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Talking about standards apparently brings out some very strong feelings in a whole lot of people. From “it’s too early” to “we need standards now” to “meh, standards will evolve where they are necessary”, some of the discussions at CloudConnect this week were tinged with a bit of hostility toward, well, standards in general and the folks trying to define them. In some cases the hostility was directed toward the fact that we don’t have any standards yet. [William Vambenepe has a post on the subject, having been one of the folks hostility...
posted @ Friday, March 19, 2010 3:41 AM |
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What does a 2-year old and cloud-based applications have in common? The Toddler has recently decided that he can navigate the stairs by himself. Insists on it, in fact. That’s a bit nerve-wracking, especially when he decides that 2:30am is a good time to get up, have a snack, and recreate a Transformers battle in the family room. It’s worse when you’re asleep and don’t know about it. Oh eventually you hear him and you get up and try to convince him it’s time for sleep (see? all the...
posted @ Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:59 AM |
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What is needed to customize the cloud is a pair of data center ruby slippers called Infrastructure 2.0. Frank Gens of IDC discussed the “New IDC IT Cloud Services Survey: Top Benefits and Challenges” in his blog and what is not surprising is that security continues to top the challenges associated with cloud services. What may be surprising to some is the increasing focus on customization. It shouldn’t be. As customers continue to push at the boundaries of the cloud computing model they will inevitably find it unable to meet some need they have, such as customization....
posted @ Friday, February 26, 2010 3:31 AM |
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Managing a virtual machine is not the same thing as managing the stuff inside it. I’ve been noticing a disturbing, though not unexpected, trend in the world of virtualization and cloud computing around management of infrastructure, particularly around virtual network appliances (VNAs). Specifically this trend is claiming the ability to manage virtualized infrastructure. You’d think I’d be happy about that. I probably would - if the solutions were actually capable of managing the infrastructure. Digging into these management solutions shows that for the most part the definition of the term “manage”...
posted @ Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:56 AM |
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Emerging architectures are conflating responsibilities up and down the application stack. Who is responsible for integration when services reside in the network? While preparing for an upcoming panel I’m moderating at Cloud Connect (in the “New Infrastructure” track), the panelists and I had a great discussion on the topics we wanted to discuss in the session. During that discussion it became increasingly clear that an interesting phenomenon has been occurring: the conflation of network and application responsibilities in the traditional “stack.” Much of this inversion is absolutely necessary for emerging models of networking and computing...
posted @ Tuesday, February 02, 2010 3:36 AM |
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The benefits of automation and orchestration do not come solely from virtualization. Virtualization has benefits, there is no arguing that. But let’s not get carried away and attribute all the benefits associated with cloud computing and automation to one member of the “game changing” team: virtualization. I recently read one of the all-too-common end-of-year prediction blogs on virtualization and 2010 that managed to say with what I think was a straight face that virtualization of the network is what makes it “fluid”. From: 2010 Virtualization Predictions - The Year the Network Becomes Fluid and Virtual ...
posted @ Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:08 AM |
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Should the enterprise standardize on JSON or XML as their lingua franca for Web 2.0 integration? Or should they use both as best fits the application?The decision impacts more than just integration – it resounds across the entire infrastructure and impacts everything from security to performance to availability of those applications. One of the things a developer may or may not have control over when building enterprise applications is the format of the data used to communicate (integrate) with other applications. Increasingly services external to the enterprise are very Web 2.0 in that they provide HTTP-based APIs for...
posted @ Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:56 AM |
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Sometimes the best answer to a problem is to hit the reset button, but it should probably be the last answer, not the first. My cohort Pete Silva attended the 2009 Cloud Computing and Virtualization Conference & Expo and offered up a summary of one of the sessions he enjoyed (‘Cloud Security - It's Nothing New; It Changes Everything!’ (pdf)) in a recent post, “Virtualization is Real” One of the sessions I enjoyed was ‘Cloud Security - It's Nothing New; It Changes Everything!’ (pdf) from Glenn Brunette, a Distinguished Engineer and Chief...
