Information Technology

Andrea on August 2nd, 2010

It’s few years old, but still effective overview of Software as a Service (or SaaS) provided by www.infoworld.com

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Andrea on August 1st, 2010

There is no better place to start understanding the basic terminology than the W3C’s Web Services Glossary. Here you will find the official definition along with the acknowledgement that many things can be called as such. A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an [...]

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Andrea on July 30th, 2010

Nice introductory SOA video I found on youtube to help new entries have an understanding of the basics of this type of architecture.

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Andrea on March 23rd, 2010

On Friday I will participate to the 1st summit on Cloud Computing and Virtualization strategies organised by Business International at the Enterprise Hotel in Milan. It’s going to be a bunch of CIOs giving talks all day long on actual business cases, I hope it’s not going to be just a sales pitching exercise…

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Andrea on March 8th, 2010

Pam Baker’s article from CIO Update on the new skills needed by CIOs to succeed in this age Cloud Computing and software-as–a-service (SaaS).  http://bit.ly/aqymJj

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