Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Mazda uses Vordel infrastructure for implementing B2B communications with car dealers and partners. The goal is to improve business efficiency at dealerships and head office by reducing the double keying of information, and to provide streamlined access to multiple sources of information via one interface. A full case study is available on the Vordel website.
The information exchanged relates to vehicle sales, reservations, model and pricing information to ensure that Mazda and dealer systems are always complete and up to date.
The data exchanged is XML, coming from partners and suppliers (shown at the top of the diagram below), and car dealers (shown at the left of the diagram below). The Vordel Gateways were deployed on Sun Solaris machines running on SPARC.
About Mark O'Neill Mark O'Neill is Chief Technology Office of Vordel. Vordel connects applications to applications, businesses to other businesses, and SOA to Cloud Computing. A regular speaker at industry conferences and a contributor to SOA World Magazine and Cloud Computing Journal, Mark holds a degree in mathematics and psychology from Trinity College Dublin and graduate qualifications in neural network programming from Oxford University.
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