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Cost Avoidance — Another Driver for Cloud Migration

June 28, 2018 by Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney

Reducing infrastructure cost has traditionally been the driver for adopting IaaS cloud-hosting.

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Why Bother with a Conceptual Reference Model?

October 17, 2017 by Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney

Think about the challenge interpreters at the United Nations undertake. First, they need to understand the concepts being communicated. Next, they translate the concepts for people who speak different languages — without coloring the information with …

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Highly Regulated Industries Can Move to the Cloud

October 3, 2017 by Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney

The cloud industry is loosely defined, unregulated, and quickly evolving. The typical cloud service provider (CSP) business model is very uniform.

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Business Architecture is Here to Stay. Here’s One Example Why.

September 13, 2017 by Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney

It seems clear that business architecture, as a discipline, is rapidly growing worldwide. Cutter Consortium’s business architecture experts William Ulrich and Whynde Kuehn are seeing the sophistication of how people are using business architecture exp…

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Conducting an Architectural Risk Assessment — Step 1

August 29, 2017 by Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney

An architectural risk assessment is not a penetration test or merely a vulnerability scan. It is an engineering process with the aim of understanding, defining, and defending all the functional output from customers, line workers, corporate staff, and…

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5 Steps to Connect EA to Strategy (a Very Short Summary!)

May 30, 2017 by Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney

Many enterprise architecture (EA) teams struggle with creating a program that demonstrates the level of strategic value that they believe EA should have.

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What is the Role of the Business Architect?

April 4, 2017 by Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney

There is a common set of questions burning in peoples’ minds when they think about the business architect role, whether they are new to the discipline or experienced but seeking to compare approaches.

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