38 days ago by dgftest

Is IBM onto something here, ahead of Microsoft? Indeed, Lotus-based organizations should see benefit from the secure enterprise microblogging as described below. Seems organizations based on Exchange would similarly benefit, if the upcoming Exchange 2010 release would include these "publish/subscrib ...

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44 days ago by dgftest

As previously posted, "cheap" servers really aren't cheap at all (Infoworld 5/2008), since recurring server operational costs are often as large or larger than the initial hardware capital investment. Below is a related update from Gartner, reminding us that " you can't manage what you can't measure ...

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52 days ago by eclectic

Wow!- The BCS Enterprise Architecture Speciality Group has secured John Zachman, the de facto father of Enterprise Architecture, and creator of the "Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture" (ZFEA), to speak at it's next event on Tuesday the 6th of October: Talk about a major coup. The BCS EA S ...

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66 days ago by Frank M

IBM offers virtual desktop through a cloud computing model to shift enterprise spending from capital investment to "buy by the drink" subscription payments. ...... "The new IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud subscription service helps clients virtualize desktop computing resources, and prov ...

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67 days ago by Frank M

Enterprise architects need to discover an organization's business context to properly align current and emerging technologies as enablers for the strategies of the business. ...... "Gartner recommends that enterprise architects get involved in the development of the business context and engage joint ...

Strategic Planning: ... - alignedstrategy.com/weblog · 1 reference

67 days ago by dgftest

Google's Site Reliability Czar: A clear explanation of today's gmail outage, as quoted below. IMHO, as painful and widespread as the outage was (a side-effect of "routine upgrades"), urgent and ultimately successful action was taken towards resolution. And of course, the true "secret sauce" that ena ...

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68 days ago by Frank M

The IT value chain is evolving, with some parts commoditizing and others shifting into new roles for the technology professional. Strategic work, in the future, will shift to architects who will fuse business and technology experience to create new solutions. ...... "Inside technologists will become ...

Strategic Planning: ... - alignedstrategy.com/weblog · 1 reference

81 days ago by Saul Caganoff

Dion Hinchcliffe has written a nice blog entry “ pragmatic new models for enterprise architecture take shape“. This resonates well with some of the things I’ve been saying about how enterprise architecture needs to be enabling rather than blocking: “In recent years enterprise architecture has been m ...

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87 days ago by Frank M

Trying to make sense out of software as a service and how to augment your existing enterprise architecture. CA extends their management tool(s) to support Amazon's flavor of SaaS. ...... "CA also plans to extend the capabilities of several Systems Management solutions to support Amazon EC2. The powe ...

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90 days ago by Manav Sehgal

Forrester, while coining and describing the term “Business Technology” (BT) distinguishes it from vanilla IT, based on increasing reliance of enterprises on technology driven processes embodying business operations to Internet based interactions across the business value chain. According to Forreste ...

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