The Attachmate blog on legacy modernization ... and other technology trends

Like everyone else, I am seeing tablets and smart-phones in use everywhere.  This includes where I work and at the customer sites I frequently visit.  Though an interesting aspect of this is, very few of these respective IT shops are sponsoring these devices — employees are simply using their personal devices.  It already seems too [...]

I came across this article, “Making Legacy Applications Flexible,” by Mike Vizard on his blog, “The Future of IT Architecture”. Mike gives a great example of the benefit of reusing legacy applications through service-enablement. The blog highlights a legacy modernization solution that Scotia Bank pursued and does a nice job of highlighting the benefits of allowing [...]

I was working with a customer on a project earlier this month and heard an interesting perspective surrounding technology decisions from an enterprise architect. He was making a point about the pitfalls of talking too much about technologies within a solution when presenting the benefits of the solution to the customer (line-of-business.) As the guardian [...]

Cloud computing is a topic that is hard to ignore. You see it in the trade news, you hear about it from industry pundits, and you watch, often with some discomfort, companies attach themselves to its newly found cachet–in any way they can. A few years ago this was SOA. Today, SOA’s stock is not [...]