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Normally, I do my gosh-darnest to focus on emerging technology that might impact business IT in some shape or another. But, hey, it's Halloween, so I'm indulging in a few Halloween technology treats.... More >
If you've been wondering where Microsoft stands on SOA, there's no need to wonder. Microsoft outlined precisely its SOA strategy this week at its fifth SOA and Business Process Management (BMP) confe... More >
Recently, during a trip to Disney World, my four-year-old experienced the thrill of 3-D technology - glasses and all - for the first time during a showing of Mickey's Philharmonic. Let me tell you - ... More >
Bloor researcher Philip Howard points out in a recent column that data-migration projects are notorious for running over time or budget - in fact, 84 percent of them do. Most place the blame... More >
Word on the street is that the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology is working on a robot that can learn through gestures - and even repeat the gestures in the app... More >
If you find you've got an extra hour or so of free time in the next two days, why not take advantage of nine live - and free - SOA-related Web presentations offered by ebizQ Tuesday and Wednesday? &n... More >
The nano-news seems to be a bit slow this week. So I thought I'd turn my attention to something a bit more contemporary, but still pretty edgy: the marriage of Facebook and the Blackberry. Acc... More >
Have you ever had a payment problem with a company and it took you three divisions, 20 calls and legal threats to resolve the problem? One time, my mortgage company didn't credit our payment. ... More >
HP wanted to prove that its Dynamic Smart Cooling green technology could deliver in the real world. So it deployed the solution at its Bangladore, India, data center to see how it performed. A... More >
If you think moving to SOA means you won't have to deal separately with application integration , think again, says Gartner research vice president Jess Thompson. Thompson contends application integ... More >
Can you name your favorite songs -- say, your top 18,000? Yeah. Me either. Fortunately, we've got the next year to figure them out, because come 2009, Samsung plans to ship products wit... More >
Intelligent Enterprise is revisiting what it calls the 34 subsystems of ETL -- which stands for "extract, transform and load," just in case you've been living in a IT vacuum the past 10 years. &nb... More >
If you're at all involved with a SOA implementation - or even thinking about it - you should check out Network World's package on " SOA and the Adaptive Data Center ," published Monday. The feature c... More >
Here are a couple of SOA implementation stories that prove SOA should be about doing things your way - or, more precisely, the way that best suits your company's business needs. The first impl... More >
Earlier this month, ZapThink wrote an item called, " Who's Killing SOA ." You may have to be a registered member to read it, but registration is free. The list included integration platform vendors, ... More >
Really, it's amazing what they're doing these days with images. Automated object identifiers can scan a photo of someone playing tennis and label the objects in the picture: Person, tennis racket, le... More >
University of California researchers Peter Burke and Chris Rutherglen recently unveiled the world's smallest demodulator. How small is it? Itty bitty. Nigh microscopic. Beyond tiny. Or, to be ... More >
You've probably had it up to here (insert animated GIF of me, raising my fingers up to my forehead) with the talk about SAP's Business Objects takeover, which was closely followed up by Oracle's offe... More >
Whenever Microsoft makes the news, it's generally for upgrading or revising something it already markets or because the company is ready to release it. But this week, Microsoft is definitely in the e... More >
Johan den Haan, the head of research and development at Mendix and author of the blog The Enterprise Architect , recently pointed out that there's precious little written about SOA and data: When re... More >
If you watch the tech press much, you know that IBM is a pretty busy bee. The company's very involved with SOA and recently had a rash of releases, largely centered on data integration offerings. &nb... More >
In July, I interviewed Karen Leightell, the senior product manager for IBM's Master Data Management Solution Group, about what master data management can and cannot accomplish. During the Q&A , ... More >
So far, there are precious few case studies on SOA. The SOA Consortium, which formed in February, is helping fill that gap with its SOA Industry Case Study Forum . Soon, the consortium hopes ... More >
There are big changes afoot on the Internet. That Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is testing domain names using 11 non-Roman alphabets, including Arabic, Russian, H... More >
Intel wants to make a chip that would hold a laser, modulator and a light detector - all made of silicon. It's got the laser and the modulator, and now, this week, Intel announced it'd succeeded in m... More >
With my keen, near-superhuman sense of intuition, I'm detecting there may be some frustration with the idea of SOA. In fact, the frustrated would probably say that they're not frustrated w... More >
If you're looking for a lunch date next Wednesday - Oct. 17 - why not brown-bag it and hang out with consultant and ZDNet / ebizQ blogger, Joe McKendrick, who happens to be hosting an eBizQ Webinar... More >
While I was reading about Gartner's list of 10 strategic technologies for 2008 recently, I noticed that, in addition to proving my point about IT and the fashion industry, ("So what's new about gre... More >
If you mapped every server on the Internet, what would it look like? John Heidemann and Uri Pryadkin from the University of Southern California know. In fact, they've posted pictures here . &... More >
By now, you're well aware that SAP bought out Business Objects in what the press release termed a "friendly take-over." The analysts and pundits are pretty excited about it, which makes sense, gi... More >
Cloud computing and multicore chips have a similar problem: There just aren't enough programmers out there who know how to do parallel programming. Frankly, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg pro... More >
SOA cannot be bought as a boxed solution. I mean, that's just common knowledge. Ask anyone and they'll tell you: SOA doesn't come in a box. Well ... anyone except this guy - Enterprise Integ... More >
Generally, when you talk about storage, you can pick one: Fast, but volatile OR Non-volatile, but slow. You want both, but forget about it. It's not possible. At least not... More >
When it comes to building a service-oriented architecture, British Telecom is a true veteran . The telecommunications company has spent nearly six years writing services for most of its 3,500 applic... More >
If you're intrigued by quantum computing, you'll probably want to go ahead and purchase this week's issue of Nature . In it, you can read how the discoveries of two research teams, one from Yale and... More >
Confession time: I don't really keep up with the hardware and network stuff. I mean, I skim through our Archi-TECH blog , which covers network architecture, each week. I scan the tech headlines. And... More >
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