Radovan Janecek is VP, Software Engineering at CA based in Prague, Czech Republic. Formerly he was the Chief Architect for HP Software’s largest product group: Business Technology Optimization. He has been involved in SOA for many years. Most recently, he was responsible for all development for HP SOA Systinet, the leader in the SOA governance market. He was also a key member of the team that founded Systinet, the company that defined the SOA governance space.
Reading the Everybody Lies article I recalled my impressions from 2003(2)?
when I had met with the Unlimited Scale (former name of Cassatt) team. My
main doubts back then were about the pain - do the IT folks really feel
enough pain to invest into the new architecture of super-scaling Linux
servers? Steve did an analogy [...]
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Whenever IT professionals discuss the benefits of SOA - full utilization of
IT resources, reduced infrastructure costs, and the agility to deliver new
services quickly - they usually issue a caveat. They warn potential adopters
of the inherent complexity of SOA, and point out that unless SOA is properly
managed and governed, it's apt to fail.
It's a valid concern, which is why I recommend... (more)
This is amazing surprise to someone like me who has spent entire career with
distributed enterprise systems. The mainframe, this dinosaur, this
centralized soon-to-be-dead computing platform is becoming the king of the
distributed world. Of course in addition to being the king of the datacenter
from the workload perspective. The arrival of technologies like z/Linux [...]
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It’s very good to read about the need for non-transparent cloud from
Werner. We have learned that most of the ‘location transparency’ promises
and goals in distributed computing were actually harmful creating more pain
than benefits. Transparency is nice idea but only until you hit the wall -
whether you are a developer or operator [...]
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Radovan Janecek is VP, Software Engineering at CA based in Prague, Czech Republic. Formerly he was the Chief Architect for HP Software’s largest product group: Business Technology Optimization. He has been involved in SOA for many years. Most recently, he was responsible for all development for HP SOA Systinet, the leader in the SOA governance market. He was also a key member of the team that founded Systinet, the company that defined the SOA governance space. 
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