Comments on: Generalizing the Cloud vs. SOA Governance debate

By: William Vambenepe — CMDB in the Cloud: not your father’s CMDB

William Vambenepe — CMDB in the Cloud: not your father’s CMDB — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:16:44 +0000

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By: William (@vambenepe on Twitter)

William (@vambenepe on Twitter) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:09:43 +0000

To Drs. Albert Spijkers:

MTOM/XOP is the kosher, standard, way to send binary content over SOAP. OVF is a wrapper around a virtual disk, and usually the whole package comes as a zip archive, therefore it’s a candidate for being transported over MTOM/XOP.

By: Drs. Albert Spijkers

Drs. Albert Spijkers — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:18:11 +0000

Hello Mr Vambenepe,

What is OVF over MTOM/XOP? I know a lot but not that!

Friendly greetings,

Drs. Albert Spijkers

By: Mark Cathcart

Mark Cathcart — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:54:20 +0000

“IBM probably has Rational, WebSphere and Tivoli distinguished engineers locked into a room, discussing and over-engineering it at this very minute, etc.”

spat coffee over my keyboard…

My view is the cloud versus SOA thing is more about people wanting to be seen to do the right thing. I wrote this just over a year ago http://cathcam.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/is-soa-dead/ to address this mob think pattern we so often see in the IT Industry. I genuinely thing it has as much to do with many IT Guys social skills as any technology.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:00:28 +0000

“There is a lot at stake, and it would be nice if this was driven (industry-wide or at least within each of the contenders) by a clear understanding of what we are aiming for rather than a race to cobble together partial solutions based on existing control points and products (e.g. the hypervisor-centric party).”

Death panels! Pre-Existing Conditions! Socialism! Big Pharma! Wait, wrong debate… Though now I’m thinking through bad jokes about the debate between the “Public Cloud Option” and the “Private Cloud Status Quo”.

The main challenge, I think, is that despite the enormous hype out there, we really haven’t seen a lot of pressure from the bottom or the top of IT to make the process or cultural changes to drive such drastic changes in service transition & service operations (to use the ITIL terms). Most middle-IT managers have barely heard about cloud computing, or think it’s a sick joke. Though, if the economy remains to suck for another year or two, then this change might be forced….