Cloud in a Box
There is much to recommend about changing how we create, deploy and offer our services and products to customers. Yet there is an entire consulting industry built around avoiding the pitfalls of cloud.
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The future – ecosystems and standards
The barriers and accelerators to individual markets and new markets are evolving and in constant dynamic change. Standards and interoperability are at the center of these issues and affect the very levers of change in markets. Cloud Computing is one su…
PODCAST: How the role of certification impacts professionalization of IT and skills management
Listen to our recorded podcast on certification and its impact on the professionalization of IT and skills management, or read the transcript. This podcast was recorded by Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions in conjunction with The Open Group Conferen…
Innovation in the Cloud needs open standards
Innovation can make huge leaps in societal quality of life and benefit for all; but with every advance there can be counterproductive and emergent issues that result which may be detrimental to markets. Without standards in areas that enable trade exch…
Twtpoll results from The Open Group Conference, Austin
The Open Group set up two informal Twitter polls this week during The Open Group Conference, Austin. If you wondered about the results, or just want to see what our Twitter followers think about some topline issues in the industry in very simple terms,…
“He who does not understand history…
There’s nothing inherent to Cloud that will stop us making the same old mistakes. It’s down to us (IT folks and Enterprise Architects) to learn from history, to use methodologies intelligently, find ways to minimize the risk and get business buy-in…
June 2011 is a big month for Cloud Computing announcements
The bigger questions now being posed are how crowded the Cloud is getting, and that cyber turf wars may be underway to grab sizable parts of the Cloud-based business through establishing Cloud platforms like iCloud and Chromebook. Continue reading …
Understanding security aspects of Cloud initiatives
The Open Group recently published a whitepaper, An Architectural View Of Security For Cloud,which is the first in a series being produced by the Security For The Cloud and SOA project. In this whitepaper we introduce a method that helps organizations t…
Industry Cloud models are all very hazy!
I am currently working on extending the CBDI-SAE meta model for Cloud. I started this exercise by making some specific assumptions:1. I am interested in the larger enterprise perspective; enterprises probably need more knowledge of the underlying capab…
Industry Cloud models are all very hazy!
I am currently working on extending the CBDI-SAE meta model for Cloud. I started this exercise by making some specific assumptions:1. I am interested in the larger enterprise perspective; enterprises probably need more knowledge of the underlying capab…
Selecting Public Cloud Services – Focus on What’s Different
I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion last week with a few of my PwC colleagues, Cara Beston and Greg Dupier, during which we talked about both private clouds and also what it takes for businesses to offer public cloud services. What made this discussion unique for me was that the audience was largely made up of U.S. government contractors, so they were particularly focused on the federal direction and mandates about […]
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