As I have mentioned in numerous posts over the last several months, I am finding that things like process, governance, architecture, SOA, cloud computing, and others are much easier in my new startup world than in my old corporate world that I battled in since the 80’s. Even though I never intend to return to the corporate world I feel obligated to share with my colleagues in the corporate world because I know how hard it can be innovate and promote change in established cultures. In part one on process, I recommended creating a startup atmosphere by building a small team free from the constraints of the corporate setting.
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010Modernizing Your Data Center With Cloud Computing
Thursday, March 25th, 2010There is a huge debate going on about private clouds and whether they are really clouds or just a buzzword for modern day on-premise data-centers. An article called Are Private Clouds Hogwash? does a great job of capturing the debate that has been raging on for over a year now.
Building Application With Cloud As The Target Platform
Thursday, June 25th, 2009When I talk about architecting in the cloud, I am referring to building composite applications or services from scratch with the cloud as the target deployment platform. So as you read this post think about an enterprise application or collection of services build for the cloud. In previous posts I have referenced a hybrid cloud model like the one below:
IT Concerns With Transaction On The Cloud
Thursday, March 5th, 2009You read that right! Somebody is dumb crazy enough to put transactions in the “insecure” clouds. I mean, look at all of the threats and compliance issues: (more…)