The great challenge—and opportunity—of cloud: interoperability

GigaOM writes, Interoperability, and the challenge of maintaining control of operations in the face of it, is a central issue for those that operate distributed applications on the internet — or “in the cloud.” In this case, however, I’m not talking simply about creating and controlling interoperability from the developer level. Tools and services like Dell’s Boomi or IBM’s CastIron have existed for years, and have some success in delivering more flexibility to integration between applications and services. However, these services are focused on solving the...

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