Stories by Paul Krill

Sun moves on cloud despite uncertainty

Sun Microsystems, soon to be part of Oracle is a planned merger goes through, is proceeding with plans to ramp up its Sun Cloud service for cloud computing. But even a leading Sun executive for cloud computing acknowledges Oracle can do whatever it wants with Sun Cloud, including making changes or even eliminating it.

Written by Paul Krill23 April 09 08:29

State of SOA pondered again

Debate over the status of SOA continues to rage, with panelists at a Silicon Valley software conference Monday evening pondering the topic.

Written by Paul Krill11 March 09 08:27

Cloud efforts examined by Microsoft and others

Established vendors weighed in on cloud computing at Microsoft's Silicon Valley offices on Friday afternoon, citing it as a dramatic shift but offering caution as well.

Written by Paul Krill03 March 09 08:34

The cloud-SOA connection

Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprises can access services hosted on third-party servers over the Internet. In SOA, enterprises use integrated application services in a more lightweight fashion than traditional application platforms.

Written by Paul Krill11 Feb. 09 09:19

BlackBerry still targeting businesses

While competitors like the Apple iPhone and the budding Google Android platform have garnered a lot of attention lately, Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry smartphone, sees itself as the right choice for businesses, a company official stressed Friday.

Written by Paul Krill09 Feb. 09 08:59

Sun to take to the cloud

Sun Microsystems plans to detail on March 18 its grand entrance into the cloud computing space, Sun officials said Tuesday morning.

Written by Paul Krill04 Feb. 09 09:17

The Open Group upgrades enterprise architecture

The Open Group, a technology consortium focused on interoperability and "boundary-less information flow," on Monday is launching version 9 of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), which provides a framework and method for enterprise architecture available to any organization.

Written by Paul Krill03 Feb. 09 09:07

Microsoft, Infosys focus on supply chain

Microsoft and IT services provider Infosys Technologies revealed on Thursday an alliance around improving supply chain visibility and collaboration.

Written by Paul Krill30 Jan. 09 08:19

Talend eyes master data management, parallelism

Open source data integration vendor Talend is planning to release a master data management product by the end of the year, as well as to offer a massively parallel processing architecture in current products, according to company executives.

Written by Paul Krill27 Jan. 09 08:52

Open source developers ride the cloud

Nearly half of developers working on open source projects plan to offer applications as Web services offerings using cloud providers, according to results of an Evans Data open source development survey being released on Tuesday.

Written by Paul Krill21 Jan. 09 10:40

Engine Yard powers SOA for the cloud

Engine Yard, which has specialized in Ruby on Rails application-hosting, is introducing a platform to extend SOA to the cloud. The company also is extending its Rails stack to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, for quicker deployment of Engine Yard customer applications.

Written by Paul Krill15 Jan. 09 05:20

SOA gets an obituary

SOA is dead but services remain alive, according to a prominent analyst who published an obituary for SOA in a blog post on Monday.

Written by Paul Krill07 Jan. 09 08:51

SOA modeling language readied

SoaML (Service oriented architecture Modeling Language), an OMG specification tailored for SOA development, is anticipated for release probably next month, an OMG official said on Wednesday.

Written by Paul Krill11 Dec. 08 10:19

Vendors air the cloud's pros and cons

Industry officials promoted the benefits but also noted the challenges posed by cloud computing at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo conference last Friday afternoon, citing economics as a plus for the concept and security as a concern.

Written by Paul Krill25 Nov. 08 12:42
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