Enterprise and data integration: How urgent?
Enterprise and data integration have been on front burners for years. But a changing business landscape demands a redoubling of efforts.
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.
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8 simple rules for achieving 'Lean IT'
An agile response: 'I’m here to prevent more software from being written. We want to write less code, not write more code faster.'
SOA pays off, paves the way to greater experimentation
The flexibility enabled by service oriented architecture has made it cheaper to experiment and fail with new project ideas — and that's great news for innovation.
The shrinking gap between cloud service providers and consumers
An insurance services provider crosses the line: 'If you talked to me four years ago, I suspect I would not have envisioned myself sitting on stage today saying I'm a cloud service provider.'
4 forces changing the face of business intelligence
Are we still viewing 21st century organizations through a 1990s window?
Three fifths of IT administrators want out, but that's better than last year
A survey on IT stress factors also found that one out of five IT professionals report stress-related health issues as a result of their jobs.
Server boxes are now really big, and take up acres of space
The big web services datacenters of the world are becoming the de facto 'servers' for today's enterprises, usurping on-premises enterprise datacenters, says one leading tech investor.
Tom Davenport: big data is too important to be left to the 'quants'
The author and visiting Harvard professor says everyone should have a role in analytics. 'Narratives' might tell a clearer story.
Diplomat, services orchestrator: A CIO job description five years from now
Predictions about the changing roles of chief information officers: Less technology management, more business management.
'Big data as a service' is here, but is anybody ready?
A data expert observes that the pieces are falling into place for BDaaS, but ethical questions arise.