posted @ Friday, November 20, 2009 4:15 AM |
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These three things have a lot more in common than you might think and all three tend to evoke similar levels of frustration. A very real problem women face when shopping is this: no two brands define a size the same. If you usually wear a size 8 in “Brand X” you might actually wear a size 10 or 6 in “Brand Y”, depending on how the brand decided to define its sizing. Customers, women in this case, cannot count on consistency in sizes across brands. This makes shopping annoying because every time you change brands you’re never...
posted @ Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:05 AM |
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Infrastructure 2.0, from a purely developmental standpoint, is about APIs. It’s about offering up the functionality and capabilities of a wide variety of infrastructure – network, storage, and application network – to be externally controlled, integrated, and leveraged for whatever purpose a developer might dream up. It enables providers and enterprises alike to turn infrastructure functionality into services. Need compression? Caching? Routing? Load balancing? Via service-enabled management APIs these can become services, provisioned and released through the invocation of a service. When expanded to include the sharing of actionable data – performance statistics, status, availability of application...
posted @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:18 AM |
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Vertical scalability used to require optimizations inside the application, at the code level. Cloud computing changes the nature of vertical scalability and, one hopes, will lead to a new model of scalability based on the capabilities of Infrastructure 2.0 and increasingly granular resource management capabilities. RightScale recently offered up its own analysis of Amazon Usage Estimates and while the details they provide on Amazon usage from their vantage point is very interesting I found one of their related observations even more fascinating: In earlier days the predominant method of scaling was by...
posted @ Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:13 AM |
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There is a common myth that the reason legacy code continues to run in businesses around the world is that no one understands it; that IT and businesses are afraid to replace it because they don’t know what it does. Once again, living in the mainframe capital of the world (the insurance industry heavy midwest), I get to talk to IT folks who deal with legacy software and hardware all the time. Do not doubt that they know exactly what that legacy software does and how it works, and perhaps frightening to proponents of change and the...
posted @ Monday, October 26, 2009 4:09 AM |
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All the applause over Google’s Data Liberation Front announcement and blogs is making my head hurt. Or maybe that’s the lack of sleep. Either way, it’s disconcerting to me that so many bright people are choosing to make much of what is just a baby step – if that - toward a much larger, much more difficult goal. After all, data without an application to interpret and make use of it is about as useful as a Netbook without a network connection. There seems to suddenly be a lot of focus on “data” and the ability for...
posted @ Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:14 AM |
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Amazon’s ELB is an exciting mix of well-executed infrastructure 2.0 and the proper application of SOA, but it takes a lot of work to make anything infrastructure look that easy. The notion of Elastic Load Balancing, as recently brought to public attention by Amazon’s offering of the capability, is nothing new. The basic concept is pure Infrastructure 2.0 and the functionality offered via the API has long been available on several application delivery controllers for many years. In fact, looking through the options for Amazon’s offering leaves me feeling a bit, oh, 1999. As if load balancing hasn’t...
posted @ Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:50 AM |
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Spectacular “cloud” failures over the past few weeks have raised the hue and cry for portability and interoperability across clouds for data.The problem is that the cry is based on the false assumption that a “cloud service” is the same as an “application service.” Apparently Microsoft felt Google and Amazon were getting too much attention with their recent outages and decided to join the game. The absolute loss of data for thousands lots and lots of T-Mobile Sidekick users is regrettable and yes someone needs to address such issues but that someone is not a standards group or...
posted @ Monday, October 12, 2009 9:06 AM |
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The term “Infrastructure 2.0” seems to be as well understood as the term “cloud computing.” It means different things to different people, apparently, and depends heavily on the context and roles of those involved in the conversation. This shouldn’t be surprising; the term “Web 2.0” is also variable and often depends on the context of the conversation. The use of the versioning moniker is meant, in both cases however, to represent a fundamental shift in the way the technologies are leveraged by people. In the case of Web 2.0 it’s about the shift toward interactive, integrated web applications used to...
posted @ Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:36 AM |
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Steve (apparently yes, we are on a first name basis) offers up his thoughts on developing APIs for the Cloud in “A Cloud Tools Manifesto.” While the inclusion of the word “manifesto” in the title raised quite the stir (“Manifestogate” is still fresh on the minds of many cloud-oriented people), what really caught my eye is his inclusion of a “mock endpoint” primarily for testing of API based integration and development. This is something that’s increasingly important not just to cloud but to Web 2.0 and social networking sites that provide APIs via which other sites and client applications can...
