Service-Oriented Architecture
'Society is making our IT decisions for us now'
Q&A with Ernst & Young Americas CIO David Nichols: Everyone wants cloud, but no one has a clear strategy yet for managing it.
Ajax, explained
Stanford IT professor's new venture offers free, online technology classes
Free online courses from leading IT educators promise to teach students how to build a search engine or program a robotic car within a matter of weeks.
Before jumping into cloud, learn from the SOA experience
Companies need to look at service-oriented approaches — and what has been learned over the past decade — before taking on a potentially entangling and silo-creating cloud engagements.
At last, honesty in software advertising
Doesn’t this say it all? (Seen at the recent National Retail Federation conference in NYC.)
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5 ways cloud 'supercharges' enterprise initiatives
Among other things, cloud computing’s support for rapid development and utility-style billing can counter fears about most IT shadow projects.
Tech job cuts at lowest level since 1997: report
Tech layoffs jumped again in the second half of 2011, but not enough to offset a very good year for the industry, according to latest Challenger findings.
SOPA: only the latest reason why technology and lawmaking don't mix
The Stop Online Piracy Act skirmish is just the latest ham-handed attempt to regulate something moving too fast to be regulated, says outspoken author and activist Cory Doctorow.
5 signs SOA has morphed into cloud
Both SOA and cloud address IaaS, both offer location transparency, virtualization, hardware independence, and both require chargeback mechanisms. So, what’s the difference?
At last: standard for cloud Infrastructure as a Service launched
The Open Group releases two new industry standards intended to more effectively integrate fundamental elements of SOA and cloud computing into a solution or enterprise architecture.
Agile versus waterfall
Enterprise architecture still a leap of faith for many companies
Before enterprise architecture, companies ‘relied on individuals to do what seemed best.’ That won’t work in a hyper-competitive global economy, MIT researcher argues.
9 funky new tech job titles for the 21st-century organization
Prepare for new types of professionals in your enterprise, from ‘data scientists’ to ‘machine-to-machine communications enablers.’ Or have they been with us all along anyway?
