Comments
By Roger Strukhoff
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Cloud Expo on Google News
Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news?

SYS-CON.TV: JBoss's Seam: Eliminate Complexity and Build Next-Generation Web 2.0 Applications

SYS-CON.TV
Cloud Expo & Virtualization 2009 East
PLATINUM SPONSORS:
IBM
Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
IBM
Smarter Insights: How the CIO Becomes a Hero Again
Microsoft
Windows Azure
GOLD SPONSORS:
Appsense
Why VDI?
CA
Maximizing the Business Value of Virtualization in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Environments
ExactTarget
Messaging in the Cloud - Email, SMS and Voice
Freedom OSS
Stairway to the Cloud
Sun
Sun's Incubation Platform: Helping Startups Serve the Enterprise
POWER PANELS:
Cloud Computing & Enterprise IT: Cost & Operational Benefits
How and Why is a Flexible IT Infrastructure the Key To the Future?
Click For 2008 West
Event Webcasts
Service-Oriented Architecture
Why 'Enterprise Architects' Are Ineffective with SOA
The fact is, tactical needs have trumped strategic direction over the years

By: David Linthicum
Feb. 11, 2008 07:00 AM

Architectures are like archaeology; in essence, layers upon layers of systems, applications, databases, and connections, typically built or procured to solve a tactical problem.

Many corporations talk a good game and brag about the strategic long-term direction of the enterprise architecture that serves the business. The fact is, tactical needs have trumped strategic direction over the years. Thus, layers upon layers of technology on top of technology are the end result, and an architecture that is inflexible, static, fragile, and thus difficult to change along with the business requirements. This is the norm, not the exception.

Published Feb. 11, 2008— Reads 8,962 — Feedback 2
Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.
About David Linthicum
Dave Linthicum is the CTO of Blue Mountain Labs, and an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. For the last 10 years, he has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing, including working with several cloud computing startups. His industry experience includes tenure as CTO and CEO of several successful software and cloud computing companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities, including University of Virginia and Arizona State University. He keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and has several well-read columns and blogs. Linthicum has authored 10 books, including the ground-breaking "Enterprise Application Integration" and "B2B Application Integration." You can reach him at david@bluemountainlabs.com. Or follow him on Twitter. Or view his profile on LinkedIn.

In order to post a comment you need to be registered and logged in.

Register | Sign-in

Reader Feedback: Page 1 of 1

Of course the argument that there are bad motor vehicle drivers is in no way an argument against the goodness of motor vehicles and the current need for well trained, disciplined drivers of those vehicles.

SOA is fine if apoplied pragmatically and for business gain. Most Architects have their heads up their own arses and have no idea of the business need and will happily see projects fail or damaged and business cases blown as lons as rigid architectural purity is preserved. if they had their way most businesses would have lovely architectures and no business.


Your Feedback
Universe wrote: Of course the argument that there are bad motor vehicle drivers is in no way an argument against the goodness of motor vehicles and the current need for well trained, disciplined drivers of those vehicles.
Neil Murphy wrote: SOA is fine if apoplied pragmatically and for business gain. Most Architects have their heads up their own arses and have no idea of the business need and will happily see projects fail or damaged and business cases blown as lons as rigid architectural purity is preserved. if they had their way most businesses would have lovely architectures and no business.
Latest Cloud Developer Stories
By Elizabeth White
Can you bring services from the cloud to your customers faster and have them adopt it with ease of use or bring the power of bundled services to the fingertips of your clients without creating new rigid ‘apps stove pipes'? Do you want to prevent your business running away to publ...
By Pat Romanski
OCZ Technology Group, a provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, on Tuesday announced the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCI Express (PCIe) flash storage solution, designed to accelerate cloud computing applications and reduce operating expe...
By Liz McMillan
Many organizations have embraced, or are considering, the benefits of cloud computing – speed, flexibility, increased expertise, shared workload, reduced costs, etc. The benefits are many – but so are the risks. What are the threats to cloud security? Which parties assume respons...
By Elizabeth White
In August 2011, SHI Enterprise Solutions (ESS) division launched the SHI Cloud, offering reliable and cost-effective industrial-grade cloud computing platforms. That same division achieved an 82 percent increase in revenue over 2010.
By Liz McMillan
SoftLayer Technologies on Tuesday announced the immediate worldwide availability of SoftLayer Object Storage, a redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service that allows users to easily store, search and retrieve data across the Internet, with optional CDN connectivity, or ...
MORE »
Subscribe to the World's Most Powerful Newsletters
Subscribe to Our Rss Feeds & Get Your SYS-CON News Live!
Click to Add our RSS Feeds to the Service of Your Choice:
Google Reader or Homepage Add to My Yahoo! Subscribe with Bloglines Subscribe in NewsGator Online
myFeedster Add to My AOL Subscribe in Rojo Add 'Hugg' to Newsburst from CNET News.com Kinja Digest View Additional SYS-CON Feeds
Publish Your Article! Please send it to editorial(at)sys-con.com!

Advertise on this site! Contact advertising(at)sys-con.com! 201 802-3021
SYS-CON Featured Whitepapers
Most Read This Week
By Jeremy Geelan
By Bob Hockman
By Brian McCallion
By Steven Yaskin
By Jeremy Geelan
By Jeremy Geelan
By Udayan Banerjee
By Udayan Banerjee
By Jeremy Hess
By Maureen O'Gara
By Liz McMillan
By Maureen O'Gara
ADS BY GOOGLE

Breaking Cloud Computing News

Cinterion, the global leader in cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communication mod...

Feb. 14, 2012 08:00 PM EST
MORE »