Frank Kenney

As a Gartner analyst, I get to answer a wide variety of questions about a number of topics. Unfortunately SOA isn’t one of them.. By far companies ask me how to go about implementing an SOA. And after a warning of how there should be some kind of business need to relate the SOA initiative [...]

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More of what the technology providers aren’t telling you…
 
You want dough, you need governance. You want money you need regulatory compliance software. Whether it’s MFT, B2B or SOA Governance Technologies, how are you proving to Uncle Sam (our favorite uncle when money is being handed out) that you are compliant?
 
 
Companies start competing for bailout money
Insurers, [...]

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Ahhh Orlando Symposium is finally over. It was a successful event and I think that I talked with more users than ever. A few notes on my discussions:
1) It’s great to hear less of the where do I start in SOA discussions. (if you are still asking, Jeff Schulman has an excellent presentation on where [...]

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Or Why Governance = Oversight = Compliance = Regulations or whatever you want to call it.
Read this:

Unregulated swaps hastened Wall Street collapse
By JOHN DUNBAR – 
WASHINGTON (AP) — It can be a fine line between investing and gambling. But in Las Vegas, you know the odds. On Wall Street, that’s not always the case.
Especially when it [...]

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One of the coolest parts about visiting the west coast is that I’m on east coast time. So that means:

I’m wide awake at 5am
I’m on top of email
I get to listen to even more of Howard Stern
I get to read the papers!

The award for the coolest email this morning comes from Reid from Group Logic. [...]

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It makes sense don’t it. If I can’t send via corporate email because of constraints then I should just use some free options. Simple. But not so simple. If you are a security professional, legal counsel, founder or just the Board of Directors, you need to be concerned that there could be and likely is [...]

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So Gartner has blessed me with a blog to talk to the masses…. Surprisingly to many who know me personally I’m actually quite shy! So let me quickly lay out my personal agenda for this piece of the Cloud. (Sorry Cloud dudes)

A sobering discussion on technologies that may [...]

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