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Nothing New Under the Business Commerce Cloud? November 22, 2009 
As the general notion of cloud computing continues to permeate the collective IT imagination, an offshoot vision holds that multiple business-to-business players could use the cloud approach to build extended business process ecosystems. It's sort of like a marketplace in the cloud on steroids, on someone else's servers, perhaps to engage on someone's business objectives.
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Google's Strange and Shiny New OS November 20, 2009 
Google just keeps invading new territories, and its latest target is your computer's operating system. It's officially released the open source code for its Chrome OS, an operating system that will turn up in third-party vendors' netbooks. Those devices should start selling next year. With Chrome, Google takes a very different approach than major OSes like Windows, Mac OS, or even most Linux distributions.
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Text Analysis and the Next Generation of BI November 15, 2009 
Text-based content and information from across the Web are growing in importance to businesses. The need to analyze Web-based text in real-time is rising to where structured data was in importance just several years ago. Indeed, for businesses looking to do even more commerce and community building across the Web, text access and analytics forms a new mother lode of valuable insights to mine.
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Droid Lurches to Life November 06, 2009 
Today is the day of the Droid. The Motorola smartphone touches down today in what's shaping up to be one of the biggest handset launches in recent memory. Of course Verizon is going all-in as far as advertising is concerned, but there's more to the Droid's story than a marketing campaign.
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Where SOA Meets the Cloud November 01, 2009 
Dave Linthicum's new book, Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide, has just arrived and digs into the conflation of SOA and cloud computing. We're here with Dave, and just Dave this time, to dig into the conflation of SOA and cloud computing. "SOA is the way to do cloud," he said.
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Top 9 Web 2.0 Drivers for E-Commerce Success October 28, 2009 
Is social media/Web 2.0 for retail just hype or an essential part of doing business in the 21st century? Web 2.0 includes leveraging social commerce on Web sites, blogging/podcasting and participating in social networks like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere a retailer or its customers can create and share content.
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Building ERP at the Speed of Web October 25, 2009 
I had the pleasure to recently sit down with Workday's cofounder and coCEO, Aneel Bhusri, who is responsible for the company's overall strategy and day-to-day operations. Bhusri, who also helped bring PeopleSoft to huge success, explains how Workday is raising the bar on employee life-cycle productivity by lowering IT costs through the SaaS model for full enterprise resource planning.
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From Virtualization to Cloud Computing: The Great Leap Forward October 18, 2009 
How should IT leaders scale virtualized environments so that they can be managed for elasticity payoffs? What should be taking place in virtualized environments now to get them ready for cloud efficiencies and capabilities later? And how do service-oriented architecture, governance, and adaptive infrastructure approaches relate to this progression?
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Filtering the BI Fire Hose October 11, 2009
How can we make the most of Web data services for business intelligence? As enterprises seek to gain better insights into their markets, processes, and business development opportunities, they face a daunting challenge -- how to identify, gather, cleanse, and manage all of the relevant data and content being generated across the Web.
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Attack of the Droids October 09, 2009 
AT&T has its iPhone, Sprint has its Pre, T-Mobile has its myTouch, and Verizon has ... what? A BlackBerry or something? Even though Verizon is the biggest network in the land -- and even though iPhone users think about Verizon longingly every time a call goes dead -- the company is not generally known for having killer phones.
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Making the Cloud Rain Business Productivity October 04, 2009 
As enterprises seek to exploit cloud computing, business leaders are focused on new productivity benefits. Yet the IT folks need to focus on the technology in order to propel those business solutions forward. As enterprises confront cloud computing, they want to know what's going to enable new and potentially revolutionary business outcomes.
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ICANN Cuts the Apron Strings October 02, 2009 
According to ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, nobody but nobody controls the Internet. Not China, not Comcast, not your IT guy, not Clippy, nobody. The Final Boss of the Internet does not exist. But there does exist a nonprofit that governs Web addresses, and that's Dengate Thrush's organization, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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The CIO: Between a Peak and a Valley September 20, 2009 
The combination of the down economy, resetting of IT investment patterns, and the need for agile business processes, along with the arrival of some new technologies, are all combining to force CIOs to reevaluate their plans. What should CIOs make as priorities in the short, medium and long terms? How can they reduce total cost while modernizing and transforming IT?
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What Does 'Enterprise Architect' Mean to You? September 13, 2009 
Our topic today surrounds the issue of the enterprise architect -- the role, the responsibilities, the certification and skills -- both now and into the future. The burgeoning impact of cloud computing, the down economy, and the interest in projecting more value from IT to the larger business is putting new requirements on the enterprise IT department.
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Apple Homes In on the iPod's Next Conquests September 11, 2009 
Apple has made a tradition out of unveiling new iPods every fall. This time around, though, the biggest part of the presentation wasn't the new hardware or software, but rather the person running the show. CEO Steve Jobs hosted his first public Apple event since coming back from an extended leave of absence to fight off some very serious medical problems.
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App Testing From the Comfort of the Cloud September 07, 2009 
One area of cloud computing that has really taken off and generated a lot of interest is the development test and performance proofing of applications -- all from an elastic cloud services fabric. The build and test basis of development have traditionally proven complex, expensive, and inefficient. Periodic bursts of demand on runtime and build resources are the norm.
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