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One of the many buzzwords in technology and computing today is ?cloud.? With the rise in popularity of smart phones, many consumers now deal with the cloud on a daily

Many — if not most — organizations with extensive in-house IT and a significant percentage of home-grown apps have followed a progression that has led them to a big mess:

In an Enterprise Architecture distribution list I belong to someone posted an urgent request (to be honest, I’ve never seen a request for information on a technology DL that wasn’t

There are several definitions of enterprise architecture (EA) maturity. Many — if not most — are modeled on the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). Perhaps because the precise definition of

Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular concept actively exploited by Agile software development teams. The idea, originally formulated by Martin Fowler in September 2000, is simple and at the same

Until recently, developers approached applications with a mindset that matched the kind of application they were working on: desktop, Web, and, more recently, smartphone or tablet. Now that the distinctions

There is certainly no shortage of cloud services available to the average consumer, and the same goes for enterprises, but it seems as though many cloud offerings cater to one

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been dominating the enterprise IT world for the past few years by promoting the idea of loosely coupled services. Cloud computing is the latest IT trend

After you learn the basic concepts of the cloud, you need to assess the applicability of cloud computing for your application(s). In this article, I discuss some of the aspects