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The six C's of effective metrics

Useful business metrics follow the six-C formula, beginning with connection and ending with communication

Interview: Gaurav Dhillon, cloud entrepreneur

Founder/former CEO of Informatica talks about SnapLogic -- his cloud integration startup -- and his prediction that 2012 will be 'year of the enterprise cloud'

Homegrown solutions: The good and the bad

One size fits all is a bad idea for IT -- so we have to find new ways to split the difference between build and buy

The real force behind the consumerization of IT

You can blame the iPhone, Salesforce.com, and Facebook, but the truth is that business itself has driven the shift to employee-directed tech

Ex-Amazonian urges Google to sample Amazon's secret sauce

Steve Yegge makes case for why Google needs to develop a single SOA platform on which to build, as Amazon, Facebook, and others have done

Microsoft unites SQL Server with Hadoop

Once a holdout, Microsoft now aims to bring big data to mainstream by integrating open source framework with Windows

The 12-fold path to IT bliss

To chart the way ahead, sometimes you have to step back and take stock of the really big picture

The secret to cloud success: Get a grasp on SOA

Before you move to the cloud, take some time to consider your IT architecture

Enterprise architecture to the rescue

Now more than ever we need enterprise architects to untangle legacy systems and processes -- and to embrace such exciting new developments as the consumerization of IT

The 2011 Enterprise Architecture Awards

In this year's InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Awards, six winning companies show how transformative initiatives translate to business success

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