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As cloud adoption continues to rise, the so called ' second wave ' of cloud computing becomes less of a prediction and rather a reality we have to deal with. In the past 2 years or so for example, almost in every customer engagement I've had, 'the cloud' has been at the very least a topic of discussion. In most cases it has actually been within the scope of our activities. This is not surprising of course as the term 'cloud' itself can mean ten different things to ten different people. The sad part is though, that is has been years since the first wave of cloud (started by Amazon) and there's still a fair degree of confusion in the topic. In fact, I still often refer to the  NIST definition of cloud  to explain what cloud computing and PaaS actually is and how traditional on-premises middleware installed on IaaS isn't PaaS or iPaaS. This is in fact one of the main motivators of this post. iPaaS The term Integration Platform as a Service , or ...

A few weeks ago (just before Oracle Open World 2013) I had the pleasure to interview with Caroline de Lacvivier. Interviewing with Caroline was a fantastic experience as her questions were spot on but most of all it felt like an open conversation in a topic I am really passionate about rather than a formal interview with some reporter. After the interview I took notes of her questions and decided that I should elaborate more on my answers by creating this blog post. The original articles produced after the interview can be found in the following links: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/soa-talk/oracle-open-world-speaker-luis-weir-focuses-on-what-matters-the-customer/ http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/feature/Mobile-developers-agree-HTML5-and-JavaScript-apps-fall-short Following further elaboration on my answers: 1.             What new service/innovation is HCL Tech particularly proud of? Why? Technology...