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Blog Profile / Service Oriented


URL :http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/
Filed Under:Technology
Posts on Regator:640
Posts / Week:3.7
Archived Since:February 3, 2010

Blog Post Archive

Cloud, automation drive new growth in SOA governance market

Market forecast says SOA governance market will keep growth by more than 10% a year.

PaaS and the peanut butter principle

Platform as a Service means only worrying about final assembly of a sandwich, not growing the wheat and peanuts.

Outsourcing exec urges: 'Stop outsourcing your software development'

IT outsourcing head points to risks and hidden expenses of outsourcing. There is one underrated practice that can make a difference, however.

One rockin' vendor's journey to SOA

Songkick, an online service and social venue for tracking bands and concerts, reports on its move from one big tightly coupled system to a more flexible service oriented architecture.

Why IT is a profession in 'flux'

Red-hot market demand for It skills masks enormous underlying pressures to deliver business value.

10 rules for keeping Agile development... well, agile

How to avoid becoming an 'Agile Zombie,' and 9 other Agile adoption pitfalls.

3 reasons to love BI dashboards (a rebuttal!)

Today's BI dashboards provide greater visibility, decision-making efficiency and collaboration than ever before.

3 steps for introducing more chaos into systems (yes, that's a good thing)

Everyone wants stability in their information technology systems, but with too much stability, IT departments lose their edge, one expert warns.

3 questions to ask before signing with a PaaS vendor

Platform as a Service promises to relieve organizations and IT of much of the infrastructure and middleware work involved in application and system deployments. But buyer beware.

How to write a BYOD policy

The federal government issues bring-your-own-device guidelines for the handling of mobile devices in agency work; lots for commercial enterprises to consider as well.

Railroad becomes software company

More evidence of the lines blurring between technology vendors and consumers.

3 reasons to hate BI dashboards

Today's business intelligence dashboards aren't any more intelligent than they were two decades ago, analyst says. Is there room for improvement?

A developer crosses over to the dark side and learns marketing

'I thought soft skills meant it was a soft job... Good marketing is a product of the same inputs as good code; long hours, sweating the details, and the judicious application of experience doing it the right way.'

5 areas most likely to be outsourced in IT: survey

New survey of 200 executives finds close to half plan to hire contract talent to fill cloud and mobile development needs.

9 ways cloud will impact IT employment

Cloud computing may bring more opportunities than it takes away.

For government, 'key driver of SOA and cloud is reuse': Justice Department CTO

A decade of work on service oriented architecture is paving the way to today's cloud and shared services, says Ajay Budhraja, chief technology officer with the US Department of Justice.

4 ways to keep tech talent energized

If companies want to compete in a rough-and-tumble global economy, they need to foster an innovative and collaborate workplace for their IT talent. Here's how.

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