by Dave McComb | May 17, 2012 | The Whiteboard
It mostly depends on whether you are the cloudor or the cloudee. If you are consuming cloud services theoretically there isn’t much difference, but practically there is. You will likely be paying more for a private cloud (not so much because it is inherently...
by Dave McComb | May 16, 2012 | The Whiteboard
There are four approaches (and a couple of the can be combined). The first is to implement on top of XP compliant data bases that allow the services to accept a commit to but still wait for the final confirmation. Given the heterogeneity of most environments this is...
by Dave McComb | May 15, 2012 | The Whiteboard
A good ontology simplifies your information management systems because it creates an enterprise-wide definition of what things are called and their interrelationships. In our experience, even the complex requirements of multi-billion, global companies can be organized...
by Dave McComb | May 15, 2012 | The Whiteboard
The world of traditional information technology is black or white. If something isn’t the same, then it is different. Every new distinction requires the creation of a new table. This creates a problem because once a new table is created the concept is considered...
by Dave McComb | May 14, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Inference is one of the ways that semantic technology simplifies information systems. Many of the manual assertions that must be made in the traditional systems can happen automatically in a semantic model. The more things you can infer, the fewer you need to assert,...
