Describing the elephant the different faces of IT as service.

Describing the elephant the different faces of IT as service.

In a well-known fable, a group of blind men are asked to describe an elephant. Each encounters a different part of the animal and, not surprisingly, provides a different description.We see a similar degree of confusion in the IT industry today, as terms such as service-oriented architecture, grid, u...

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Pubblicato in:ACM queue : architecting tomorrow's computing. 3, 6 (2005).
Autore principale: Foster, Ian
Natura: Articolo
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: New York ACM 2005
Soggetti:
Computing Milieux.
Management of computing and information systems.
System management.
Centralization/Decentralization.
Computer systems organization.
System architectures.
Computer communication networks.
Distributed systems.
Distributed applications.
Software.
Software engineering.
Software architectures.
Domain specific architectures.
Information systems.
Information storage and retrieval.
Systems and software.
On-line information systems.
Web-based services.
Management.