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Joseph Gulla

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Joseph Gulla is the general manager and IT leader of Alazar Press, a publisher of award winning children’s books. Joe is a frequent contributor to IBM Destination z (the community where all things mainframe converge) and writes weekly for the IT Trendz blog where he explores a wide range of topics that interconnect with IBM Z.

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Middleware Is a Surprising Category of Software

Joseph Gulla

December 16, 2020

IT Trendz has explored several main ideas revolving around middleware in 2020. Joseph Gulla reminisces in his latest post.

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Continuous Change in Systems, Networks and Applications

Joseph Gulla

December 8, 2020

Joseph Gulla looks back back on some of the main ideas explored in IT Trendz in 2020.

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Cloud Integration Middleware Is Growing

Joseph Gulla

September 30, 2020

In his latest “IT Trendz” post, Joseph Gulla explores cloud integration with IBM products.

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IBM Redbooks: A Look at the Website’s 3 Tabs

Joseph Gulla

August 12, 2019

Joseph Gulla explains the different tabs on the IBM Redbooks website.

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Valuable Sessions Continue on Day 2 of the 2019 ECC Conference

Joseph Gulla

July 19, 2019

Joseph Gulla highlights sessions from the 2019 ECC conference.

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A Look at the IBM Global Solutions Directory

Joseph Gulla

July 1, 2019

This post is the last in a series on ISVs, service providers, the Dallas ISV Center offerings, PartnerWorld and the IBM Global Solutions Directory (GSD).

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Three Innovative Middleware Solutions

Joseph Gulla

December 17, 2018

A discussion of WebSphere Application Server, IBM Cloud Integration and IBM Automation Platform for Digital Business middleware offerings.

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Three Innovative Middleware Solutions

Joseph Gulla

December 17, 2018

This week, I am finishing up this three-part series on middleware. In the first post in the series, I discussed the roots of middleware in what I referenced as the real history of middleware, with the real roots being in centralized enterprise systems. Last week, I discussed the taxonomy and market size of middleware. This […]

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Top Project Management Trends

Joseph Gulla

September 16, 2018

In the previous two posts, I have established a research-based view of the importance of good project management and the role it plays in successfully completing projects. “Research-based” means it’s not my opinion, but rather what I discovered by working with a large sample of data from other people. In this post, I want to […]

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The Significance of Technology Change and IT Innovation

Joseph Gulla

August 20, 2018

This week, I am continuing this series on important ideas that have helped to shape IT in the modern era. Technology change, that force that moves technology forward, is one of those very powerful momentums in IT. However, IT innovation is its own specific kind of technology change that nevertheless has a significant effect on […]