Jason Bloomberg

Cloud-native disruption comes into focus at VMworld
SiliconANGLE
August 30, 2019

VMware Inc.’s diverse enterprise infrastructure product line has found its way into the vast majority of information technology shops around the world. Uncover the company’s DNA, however, and it’s clear VMware is a hypervisor company at its core.

With Zowe, open source and DevOps are democratizing the mainframe computer
SiliconANGLE
July 29, 2019

The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and for hybrid information technology strategies in general.

Low-code app development: a surprising boon for professional services
siliconANGLE
June 11, 2019

Low-code platforms simplify and streamline the work of professional developers, enabling them to deliver enterprise apps in a fraction of the time of hand-coding, often with higher quality. What’s not to love?
If you make your money billing development hours for enterprise clients, however, low-code may very well look like a wolf in agile sheep’s clothing. Sure, delivering better-quality apps will keep customers happy, but losing all those billable hours has got to be tough on the bottom line, right?
Not so fast. From the large system integrators or SIs to hotshot boutique consulting firms, low-code platforms are a godsend, for a variety of reasons. The conventional wisdom that any tool that lowers billable hours is bad for business simply doesn’t apply in the digital era.

At KubeCon, the Kubernetes ecosystem goes all-in on cloud-native
siliconANGLE
May 24, 2019

The Kubernetes ecosystem was on full display at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona this past week. But many of these providers weren’t simply supporting customers’ Kubernetes efforts to implement cloud-native architectures. They were also taking advantage of cloud-native approaches themselves.

Is Ripple A Scam?
Import from forbes.com
March 01, 2019

At its core, the Ripple business model is a pump and dump scheme, as it undergoes numerous activities to increase the value of the XRP cryptocurrency (crypto). Unlike most crypto pump and dumps, however, Ripple takes numerous steps to obscure this basic fact.

JPM Coin From JPMorgan Chase Vs. Crypto Fans: Who's Missing The Point?
Import from forbes.com
February 22, 2019

Given that there’s little motivation to create a single-bank digital token and even less of a motivation to use a competitor’s, it’s not clear if the whole idea of JPM Coin is inherently flawed. Only time will tell.

Can Blockchain Help 'Fast Fiction' Disrupt The Streaming Media Disruptors?
Import from forbes.com
February 18, 2019

Fiction Riot isn’t a blockchain company that hopes to apply the technology to fast fiction. It’s a fast fiction company that hopes to leverage blockchain to disrupt the behemoths in the streaming video marketplace.

New IBM Cloud Integration Platform Highlights Confusion Over Hybrid Integration
Import from forbes.com
February 16, 2019

Hybrid integration means a mix of different integration technologies and such a mishmash may very well work at cross purposes to the very hybrid IT strategy that it is meant to support

Are Hackers Winning The Denial Of Service Wars?
Import from forbes.com
February 12, 2019

DDoS attacks may not be the quickest route to profitability for bad actors, but given the importance of this attack technique to nation-state cyberwar adversaries, we can expect continued innovation on the part of the hackers. Enterprises cannot afford to relax their efforts to combat such attacks.

Have Private Clouds Finally Found Their Place In The Enterprise?
Import from forbes.com
February 02, 2019

Distinctions of public vs. private vs. hybrid eventually become implementation details that organizations can configure as a matter of policy, while supporting the changing needs of customers in the digital era.

Think You're Cloud Native? Only If You're Doing This
Import from forbes.com
January 27, 2019

Cloud native architectures can clearly depend upon Kubernetes deployments that maintain state properly by leveraging HCI technology, but how do such architectures help with legacy modernization?

The Six Ways To Make Money Mining Cryptocurrency Are Equally Surprising
Import from forbes.com
January 20, 2019

Legal crypto mining using electricity at market rates is now becoming increasingly unfeasible even in places like Iceland which have exceptionally low electricity rates combined with temperatures conducive for data centers filled with heat-generating computers

The Eight Most Popular Cryptocurrency Transaction Types Are Not What You Expect
Import from forbes.com
January 19, 2019

Some crypto fans would have you believe that using crypto at your local coffee shop or even sending funds to your relatives in Venezuela for buying food there will be the prominent use of crypto at some point in the near future Dont believe it

