Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?
Simply exposing data through services may create more problems than it solves
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Software defined data center, defined
A brief explanation of what a software defined data center means, and what it means to IT.
Cloud services: trust, but verify
What's a more precious commodity than information itself? Trust in the entity providing your services.
Three reasons SOA will boost outsourcing
Busy IT shops, lower barriers to entry, and cloud-based services may fuel 'micro-outsourcing'
Scalability? Don't worry. Application complexity? Worry.
Application complexity is something that lots of hardware — whether from the cloud or internal data center — cannot fix.
Top 10 countries in which to locate a data center
The safest and cheapest place to open a data center? The United States.
Failure is not an option for Netflix's service-oriented architecture
A Netflix software engineer describes how the world's largest pure cloud service keeps on delivering.
The federal government's secret 1966 cloud computing plan
Even as far back as 45 years ago, the US federal government struggled to consolidate and become more service-oriented across its agency silos. Some worried about privacy implications.
Big Data: we have the technology, but not the vision
Big Data's big questions, explored in a chat with Todd Walter, CTO of Teradata.
Linked data: next frontier for the service-oriented enterprise
Service oriented architecture and XML address transactional services, but enterprises still need a way to manage, digest and share information to complement these services.