The recent Chronicle article on The Incredible Shrinking CIO, highlights a trend that is not unique to Higher Education. The blogosphere is rich with the theme, (see Patrick Gray’s blog entry here where he makes the claim “While technology is critically important, its care and feeding is not necessarily deserving of a seat at the […]
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As a follow-on to my last blog post regarding shortening the distance to value with software ecosystems, another shortening can be done with consumable components in the cloud, on-demand.
I remember when it took quite some time to attach a mobile device to my PC with a cable, sync the device, load software applications, setup and […]
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I’ve been evangelizing a theme for the past several months at SunGard that describes where I believe software is going. I call it “shorten the distance”, referring to the gap between the identification of a need and the consumption of a delivered solution that meets that need with realized value to the end-user. The distance […]
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Vint Cerf (Father of the Internet) is calling for standards in the cloud in an interview with InfoWorld (see the whole interview here). I enjoy following Vint’s logic whenever he imparts it, as it’s usually spot on.
Remember how hard it used to be to change wireless carriers? Enter number portability and interoperability between carriers for […]
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Recently I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of higher education institutions mention the need to adopt Agile Software Development within their IT organizations. In particular, many are talking about the need to adopt agile methods in order to respond quicker and to become more efficient overall. Although Agile (characterized by frequent iterations, short release […]
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The rapid expansion of the universe is nothing short of amazing. It’s now everywhere, and the size is unimaginable. To be clear, I’m not referring to the universe that suddenly sprang into existence with the Big Bang 13 billion years ago, but the universe that was born 40 years ago in September of 1969, when […]
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I’ve been thinking about some examples of the correlations between the engineering of hardware versus software. Because the engineering processes themselves have matured along different paths, there are some historical patterns that can be used to predict how some future innovations could unfold, in particular some of considerate interest at the moment, such as cloud […]
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Many are pondering what impact SOA will have on Cloud Computing. Because Clouds utility today is very low-level (e.g. pay-as-you-go computing cycles, storage, network) the inevitable evolution is the climb up the stack to application container services, then finally to application components. Interestingly enough, the highest level of the stack has already been achieved (at […]
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A number of cloud offerings are appearing, and some mixed with SaaS messages, in particular some clouds are going to market with other clouds. IBM’s offering coupled with Amazon’s EC2 is one example, see this article, or this one, (also here, here and here).
Cloud offerings will continue to appear. These services provide generic computing that are purchased in […]
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