posted @ Monday, October 05, 2009 4:00 AM |
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Operational efficiency in the cloud comes in part from automation and orchestration as well as from the outsourcing of management and maintenance of the hardware. While you can’t achieve the latter without cloud or hosting externally, you can realize a lot of the same efficiencies in a traditional architecture just by leveraging existing collaborative capabilities of infrastructure 2.0. Glenn Gruber of Software Industry Insights in “Who’ll Be the First to Offer Cash for Infrastructure” (which is a great read in general) says: And for those who are thinking about evaluating a private cloud...
posted @ Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:12 AM |
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Infrastructure 2.0 requires collaboration. Collaboration requires the ability to communicate. The ability to communicate requires integration. But how that integration will happen may shape the future of infrastructure and network architecture. There is a growing recognition of the basic problems associated with the rapid rate of change inherent in on-demand architectures (cloud) and the complexity that comes from virtualized data centers. Challenges such as IP address and application management, visibility, and last but not least, integration. Yes, that most dreaded of all technology concepts has finally come to the network. The...
posted @ Friday, September 25, 2009 3:43 AM |
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There’s more than one way to address the rapid rate of change in infrastructure supporting a dynamic environment. We spend a lot of time talking about how software and systems and standards are the ultimate solution to addressing the rapid rate of change in the association between applications and IP addresses in a dynamic infrastructure. But sometimes you have look down the stack to find a simpler, more economical and honestly, elegant, answer to the challenge of managing the problem associated with virtualized and cloud computing architectures. We need to take another look at the link layer...
posted @ Friday, September 18, 2009 3:19 AM |
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Leveraging Java EE and dynamic infrastructure to enable a shared resource, on-demand scalable infrastructure – without server virtualization Many pundits and experts allude to architectures that are cloud-like in their ability to provide on-demand scalability but do not – I repeat do not – rely on virtualization, i.e. virtual machines. But rarely – if ever – is this possibility described. So everyone says it can be done, but no one wants to tell you how. Maybe that’s because it appears, on the surface, to not be cloud. And perhaps there’s truth to that appearance. It is more...
posted @ Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:03 AM |
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F5 and VMware demonstrate live migration of a virtualized application across clouds without downtime or user disruption Cloud is reaching the peak of possibilities and that (often) means just more paper solutions. You know the ones; the ones that exist only on paper (or in blogs as the case may be). Those paper solutions need to exist because the ideas need to come first either out of necessity, i.e. to solve a specific problem, or out of a desire to find new ways to leverage emerging technology, like virtualization. But still, you’d like to see some of these...
posted @ Monday, August 31, 2009 4:33 AM |
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Cloud providers know the secret to a successful cloud computing implementation is integration between the infrastructure and virtualization Ever notice that cloud providers are v e r y reluctant to reveal on what foundation their cloud computing architectures are laid? Most providers don’t want to share their “secret sauce” because, well, then everyone else could get into the game as well. While it is certainly true that the infrastructure – and specifically the application delivery infrastructure – you choose to lay the foundation for a cloud computing architecture can affect your ability to succeed and innovate...
posted @ Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:17 AM |
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The real power behind cloud is processes, and those don’t come out of a box VMworld, in case you’ve been out of touch, is approaching fairly quickly. As with any trade show/conference there’s likely to be a lot of announcements about this and that and oh, of course, that too. What is interesting about cloud computing and virtualization is that most of the really exciting announcements are not going to be about new products or new features. You heard me, they aren’t going to be about new products or features. The foundations for cloud...
posted @ Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:41 AM |
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The concept of a server needs to go the way of the dodo One of the reasons I enjoy Twitter is that quite frequently – if you’re following the right people – you’ll see a tweet that is absolutely profound despite its simplicity and the constraints placed upon the author. Recently we were having a mini-discussion on Twitter regarding the definition of availability that elicited just such a golden nugget from botchagalupe: “Apps designed for a cloud should remove the ‘server’ concept.” First, I really like the use of the article “a” in...
