Pricing out cloud computing? Look at your workloads first
New report suggests that many cloud costs are underestimated due to variations in workloads.
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
Software-defined networking: 'Virtualization's last mile'
The next great frontier in IT: Uncoupling the network from network hardware.
'One fraud event a week': Survey finds internal data breaches all too pervasive
Sneaky, sneaky: Organizations suffer 55 employee-related incidents of fraud each year — mainly through employees getting hold of privileged users' credentials.
'Great coders are today's rock stars'
In a video intended to rev up the interest of young people in software development, industry luminaries make the case for "an incredibly empowering skill to learn".
More enterprise app stores on the horizon: Gartner
Call it BYOA (bring your own application). Unlike BYOD, however, enterprises will take more control of the situation with sanctioned apps available for quick downloads and deployments.
5 top frustrations with mobile devices in the enterprise
A survey of 477 IT managers has found that there is less IT involvement in BYOD decisions, and frustration with the inevitable support they will require. But users need to set the terms.
Agile gains, but executives are completely clueless, survey finds
A survey of more than 4,000 developers found that agile has reached critical mass — but executives still don't get it. It's a shame, because agile has lessons beyond software.
Pushback against 'big data' begins
Big data is now overused and out; 'smart data' is in. What else is new?
Scrum: 'sometimes the slap needs to be harder!'
Response to my post, 'Scrum is like getting slapped, but in a good way': Advice on how to bake scrum methodologies into everything you do.
IT departments still 'fighting too many fires,' survey finds
Service modeling and management may help elevate IT service levels, but progress has been slow.