http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/ Thought leaders in SOA, Web Services and Business Integration en-US Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:29:44 +0000 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/ci5lYsKCv1Q/cloud-computing-balancing-flexibility-with-complexity.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/11/cloud-computing-balancing-flexibility-with-complexity.html In the "Cloud Computing without the hype - an executive guide" Lustratus report, available at no charge from the Lustratus store, one of the trade-offs I touch on is flexibility against complexity. To be more accurate, flexibility in this case... Cloud Cloud Computing IaaS PaaS SaaS Steve Craggs Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:29:44 +0000 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/11/cloud-computing-balancing-flexibility-with-complexity.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/IWJDh6Mq0B0/introducing-cloud-for-executives.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/11/introducing-cloud-for-executives.html At Lustratus we have been doing a lot of research into Cloud Computing, as have many firms. I must confess the more I have dug into it, the more horrified I have become at the hype, confusion, miscommunication and manipulation... Cloud Cloud Computing Vendor news Steve Craggs Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:14:09 +0000 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/11/introducing-cloud-for-executives.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/KYh-Z--Viio/is-cloud-lock-in-a-good-thing-or-bad.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/10/is-cloud-lock-in-a-good-thing-or-bad.html I am doing a lot of research into Cloud Computing at the moment, and spent an enjoyable morning with Salesforce.com, one of the largest Cloud vendors. However, one thing that particularly piqued my interest was the discussion on Cloud lock-in.... best practices Cloud Industry trends Salesforce.com Vendor news Steve Craggs Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:04:47 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/10/is-cloud-lock-in-a-good-thing-or-bad.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/jRoVnsJ-i8A/at-last-cloud-computing-clarified.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/09/at-last-cloud-computing-clarified.html No-one can have missed the marketing and media explosion over Cloud Computing. Vendors talk of nothing else in an attempt to hook onto this latest hype, and analyst and media firms have stirred the pot. However, although very early in... Cloud Steve Craggs Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:28:20 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/09/at-last-cloud-computing-clarified.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/uzynEiu6J_U/bam-vs-bi.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/09/bam-vs-bi.html Lustratus recently received a comment to a post I wrote a couple of years back on IBM's acquisition of Cognos. The comment asked whether this meant IBM now had two BAM tools, COGNOS and WebSphere Business Monitor, and I thought... BAM BI Steve Craggs Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:06:05 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/09/bam-vs-bi.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/LEwDZbVmkK4/come-in-texas-east-district-court-your-time-is-up.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/09/come-in-texas-east-district-court-your-time-is-up.html If there is one thing guaranteed to get me gnashing my teeth, it is the role of the Texas Eastern District Court as the bully boy of the crumbling US Software patents world. For those unfamiliar with this marvelous district... Cloud Steve Craggs Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:50:50 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/09/come-in-texas-east-district-court-your-time-is-up.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/NeWGq603IGA/soa-esb-confusion.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/08/soa-esb-confusion.html I recently commented on a query in another blog about ESBs, and what they are in relation to SOA. Since this is a subject that I continueto get asked every now and then, even though I have blogged on it... enterprise service bus esb SOA Steve Craggs Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:50:48 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/08/soa-esb-confusion.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/vASPyEzTDyg/software-ag-sitting-pretty.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/07/software-ag-sitting-pretty.html Software AG seems to be defying predictions and surprising the market at every turn. Once seen as a sleepy European software house based largely around legacy system technologies, it has taken major strides to transform itself into a major global... BPM EA enterprise architecture governance Industry trends investment legacy systems Markets SOA Software AG Vendor news WebMethods Steve Craggs Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:53:27 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/07/software-ag-sitting-pretty.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/IgKcr3BATNE/mico-focus-reuze-misses-the-point.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/07/mico-focus-reuze-misses-the-point.html Micro Focus announced its latest mainframe migration tool, ReUZE yesterday - and once again it has completely missed the point. The background is that for companies looking to move off the IBM mainframe, Micro Focus has been offering solutions for... .NET IBM Industry trends legacy systems Mainframe migration Mainframe modernization microsoft Steve Craggs Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:17:10 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/07/mico-focus-reuze-misses-the-point.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/RonanBradley/litebytes/~3/PWApTXLI0sw/soa-success-and-what-causes-it.html http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/06/soa-success-and-what-causes-it.html I was recently pointed to an articlein Mainframe Executive magazine written by David Linthicum on the subject of "Mainframe SOA: When SOA Works/When SOA fails". I think the friend who suggested I read it was making mischief, knowing my views... best practices CICS enterprise architecture IBM Industry trends Integration legacy systems SOA Steve Craggs Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:59:50 +0100 http://blog.lustratusresearch.com/litebytes/2009/06/soa-success-and-what-causes-it.html