posted @ Friday, July 31, 2009 3:41 AM |
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The importance of a full-proxy architecture to application delivery, security, cloud computing, and virtualization People often describe the act of changing focus from one related but distinct task to another as “wearing two different hats.” Like moving from “developer” to “administrator” when you’re trying to deploy an application in a testing environment. You’re the developer, but then you have to “switch gears” and become a server administrator in order to ensure that the application server and its environment is configured properly before you can actually test the application you just wrote. But the metaphor...
posted @ Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:07 AM |
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Is ESB just an expensive integration hub or is there more to the story than we heard… In the beginning, the ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), was marketed as much more than an integration technology. While the core of an ESB is certainly about connectivity between services, there was – and still is – so much more to an ESB than just integrating disparate protocols and technologies. Transformation, parallel processing, content based routing, and service orchestration are among the more useful and beneficial capabilities of an ESB. That’s why it was somewhat surprising to see the CTO of...
posted @ Friday, July 17, 2009 3:26 AM |
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Balancing Cost, Performance, and Capacity in the Cloud There is a huge difference between provisioning applications to support capacity and provisioning them to support performance requirements. That as capacity increases performance decreases is one of the truisms of scalability that is likely to be one of the first axioms of cloud computing that will bite us in the proverbial rear-end while simultaneously reaching for our wallets. Alistair Croll of BitCurrent has a couple of great charts that illustrate this point perfectly. He then goes on to discuss how that affects cloud computing in “The cloud’s...
posted @ Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:20 AM |
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Automating components is easy. It’s automating processes that’s hard. The premise that if you don’t have an infrastructure comprised solely of Infrastructure 2.0 components then you cannot realize an automated, on-demand data center is, in fact, wrong. While the capabilities of modern hardware that come with Infrastructure 2.0 such as a standards-based API able to be leveraged by automation systems certainly makes the task all the more simple, it is not the only way that components can be automated. In fact, “legacy” infrastructure has been automated for years using other mechanisms that can certainly be incorporated into the...
posted @ Monday, June 08, 2009 3:14 AM |
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When SOA was declared dead there was a spate of articles and blogs on why the architecture “died.” Most pundits came to the conclusion that like many innovations it wasn’t the technology to blame but rather people. Architects lacked the skills to properly leverage SOA; business stakeholders failed to look at SOA as a strategic architecture, choosing instead to use it as a tactical integration-solving solution; network and systems’ administrators did not understand the unique characteristics and issues a well-designed SOA raised within the network and on systems; and developers were loathe to “reuse” and “share” services despite alternate...
posted @ Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:07 AM |
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Attackers say, we can go where we want to; we can leave our code behind… There’s probably a raid going on right now in Naxxramas and the attackers are almost certainly doing the Safety Dance. They probably learned the Safety Dance the same way I learned about it; from someone well-versed in its intricate steps. See, if you don’t know the Safety Dance and you come up against Heigan the Unclean, well… he’s not called Heigan the Unclean for nothing. You will not survive. Not even if you happen to have a Holocaust Cloak at...
posted @ Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:58 AM |
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The consensus seems to be, at least from the myriad surveys, studies, and research, that cloud as a model is the right answer, it’s just the location that’s problematic for most organizations. Organizations aren’t ignoring reality; they know there are real benefits associated with cloud computing. But they aren’t yet – and may never be – willing to give up control. And there are good reasons to maintain that control, from security to accountability to agility. But the “people” still want the benefits of cloud, so the question is: how do we put...
posted @ Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:27 AM |
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If they aren’t now then Infrastructure 2.0 may force them in that direction - and vice versa. My brother (yes, it does run in the family) has a degree in computer science which, by most definitions, makes him a developer. That’s the focus of most computer science focused degree programs, much to the chagrin of the myriad other IT-focused specialties like networking, security, and operations. Interestingly enough, he worked his way through college as a sysadmin and his first job out of college was as a sysadmin. And now he’s doing a little of...
posted @ Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:51 AM |
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Why architecture matters not only to security but to the future of cloud computing It seems the phrase “in the cloud”, sadly, has become a marketing-hyped euphemism for “the Internet.” I say sadly because the use of cloud to refer to every and any service delivered over the Internet dirties up the cloud. It obscures the intent of cloud computing and makes it difficult for technologists in the trenches to get a handle on how cloud – both external and internal – can provide benefits and solutions to problems they have right now. The very loose use of the...
