Matt Quinn

Matt Quinn has been with TIBCO for 14 years. During this time he has had several worldwide roles. As CTO, Quinn works with all product groups to create a common, corporate-wide vision for all of TIBCO's products and technologies; ensures interoperability between TIBCO's various products families, as well as consistent architectural approaches across all groups; and provides overall leadership and coordination of TIBCO's product plans and technology direction. Up until his new role as CTO, Quinn has been responsible for the Composite Application Group (CAG). This group encompasses TIBCO's SOA, BPM, Infrastructure, Monitoring and Management, Governance and User Experience technologies. This group is responsible end-to-end for the engineering, quality, delivery of product, product vision, and customer enablement. Earlier in his TIBCO career, Quinn was a global architect, responsible for the delivery of some of TIBCO's largest implementations in diverse areas such as transportation and logistics, energy and finance. This was a hands-on role, building real systems architecture for production customers.


Take the Cloud to a Higher Altitude

May 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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This post was originally featured on May 21, 2013 in VentureBeat as a guest post by Matt Quinn, CTO of TIBCO.

We’re well beyond any question about whether cloud computing is the future. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) paved the way for the idea that organizations can operate some of their most important systems in an on- or off-premise cloud. Small, medium, and even large businesses accept that cloud computing delivers flexibility, cost, and scalability that business has never had before. Companies are gravitating to cloud because it brings very short time to value and doesn’t impact the current business model. Lower cost and less risk are very attractive propositions.

How big is this move? Forrester estimates that the average company has 9.3 different SaaS applications in use. Consulting firm Capgemini reports that 78% of new applications are deployed into the cloud — and that’s just the applications that are being tracked. In reality, workers today are practicing BYOS (Bring Your Own Service) as they experiment with SaaS in broad ways that IT, and even business managers, may not know about.

Cloud has its challenges

As cloud computing continues to mature and its use expands, it hasn’t been without challenges. The most significant limitation has been the increasing pain of a lack of integration between cloud applications and the rest of the business. This is a pain that becomes more acute as the cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise system invariably becomes more complex. On top of the integration challenge, the mechanics of cloud expose organizations to increased risk of data integrity, process latency and security. Oftentimes, SaaS applications are being marketed to the business, which likely looks at risk in a different way than IT or compliance. This is a challenge itself as the organization faces risks that aren’t understood or moratoriums on SaaS use that aren’t followed.

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Forecast for Business is Cloudy: Whether You’re Ready or Not

April 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Cloud computing is rapidly pushing companies for new models to virtualize physical resources, allow for more efficient use of servers and networks, and provide an ability to scale resources based on demand. Gone are the days of building infrastructure for the moments of highest demand, which then sits unused at off-peak times. We’re moving into the age of elastic computing that can happen on-premise as private cloud, off-premise as public cloud, or as a hybrid cloud mixture of the two.

Once the buzz for the bright, shiny object wears off (as it always does), we’re left with the reality that any new way of managing information technology comes with a different set of challenges we’ve ever faced before. With cloud computing, the challenge is squarely centered around integration.

It has to be faster and better

The world doesn’t stand still, and simply integrating to stay abreast of new deployment models won’t cut the mustard. There needs to be a way of integrating that takes into account increased and more complex connectivity, big data’s volume, velocity and variety, complex event processing, and driving it all, real-time analytics that are business-user friendly. Each of those requirements is a sizable challenge unless companies find cleaner, faster, streamlined, and flexible ways to integrate. [Read more...]

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Big Data is Distracting Us from the Real Conversation

March 29, 2013 by 2 Comments
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The world is easily distracted by technology’s bright, shiny objects and big data is no exception. “Find actionable insights” has become the rallying cry for several recent startups focused on Hadoop solutions who are ready to take your hard-earned funds to deliver this capability.

The less-often spoken reality is that the trends being hyped today make a very powerful argument for levels of integration that have never before been necessary. Before Hadoop can do its first map reduce, there needs to be a way to connect to, bring together, and govern a wide variety of data from different sources.

Once Hadoop does its work, there is a critical need for integration to take insights and turn them into actions that need to ripple through organizations in strategic, tactical and operational ways. The importance of integration to big data can’t be overstated. A main driving force behind the need for integration is the massive amount of operational data. Integration allows for deep data analysis, but also important, integration reduces the time to action to gain any real value from data.

Big data is a blanket term, but there are other specific integration needs that are also challenging most organizations:

Mobile data

Of all the trends in the marketplace, the move to mobile computing brings some of the most challenging integration requirements. Mobile is all about geolocation context that adds a layer of complexity, volatility and volume to integrating data. Mobile is all about the moment and integration needs to serve that need. [Read more...]

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Federated Cloud – What does it mean?

December 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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This is a confusing term. And, to complicate it further, it’s changing quite a lot.

Originally you have Public, Private and Hybrid clouds. Hybrid clouds were those that spanned  private and public environments. Essentially, the scale out scenario or cloud burst scenario was often used to describe peak load expansion to a public cloud environment (think holiday sales promotion requiring more horsepower).

Federated cloud usually describes joining up and managing multiple public cloud environments – but there is nothing to prohibit joining multiple public clouds to a private one (so some overlap with Hybrid).

The central idea is that you have multiple IaaS and PaaS environments in the cloud. An application or a set of services may require the joining up and managing multiple PaaS and IaaS environments.

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Why is HTML5 Relevant?

February 2, 2012 by 1 Comment
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HTML5In June, TIBCO announced a new enterprise-strength messaging solution for mobile and web applications. Given recent discussions in the industry, I thought it would be an opportune time to discuss what HTML5 is (and isn’t) – and why it is important. In my opinion, these new web technologies redefine the boundary between the OS and the browser. It is very important that we understand what we will start to see over the next 12-18 months.

Normally the world doesn’t really care about versions of HTML. End-users open a web page and just expect their browser to work. The reality is that there really wasn’t much to get excited about until a couple of years ago. When Google announced the Chrome web browser, they established strong support for HTML5. When Apple announced the original iPad in 2010 with strong HTML5 foundation support (sans Flash), HTML5 became the new hyped thing.

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