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 on my way to STARwest in Disneyland, CA today, and since it's been a
little while since my last software quality-focused conference, I'm
particularly interested to see how these testing experts and vendors are
addressing the needs of a more distributed computing environment. Our own
expert Rajeev Gupta is coming in to present "Building the SOA Quality Center
of Excellence" at 11:30 PT on Thursday Oct. 2.
Joe McKendrick recently posted, CTO Predicts SOA Will Fade into SaaS. He
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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 o... (more)
Lately we've done a lot of research and publishing on how Dev & QA teams can
ensure better quality throughout the software development and release
lifecycle. But what about the IT Operations guys?
It seems we are encountering a disconnect between the Enterprise Architecture
and Integration disciplines that are moving to SOA, and the people who need
to monitor and maintain these systems in deployment. There are a lot of
companies starting to focus on better SOA Governance, which includes the
management of business processes and workflows, and the services and
applications behind t... (more)
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 th... (more)
Gone are the days when you could test an interface to a single client/server
app and know that you have performance covered. Today's interconnected
systems such as fully integrated packaged applications, ESB-based enterprise
platforms, and SOA make ensuring high-performance from application components
and solutions increasingly difficult. On top of that complexity, we are
increasingly supporting technologies that are built and managed by
distributed teams, both across organizational and geographic boundaries.
High-performance applications are critical to today's business. Clearly ... (more)
John Michelsen is co-Founder and “Chief Geek” at iTKO. He has over twenty years of experience as a technical leader at all organization levels, designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in traditional and network architectures. He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA cloud virtualization and testing product and a leading industry advocate for efficient software development and quality. Before forming iTKO, Michelsen was Director of Development at Trilogy Inc., and VP of Development at AGENCY.COM. He has been titled Chief Technical Architect at companies like Raima, Sabre, and Xerox while performing as a consultant. Through work with clients like Cendant Financial, Microsoft, American Airlines, Union Pacific and Nielsen Market Research, John has deployed solutions using technologies from the mainframe to the handheld device.
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