"From one direction we see how businesses want to use clouds, mobility, big data and social tools to create new capabilities externally to do business in new interactive ways with customers," says Mulholland. "In the other direction, the challenges this represents to IT departments and in particular to the role of the CIO."
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This week: Virtual Developer Day, Arun Gupta on Java EE 6, Appc from Ant, Shared Sessions, PKI Credential Mapping, Web Application Filtering Classloader.
"[Enterprise IT Architecture] is to [Enterprise Architecture] what a Biologist is to a Physician," says Malik, "a respected colleague with a similar area of concern, but totally different role."
Thought for the Day
"The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it."