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 […]

Understanding the taxonomy and complexity of PaaS

Check out my Presentation I gave last night in Santa Clara to the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group. A fantastic event with lots of people in attendance, interactive audience. Here is the link to the slideshare: Please Check it out, especially the joke on page 23. This is a followon to my blog on this […]

Disruptive Forces : Disruptive Megatrends

A number of analyst firms and pundits have declared a list of the megatrends. For examples you can see my blogs: IDC Emerging Trends and Gartner Top Megatrends I have my own list of what I call “disruptive” technologies and trends. This comes from talking to people, observing what companies are doing and what […]

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 […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]