Followup: Cloud Security and Adoption

I produced a blog entry which created some interest on the Cloud Security topic. I produced the blog entry after reading several articles reminding me that the most common excuse i’ve heard for enterprises to avoid the cloud was the concern for “Cloud Security.” The blog entry in question is: Security in the Cloud […]

BigData All the time NSA for you

We are at O’Reilly’s BigData Conference Strata in Santa Clara. The halls are bustling. Bigdata is doing well. The WSO2 theme for the show is “NSA for you.” This has attracted a lot of attention. Most people seem to like the reference to the NSA’s recent notoriety. One person came by the booth […]

A simple guide to Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BaaS, DBaaS, iPaaS, IDaaS, APIMaaS

Cloud computing is something that I find many people still questioning the value of. http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/letting-gamers-experience-the.html What is Cloud computing? I don’t know if this qualifies as the “dumb aaS” guide but it is the simplest way I can explain the benefits of Cloud Computing and what all the fuss is about, what these terms mean and […]

Component Completeness, what is a complete platform? Using the right tool for the job.

The Typical Organization The typical enterprise application infrastructure looks like this over time. The word platform is very overloaded. As mentioned in a previous blog, by itself it is pretty meaningless term. However, for WSO2 we have thought about what is a platform more systematically. As we built the distributed software platform up from the […]

IDC Emerging Trends Predictions

IDC has a list of trends for 2014. 1. Smartphones and tablets will make up 60% of IT spending This is not correct. They will be 60% of GROWTH in IT spending. Still it validates that mobile hard to minimize in its importance. 2. Emerging markets to rise Fascinating that emerging markets growing so fast. No […]

Componentized Composable Platform (Enterprise Quality Lincoln Logs)

As an enterprise architect we are faced with construction solutions for our companies that must be implemented quickly but need to scale to almost arbitrary capacity quickly when demand materializes and must stand the test of time because it is almost impossible to rebuild enterprise applications once they are successful and in production. There are […]

Selecting a DevOps PaaS Platform

Selecting a DevOps or PaaS Platform is the term to describe automation of the process of moving software products from development to production. This is a key part of creating software agility in an organization and essential to compete in the new enterprise. There are many ways and products to help you achieve DevOps automation […]

Inner Source, Open source for the enterprise

A common problem that I have had to deal with at companies during my career is to renovate a larger and older company with new technology. This is both a very satisfying and difficult challenge. Open Source and API’s are key elements of the new paradigm. How do you integrate Open Source concepts, […]

WSO2 Announced at WSO2Con last week several new products and a new website

WSO2 demonstrated a growing comprehensive platform of middleware and cloud components at WSO2CON in San Francisco last week. Included in the list was: The first Mobile Integrated Enterprise Application Platform and the first open source Mobile MDM (Mobile Device Management) platform. The most powerful social Enterprise Store on the market. The fastest CEP […]

Reducing costs using middleware