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By Dr. Ali Arsanjani, IBM The Standard in Summary The SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA) published by The Open Group provides a prescriptive means of assessment or creation of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution, including the architecture …
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 […]
By E.G. Nadhan, HP Enterprise Services Rewind two decades and visualize what a forward-thinking prediction would have looked like then — IT is headed towards a technology agnostic, service-based applications and infrastructure environment, con…
By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions For some, any move to the Cloud — at least the public Cloud — means a higher risk for security. For others, relying more on a public Cloud provider means better security. There’s more of a concentrated a…
By Chris Harding, The Open Group This week I have been at The Open Group conference in San Francisco. The theme was Enterprise Transformation which, in simple terms means changing how your business works to take advantage of the latest … Contin…
First and foremost, a big thank you to the attendees of my session. We filled the room! All the interaction and questions were top notch. I really enjoyed presenting to all of you. In my session, Why EA’s Must Drive…
By The Open Group Conference Team Yesterday concluded The Open Group Conference San Francisco. Key themes that stood out on Day 3, as well as throughout the conference, included the need for a better understanding of business expectations and existing …
By Mark Skilton, Capgemini Over the past year, The Open Group has been conducting a project to assess the current state of interoperability and portability in Cloud Computing. The findings from this work will be presented at The Open Group … Cont…
By The Open Group Conference Team With the end of the first day of the conference, here are a few key takeaways from Monday’s key note sessions: “The Enterprise Architect: Architecting Business Success” Jeanne Ross, Director & Principal Resea…
By E.G. Nadhan, HP Cloud Computing standards, like other standards go through a series of evolutionary phases similar to the ones I outlined in the Top 5 phases of IaaS standards evolution. IaaS standards, in particular, take longer than their SaaS &#…
By E.G. Nadhan, HP The Open Group just announced the availability of its first Technical Standard for the Cloud – Service Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Framework (SOCCI), which outlines the concepts and architectural building blocks necessa…
For those that are attending the Open Group conference in San Francisco here in the next few weeks from now I wanted to let you know that I will be presenting. My presentation is within the Cloud Strategy and SOA…