rlebherz wrote: Alf,
Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying.
Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
Nov. 20, 2009 03:42 PM EST
As part of its continual push to embrace
state-of-the-art technology, EON Reality, the world's leading interactive
3D software provider, is proud to join the ranks of top software architects
of the industry at Microsoft's The Architecture Journal (October 2009) with
their presentat...
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Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS),
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