Dan Sholler

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Archives for January, 2009


The shocking truth about "private clouds"

by Dan Sholler  |  January 22, 2009  |  Comments Off

It is always amazing how something so obvious can become so confusing. Shared services are shared services. SOA is about creating software as shared services. All of the developments around virtualization, and the infrastructure utility (Gartner subscriptions required) are about changing our infrastructure and operations management to shared services… and guess what? Private clouds (or [...]

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SOA.. and the data is still hard

by Dan Sholler  |  January 15, 2009  |  Comments Off

I have recently been inundated with questions about the design of message formats. While these questions vary from techniques for XML extensibility to issues about how to create common elements for messaging standards. Underlying all of these questions is a basic challenge: Creating a common set of shared services requires a common information model.  We [...]

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