Biography
Most recently, Houghton was the SVP Architecture & Strategy Executive for the infrastructure organization at Bank of America, where he drove legacy infrastructure transformation initiatives across 40+ data centers. Prior to that he was the Head of Wachovia’s Utility Product Management, where he drove the design, services, and offering for SOA and Utility Computing for the technology division of Wachovia’s Corporate & Investment Bank. He has also led leading-edge consulting practices at IBM Global Technology Services and Deloitte Consulting.
|
|
||||||||||||
Top Stories
|
|||||||||||||
NavigateSponsorship & Advertising OpportunitiesFor exclusive sponsorship or advertising opportunities on this site please email advertise(at)sys-con.com, 201 802-3021. Exclusive sponsorship opportunities are available as an annual contract. 
UlitzerCopyright ©1994-2009 Ulitzer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All marks are marks or trademarks of Ulitzer, Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Ulitzer, Inc. is prohibited.
|
|||||||||||||
James Houghton is Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Adaptivity. In his CTO capacity Jim interacts with key technology providers to evolve capabilities and partnerships that enable Adaptivity to offer its complete SOIT, RTI, and Utility Computing solutions. In addition, he engages with key clients to ensure successful leverage of the ADIOS methodology.
The deployment of infrastructure systems to support applications has been a
challenge since we first developed a choice beyond the venerable mainframe.
To some it’s a simple formula; take a server, toss in a little network and storage,
bake for a few weeks and you’re done. If you’re...
As enterprises move inexorably towards the Cloud, a faint murmur in the distance is growing louder and louder. What is it – the security forces objecting…the CFO wondering where their money is going now…business teams clamoring for faster response time? Good guesses, but this group nev...
The past week hosted the increasingly popular VMworld 2010 event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The title of the conference was “Virtual Roads, Actual Clouds”, but the undercurrent of the show was all about ‘VM stall’ and of course whatever vendor XYZ can do to help you get yo...
The past few weeks we have been discussing some of the mistakes made in early cloud deployments. This week we are discussing a key mistake that occurs fairly often; one that only manifests long after the solution is operational…blindly assuming that Cloud equals costs savings. Blasphem...
A few days ago we facilitated a passionate discussion on the subject of Blueprints (ah, the joys of an emerging market). The gist of the conversation was focused on deciding where limited marketing resources should be applied, and during that exercise a surprising insight came to us. I...
Ulitzer content is offered under Creative Commons "Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives" License.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get written permission from Ulitzer, Inc., the copyright holder.
Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.