology -- from SOA to cloud to IT service management -- promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with service orientation, and how to capitalize on these emerging computing philosophies.
Joe McKendrick
Joe McKendrick is an author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments shaping the technology industry.
Latest Posts
New life for enterprise service buses in the cloud
ESBs are helping some enterprises integrate cloud-based applications and manage application programming interfaces.
SOA Manifesto reaches 1,000 signatures
SOA Manifesto's principles, first published in 2009, call for adaptability, collaboration and independence from specific technologies.
Virtualization eats the world: top 8 IT requirements that weren't even around 5 years ago
Organizations these days seek ability to look at the bigger picture, versus individual pieces of technology.
Most app developers aren't even breaking even, but still keep going
The arrival of mobile computing hasn't altered the laws of economics for developers, a new survey confirms.
Cloud, circa 2023
4 views on the shape of things to come with cloud computing: IT inseparable from cloud; 100% cloud-based companies making it into the Fortune 1000.
Is Amazon becoming the Microsoft of cloud? Hold that thought
New report predicts Amazon Web Services will rule the enterprise world in 10 years. We'll see.
A quick primer on what it means to be service oriented these days
Before you allow yourself to get buried in cloud, it's important to remember key lessons learned in the SOA world.
Top 10 countries in which to locate a data center
The safest and cheapest place to open a data center? The United States.
Why IT should stop trying to compete with outside cloud services
More than ever, enterprises need IT managers' brains, not brawn.