SOA filling the Gaps

Picture source: Wikipedia It is an annual ritual: predictions for next year. After a year, two years or 5 years you discover that some of the predictions were right, some were wrong and nobody is sure if other predictions were right or wrong. 2015 is not an exception.  Recently I read two article  about IDC's predictions. The two articles describe the same predictions. The articles phrase differently the same predictions.  I will refer to the first article titled: I DC's top ten predictions for 2015 .   However, the first article omitted an interesting point about Internet of Things Vendors. I will refer to what was written in the second article titled: IDC: top 10 technology predictions for 2015 .  No one, including me, could be sure to which category (right, wrong, unknown) a prediction will fail. I divide IDC's predictions to three groups: 1. trivial I am not going to discuss trivial predictions such as "Wireless data growth", "Pablets wil...

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons. Created by Sam Johnston using OminGroup 's OmniGraffle and Inkscape (includes Computer.svg by Sasa Stefanovic ) I participated on December, 2nd in the first day of IGT2009 The World Summit of Cloud Computing . The interesting event is organized by T he Israeli Grid Association which organized a similar event in 2008. The event's agenda includes presentations by global vendors ( Amazon , IBM , Microsoft , eBay , Netapp , Sun Microsystems ), local companies (e.g., Matrix) Analyst ( Bitcurrent ) an enterprise ( Intel ), local and international Guru ( Yossi Vardi ). In addition an Executives Panel and workshops took place. This post does not summarize the presentations, which will be available in IGT's Web site. It is my take. Enterprise Services vs. Social Computing Most presenters talked about Enterprise Cloud Services. Yossi Vardi's message was: people are the Killing Application of Cloud Computing . He presented examples ...