Anthony Gold is vice president and general manager, Open Source Business, Unisys Corporation. He is also a board member on the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). He serves as a business consultant for several startups in the Philadelphia region and is writing a book on how businesses can transform themselves leveraging open standards and services-oriented architectures. Anthony graduated from Drexel University with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering.
Efforts to modernize enterprise infrastructure have never been more complex.
While the need is certainly there on multiple fronts – competitive
edge, cost savings and new business initiatives, to name just a few –
new hurdles seem to pop up no matter where an IT administrator might look.
That includes not just management issues such as cap/ex costs and user
resistance, but also an increasing pancake stack of integration layers within
and among applications. New-generation software tools, legacy development
tools, back-end data resources, hardware infrastructure – all elements
need to play nicely, but few really do.
Enter single sign-on – and open source software – as a way to
facilitate the interoperability required.
The benefits of single s... (more)
In the early days the sheer novelty of open source software being free had a
certain allure. But actually using it meant dealing with myriad technical and
support issues - more than enough to make the price tag of commercial
enterprise software worthwhile. Fortunately, that's changed.
The last few years have seen much of the open source software portfolio
become mature enough not only to ... (more)
If you had to pick a single business benefit that service-oriented
architecture (SOA) can provide, it is the ability to respond to change.
Change occurs continually in a multitude of places that affect the
enterprise: the market, the supply chain, strategic processes, regulations,
and so forth. SOA can enable the creation of an agile environment that
creates stability in the face of chan... (more)
Anthony Gold is vice president and general manager, Open Source Business, Unisys Corporation. He is also a board member on the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). He serves as a business consultant for several startups in the Philadelphia region and is writing a book on how businesses can transform themselves leveraging open standards and services-oriented architectures. Anthony graduated from Drexel University with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering.
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