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Monthly Archives: August 2009
The Roman Cloud
Once, I spend an entire summer with Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation, according to many the best book series in the science fiction genre ever. Despite that, I don’t recall much of the story line, but one of the main themes is the principle of psychohistory: the more people are involved, the easier it gets to predict the future. So with the collective reasoning power of say an entire galaxy, forecasting becomes pretty accurate. Imagine: all …
Build, Buy, Open Source or Services?
It rather seems we’re spoilt for choice with IT these days, but as in other aspects of life, choice is only a good thing when the reasons for each option are clear. IT and its role – or alignment to – business had become pretty mature, as had the technology itself. Now suddenly much of these ‘certainties’ seem to be threatened, if not already actually changed. We seem to be faced with too many changes …
Enterprise Karmic Koala
When on holidays, I try to be unaware of technology as much as possible (people that happen to know my e-mail out-of-office messages will recognise this). Only natural. But not as easy as it seems. Two years ago, when we drove back through the French Lorraine region, we ended up in an ultra-modern fuel station that had literally crashed due to a software error. A guy in a yellow emergency vest was nervously searching for …
Have we really understood what Business Intelligence means?
Everyone wants ‘business intelligence’ (BI) but have we failed to grasp the gap between what the business managers want and what conventional BI reporting delivers? I was ‘socialising’ this point with a former colleague whose views are always interesting (as is his blog) and he came up with a really simple way to express this point. In the true nature of collaboration I added some further thinking to build on his point. As Peter lives …
Business Model Change in the IT industry itself!
Microsoft will become a provider of cloud-based computing and business services with the ‘official’ launch of Azure during mid-July. Apparently in becoming official, pricing and service levels have been fixed. I don’t want to revisit my original comments on Microsoft Azure, though I do want to mention that Microsoft has added information about Office 2010 which, together with the features in Windows 7, seems to amount to a sea change in the Windows user’s world. …
Telecom Technologies- Time for 4G and beyond?
Here is an interesting guest blog by Sayak Basu, senior consultant from Capgemini’s TME strategy lab. I hope you will enjoy it. – Andy A recent blog posting from a Gartner analyst on telecom technologies caught my attention. The analyst poses the question on whether the time has come to speculate the arrival of 5G networks (yes, you read that right, 5G!). This set me thinking. Having just read a Capgemini study on advent of …
SOA; the various standards come together, but when to use?
The trigger for this post was a new whitepaper we published on SOA. The paper is far from being just another rehash on this topic – which continues to create controversy. It is the combined work of the three most prolific providers of various ‘standards’ that relate to aspects of SOA and – as is often the case – the result has in the past been more likely to create confusion rather that clarification. It’s …
