Bigdata and Privacy

I believe we need to have new laws to deal with the accuracy of information being held about people and the duration that data can be held. For instance, no company should need information about you for more than 3 years duration without your explicit permission, not permission in a 20 page “legal disclosure” […]

CIO: Enterprise Refactoring and Technology Renewal: How do you become a profit center to the Enterprise?

CIO’s are being asked more and more to consider being a profit center or at least to reuse the assets they have to reduce costs. They are also being asked to be more agile and to deliver products faster. Some CIOs are being asked to be more entrepreneurial, to facilitate people trying new […]

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 […]

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 […]

Security in the cloud age

Numerous studies (2013 Cloud Computing Study) have suggested that cloud security is a major adoption stumbling block for major enterprises. I think this is bogus. It’s not that I doubt the study results but I think that security is the “excuse” executives and people use in general when they don’t want to do something […]

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, […]

Gartner posts new “hottest” Enterprise megatrends

Check out: http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/top-10-technology-trends/ Gartner says the following are the megatrends: MOBILE DEVICES BATTLES MOBILE APPS AND HTML5 PERSONAL CLOUD THE INTERNET OF THINGS HYBRID IT AND CLOUD COMPUTING STRATEGIC BIG DATA ACTIONABLE ANALYTICS MAINSTREAM IN-MEMORY COMPUTING (IMC) INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEMS ENTERPRISE APP STORES I am going to focus on the last 2 Megatrends in their list […]

Open Source is just getting started, you have to adopt or die

. Some might think open source has just been getting lucky. A few suddenly successful products like Hadoop, RedHat, OpenStack and everybody is going crazy. Come on people it’s just a lucky break for open source. Soon enough everyone will realize that this stuff doesn’t scale, can’t be supported, is a JOKE! […]