Is public cloud angst an illusion?
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Cloud? Up to a third of Amazon Web Services' customers may be large enterprises.
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
7 reasons service oriented architecture and REST are perfect together
It's not a question of either/or with SOA and REST. It's a matter of how the two design approaches can be brought together.
10 ways to get the business to rally around your cloud proposal
It starts with a vision, and ends with a roadmap. In other words, it's just like any other significant technology pitch -- with a few new twists.
Service-oriented organizations have a head start in the cloud race
New Forrester report urges carrying over SOA practices into cloud projects.
Scrum is like getting slapped, but in a good way
One tech industry executive hired someone to slap him in the face every time his productivity lagged -- and it worked. Here's a less painful solution.
Should software and online vendors be in the hardware business?
Some warn that software and online companies need to tread carefully in the hardware space, as it is fraught with peril.
3 ways enterprise app stores differ from consumer app stores
Enterprise app stores actually have a lot of legal and organizational issues associated with sales or downloads not seen on the consumer side.
Hurricane Sandy bests Wall Street's business continuity plans: report
IDC Financial Insights' scathing report a reminder how even the best-laid BC plans may not quite be ready for prime time.
BPM's uncertain role in modernizing legacy applications
Business process management experts disagree on how much BPM can accomplish against hard-coded systems.