Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Stephen Bennett of Oracle Confronted with the age old problems of agility and complexity, today’s CIOs are under more pressure than ever to improve the strategic value of IT to the business. At best, these challenges have increased costs, limited innovation and increased risk. At worst, they have reduced IT’s ability to respond to…
Organization readiness – An enterprise first needs to adopt the principle of service-orientation. However, successful SOA depends on the readiness of the enterprise to become service-oriented. To get started with SOA, the guide recommends conducting a maturity assessment. Such an assessment is available from The Open Group and enables a practitioner to assess an organization’s…
“I just got my people trained on SOA,” I heard someone say recently, “and now they want to go off and learn about Cloud computing. When are they ever going to do some actual work?” We in IT are lucky that the big new ideas keep coming in, even if it can be hard sometimes…
The past and present drive the future, and IT executives are hyper-aware that 2009 will force change on individuals, corporations and companies large and small. As an industry, we are likely to see a repeat of the flat budgets of the early 2000s, and all eyes will be on hoped for improvements in the economy,…
Do any of the following statements sound familiar? – “We need to SOA-enable more of our applications.” – “We’ll be more flexible if we tie our systems together with BPM.” – “Richer Web 2.0 interfaces can make it easier for less technical staff to learn and use our application.” You’ve probably heard similar statements recently….
Amazon Web Services is more “persistent” than ever today after officially launching its Elastic Block Store (EBS) as part of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment to let users create large volumes that can behave as raw, unformatted hard drives. Pricing for EBS is based on storage provisioned monthly starting at 10 cents per gigabyte…