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Rick Bakken, Senior Director, Data Center Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation Delivering Infrastructure to the Cloud Data Center Innovation – asked the question “Why are we building giant refrigerators for our data centers?” In the …
Joshua Rice, Director of Cloud Services & Innovation, Microsoft World Wide Public Sector Technology Office Microsoft Cloud Services for Education – Early learning and next generation services Change continues to drive innovation: physics = co…
John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada Data Sovereignty and Privacy John’s job is to avoid “those unintended consequences” around technology adoption. Discussion about what constitutes cloud computing especially being clear about the context. SaaS, PaaS and IaaS all have different contexts and require different approaches when considering data security and privacy. Microsoft Infrastructure Investment – data […]
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James Garner Ptaszynski, Ph.D. – Senior Director, World Wide Higher Education Strategy jimp@microsoft.com Microsoft Priorities for Higher Education – Creating the University of the Future – Today (stop waiting for tommorrow’s …
Anthony Salcito, VP World Wide Education, Microsoft – tonysa@micorosoft.com 617-877-2780 Technology in Education – Expect More Today’s Challenges attract and retain students, researchers and academics in an increasingly competitive en…
The Open Group Conference, San Diego: I’ve found these conferences over the past five years an invaluable venue for meeting and collaborating with CIOs, enterprise architects, standards stewards and thought leaders on enterprise issues. It’s one of the few times when the mix of technology, governance and business interests mingle well for mutual benefit. Continue reading →
The CEO was referred to as ‘the architect of the enterprise’ long before ‘Enterprise Architecture’ was coined. The ‘architect’ metaphor was used in 60s and 70s and became quite present in the strategy management literature of the early 80s. And really, big part of the job of C-level executives is to manage (different domains of) […]
I seem to be on a roll writing about my impressions of Forrester Research articles recently. I meant to dig into a blog post by Forrester Research analyst Henry Peyret from December, 2010 earlier. Henry explains the approach taken to gather informati…
Rob Koplowitz of Forrester recently posted, Why Tibbr Matters. He provided some examples of where an activity stream across a network like Tibbr could add value, and some examples where it couldn’t. I responded with a comment and I wanted to elaborate on my comments here. Activity streams tied to your company that are available […]
We really can’t explore the theme of people in enterprise-architecture without addressing the theme – and problem – of power.
In principle, power should be straightforward. The physics definition – roughly speaking – is that power is the ability to do work. Wherever there’s work to be done – in whatever form that that ‘work’ might […]
As mentioned in the previous post, one of the key characteristics of ‘crossing the chasm’ to a viable whole-of-enterprise architecture is the explicit inclusion of people. In short, we need to be able to model and map where people fit in relation to the architecture.
But there’s a catch. A big catch. People should not be […]