Monthly Archives: January 2009

Freezing Requirements

All of us have had challenges with IT projects and the “fluid” nature of requirements. Having frozen requirements is a fallacy. I was reading about Six Sigma and found this interesting piece of data that I thought I would share. … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing Alphabet Soup

In IT, I guess we finally got tired of TLA’s (three letter acronyms) – so in the Cloud world, we are inventing FLA’s (four letter acronyms). SAAS – Software as a Service is now pretty well known. So let’s add … Continue reading

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20 Cloud Companies to look at

A recent infoweek article talks about 20 Cloud vendors to keep your eye on. These include CogHead Enomaly Heroku Hyperic Intridea Joyent Layered Technologies Mosso Parascale Relationals 10Gen 3Tera You can find the article at http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweekreports/doc/2008/210602537.pdf

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Cloud Vendor Analysis

I have been analyzing the different cloud vendors in the market. The table below shows one snapshot of this analysis – which compares the number of vendors that have products in beta vs production. I am offering this analysis and … Continue reading

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What does it mean – “SOA is dead”

By now you have surely read a lot of stuff about SOA being declared dead as of Jan 1st, 2009. Hmm.. what does that mean? Does it mean all SOA projects have come to a stand still? Does it mean … Continue reading

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