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It's been an interesting week for Salesforce.com Chief executive Marc Benioff. The Salesforce chief called for the creation of cloud interoperability standards for moving data between applications in rival clouds. Which on the surface appears to great step forward. Problem is he was very quick to contradict himself. Marc's stance on cloud interoperability is almost as confusing as trying to follow the recent back and forth between Hugh MacLeod, Nick Carr and Tim O'Reilly's wildly crazy epic on cloud monopolies.read more

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has been named "presiding director" of Exxon's board. It means that - in the name of corporate governance - he will chair the board in the absence of the real chairman, CEO Rex Tillerson, and chair executive sessions of the independent directors read more

Last Sunday I posted a blog entry from 456 Berea Street giving different Levels of HTML Knowledge. As they listed them, they are: Level 0 - doesn't know what HTML is Level...

In this session, a panel of instructors will conduct a Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop. The panel of experts will present a hands-on session focusing on data quality, data services and data access issues, problems and solutions. The workshop is an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the audience using walk throughs, examples, and a question and answer (Q&A) session. The operative principles are interactivity and dialogue.read more

I was in the bookstore the other day and found a book that purported to be a book for Web design inspiration. I ended up not buying it because it...

"The movement of information and services out of the data center and into the Cloud can unleash fear in many of us," concedes EMC's Mike Feinberg, Senior VP of the storage giant's Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. Cloud technologies nonetheless offer many benefits over traditional IT systems, Feinberg argues - "Especially when managing the size and vastness of unstructured data and unpredictable growth in IT environments," he notes.read more

It's hard to think about service-oriented architecture without thinking of services; after all, services are the main focus of SOA (it's even in the name). If service-oriented architecture is an approach where the business and technical architecture is oriented around services, then what exactly is a service? Unfortunately, the answer to this question varies greatly depending on whom you talk to and how you're using SOA in your organization.read more

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has been named "presiding director" of Exxon's board. It means that - in the name of corporate governance - he will chair the board in the absence of the real chairman, CEO Rex Tillerson, and chair executive sessions of the independent directors read more