Just a quick note to say that I'm honoured to have been asked to
provide a keynote presentation at the upcoming CloudSlam 10 virtual conference
being held from March 23-25.
My presentation is scheduled for 11am ET / 8am PT on March 23rd...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 23rd February '10
One of the themes we delve into in our free online framing a Cloud
Computing strategy event is the emerging role of the Service
Integrator. This is something I've been talking about for a while
in discussions with clients but I thought I'd...
In the past couple of days I've read a couple of articles (IT cant be a service provider and a partner too and Run IT as a business—why thats a train wreck waiting to happen) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to run IT as a...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 19th November '09
When MWD started in 2005, the first topic we sunk our teeth into was SOA (it was 2005's Cloud Computing, pretty much).We researched the technology and the practice pretty thoroughly, I think (along the way tackling SOA 2.0 among other things), but...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 12th November '09
Our whip-smart Principal Collaboration Analyst, Angela Ashenden, has published some great blog entries recently. Over on her Collaboration blog, she hammers out why Adobe is in danger of missing a significant opportunity. Here's a great...
While I was at IASA's ITARC NYC the other week, Matt Deacon (day job: developer/architect evangelist for Microsoft in the UK; evening job: UK Chapter President of IASA) interviewed me about my thoughts on the value of architecture, the role of...
The other day I got a business update from Sonoa Systems, sparked by the arrival at the company by Sam Ramji—former Senior Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Sam is now the VP of Strategy at Sonoa.
As you can see in our report...
Last week I spent three days in Manhattan, attending the International Association of Software Architects (IASA)'s IT Architecture Regional Conference (ITARC) in NY. That's a long time for me to be anywhere - so why did I do it?
The first...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 26th September '09
On the fifth attempt, I finally managed to attend CloudCamp London earlier in the week. I'm glad I went—the camp format isn't for everyone, but it works well for topics like Cloud Computing where most of the value is in networking and...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 25th September '09
Regarding public vs private Clouds: what he said.
I have a real problem with the positioning of infrastructure that you buy, install and own yourself as private cloud—even if it is the kind of infrastructure that Cloud providers might...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
