JoeMcKendrick

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Behind AmazonSupply, a Nuts-and-Bolts Service Oriented Architecture

As reported by ZDNet colleague Zack Whittaker, Amazon is expanding its retail…

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All APIs are not created equal.

Anyone on the cutting edge of service orientation and cloud lives in…

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Why a Chargeback Model for Private Cloud May Be Problematic

While the economics of public cloud may be fairly clear for many…

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Beware the ‘Facebook Effect’ when service orienting information technology.

JP Morganthal, who has been pouring healthy doses of reality checks into…

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DIY Culture: Should Non-IT Employees Be Compensated for Building Apps?

A new survey from QuickBase, a unit of Intuit Inc. finds that…

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Passwords are the Weakest Link in Enterprise IT Security

Organizations are spending millions of dollars to beef up their data, application…

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NIST definition of cloud computing doesn’t go far enough

What is cloud computing again? Dave Linthicum revisited this question, observing that…

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NASA retires its last mainframe

CNET’s Steve Shankland reports that an era has ended.

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‘Society is Making Our IT Decisions for Us Now’

Cloud computing represents a tectonic shift for business technology and the people…

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5 Ways Cloud ‘Supercharges’ Enterprise Initiatives

Captain Query and Commander Spid are trapped in a multi-dimensional PowerPoint presentation…

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