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Free your data and the apps will follow

It's often said that in the cloud, apps really are just a conduit for data. It's all about the data. If you free up your data, exposing it to JSON and XML feeds, then this enables apps to consume that data. It enables a whole ecosystem of developers who will write apps based on it. But this imposes management and security concerns about how that data is exposed. I've written more about this over on ProgrammableWeb: Free your data and the apps will follow .

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Mark O'Neill is Chief Technology Office of Vordel. Vordel connects applications to applications, businesses to other businesses, and SOA to Cloud Computing. A regular speaker at industry conferences and a contributor to SOA World Magazine and Cloud Computing Journal, Mark holds a degree in mathematics and psychology from Trinity College Dublin and graduate qualifications in neural network programming from Oxford University.