John Michelsen

Server virtualization provides an immediate reduction in hardware and configuration cost. But in focusing merely on the hardware side of virtualization, are we leaving money on the table? While organizations can reduce the number of boxes they need, and save the cost of replicating servers for virtual test beds, these servers are becoming commodities. What if we could apply the benefits of virtualization where we spend 80 percent or more of the IT budget – in the key enterprise software that runs our business and in the extensive development, support and maintenance costs of these applications? Today’s leading businesses rely on a mix of distributed technologies and new functionality, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA). Virtualization can improve the... (more)

The Cloud Computing Model Won't Catch Up with SOA Anytime Soon

John Michelsen's Blog It will take a while for SaaS in a Cloud Computing model to catch up with SOA. One obstacle for the pure plays in the cloud to join SOA is to recognize and deal with the increased testing and validation of data from even more diverse sources, as well as the governance and validation of all the underlying technologies that contribute to specific business outcomes. I'm... (more)

Are AJAX, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and SOA Related?

Server virtualization provides an immediate reduction in hardware and configuration cost. But in focusing merely on the hardware side of virtualization, are we leaving money on the table?  While organizations can reduce the number of boxes they need, and save the cost of replicating servers for virtual test beds, these servers are becoming commodities. What if we could apply the benefits ... (more)

European SOA: Ahead of the Curve?

I'm in Germany right now, looking forward to a session at ZapThink's Practical SOA in Frankfurt event tomorrow. I'll be joining some peers from companies like T-Mobile, Swisscom, Novartis and SwissLife who are going to be sharing their own SOA success stories. Why does SOA seem to be moving forward a little faster in Europe than in North America? We've posed these kinds of questions in our... (more)

Service Oriented Virtualization - Webinar & White Paper

We have been doing so much with Virtualization in this blog that I have wondered if you guys are getting tired of it, yet almost every comment I get in person and most of the press requests are around the virtualization concepts for SOA. And you know we've recently produced some new thinking on how to leverage all this with our Service Oriented Virtualization white paper and released major... (more)