Names and categories are important. Just look at the challenges faced by the archeology community as DNA evidence forces history to be rewritten when it […]
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Complexity isn’t (at least in enterprise IT)
There’s a lot of talk these days about complexity in enterprise IT. The heterogeneous solutions we’re building today seem more complex than the monolithic solutions […]
Continue readingHaving too much SOA is a bad thing (and what we might do about it)
SOA enablement projects (like a lot of IT projects) have a bad name. An initiative that starts as a good idea to create a bit […]
Continue readingThe IT department we have today is not the IT department we’ll need tomorrow
The IT departments many of us work in today (either as an employee or consultant) are often the result of thirty or more years of […]
Continue readingWith cloud computing, the world is not flat
Does location matter? Or, put another way, is the world no longer flat? Many cloud and SaaS providers work under the assumption that where we […]
Continue readingOne of the only two sources of sustainable competitive advantage available to us today
I stumbled onto a somewhat interesting post over at HBR, which talks Garry Kasparov’s ideas in the business world. This is actually quite a relevant […]
Continue readingThe benefits of SaaS (beyond low cost)
I’ve already written about why I think private clouds can be a good idea. Similar arguments can be made for SaaS, and then some. A […]
Continue readingPrivate clouds are (not) the future
Google (well, James Hamilton) has weighted in on the question of private clouds. As expected from a large cloud provider, James takes the position that […]
Continue readingIs “agile enterprise IT” an oxymoron?
Have we managed to design agility out of enterprise IT? Are the two now incompatible? Our decision to measure IT purely in terms of cost […]
Continue readingReducing costs is not the only benefit of cloud computing & SaaS
The wisdom of the crowd seems to have decided that both cloud computing and its sibling SaaS are cost plays. You engage a cloud or […]
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