SOA filling the Gaps

In a previous post titled Hyped Cloud Technologies Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) tied in the fourth place in a ReadWrite Cloud survey of Hyped Cloud Technologies. Yesterday, I read a Forrester Research Note about PaaS, which may explain why it is rated as one of the most Hyped Cloud Technologies.    Simply, PaaS is immature technology.  Immature technologies related to in the spotlight topic such as Cloud Computing , are natural hype candidates.     PaaS and IaaS PaaS and IaaS are related concepts: both provide technology for development and deployment of applications in the Cloud. IaaS solutions such as Amazon EC2 or Amazon S3 provide basic platform for Application Development and Application Deployment.  It is only infrastructure. Unlike IaaS, PaaS provides a complete Application Platform which includes Development Tools (e.g     Integrated Development Environment ), Runtime Environmen...

What are the most Hyped Cloud Technologies? This was the question asked in a survey of ReadWrite Cloud readers.  As no details about the sample characteristics are disclosed the results couls be misleading. The results could be biased due to some of the following factors: 1. the number of people surveyed is unknown and could be too small for supporting any conclusion. 2. The sample could be biased. Do not forget that the site is sponsored by Intel and VMware and therefore you may find relatively more customers of these companies. 3. No sample characteristics were defined, so the people answering the survey questions voluntarily may not represent the whole population. The Results The most hyped Cloud technologies were in decending order: 1. NOSQL 2. Software as a Service (SaaS) 3. Private Clouds 4-5. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 4-5. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Least Hyped technologies were Infrastructure Apps and API and Data as a Service . Acco...

Image source: Wikimedia On August 4-6 I participated in Wikimania 2011 in Haifa ! The participants were Wikipedian from many countries, including Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales and all of Wikimedia Foundation directors, except one. The organizing team headed by Tomer Ashur, Wikimedia Israel's chairman and Deror Lin, Wikimania General Manager, achievements were exceptionally good both in the administrative aspects and the professional aspects.  Wikipedia is evolving and changing. It is not exactly the same community it was when I described it in one of my Web 2.0 for Dummies posts in 2008.  However, the challenges described few years ago in my post titled: Wikipedia: The Good the Bad and the Ugly  did not vanish.  Wikipedia case The evolution and challenges of Wikipedia and Wikipedia's Community are very similar to challenges facing other Web 2.0 projects and communnities, including Social Networking Services . However, there are also unique aspec...