Take the ’service’ out of SOA, and what do you get?
Service as in SaaS has a different meaning that service as in SOA.
The implications of the SCA/SDO handover
Fellow ZDNet analyst Dana Gardner provides an analysis of this week's announcement in which IT vendors are handing over the specifications for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) to OASIS.
Dana calls this an important advancement for SOA:
"This move shows an aggressive path for major vendors to making SOA the basis for modern [...]
Dana calls this an important advancement for SOA:
"This move shows an aggressive path for major vendors to making SOA the basis for modern [...]
SOA is not above ROI scrutiny, but…
ROI on SOA is an enterprise challenge, not an IT challenge
SOA will lead to ‘explosion of creativity’
How is SOA like the food industry? (And I'm not talking about "consumption" of services)
Elliot King, my colleague over at Database Trends & Applications, also edits the BPM Strategies magazine from the BPM Instititute, and recently noted that SOA proponents aren't aiming high enough:
"In many ways. the current vision for SOA is not too grandiose, [...]
Elliot King, my colleague over at Database Trends & Applications, also edits the BPM Strategies magazine from the BPM Instititute, and recently noted that SOA proponents aren't aiming high enough:
"In many ways. the current vision for SOA is not too grandiose, [...]
Yes, IT is a competitive differentiator
IT matters, and here's why.
Getting Redd
As seen on Sitemeter, there was an explosion of traffic on Fractals of Change Wednesday afternoon (pictured here) which actually continued pretty much continued unabated through Thursday afternoon. This sometimes happens when I write about something very current or very controversial. Another Sitemeter view showed that these readers were linking in to a two year old post about negotiating. Curious....
Morph of a Nerd CEO ? Company Charitable Donations
Should your startup be making charitable donations? In general, no ? but there are exceptions. Let’s take a look, case by case, at this stingy advice. Suppose all the funding came from you and perhaps a few other members of a close group of founders. It’s your money; you can do whatever you want with it. But, given tax law,...
Morph of a Nerd CEO ? How Hard Will You Work?
Nerds are used to long hours. But the long hours you spent getting a program to work are nothing like the hours you’ll have to put in if you start a company and have employees. If you’re not prepared to work twelve hours at least six days each week ? or if your family is not willing to have you...
Google Flair: Google Blog Bar
(Thanks to SEW for reminding me that I meant to write about this.)
Google recently introduced another nice piece of flair: a Blog Bar that lets you pick keywords, and then rotates through relevant posts by fading new links in and out. You can see it in action over on this post by Mark Lucovsky. You [...]
Google recently introduced another nice piece of flair: a Blog Bar that lets you pick keywords, and then rotates through relevant posts by fading new links in and out. You can see it in action over on this post by Mark Lucovsky. You [...]
Google Flair: Blog Buzz on Google Video
A little while ago, Ionut noticed that Google Video added a Blog Buzz section to its front page. The Blog Buzz shows videos that bloggers have been talking about and linking to recently.
So for example when The Lisa does a Friday Recap and links to this Zeroes parody of Heroes, our blogsearch team takes that [...]
So for example when The Lisa does a Friday Recap and links to this Zeroes parody of Heroes, our blogsearch team takes that [...]
Flair or Flare?
When referring to those little widgets like MyBlogLog that spruce up a page, do you say flair or flare? The first place I heard the term was Office Space, and they call it flair:
Peter: What are pieces of flair?
Joanna: Thats where you know, suspenders and buttons and all sorts of stuff. Were, uh, were actually [...]
Peter: What are pieces of flair?
Joanna: Thats where you know, suspenders and buttons and all sorts of stuff. Were, uh, were actually [...]
Quick legal update
The judge in the KinderStart case granted Googles motion to dismiss without leave to amend:
The instant case has been intensively litigated for more than eleven months. Under these circumstances, the Court concludes that there is no reasonable likelihood that KinderStart will cure the defects in the SAC [second amended complaint] by further amendment. Accordingly, the [...]
The instant case has been intensively litigated for more than eleven months. Under these circumstances, the Court concludes that there is no reasonable likelihood that KinderStart will cure the defects in the SAC [second amended complaint] by further amendment. Accordingly, the [...]
Telx Buys 111 Eighth Meet-Me-Room
Telx has acquired the meet-me-room business of NYC Connect at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of New York's premier carrier hotel facilities, the companies said yesterday. The deal expands the national network of meet-me-rooms for Telx, which already operates an interconnection facility at 60 Hudson Street,...
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Digital Realty Buys Lease at 111 Eighth
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) continues to expand its footprint in Manhattan's premier carrier hotels, announcing tonight that it has acquired data center space at 111 Eighth Avenue. Digital Realty said it paid $24.5 million to buy a 33,700 square feet lease from NYC Connect, including two...
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NBC-Fox: More Video In The Pipes
The long-running rumors are true: NBC and Fox are teaming on a free, ad-supported online video service to challenge Google's YouTube. The real news in today's announcement is the list of distribution partners, which includes MySpace, AOL, MSN and Yahoo! - just about every major player except Google...
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ViaWest Reports Stronger Colo Demand
ViaWest, a growing Denver-based colocation and managed hosting provider, said today that it experienced double-digit revenue growth and a 45 percent jump in increased existing customer demand in 2006. While not providing the underlying financial numbers, ViaWest said 2006 was "its best year...
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HP to Save $8 Million With Smart Cooling
HP generated a lot of buzz earlier this year when it announced Dynamic Smart Cooling, its new system for advanced management of data center power and cooling. The product won’t be available until this fall, and enters full production in early 2008. In the meantime, HP executives are evangelizing...
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Google DCs: 'Impossible to Duplicate?'
Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an interesting comment about the company's data center infrastructure in a recent podcast at iinovate (link via Tom Foremski).Google is much more capital-intensive than our competitors and we're much further along in the buildout of data centers. We have a competitive...
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Liquid Cooling Adoption Picks Up
When attendees at yesterday’s DataCenterDynamics 2007 conference in New York were asked whether they had implemented liquid cooling in their data center, only three hands when up. But Roger Schmidt, a Distinguished Engineer in IBM’s Server Group, says there will be more very soon.
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HP Veteran Smith is New Equinix CEO
HP executive Steve Smith has been named the new chief executive officer of Equinix, the company announced today. Smith, 50, is a 19 year industry veteran and recently served as senior vice president of HP Services, the $15 billion professional services segment of HP. He will begin his new post on...
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