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January 9, 2009
Silver Lining
So here it is, 2009. What is the hottest topic of the year, besides expressor software? Cloud computing. I thought the VM charge-for-usage model died in the early nineties, but we found a new way to sell it and guess what? It is good.
Don't get me wrong, I am still skeptical this is just more marketing hype by the bigger vendors, but it could actually work. This is how:
Departmental Marts
Business units have been fighting IT for business data for decades. How do I know? Look at all the desktop databases hosted on the business user desktops of corporate America that run the company. We can be honest, we are adults. IT just made the process too difficult; backups, capacity planning, and storage are all taken care of in the cloud. Build it in the cloud and things get a whole lot easier.
Data Services
The ability to cross reference natural and surrogate keys is paramount to DI success. Yet time and time again they are created from scratch in every project in the organization. So put the service in the cloud and have EVERYONE utilize a common service. I must say I dislike this acronym but this is SOA for the masses.
B2B Data Exchange
Let's be honest here, FTP is the backbone of B2B. My earliest recollection of FTP was downloading Linux in the early nineties from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Why are we still using this in B2B? Imagine a system where sending B puts the data in the cloud. Now receiving B goes into the cloud to get the data.
That is progress.
-- John Russell, expressor chief scientist and co-founder
Posted by expressor software at January 9, 2009 8:45 AM
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