Whatever Happened To Business Process Management Software
Import from forbes.com
January 15, 2019

If you believe that BPMS was really all about empowering all manner of business people to take greater control over the processes they participated in then low-code is the clear successor to BPMS

Cybercrime So Simple Anyone Can Do It
Import from forbes.com
January 06, 2019

Hacker groups are too numerous to count and the easy inexpensive availability of malware quickly disseminates the sophisticated work of one malefactor to a broad audience of less savvy script kiddies who are all too willing to exchange their hard-earned crypto for malware on the Dark Web

Seven Remarkable Takeaways From Massive Kubernetes Conference
Import from forbes.com
December 13, 2018

Containers represent the reinvention of virtualization for the cloud Virtualization was the core innovation that transformed enterprise IT in the last decade and containers promise the same for the next

Why Low-Code Is The Secret To Enterprise Tax Transformation
Import from forbes.com
December 11, 2018

Retailers tax function is so complex because it is so multifaceted from sales and VAT tax calculations at the point of sale to tax reporting for shareholders to calculating income property and other taxes tax challenges are inherently diverse and dynamic

Blockchain Internet Of Things And Artificial Intelligence Battle Hype At Expo
Import from forbes.com
November 30, 2018

It may seem that AI IoT and Blockchain are three disparate corners of the tech world but when it comes to the enterprise solutions I featured here there is an obvious common thread data

Bernie Madoff Move Over: 'Stablecoins' Have You Beat
Import from forbes.com
November 25, 2018

With the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the doldrums, a new scam is rising to the top, like bits of toilet paper in sewage: stablecoins.

Three Things IBM Must Do To Keep Red Hat Acquisition From Sinking The Company
Import from forbes.com
November 18, 2018

This acquisition is all about OpenShift which I believe IBM sees as the key to hybrid IT Hybrid IT a workload-centric abstraction across multiple public clouds private clouds virtualized infrastructure and legacy assets is the modern enterprise IT paradigm for the next decade

Seven Enterprise Startup Standouts At Massive WebSummit Conference
Import from forbes.com
November 09, 2018

My goal discover the most disruptive enterprise-focused tech startups Given WebSummits policy of featuring a vast throng of startups with numerous focus areas rotating daily during the four-day event uncovering these gems in the rough took some digging

Why You Should Think Twice About Robotic Process Automation
Import from forbes.com
November 06, 2018

RPA works best when application interfaces are static processes dont change and data formats also remain stable a combination that is increasingly rare in todays dynamic digital environments

Secret To DevOps Success? Be Like Lennon And McCartney
Import from forbes.com
October 27, 2018

Whether DevOps will finally bring the two sides of the enterprise together is still an open question. But the fact that the industry is recognizing that at best, the relationship among the players will remain contentious is a good sign.

NetApp Brings Clarity And Simplicity To Hybrid Multi-Cloud For DreamWorks
Import from forbes.com
October 25, 2018

DreamWorks has been a NetApp customer since the Shrek days and the vendor now provides far more of the animation houses infrastructure than merely its prodigious storage capacity NetApp data fabric helps us make better business decisions Swanborg said

Hurricane Florence Vs. The Cloud. Guess Who Won?
Import from forbes.com
October 22, 2018

Where before, companies’ fixed landlines at best supported limited call forwarding capabilities, RingCentral’s UCaaS gives its customers all the flexibility of a software-based communications solution in the cloud.

The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-Based SOA, and Mobile Computing Are Changing Enterprise IT
Wiley
February 25, 2013

A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision for achieving business agility through agile architectures
The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends into the context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise Architecture to support continuous business transformation. It focuses on the challenges of large organizations, while placing such organizations into the broader business ecosystem that includes small and midsize organizations as well as startups.
Organizes the important trends that are facing technology in businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next several years
Presents the five broad organizing principles called Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratization of technology, deep interoperability, and complex systems engineering
Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture in conjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing and mobile technologies that explain how organizations can achieve better business visibility through IT and enterprise architecture
Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agile architectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promise sudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations' spending on IT will continue to undergo radical change over the next ten years.

Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business
Wiley
December 10, 2007

How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business
"The real value of this book is that it makes SOA and Web services, which are critical and business-transforming, crystal-clear to the layman, both business and IT leaders. The book stays focused on the real-world issues facing business and government institutions today. In an industry full of experts of many stripes, Ron and Jason are the real thing: savvy, experienced, and realistic. They have produced a must-read book for management."
—Paul Lipton, Senior Architect, Unicenter Web Services and Application Management Computer Associates
"This is by far the finest publication on SOA of our time. From cover to back, Service Orient or Be Doomed! strips away the layers of confusion most IT stakeholders face when confronted with enterprise architecture, and illustrates pragmatic and practical paths towards a sustainable and efficient enterprise architecture. Both the technically savvy and the bean counters will enjoy this book that speaks to the critical points they need to understand."
—Duane A. Nickull Senior Standards Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Chair, OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee Vice chair, United Nations CEFACT (UN/CEFACT)
"If you're looking for a guide that's based on reality, this is it. These guys know how you can service-orient your enterprise and have the best chance of success. This book is the best SOA tool you can buy. I'm recommending it to everyone."
—Dave Linthicum, CEO, BRIDGEWERX
"Jason and Ron are experts on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and have written the first book that is aimed at helping a nontechnical businessperson understand why the SOA computing revolution is critical to business. Rather than provide a nerdy death via buzzword book, Jason and Ron take a humorous, clever, and insightful romp through this new technology and how it impacts business in general."
—Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital
Authors Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer-senior analysts for highly respected IT advisory and analysis firm ZapThink-say it all in the title of their new book, Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business. That is, if you fail to service orient your company, you will fail in competing with the organizations that do.
This provocative new book takes service orientation out of its more familiar technological surroundings within service-oriented architecture and introduces it as a philosophy that advocates its rightful place within a business context, redefining it as a new way of thinking about organizing your business and its processes.
Informal, challenging, and intelligent in style, Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business shows you how you can best use technology resources to meet your company's business goals and empower your company to go from "stuck" to "competitive."

XML and Web Services Unleashed
Amazon
July 03, 2002

The Extensible Markup Language is changing the way that information is being stored and exchanged. It is also changing the very way that we think about data. XML Unleashed allows you to unlock this new power and get you well on your way towards developing XML applications and systems that enable your most important business processes, or your simplest visions for data representation and exchange. Written for those already familiar with many of the concepts of XML, but still not sure how to make best use of the technologies, this book helps you become a more advanced user of XML. This book covers all the necessary topics from the basics of Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to the more advanced topics in XML database integration and the semantic web. This book is designed to be the only XML book that the reader will ever need on their shelf. XML is a standard and has become the common thread facilitating very different computer applications communicate by categorizing and tagging the data, reading, interpreting, sorting and linking the results. Within this book you will find coverage of important existing and emerging XML Standards as well as many varied and popular implementations of XML in this 21st century. We include WSDL, UDDI, SVG, ebXML Microsoft¿s .NET, which is the world¿s largest XML implementation to date and the Semantic Web which is just now being articulated.

Web Page Scripting Techniques
Amazon
September 01, 1996

Web Page Scripting Techniques takes the latest techniques in scripting and breaks them down step by step into easy-to-understand tutorials. More than one hundred specifically selected Web pages are used to illustrate advanced scripting techniques - always with a design sensibility and an emphasis on choosing the least complex way of getting the job done. The CD enables you to incorporate these techniques without having to understand the intricacies of JavaScript, VBScript, or HTML. You can learn by example and immediately incorporate what you learn!
The companion CD-ROM includes code from all the examples in the book for quick plug & play, text files for all the Web pages featured in the book, and bookmarks to scripting references and tutorials.

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SiliconANGLE
March 11, 2019

TOP 20 SOCIAL INFLUENCERS IN DEVOPS 2017
JAX DevOps
February 14, 2017

Who are the most influential DevOps people in the Twittersphere? After analyzing thousands of accounts, we created a list of people that every DevOps enthusiast or pro should be following.

Voices in Cloud – Episode 3: A Conversation with Jason Bloomberg
GIGAOM
April 18, 2019

In this episode of Voices in Cloud, host David Linthicum speaks with Jason Bloomberg about the evolution of public, private and hybrid cloud.

Various topics on digital transformation and disruption

Location: TBD    Fees: TBD

Service Type: Service Offered

Please contact speaker for more information.