What is the Sound of One Cloud Thunderclapping?
I just finished reading Randy Bias’s piece, “Elasticity is NOT #Cloud Computing … Just Ask Google“, and I must admit, it takes me back to all sorts of questions of a vaguely unsettling nature that have been bubbling below the surface of my cloudy thinking for some time. If Elasticity is NOT Cloud Computing, and [...]
Follow the EI blogs? Well Social Network With Us in Person! Oh, and Free Tix to Defrag…
The Enterprise Irregulars will be @ Defrag (Nov. 17-18 outside of Denver) this year, presenting a track on platform shifts. We have five, yup five free passes to Defrag to give away. But to get a free pass, ya gotta ask us a question. The five people who pose the most interesting, most thought- provoking [...]
Analyzing Ariba’s Fourth Quarter (Part 1)
Last week, Ariba announced its latest quarterly results. Even though the purpose of this mini-series looking at their performance and what it means for the market is to dig into the numbers and qualitative observations, I find it …
CASCON Workshop: Accelerate Service Integration In Your BPM and SOA Applications
I’m attending a workshop at the first morning of CASCON, the conference on software research hosted by IBM Canada. There’s quite a bit of good work done at the IBM Toronto software lab, and this annual conference gives them a chance to engage the academic and corporate community to present this research. The focus of [...]
It’s Just About the Connections!
Ever feel like, as an industry (or industry analyst), that we make everything seem as complex as possible? I guess it makes sense, the more "technical" or more complex, the more you need us or IT or tech vendors or…
Terrorism and the Supply Chain — Strategies for Coping With a Form of Supply Risk We Can’t Ignore
Late last week, my hometown of Chicago was once again in the news (and no, this time it was not because we’re sending yet another former politician to jail). Rather my city (and in fact, my neighborhood) was the target of an inten…
