Scott Bils has a post on the "Five Mistakes that Enterprise Cloud Service
Providers are Making" over on Leverhawk. Points four and five were
particularly interesting because it seems there's a synergistic opportunity
there.
Point number four from Scott:
Omitting SaaS and PaaS: Cloud infrastructure service providers have little
incentive to migrate customers to public cloud SaaS offerings such as
Salesforce.com or Workday. For many customers, migrating legacy apps to SaaS
models will be the right answer. Many enterprise cloud service providers
conveniently omit this lever from their transformation story and lose
customer credibility as a result.
And point number five:
Failing to differentiate: Many vendors position themselves as providing
managed services that make cloud models ”enterprise ready.” The problem
is that every other vendor is saying the exact same thin... (more)
The success of SOA, which grew out of the popular Object Oriented development
paradigm, was greatly hampered by the inability of architects to enforce its
central premise of reuse. But it wasn't just the lack of reusing services
that caused it to fail to achieve the greatness predicted, it was the lack of
adopting the idea of an authoritative source for business critical objects,
i.e. data.
A customer, an order, a lead, a prospect, a service call. These "business
objects" within SOA were intended to represented by a single, authoritative
source as a means to ultimately provide a... (more)
Unifying identity and access management has been a stretch goal for IT for
nearly a decade. At first it was merely the need to have a single,
authoritative source of corporate identity such that risks like orphaned or
unauthorized accounts could be addressed within the enterprise.
But with a growing number of applications - business applications - being
deployed "in the cloud", it's practically a foregone conclusion that
organizations are going to need similar capabilities for those applications,
as well.
It's not easy, there are myriad reasons why unifying identity and access
... (more)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
An interesting and almost ancillary point was made during a recent #cloudtalk
hosted by VMware vCloud with respect to the definition of "hybrid" cloud.
Sure, it implies some level of integration, but how much integration is
required to be considered a hybrid cloud?
The way I see it, there has to be some level of integration that supports the
ability to automate something - either resources or a process - in order for
an architecture to be considered a hybrid cloud.
A "hybrid" anything, after all, is based ... (more)
Prioritization. It's something that's built into nearly every technology,
particularly that which services network traffic. Rate shaping. Queuing.
Coloring bits.
We do a lot of interesting gyrations with technology to ensure that some user
traffic and requests are more equal than others.
Today we still do the same thing, but it's done in different ways. Software
as a Service charges a premium for "extra" API calls, for example, and if you
want access to premium content there's sure to be a paywall in front of it.
But that's at the service level. It's not the same as prioritization... (more)