Tag: Big Data

A simple guide to to Blockchain and a compelling use case: Voting Election Democracy Worldwide Zero-Fraud

(Mandelbrot Set signifying the alarming simplicity and yet powerful possibilities of some simple math) The Blockchain is useful for financial, legal and other applications in general not just for Bitcoin.    It is a new enterprise grade technology that disrupts a lot of existing trust and transactional  systems. Properties of the Blockchain: 1) You have […]

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The Virtuous Circle is key to understanding how the world is changing – Mobile, Social, Cloud, Open Source, APIs, DevOps

I could talk about each of these components in isolation, for instance, Mobile and talk about the growth of it and changes it is fostering but you wouldn’t get the big picture.  The change we are seeing can only be understood by considering all these components together.  They each affect each other and the widespread […]

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The technology “disruption” occurring in today’s business world is driven by open source and APIs and a new paradigm of enterprise collaboration

Disruption and Reuse It is my contention that 90% of costs are being eliminated from the traditional software development process and the time to market reduced dramatically by leveraging the reuse capable today via open source, APIs, fast deployment and resource sharing with PaaS.   The cost of Enterprise Software was magnified by an order of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The Landscape of PaaS

THE LANDSCAPE OF PAAS Where to start?  I was at a Cisco meeting a few days ago.   One of the Cisco people proceeded to talk about plans for SDN.   It’s not important to know what SDN is but in the process he went on one of the most impressive diatribes of acronyms I’ve […]

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