Service Oriented
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NASA retires its last mainframe
‘Mainframes’ and ‘moonshots’ are two words that were almost synonymous in the 1960s, as are ‘iPhones’ and ‘apps’ today.
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Enterprise architects: 'turn your company upside down'
‘It’s no longer enough for EAs to put a shared infrastructure in place and stand back and declare the business to be enabled.’
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'Society is making our IT decisions for us now'
Q&A with Ernst & Young Americas CIO David Nichols: Everyone wants cloud, but no one has a clear strategy yet for managing it.
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Ajax, explained
For consumers, Ajax looks like magic. Developers know differently, of course.
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Stanford IT professor's new venture offers free, online technology classes
Free online courses from leading IT educators promise to teach students how to build a search engine or program a robotic car within a matter of weeks.
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Before jumping into cloud, learn from the SOA experience
Companies need to look at service-oriented approaches — and what has been learned over the past decade — before taking on potentially entangling and silo-creating cloud engagements.
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At last, honesty in software advertising
A sign of the times, or new tactic?
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5 ways cloud 'supercharges' enterprise initiatives
Among other things, cloud computing’s support for rapid development and utility-style billing can counter fears about most IT shadow projects.
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Tech job cuts at lowest level since 1997: report
Tech layoffs jumped again in the second half of 2011, but not enough to offset a very good year for the industry, according to latest Challenger findings.
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SOPA: only the latest reason why technology and lawmaking don't mix
The Stop Online Piracy Act skirmish is just the latest ham-handed attempt to regulate something moving too fast to be regulated, says outspoken author and activist Cory Doctorow.
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5 signs SOA has morphed into cloud
Both SOA and cloud address IaaS, both offer location transparency, virtualization, hardware independence, and both require chargeback mechanisms. So, what’s the difference?
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At last: standard for cloud Infrastructure as a Service launched
The Open Group releases two new industry standards intended to more effectively integrate fundamental elements of SOA and cloud computing into a solution or enterprise architecture.
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Agile versus waterfall
Agile versus waterfall techniques can arise in any situation, even outside the enterprise.
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Enterprise architecture still a leap of faith for many companies
Before enterprise architecture, companies ‘relied on individuals to do what seemed best.’ That won’t work in a hyper-competitive global economy, MIT researcher argues.
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9 funky new tech job titles for the 21st-century organization
Prepare for new types of professionals in your enterprise, from ‘data scientists’ to ‘machine-to-machine communications enablers.’ Or have they been with us all along anyway?
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MIT to open up some courses to global audience -- free, online
MIT to join Stanford in offering courses for global participation. MIT says it will offer certificates for successful completion.
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Java tops list of software skills in demand: employer survey
Demand is hottest this year for Java developers, new survey of 1,200 hiring managers shows.
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Big data: we have the technology, but do we have the people?
Big data solutions such as Hadoop ‘isn’t rocket science, people can learn it.’
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Employees: we'll build our own technology solutions, thank you
Intuit QuickBase survey of 900 employees find cloud is awakening a sleeping giant — DIY technology.
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REST will free business process management from its shackles: prediction
Growing interest in the cloud, and a desire for more vendor independence, may drive REST deeper into the enterprise BPM space.
