SOA World Magazine

The term cloud computing was first coined in 2007. Enterprise Cloud Computing seems to have emerged as a term in 2009. It's now 2012 and many are trying to ride the wave of Enterprise cloud computing or private cloud into the future. In a short four years, we've seen this phenome... (more)

Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, on Thursday announced its acquisition of SharePoint911, an industry leader in SharePoint consulting, training, and "JumpStart" services within SharePoint. The unification of both companies provides capabilities to deliver ... (more)

A Munich court Thursday found Motorola Mobility guilty of infringing an Apple patent and handed Apple a permanent injunction against two Android smartphones. Apple can enforce the injunction after posting a bond lest MMI succeed in invalidating the slide-to-unlock patent (EP1964... (more)

Depending on how analysts define it, the market for cloud products and services is growing anywhere from 19% (Gartner) to 27% (IDC ) per year. The growth in public cloud service usage is even more robust. At Amazon EC2, the leading cloud services provider (CSP), average daily ins... (more)

In a surprise move on Tuesday, January 10, Oracle wheeled out its Big Data Appliance. That's the one it said in October would be ready sometime in the first half. Only nobody believed it meant early in the first half. Heck, it's not even clear anybody thought Oracle could make t... (more)

If you're like me, you rely on a host of cloud applications to get your job done each day. While the convenience and familiarity of apps built for the web is great, I can't help but notice the difference between each user interface (UI) I use. Currently, all cloud-based ERP softw... (more)

Following four months of intense development work on the part of 29 competing teams of undergraduate college students from around the country, online broker-dealer TradeKing (www.tradeking.com) today congratulated the “Stock Bros” team from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Compute... (more)

In my recent article on High Impact Cloud Marketing, I said: Viewpoint is a framing of the market in the context of your uniqueness.  The uniqueness of your team, your capabilities, and your vision.  Some call viewpoint thought leadership, some vision with a capital V, and some br... (more)

Quick Response (QR) codes are intended to help direct users quickly and easily to information about products and services, but they are also starting to be used for social engineering exploits. This article looks at the emergence of QR scan scams and the rising concern for users ... (more)

The Chinese company that claims it owns the iPad trademark says it plans to seek a ban on iPad exports out of China, threatening global supplies. According to what a lawyer for Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd told Reuters, the firm is petitioning Chinese customs to stop shipm... (more)

This guest post comes courtesy of Leonard Fehskens, Vice President of Skills and Capabilities at The Open Group. The enterprise transformation theme of The Open Group’s San Francisco conference reminded me of the common assertion that architecture is about change, and the implic... (more)

Like my colleague Alex Olesker, I too attended Cloudera Day 2012.  While there were many panels of interest, perhaps one of the most important was Amr Awadallah‘s talk about big data applications to business intelligence. Many CTOVision readers with backgrounds in the intelligenc... (more)

Cisco Wednesday filed suit in the European Union's second-highest court, the General Court in Luxembourg, challenging the European Commission's rubber stamp last October of Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype. Cisco says it isn't opposed to the merger, but figures the EC... (more)

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), announced today that entries are still being accepted for the Solutia World of Color Awards™  inspired by Vanceva®.  Launched in 2010, the international design awards program was created to honor architects, in... (more)

AFS Financial Solutions is the provider of best-in-class SOFTRAX® enterprise billing and revenue management solutions that fundamentally change the way companies manage, analyze, and forecast their revenue. The SOFTRAX solutions are dedicated to providing industry-leading billing... (more)

Application currency is the ongoing process of determining how current an application is, compared to the latest available version. Application currency is an emerging concept and is closely related to the concept of application compatibility. Application compatibility testing ty... (more)

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today a new cloud-based solution that provides on-road supply chain visibility to enhance efficiency for the transport and logistics industry in India--Trimble® trako Visual Cargo. With standard, e... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! 2011 was a year of rapid adoption for public and private cloud services. Instant and on-demand server provisioning was the driving force behind the massive growth. On top, cloud server templates and script automation simplified application ... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages a... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Building a cloud computing environment with on-demand access to compute, network, and storage resources requires an elastic infrastructure at multiple levels. Virtualization combined with x86 servers has transformed the way we scale out com... (more)