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Jeff Kennedy The Understanding Problem While presenting a keynote address to an audience of information-technology people from the higher-education sector, a senior representative of a super-vendor smiled handsomely and said: “The cloud means different things to different people.“ That is a very unhelpful statement. Perfectly-clear criteria define what cloud computing is, and therefore what it is not. […]
A vendor recently asked me a question, and not for the first time, that amounted to “why won’t you buy these delicious software licenses for our amazing identity-management suite, which provides comprehensive solutions to the challenges faced by North American corporations in dealing with compliance requirements and bringing together disconnected versions of identity from across […]
Trapped inside their plastic bubble-land, committed forever to competing for access to worthless inedible coloured plastic baubles that represent to them a measure of status, members of the hungry-hippo secret-society collaborate in isolation from the world around them, waiting for their plastic environments to be exhalted as wonderful contributions to the mission, the project, the […]
Enterprise Service Bus and Espresso One of the few really-good boutique coffee-roasters and espresso specialists in Auckland labels its beans “esb”, for “ethically-sourced beans”. It’s something of a stretch, but espresso is important and beneficial in fundamental, foundational ways not dissimilar to the importance and benefits an Enterprise Service Bus can bring to integrated organisations. […]
After spending three months alone in a windowless-but-air-conditioned office, the business analyst emerged with a two-hundred-page document of business, functional, and non-functional requirements. A short time later, her contract concluded, the document was discarded because it was useless — it was useless and it was very expensive. As part of understanding how to balance precision […]
“Dead Letter Office” is a lovely and hearty shiraz sourced from the McLaren Vale and Padthaway wine regions of South Australia. While drinking a bottle of Dead Letter Office recently i started to sketch this post about asynchronous message-based integration architectures. The dead-letter-office concept is an important form of exception-handling, though it contributes to complexity […]
The emergence and the importance of the role cloud-service brokerages have must be achieved against a complex backdrop that is difficult to negotiate, as it includes: cloud roaming data sovereignty throughput expectations reliability requirements scalability decisions geographical considerations costing models security capabilities interoperability needs integration needs bandwidth availability time-of-day for follow-the-moon provisioning …and the necessary […]