http://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/rss en-us ‘It’s no longer enough for EAs to put a shared infrastructure in place and stand back and declare the business to be enabled.’

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

]]> For consumers, Ajax looks like magic. Developers know differently, of course.

]]> 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.

]]> 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.

]]> A sign of the times, or new tactic?

]]> Among other things, cloud computing’s support for rapid development and utility-style billing can counter fears about most IT shadow projects.

]]> 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Both SOA and cloud address IaaS, both offer location transparency, virtualization, hardware independence, and both require chargeback mechanisms. So, what’s the difference?

]]> 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 techniques can arise in any situation, even outside the enterprise.

]]> 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.

]]> 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 join Stanford in offering courses for global participation. MIT says it will offer certificates for successful completion.

]]> Demand is hottest this year for Java developers, new survey of 1,200 hiring managers shows.

]]> Big data solutions such as Hadoop ‘isn’t rocket science, people can learn it.’

]]> Intuit QuickBase survey of 900 employees find cloud is awakening a sleeping giant — DIY technology.

]]> Growing interest in the cloud, and a desire for more vendor independence, may drive REST deeper into the enterprise BPM space.

]]> 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.

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