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Enterprise Architects Will Need To …

Roger Evernden | Dec 19, 2012 No Responses

Dec 192012

Like last year, I focus my predictions on how current trends will impact Enterprise Architecture in 2013. I see three things coming: 1. Make sense of big data. Big data will continue to get a lot of press, and vendors will be keen to show off new tricks with data integration. The enterprise architecture teams need to beef up their information architecture capability and develop appropriate Enterprise Patterns to participate in this debate and to be able to respond intelligently to this pressure. 2. Mobilize for mobile. The EA team need to expand application patterns to show how a multitude of disparate apps work in conjunction with a more traditional legacy application landscape. 3. The forecast …

Call for Papers: The Emerging Cloud Ecosystem: Innovative New Services and Business Models

Christine Generali | Dec 19, 2012 No Responses

Dec 192012

Cloud computing, as an IT service delivery model, is advancing at a staggering pace. It is being adopted by a spectrum of stakeholders — individual users, businesses, educational institutions, governments, and community organizations — and is causing a paradigm shift which has huge transformational potential. To successfully and fully embrace the promise of clouds, adopters must of course use one or more of the three foundation cloud services — infrastructure, platform and software/applications. But they must also address factors including security, privacy, user access management, compliance requirements, business continuity and more. Furthermore, they may have to use services from more than one provider, aggregate those services, and also integrate them with their legacy applications/systems. They …

Cloud Computing Commoditized

Mitchell Ummel | Dec 18, 2012 1 Response

Dec 182012

Recent developments in the Cloud Computing market space lead me to believe we are nearing the “tipping point” in the commoditization of IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offerings. This will drive further adoption by enterprises. Earlier this year, Google, a leader in the PaaS market, publicly announced its intention to enter the already burgeoning IaaS market with its Google Compute Engine (GCE) service offering (currently available only in limited preview by Google). Most analysts interpret Google’s spin up of GCE as an aggressive move to go head-to-head with Amazon’s EC2 on all fronts: price, performance, and features. Other IaaS contenders, including HP with its recently launched OpenStack-based HP Cloud Compute, IBM, and Microsoft (notwithstanding its current focus on …

Restructuring the IT Department and its Skills

Jerry Grochow | Dec 17, 2012 2 Responses

Dec 172012

Restructuring the IT Department and its Skills

As the internet became established as a tool of commerce and industry over the past 15 years or so, IT departments fit new titles of web developer, user experience designer, and network security engineer into their existing department structure along with the many programmers, systems analysts, and technical gurus needed to keep systems running and serve the enterprise. Now along comes the cloud and IT departments are beginning to realize they may not need so much of these skills, but are going to need more of the skills associated with contract, vendor, and customer relationship management. While this won’t be news to IT departments that were stricken with the outsourcing bug a few years ago, …

Agility, the Personal Cloud, and Complex Analytics on the Horizon

Brian Dooley | Dec 15, 2012 No Responses

Dec 152012

Agility, the Personal Cloud, and Complex Analytics on the Horizon

Predictions are always difficult in interesting times, because tomorrow’s concepts depend upon activity which has not yet occurred. We expected flying cars; we are getting autonomous cars. In the 1950s, the computer revolution, robotics, GPS, and today’s traffic patterns would have been difficult to envision. Today, we are seeing rapid evolution across Information and Communications Technology, affecting every component and every meme. But we can see the direction that some areas of recent concentration are likely to take. Concepts of Agility will continue to evolve, moving beyond specific processes such as Scrum toward more comprehensive programs capable of incorporating a wider variety of projects, under more conditions and supporting greater integration with governance. This can …

Cloud Standards and SLAs

Claude Baudoin | Dec 14, 2012 No Responses

Dec 142012

Until now, cloud service providers have essentially proposed to their users the equivalent of those click-through terms of service that people accept because they don’t have a choice. As for the standards that would make it less risky to adopt a cloud service, by making it easier to integrate with or to migrate to a different provider, they have been vendor-driven and highly technical; these standards are necessary but not sufficient. In 2013, look forward to more user involvement in prioritizing the standards development effort, and to the emergence of practical advice to negotiate more balance SLAs and User Agreements. In the area of performance and reliability, providers will have to stop hiding behind the …

Emerging Technologies to Enable Business Models & Processes at Unprecedented Pace

Stephen Andriole | Nov 27, 2012 No Responses

Nov 272012

Emerging Technologies to Enable Business Models & Processes at Unprecedented Pace

2013 is the year when a major re-thinking of business technology strategy — organized around the power of emerging technology — will begin. The re-thinking will be driven by the rapid deployability of emerging technologies like cloud computing, social business intelligence, mobility, location-enabled services and big data analytics. The time-to-technology-deployment is shrinking — fast: companies will dramatically accelerate their adoption of emerging technologies — especially due to cloud delivery — and redefine their business models and processes around the capabilities of the new technologies. Examples include location-enabled services for cross-selling and up-selling, social business intelligence for corporate crisis warning and management, big data analytics for slicing customer profiling and performance — in real time — …

Cloud Computing Standards: Talk About Interoperability…

Mitchell Ummel | Oct 9, 2012 No Responses

Oct 092012

The analogy between the evolution of the electric energy industry and cloud computing is oftentimes used, and for good reason. It’s likely the most applicable predictor of where this industry is heading over the next 10-20 years. Although slight regional variances exist, it’s generally the case that I, as a consumer of electric power, can plug in my appliance anywhere in the world and expect it to work efficiently, safely, and reliably. Standards for voltage regulation, plug/outlet design, and circuit protection are mature and widely embraced, and the electric appliance industry can compete, and innovate, on a level playing field for the benefit of consumers worldwide. The clock radio in my office is one of …

Borrowing from the Supreme Court

Anne Mullaney | Jun 27, 2012 No Responses

Jun 272012

I listen to NPR on my way to work. Today, as part of the coverage of the impending Supreme Court ruling on the healthcare law, there was a really interesting segment on how the Supreme Court Justices decide cases. More than a decade ago, The Cutter Business Technology Council decided to employ this same method, and thus the Cutter Council Opinions were born. (Here’s a sample Opinion on cloud computing.) In a nutshell, the Council Fellows begin with a simple Assertion, capturing a specific nascent trend. The team debates the idea, and if it still stands after this first round, its champion writes a Syllabus describing the idea in more detail and sketching out his or her rationale. …

The Cloud Computing Standards Battlefield

Christine Generali | May 21, 2012 No Responses

May 212012

What does the future of cloud computing look like? Would the industry benefit from standards to level the playing field between consumers and providers? Should government get involved or should it be left to consumer and industry groups? Join the debate in the August 2012 Cutter IT Journal with Guest Editor Mitchell Ummel. Please send us your ideas – proposals of interest are due 1 June 2012. To respond, please visit http://www.cutter.com/content-and-analysis/journals-and-reports/cutter-it-journal/callforpapers01.html

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