John Footen

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The engineer Charles Kettering said, "There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

Perhaps one of the more common complaints I hear is about the inability to present clearly the massive amounts of information that are generated on a daily basis.

Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism, said, "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."

Every time we approach solving a problem—no matter in what arena—we are faced with unexpected changes and circumstances that we must adapt to.

In simplest terms the cloud is about accessing resources over a network.

With so many things happening I thought it to be a good time to give an update.

Oftentimes the work of someone looking at a facility can be as much an art as it is a science.

What should also be obvious is that standards are evolving more and more quickly. The average lifespan of a standard is declining.

I'll recount a few random things I saw at IBC2011 in September, in Amsterdam.

I answer some of the more frequent questions I get about service design and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Work around Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has progressed a great deal over the last year.

Always seeking simplicity should be a fundamental value in engineering design.