SOA filling the Gaps

In my Vendor's Survival posts I wrote about many leading vendors. Few posts were on Microsoft:  Will Microsoft survive until 2021? - revisited Will Microsoft survive until 2021? Vendors Survival: Will Microsoft Survive until 2018? I also posted about Vendors technologies, strategies and acquisitions related to their Long Term survival. The post  Microsoft's Skype acquisition: Warning Signs ahead is an example. Yesterday, there was a long Microsoft Azure Service Outage . The reason for the outage was a time miscalculation for a leap year .  A long Service Outage is not unique to Windows Azure's PaaS  platform. There were long Service Outage in services provided by other Cloud Computing vendors such as Amazon and Google . The outage has nothing to do with Microsoft's Long Term Survival probability.   The reason for the outage is related to Microsoft's Survival: It is an indication of a very poor Software  Quality Assurance . Yesterday Microsoft proved th...

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...