Note: This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally posted here in July 2009. No SOA, no cloud. For success in deploying cloud services, look no further than SOA. That's the messsage ...

One of the things we talk about here is how service orientation is enabling the rise of the "loosely coupled" business -- an organization that acts as a broker of services, focusing on its core ...

Before there was cloud computing, there was service oriented architecture (SOA). While cloud encompasses implementation and application delivery options, SOA is concerned with the foundation ...

The act of tossing information, services, and processes outside of the firewall without a clear strategy won't be productive at all. I’m back doing the free no-hype, no-marketing Webinars on my dime ...

I spoke at the Cloud Computing Summit held in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., yesterday at a panel titled “Extending IT to the Cloud” with the new CTO of the federal cloud, Patrick ...

Cloud computing offers a bright future for enterprise IT in the form of a scalable infrastructure and pay-as-you-need pricing model. As cloud adoption emerges both in hype and value, all technologists ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...