posted @ Monday, May 11, 2009 3:38 AM |
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You can’t afford not to invest in technologies that leverage virtualization to improve data center efficiency There’s an old adage that says you have to spend money to make money. In the data center these days this is more true than ever. You have to invest in technology capable of making your data center more efficient in order to make (save) money. A recent Robert Half Technology survey of 1400 CIOs indicates that data center efficiency and virtualization are top priorities. *CIOs were asked, "Which areas, if any, will your IT department be investing...
posted @ Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:00 AM |
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Infrastructure 2.0 is, at its core, about evolving to a new level of interconnectedness, one in which the underlying infrastructure becomes as flexible and adaptable as the applications and virtualization infrastructure it is responsible for managing and delivering. In order to be connected, however, you need a way in which disparate infrastructure components can communicate, either directly or via a third party (coordination | management | orchestration) server. That communication is almost certainly going to take (and in many cases has already taken) the form of service-enabled control planes. These "services" are necessary in order to provide the...
posted @ Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:42 AM |
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After talking about data integration being the Achilles heel of cloud computing I had a chat with Informatica, who is not only providing a solution for data integration for the cloud, but is leveraging the cloud to do it. While we at F5 are focused on tearing down the silos that exist in IT to support the delivery and management of applications both internal and external (SaaS, cloud), Informatica is looking to tear down the silos in the cloud that currently exist as Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. Integration, always a painful subject, has become...
posted @ Friday, January 09, 2009 7:11 AM |
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The spirit of SOA and its core principles are still very much alive, but we can't call it SOA any more because, well, SOA is (pretty much) officially dead, at least according to folks on the tubes and we all know that if you hear it on the tubes it must be true. Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group declared SOA officially dead on January 1, 2009, but maintains that "although the word “SOA” is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever." Ms. Manes blames the death of SOA on the failure to...
posted @ Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:07 AM |
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VM sprawl is predicted to be one of the outcomes of early adoption and excitement over virtualization. Just as IT struggled to manage the explosion of PCs and servers across the enterprise, it is predicted that now it will need to find a way to manage the explosion of virtual machines as they pop up all over the enterprise with surprising alacrity. Part of the difficulty in managing new technology is the rogue deployment of X. Whether that's physical or virtual servers is irrelevant, the challenges associated with managing what are essentially unmanaged applications and servers deployed outside...
posted @ Friday, December 19, 2008 7:10 AM |
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The INTERNET, December 18, 2008 - In what is certainly a blinding epiphany for some it was suddenly realized today that some applications are not well suited for deployment in a public cloud computing environment. With all the hype surrounding cloud computing these days it is easy to forget that there's more to enterprise applications than just some code and a database. It is a rare application that is an island in the data center, and the more integrated with other systems a given application is the less likely it is that the application will be well suited...
posted @ Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:14 AM |
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A while back Joe blogged about some Twitter integration he'd done around monitoring of BIG-IP. He's got a PERL proxy that monitors the BIG-IP and sends out notifications and alerts to a specified Twitter account. But I wanted something more interactive, something more social. I wanted to be able to send a tweet to my BIG-IP and have it respond; a BIG-IP Twitter bot, if you will. So Friday I finally decided it was time to do it. I set up a Twitter account for my BIG-IP and started coding. Luckily, the Twitter API is pretty straight-forward and...
posted @ Monday, December 15, 2008 6:03 AM |
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Wesley: Now, there may be problems once our app is in the cloud.
Inigo: I'll say. How do I find the data? Once I do, how do I integrate it with the other apps? Once I integrate it, how do I replicate it?
