Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 2: Impact and Delivery Enhancements
Picking up from where we left off on the topics discussed in Gigaom webinar titled Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai, this week we cover the impact of consumerization, globalization, and mobility on application delivery and the prioritization of potential delivery enhancements. The webinar addressed the following […]
Read More →Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 1: Application Delivery Landscape
Last week i had the chance to participate as a panelist in a Gigaom webinar titled Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai. It was an interesting discussion, as it covered the topic from the points of view of the network and the data center, application development and […]
Read More →Unlikely PaaS alliances, strange offerings, and variable gauges
Recently we’ve seen developments in PaaS offerings that may strike some as odd or surprising: first, RedHat offers Microsoft .Net and SQL Server as cloud services, and then Microsoft offers Oracle’s flagship database, WebLogic Server middleware and Java on its Azure platform as “license-included virtual machine images” in the Windows Azure Image Gallery. What’s this […]
Read More →On APIs, JSON, Linked Data, attitude and opportunities
I’ve been meaning to revisit some of the things i’ve been writing about and getting feedback on lately – APIs, the JSON vs. XML “non” debate and Linked Data. My focus was going to be on JSON-LD as the low-hanging fruit of Linked Data, and this week some news came out that gave me the […]
Read More →Data modeling for APIs. Part 4: Linked Data and SPARQL
In the 4th part of this series of posts we look at a different way of data modeling for APIs, one that is based on Linked Data standards. First, some background and terminology. The terms that define the associated technologies have been the subject of debate, as well as the technologies themselves. In essence, these […]
Read More →Indexing Hadoop: If it’s so simple, how come not everyone’s doing it?
Is Hadoop really the best thing since sliced bread? You’d probably get this idea, if you have been talking to any of the (proliferating) Hadoop advocates / vendors. Hadoop and its expanding ecosystem are being touted as the ideal solution to any organization’s data management needs – and admittedly, for good reason. Hadoop offers a […]
Read More →Data modeling for APIs. Part 3: SOAP and XML
In the third part of this series of posts we take a look at some of the details of data modeling for APIs using an XML – SOAP approach. SOAP has been around for a while now, as it was designed as an object-access protocol in 1998 by Dave Winer, Don Box, Bob Atkinson, and […]
Read More →Twitter doesn’t like me, but it’s nothing personal: stock plunges, engagement, and walled gardens
I’m a very late joiner on Twitter. Even though as an analyst being active on Twitter is something that has come to be part and parcel of the job, i used to joke about my “no Twitter by Design” strategy. I had my reasons, some having to do with me, some with Twitter itself. Now […]
Read More →Mastering the business side of SaaS and IaaS
You probably know Gigaom and its expertise on, among other things, cloud. You probably know David Linthicum and Janakiram MSV as renowned cloud experts, and you may know myself from work we’ve done with Gigaom and Interworks as an up and coming vendor. Given that, you are most likely to be interested in our webinar […]
Read More →Data Modeling for APIs. Part 2: REST and JSON
In the second part of this series of posts we start looking into the implications of the choice between a SOAP and a REST approach to implementing APIs from a data modeling perspective. For most people a SOAP API is associated with an XML data model, while a REST API is associated with a JSON […]
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