IBM buys itself a cloud integration toolbox
IBM bought Cast Iron Systems because it simply had nothing in its huge Websphere toolbox that could do cloud integration. I just heard the company’s SVP of its software group Steve Mills admit this in today’s IBM press briefing, talking about the acquisition. While IBM has a massive catalog of technologies for integrating applications within [...]
How SaaS Helps Enterprises Effect Change
Listen to my conversation with Eric Berridge, CEO of Bluewolf, one of the pioneers of a new generation of professional services companies that specialize in software-as-a-service and cloud computing. In this podcast, learn what attracts large enterprises to SaaS, and find out why adopting SaaS can help change the culture of an organization and effect [...]
Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other’s clouds
Today’s announcement that Microsoft and Intuit are to marry up their cloud platforms with a software development kit makes perfect sense to me. Some of my ZDNet colleagues have been less impressed — Dennis Howlett calls it more PaaS to put in your aaS environment while Mary Jo Foley says it’s to shore up Redmond’s [...]
Next-Gen Business Teams Make Sense of Google Wave
Driven by the spread of the Web and advances in Web capabilities over the past ten years, a new way of working in distributed teams has become commonplace for a broad range of project-based activities. In media and advertising, software development, construction, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing product design and financial services, it’s now routine to bring together [...]
People-centric IT for a new decade
Continuing my review of emerging trends that are going to be big in 2010, here’s one that I suspect will be a defining theme for IT throughout the coming decade. In one of my favorite postings of 2009 back in September, I called this trend The democratization of IT. Developing those thoughts over the past [...]
