Link Collection (weekly)

• Pinning Down Cloud Computing – WSJ.com

  Is Cloud Computing a backlog killer?

  “But while improved cost-efficiency and greater business agility are attractive, what really excites cloud enthusiasts are the macro-economic possibilities.

  Many cloud evangelists believe that the phenomenon enables companies to boost overall productivity by allowing them to satisfy what Mr. Wardley describes as the “long tail” of unmet demand for IT resources found within most firms. This has led some experts to liken cloud computing to the Industrial Revolution.”

  tags: cloudcomputing wsj

• EA Best Practices from the World’s Leading Brands

  I’ll be at #Troux2011 Great line-up of real-world #entarch

  “Boeing, Dell, Volkswagen, Cisco Systems and Discover Financial Services are among the world-leading companies getting strategic, real-world results from their EA and Business Technology Management initiatives.

  Hear how they’re doing it at Troux’s largest-ever User Worldwide Conference March 23rd and 24th in Austin, Texas.”

  tags: #entarch #troux2011 conference

• Event Processing Thinking: First comprehensive [field] survey on event processing

  “The first comprehensive survey on event processing was accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys, the leading avenue of publication for surveys. the survey was co-authored by GIANPAOLO CUGOLA and ALESSANDRO MARGARA and is available from the Politecenico di Milano webpage, the paper surveys the area from the days of active databases until current products. The paper view complex event processing, data streams and active databases as kind of information flow processing, and as such information flow contains both events and data, thus the scope of this survey is quite large.”

  tags: cep event_processing

• Event Processing Manifesto from Dagstuhl Seminar

  “The second Dagstuhl seminar on event processing took place in May 2010. This five-day meeting was oriented to work toward a comprehensive document that would explain event processing and how it relates to other technologies and suggest future work in terms of standards, challenges, and shorter-term research projects.
  The 45 participants came from academia and industry, some of them out of the event processing field. The teams continued the work after the conference and have summarized their findings in this document. The chapters were written by different teams and then edited for consistency. “

  tags: cep event_processing

• Maximum PC | The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History – Page 1

  “Very rarely do stories of women and technology vary in tone from the gender gap theme. Where are the women? Well, heck, we’ve been here all along – something we’ve recently pointed out in our Valentine’s Day piece about ENIAC. So, in honor of Women’s History Month and Ada Lovelace Day (March 24th), and all the women in tech, we’ve decided to pay homage by counting down the 15 Most Important Women in Tech History.”

  tags: history women_in_tech

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.