New Report From Lustratus Research: A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances
We’ve just posted a new report up at www.lustratus.com that looks at a number of vendors offering devices that promise to lessen the burden of managing, accelerating and securing a service oriented architecture.
Authored by my colleague Steve Craggs, the report looks at “appliances” including IBM’s DataPower range, Layer 7′s SecureSpan XML Appliance and Intel’s SOA Expressway. I say “appliances” in inverted commas because Intel’s product is wonderfully described as a software “appliance”. Surely the award for the most spin in a product category goes to Intel.
The document can be found here. Steve tells me that he’s planning to look at devices from the likes of Solace Systems and TIBCO in future reports.
Danny Goodall
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5 CommentsLustratus 2010 Predictions for the Infrastructure Software Market
As is customary at this time of year, my Lustratus Research colleague Steve Craggs has launched his 2010 predictions for the infrastructure software market.
At this time of year many people make predictions for what the year to come will hold, only for them to be long forgotten by the time next year’s predictions come round. Uniquely then perhaps amongst other crystal ball gazers, Steve first grades himself on the predictions he made last year.
So take a look at the Lustratus 2010 infrastructure software market predictions to see how he did.
Danny Goodall
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Cloud Computing Explained – Without the Hype
My Lustratus Research colleague Steve Craggs has taken a step back from the hype surrounding Cloud Computing and has defined it for the layman.
Steve’s premise was that the Cloud Computing hype had reached fever pitch and that some of the claimed benefits had become pretty difficult to believe. He wanted to strip it down to the basics, define it and look dispassionately at the likely benefits and the trade-offs involved. Steve has also put some of the vendors and service providers in the space into the right context based on the Lustratus REPAMA Market Landscape / Taxonomy / Segmentation model.
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Cloud Computing Lock-in
My Lustratus Research colleague Steve Craggs ponders cloud lock-in…
…and asks the questions whether it is necessarily a bad thing here.
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Posted in All Blog Categories, marketing | cloud computing, lock-in, Lustratus, steve craggs | Leave a commentMy Colleague Steve Craggs on Patents and Cloud Computing
My Lustratus colleague Steve Craggs has been blogging about his concerns over patent cases for a long time.
Here he is looking at a case going through the East Texas District Court that could have a significant impact on the adoption of cloud computing. I just hope Steve doesn’t get stopped for speeding in East Texas any time soon.
Danny Goodall
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Posted in All Blog Categories, cloud computing | cloud computing, Lustratus, patents, steve craggs | Leave a commentA quantum of Solace? (Systems)
So, as I mentioned in my previous blog that Lustratus has been looking at companies in the High Performance Messaging (middleware) space recently. A couple of ex-colleagues from Sonic (Dave Clare and Annalisa Sarasini) have both found themselves in this space, with Solace Systems and 29West respectively. My colleague Steve Craggs is looking to produce a paper on the space so we arranged a couple of briefings.
Steve and I have both served our message oriented apprenticeship. Steve ran IBM’s MQSeries division for many years and I was part of the team at Sonic Software that brought SonicMQ to market and then launched the ESB category. So we both understand the manic vendor space… Continue reading
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Welcome to the Lustratus REPAMA blog from Lustratus Research. I’ve never been a fan of mission statements for the sake of mission statements. I guess that is because most that I read are painted in the blandest shade of beige or taste of vanilla. This tends to make them less of an “inspiring, rallying-call” type of mission statement and more of “a collection of boring indisputable facts that we think the CEO won’t fire us for putting down on paper” type of mission statement.
Mission?
That said, I think it’s worth setting out a plan for the type of material that we’ll be covering in this blog in future editions. So here goes. I want… Continue reading
- On Informatica, Evangelism, Audience Strata and BIG-DATA
- The marketing strategies of open source versus closed source ESBs
- Part 2 – First output from REPAMATron – WSO2 versus FuseSource versus Talend versus the ESB market
- First output from REPAMATron – WSO2 versus FuseSource versus Talend versus the ESB market
- WSO2 – Fits in between Talend and FuseSource…
- WSO2, or rather one of its competitors, has thrown its hat into the ring
- Wordcount.org – it counts words…
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