Overview In any market economy, vendors and service providers face the perennial challenge of having to deal with competition pursuing customers and threatening market share. The response is to develop product enhancements, additional service features or new offerings that retain and attract customers. The problem arises in determining which development project merits scarce development funds [...]

  TOSCA Tech Committee Announced: Good News for Cloud Community  OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) in cooperation with a number of IT industry vendor and consumer leaders, including 3M, ASG Software, CA Technologies, Cisco Systems, Citrix, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, VMware, SAP, Software AG and Symantec, among others, recently announced[1] the formation of the Topology and [...]

This blog appears in the Prism Micorsystem EventTracker newsletter. That  posting does not include the footnoted hotlinks that are included here.   The beginning of a new year marks a time of reflection on the past and anticipation of the future. The result for analysts, pundits and authors is a near irresistible urge to identify [...]