Latest News from Jake Sorofman

The “Last Mile” of IT Process Automation

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:31:00 EDT

We'll be taking on this topic in depth on Thursday, April 30th, with "Tackling the Last Mile of IT Process Automation," a webinar rPath is hosting with Forrester Research, Novell and BlueLock. You'll learn how this approach to automation can take the cost, risk and delay out of application delivery today, while setting you on the path for virtualization and cloud, which both require a new approach to application delivery and management. Join us for what will certainly be a great discussion.

Top Two Counter-Recessionary Technologies

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:30:00 EST

2009 is shaping up to be an "interesting" year. What makes 2009 interesting - rather than good, bad or indifferent - is the daily conflict between hope and despair for those on the good side of a bad trend. Like bankruptcy attorneys or pawnbrokers, some find themselves buoyed by a down economy, becoming only more relevant when the pressure is on to conserve. In the world of IT, perhaps the best examples of counter-recessionary trends are virtualization and its close cousin, cloud computing - both trends with direct cost benefits. When the economy contracts, the pendulum swings from revenue to cost. High on the minds of every CIO today is how to reduce capital and operating expenses and find ways to do more with less.

Recessionary Recitations: Reducing the Cost and Complexity of Application Delivery

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:00:00 EST

Let’s face it - 2008 was a real slog. Even the most wide-eyed optimist would agree that this was one year whose end was long overdue. Of course, ringing in the New Year doesn’t somehow wash away what has become a fairly deep recession, but it does symbolize the fresh start that I think we’re all looking for right about now. Doom and gloom may be the currency of trade these days, but I would argue that there are important lessons to be learned from this and any recession.

Recession-Proofing IT via Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:00:00 EST

Recessions are about as appealing as a root canal; but they do force us to think differently. Now that the recession is official, it's an ideal time to explore how virtualization and cloud computing can help "recession-proof" IT by transforming yesterday’s costly and rigid computing model to one that puts costs under control and sets applications free.

SOA's Second Act: Dynamic Documents Top the Agenda

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:00:00 EDT

While SOA has traditionally had something of a data obsession. While the focus has been on service-enablement of structured and transactional data and processes, documents and document-centric processes have been conspicuously absent from the SOA agenda. With structured data in order, organizations are now beginning to take a closer look at the role of unstructured assets as part of SOA.

SOA Governance and Management Issues

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:45:00 EDT

In today's business environment, change is the only constant, which makes speed and agility a key basis for competitive advantage. This is why so many organizations are moving toward services oriented architectures as the new basis for IT. But despite the considerable promise of SOA, it adds new complexity that can introduce IT and business risk. This is why governance has become an imperative for SOA projects today. This session will discuss the requirements for governing an SOA and the importance of a governance foundation for optimizing the value and mitigating the risks of a service orientation. It will discuss how governance enables organizations to transform the complexity inherent to SOA from a risk factor to a value generator. It will also introduce an innovative new approach for using SOA governance as the means for automating corporate governance by using policies as the control point for enforcing business and regulatory mandates; and will provide insight around the emerging requirements for SOA testing, monitoring and management.