If you remember this somewhat altered scene from the Princess Bride, you also remember that no one had any answers for Inigo. That's apropos of this discussion, because no one has any good answers for this version of Inigo either. And no, a holocaust cloak is not going to save the day this...
posted @ Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:12 AM |
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Amidst the hype of cloud computing and virtualization have been the publication of several research notes regarding SOA. Adoption, they say, is slowing. Oh noes! Break out the generators, stock up on water and canned food! An article from JavaWorld quotes research firm Gartner as saying: The number of organizations planning to adopt SOA for the first time decreased to 25 percent; it had been 53 percent in last year's survey. Also, the number of organizations with no plans to adopt SOA doubled from 7 percent in 2007 to...
posted @ Friday, November 21, 2008 3:09 AM |
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According to Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion, I must be way more geeky than your average consumer. (Thanks, Steve!) That's because I'm using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Google to peruse myriad feeds in my daily quest to "read the Internet." Steve comments on a recently released Forrester report citing the adoption of RSS as low with no real indication it will get any better in the future. According to the research, of the 89% of those who don't use feeds only 17% say they're interested in using them. In fact Forrester...
posted @ Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:36 AM |
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One password to fool them all One password to find them One password to steal them all and in the ether become them [with many apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien] For years we've had it beat into...
posted @ Monday, October 20, 2008 4:02 AM |
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In reading through ZapThink's latest post regarding the "Great ESB Controversy of 2008" it occurred to me that it is quite possible, and probably likely, that the issue of ESB use primarily revolves around whether you're doing SEA or SOA. Yes, I know. You've never heard of "SEA" before. That's because I just made it up to describe the difference between a service-enabled architecture and a service-oriented architecture. And there is a difference. A SOA (service oriented architecture) implies that an architecture has been designed around the concept of services. A SEA (service enabled architecture) implies...
posted @ Friday, August 01, 2008 8:02 AM |
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CNet is reporting that Google is ditching XML for a faster, more compact alternative known as ProtocolBuffers. I'm going to type this post really fast before Don finds out and starts laughing at me because he's always had this thing against XML, claiming it was too bloated and slow. Apparently Google, the 800-pound gorilla, is on Don's side of this argument, as it just blogged about its newest creation, ProtocolBuffers. From CNet's Blog PostGoogle thought of using XML as a lingua franca to send messages between its different servers. But XML can be complicated to work with...
posted @ Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:31 AM |
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Web 2.0 is built on primarily two technologies: AJAX and RSS. AJAX is used to develop interactive, real-time applications while RSS is primarily used as for integration and syndication. Import a feed, share a feed, drag-n-drop a gadget, widget, or component. It's all RSS (XML) today. It's further becoming a requirement of Web 2.0 sites that they provide some sort of API through which developers can write add-on applications. Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook. They all offer APIs that are quite heavily used at this time and startups are following suit. Other sites offer richer media, like video or slideware,...
posted @ Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:53 AM |
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At Web 2.0 Expo Microsoft essentially stole the show with the introduction of its Live Mesh platform. Live Mesh is, essentially, an integration hub that incorporates and manages Internet connected devices that today are unrelated and managed individually using open standards. Microsoft might not like the term "integration hub", but that's basically what it is. Yes, on the surface it's a platform that enables inter-device communication and seamless access to a variety of services, but under the hood it's got to be doing some pretty complex integration work. While Microsoft plans on using open standards, that doesn't mean...
posted @ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:06 AM |
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History says integration wins, will that trend continue? Andrew Storms has a nice writeup on PayPal's recent decision to limit the supported browsers used with its service (i.e. this is a one browser site, buddy) in an effort to "protect customers". This isn't just a case choosing IE over Firefox, or vice-versa, this move is about requiring a certain set of security functions to be available and active in a browser, and will not necessarily block out the major browser vendors - just older versions of those browsers. Apparently one of those features required will be EV SSL...
posted @ Monday, April 28, 2008 8:12 AM |
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Integration isn't a four letter word, but for many hapless IT folks stuck with the chore of integrating applications, it probably should be. SOA promised to make the world of application integration a painless, happy process in which the traditional basement sacrifice of live chickens and wild gyrations near a glowing rack of servers were no longer necessary. In many cases, the live chicken sacrifice was no longer necessary, but the wild gyrations were still a fact of integration experts' lives, mostly executed out of pain and frustration when systems failed...
posted @ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:17 PM |
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Over the past three weeks Don and I have had a lot of time to chat whilst making the trek back and forth between home and the hospital where the newest member of our family was keeping residence. Mostly we talked about our new son and speculating as to when he might be allowed to come home (Feb 17), but as is our wont we often ended up talking about work. That's one of the benefits of working "together" and in the same field, at least we think so. One of those discussions revolved around iControl and the fact that...
posted @ Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:42 AM |
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