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Frank Guerino had a thing or two to say about SaaS and integration after reading last week's post on "The SOA, SaaS, Web 2.0 Connect." In that post, I shared how many SaaS vendors are moving ... More >
Well, now, here's a cute little police-state effort by the Chinese to improve Internet security: Animated cyber cops, who appear every 30 minutes on computer screens to remind Chinese surfers about l... More >
I've covered integration for this blog for nearly six months now. Before that, I wrote about IT security. And before that - in the nascent days of the Internet - I wrote more generally about topics o... More >
Occasionally, someone will suggest that one day, businesses will stop buying employees computers and instead, employees will cheerfully buy their own PCs or laptops and just use them to do their job.... More >
If you're in the early stages of SOA experimenting - and most organizations are - you probably aren't too worried about governance just yet. After all, traditionally, governance is something you add ... More >
Everybody's trying to come up with a way to make Web 2.0 technologies useful for business. Some of the results have been, well, let's face it, unimpressive. For instance, take IBM's virtual meeting ... More >
Sometimes, it takes someone from a different hemisphere to see things differently. SOA experts here and in the UK are pretty outraged if you mention vendor-specific SOA solutions. "What," they ask, "... More >
Did you know that 99 percent of children in the developing world leave school without ever touching a computer? I didn't. But it helps explain why the XO Laptop -- the $175 computer that will ... More >
If only there were a way to determine what kind of challenges you might encounter at each stage of your SOA implementation. You know, a sort of SOA maturity model. As it just so happens, there... More >
SOA advocates seem to be of two ilk: the spend-a-lot middleware types and the do-it-yourself types who argue SOA doesn't have to cost anything. If you're in the latter group, you're probably g... More >
Here's some exciting news: Sony has created a bio battery that "generates electricity from carbohydrates utilizing enzymes as its catalyst," Physorg.com reports . That's basically the way living org... More >
Is SOA only for large, "rich" companies? Francis Carden , the CEO of OpenSpan, raised this issue in response to last week's post, " A Tool for Explaining SOA to the Business ." He called it ... More >
Remember the old Internet, with its wacky designs; multi-colored, multi-sized fonts; and dancing-gif-filled pages? Good times, good times. If only we'd had something - other than basic good ta... More >
Good morning. Yesterday, SOA was the end-all, be-all. But this is IT. These things change overnight. Guess what? The SOA backlash began . Yeah, well, that's what you're going to see in... More >
The hot item this week at the Hot Chips symposium at Stanford, in Palo Alto? Multi-processor chips, of course. Intel debuted an 80-core prototype that uses a mesh architecture, interne... More >
Gartner predicts that SaaS could become a $19.3 billion market by the end of 2011, according to a recent Computerworld article . Gartner also reports that SaaS reached $6.3 billion by the end of las... More >
It's been said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Yeah, well, apparently so are those who do know history. " Integration Issues May Hinder SaaS Adoption ," from CIOUpdate , r... More >
CNET reports that the plastic chassis on Fujitsu's Lifebook laptop is made from cornstarch instead of petroleum. This means that in a landfill, it will disintegrate in a few months, as opposed to th... More >
There are a few mysteries from my childhood I still ponder. How many licks does it take to get to the center of Tootsie Pop? Why doesn't the Coyote ever catch the Road Runner? What was that stuff ins... More >
I've written about Office 2007 and Sharepoint, simply because together, the two offer impressive integration features. I admit, I really don't keep up with all things Microsoft. I leave that to fello... More >
Most of the items I post about fall into one of three areas: storage, cooling or power. The issues reappear time and again as researchers tackle these obstacles to better and smaller electronic devic... More >
When new technology trends appear, it's hard to separate the fads from the long-term solutions. Well, hard might be the wrong word: Impossible might be better. The truth is, you can guess but ... More >
Often, when I read about new technologies, they remind me of something Gene Roddenberry wrote into a Star Trek episode. It's really cool and amazing, but, you know, Gene already "envisioned" it, so e... More >
I must admit: I'm a bit befuddled as to how brick-and-mortar businesses are going to use Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies. I mean, Web 2.0 is just so darn personal and free spirited. Frankly, I think ... More >
I must admit: I'm a bit befuddled as to how brick-and-mortar businesses are going to use Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies. I mean, Web 2.0 is just so darn personal and free spirited. Frankly, I think ... More >
Today, I want to continue a thread I started yesterday when I wrote about how IT should sell SOA to the business . The question is whether you should go into the more technical aspects of SOA or jus... More >
What would you do if you could build your own Google-esque search engine, but at a fraction of the cost? You may soon be able to find out. TechWorld reports that the co-founder of Wikipedia ... More >
SOA implementations thus far have been fairly small. For instance, according to this IT World article , the benchmarking non-profit APQC reports that 43 percent of its respondents report having at l... More >
In an eBizQ column this week , David Linthicum says that there's a lot of bad consulting on SOA right now, and his fear is the bad advice will result in a bad rap for SOA. That's always a pro... More >
Guess who's getting a new computer? The University of Illinois - assuming the National Science Foundation goes along with the recommendation by its board. The National Science Board recommende... More >
Testing is one area of SOA that you simply cannot underfund or underestimate. SOA will require a complete overhaul of your IT testing process - from whom you include in the testing, to when it starts... More >
Earlier this week, I blogged about a panel's predictions that we'd soon see the invention of a no-cool data center . But a recent report from the EPA shows there are steps companies could take now t... More >
Are you in the market for a new data integration solution? If so, you might want to consider a new product from IBM, scheduled to go on sale in October. The new offering, called the IBM... More >
I love TV. I enjoy countless reruns of Scrubs and That 70s Show . I can watch just about any old B-grade TV show: Xena, Psyched, Forever Knight , Wizards & Warriors (greatest show ever!). I... More >
Are Web services the same thing -- in effect -- as SOA? Industry analysts and vendors say no, no, a thousand times no. But Aberdeen Group research shows that about 50 percent of those involved... More >
What would the ROI be on a data center that didn't need cooling? How much money could you say you'd saved the company in energy and space rental? You may think this is a pipe dream, but IBM, H... More >
Last night, I was reading a free Aberdeen Group white paper on SOA middleware . As the Aberdeen analysis shows, about half of those implementing SOA consider it to be essentially the same thing as W... More >
Remember the scene from Blade Runner , when Deckard says to Leon, "Tell me about your mother," and Leon says, "My mother? I'll tell you about my mother ..."? Imagine that scene like this: Dec... More >
It seems to be an unquestioned assumption that unstructured data is valuable -- if only companies could find a way to harness its power for the corporate good. I've always wondered about that assumpt... More >
I'm stepping out of my nanotech, Jetson-world today to tell you about a disturbing emerging security trend. Researchers at the security firm MessageLabs are warning about a new trend in cybe... More >
Security is the one topic that's been conspicuously absent from the bulk of SOA articles, blog posts and discussions. But that's changing - and rightly so, especially when you stop to consider... More >
Service-oriented architecture is supposed to be an architecture - not a solution you buy from a vendor. But as more companies offer stack solutions, there's been some criticism in the SOA community t... More >
Did you know weather is a contributing factor in a third of all airline accidents? I didn't. But that statistic goes a long way to explain why 90 percent of all new aircraft are equipped with ... More >
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