The lifeblood of the financial services industry is information, and I have found financial services firms to be early, innovative technology adopters. Electronic trading exchanges have delivered business services ‘in the Cloud’ for many years, and financial specific compute grids deliver actionable market intelligence (e.g. piCloud, RiskMetrics). As Cloud computing moves beyond the definition phase and technology infrastructure vendors deliver viable products, advanced Cloud computing concepts are starting to Occupy Wall Street.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Gartner’s and Cobiacomm’s analysis of WSO2 SOA Governance
WSO2, the lean enterprise middleware provider, announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of a new report, Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies[1]
My analysis (from an ex-Gartner research team leader), the placement demonstrates WSO2 team leadership in defining a vision for policy based service governance. Continue reading
WSO2Brasil community
Is your native language Portuguese? The WSO2Brasil blog contains useful community sponsored documentation in Portuguese. According to the blog site, WSO2Brasil is a Brazilian community of interest which is intrigued by the WSO2 platform WSO2. The community exists to share knowledge and news, in addition to helping to spread the technology. The community members are interested in WSO2 products due to the code-free integration of Carbon modules and support for the creation, connection, composition,and governance of services via a complete SOA platform.
Imitation is Flattery – PaaS styles and architecture options
Within the span of two weeks, I have seen Richard Watson’s PaaS style framework posted twice on the Web. In one case, the text was copied verbatim from Richard’s research report. In the other instance, a self-described technocrat artfully repurposed the concept without attribution (http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2024287 ).
First Day at WSO2
You and I probably do not make a page-turning career move each day. Pivotal moments are often far apart. After eight years at Burton Group (and Gartner), I am excited to start my new career chapter today by joining WSO2 as Vice President of Technology Evangelism.
- How many organizations provide an opportunity for you to be a pioneer and define the industry?
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