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More on the Data Integration and Terrorism Connection
But there are those who scoff at the idea that the federal intelligence community isn’t well-equipped, technologically speaking, to handle the data integration challenges – “I’m sure today’s...
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Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors
There’s a battle brewing in the Cloud Computing marketplace analogous to the SOA platform war fought over the last few years. Just as platform vendors like IBM and Oracle sought to co-opt the SOA...
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Cloud killing the enterprise software market? Hold that thought
Will things be different with cloud? Jason [Bloomberg] compares the specter to SOA a few years back — and taking the situation a bit further: “As their customers started figuring out that SOA success...
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IT without the IT Department
Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote in a ZapFlash that the IT department would have to make significant changes to its structure and value proposition to prevent its inevitable demise as a core part...
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The Crisis Points of the ZapThink 2020 Vision
ZapThink is announcing a new poster opportunity! ZapThink 2020: The Vision of the Future of Enterprise IT will be one of our biggest poster distributions, sure to be a hit on cubicle walls and desks...
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Avoiding Unexpected Cloud Economics Pitfalls
Anybody who is considering a move to the Cloud knows that the greatest economic motivation for Cloud Computing is the pay-as-you-go, pay-for-what-you-need utility computing benefit, right? Deal with...
View ArticleWhy a chargeback model for private cloud may be problematic
How can more clarity be brought to the economics of private cloud? Jason has two words: “effective governance.” He advises managers to “establish and enforce cloud consumption policies that counteract...
View ArticleSOA (the term) is dead, but SOA (the architecture) lives on
SOA, according to analyst Jason Bloomberg, is a bad word. “There’s perception and there’s reality,” he began. “The perception in the market is it’s yesterday’s news. It’s too difficult. Web services...
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The Real Reason SOA is Making a Comeback
The 2009 “SOA is Dead” meme may have turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, but there’s no question that interest in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) waned in the 2010-2011 timeframe. However,...
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Enterprise Architects in the Boardroom
Rarely if ever do EAs report to the CEO, or have a seat in the boardroom. And it’s a shame, because shouldn’t the EA team be responsible for establishing best practice policies for organizing and...
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Should You Worry About Microsoft Azure’s SSL Certificate Snafu?
Just in case your head wasn’t in the clouds last week, you may have missed this story: the Microsoft Azure Cloud went down for hours, ostensibly as a result of a hacker attack, but in reality the...
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Speaker Spotlight Column: Jason Bloomberg on Big Data and Agile
The biggest change is actually that there are so many different forces of change impacting IT today – SOA, Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, and Social, to name a few. In fact, we see these forces of change as...
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Cloud Computing: Rethinking Control of IT
In my role as a globetrotting Cloud consultant, I continue to be amazed at how many executives, both in IT and in the lines of business, still favor Private Clouds over Public. These managers are...
View ArticleCloud Weekly Podcast: “Cloud Computing: Rethinking Control of IT”
Welcome to the Cloud Weekly Podcast, your one stop for news, information, and expert advice around the emerging world of cloud computing. This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Technology Partners...
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Big Data Governance for Good or Evil: Lessons of the NSA PRISM Initiative
In the days since the news of the NSA’s secret PRISM spying – oops, surveillance initiative broke, there has been no end of consternation among the media and the Twitterverse. And regardless of where...
View ArticleVideo of Jason Bloomberg: “The Brave New World of IT”
Recorded in Tallinn, Estonia, September 24, 2013. Presentation begins at the 1:00 mark.
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DevOps Downside: Middle of the Night Support Calls
I met with a client today who is trying to move to a DevOps model for software delivery. One question they asked caught me off guard: how do you deal with having to wake developers up in the middle of...
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DevOps Leadership with Jason Bloomberg Exc#5: What’s your policy about policies?
If you look at cloud computing, we have automated providing and automated configuration and management that pushes the responsibility for operations to essentially the IT end user. Any developer, any...
View ArticleZapThink Training Offerings
ZapThink TrainingZapThink offers a range of different courses and training options for both individuals and organizations. We offer a regular schedule of open enrollment courses, and we can also bring...
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The Christmas Day Bomber, Moore’s Law, and Enterprise IT
Amid the posturing and recriminations following this past December’s ill-fated terrorist attack by the Nigerian Christmas bomber, the underlying cause of the intelligence breach has gone all but...
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