Mark O'Neill

Randy Heffner from Forrester has posted on ZDNet about how "Policy-based SOA will enable increased business value and agility". He does a great job of explaining how a Policy-based SOA affects different users. Firstly, there is the person designing the policy. As Randy says, the po... (more)

Maureen O'Gara provides further coverage of Microsoft's Cloud Migration patent application over in Cloud Computing Journal ... (more)

Very topical today when so much of the world is focused on the World Cup draw: David Evans from the University of Virginia discusses his Cryptography course exam question asking how the World Cup draw could be rigged. ... (more)

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer Today, Alexander Wolfe has been speculating about Microsoft's patent application regarding data migration between cloud services. Although on the face of it, a patent for Cloud migration would appear to be aimed at removing the lock-in associated with a singl... (more)

Microsoft Developer More commentary on Microsoft's "Migrating Data to New Cloud" patent application: - Loraine Lawson in IT Business Edge - Gavin Clarke in The Register And, of course, the patent application itself: ... (more)

James Urquhart has assembled a very impressive list of examples of Cloud Computing in practice. Examples include: Number of applications running on Force.com: 135,000 Number of applications hosted by Ruby on Rails platform service vendor Heroku: 40,000+ Objects stored in Amazon ... (more)

How are Clouds made? By leasing an anonymous-looking building, buying commodity servers by the mile, then engaging an infrastructure guy like Randy Bias to put it together? No - I meant real clouds. So on the day after Thanksgiving, I brought my son to the Liberty Science Center ... (more)

SOA in the Cloud on Ulitzer Token translation using SAML is now quite an established way to allow applications in one security domain to communicate with applications in another security domain, on behalf of a user whole identity does not have to also flow with the data. For mor... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer The ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) today released the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment document. The document does well by including a focus on SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) because, as the report says, "Given the redu... (more)

SOA & WOA Magazine on Ulitzer The free SOAPbox tool includes a command-line interface, called SR ("Send Request") which allows you to script the load-testing of a Web Service. You can use SR to send multiple requests to a Web Service, to simulate multiple clients, to connect thr... (more)

The area of XML Performance Offload bridges not only applications in a SOA architecture, but also the use of Cloud-based PaaS services which often are invoked using XML (e.g. SalesForce.com's WSDL interface) or are invoked using REST-style interfaces which return XML. Vordel's XM... (more)

Google on Ulitzer Techcrunch reports that Google has some implicit suggestions about newspapers, based on the drop-down suggestions it gives when you begin a search with "Newspapers are." It's a nice example of the hive mind at work. But check out the first suggestion Google give... (more)

You've heard of XML feeds being consumed into a Service Bus - now here's a consumable Bus Service XML feed. The Boston-area MBTA provides a real-time Web Service feed. For example, this request returns an XML document containing details of current locations of the 39 bus which ru... (more)

Maureen O'Gara presents a sneak peak of the Vordel Cloud Service Broker private beta over at Cloud Computing Journal Contact Vordel at info@vordel.com if you'd like an invitation to the beta.... ... (more)

The analysts MWD have recently issued the results of their Cloud take-up survey Headlines are: 54% of respondents highlighted that their organisations are already investing in Cloud Computing, or are planning to planning to invest at some point in the coming year.61% of those wit... (more)

This Government Computing News article, written by Trudy Walsh, covers Vordel's Cloud Service Broker launch: http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/10/vordel-debuts-cloud-service-broker.aspx ... (more)

If you want to read more detail beyond the Vordel Cloud Service Broker announcement, then this White Paper is the place to start. It is available at the URL below: http://www.vordel.com/scripts/downloadA.pl?downloadfile=VordelCloudServiceBroker.pdf ... (more)

Jeff Burt has posted an article on eWeek covering the Vordel Cloud Service Broker announcement last week at the vordelworld conference: The tool—which can be bought in an appliance, as software or as a virtualized service in the cloud—essentially is an “on-ramp to the cloud,” [V... (more)

A full schedule today at VordelWorld with talks by Amazon, CA, Oracle, and others - not to mention Vordel product training. Here is a quick selection of Twitter and Reuters coverage: A sample of VordelWorld-related tweets: @Beaker : http://twitter.com/Beaker/statuses/5449668380 @cl... (more)

Vordel's annual user conference, VordelWorld, kicks off this evening with registration followed by a Drinks Reception in the Radisson Blu on Golden Lane in Dublin's city center. Main sessions, including talks by Amazon, Burton Group, Oracle, CA, Cross Country Auto, and the mobile... (more)