3 months, 8 days ago
The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
That standard image that explains the difference between on-premises, IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS in the cloud? You know what, it is hugely misleading. Here is the real deal.
Infrastructure
11 months, 16 days ago
Pandemic Response Keynote – Smart Communities Virtual Series 2020
The Public Sector Network (PSN) invited me back this year to provide a keynote on our COVID-19 pandemic response for the Smart Communities Roadshow 2020 in Vancouver. I was fortunate to get to present the keynote in person at the 2019 roadshow last ye…
2 years, 11 months ago
Be the Change
Anyone fancy a job as Head of Infrastructure? Here is the job description, posted to Linked-In earlier this week.We’re responsible for “IT Change”, including the end to end architecture, deployment and maintenance of IT infrastructure technologies acro…
5 years, 8 months ago
DATA Act IT Infrastructure – Platform Consolidation, Virtualization & Collaborative Governance as Change Enablers
Momentum and activity regarding the Data Act is gathering steam, and off to a great start. Reaching the 2017/2018 milestones, however, will require IT infrastructure change.
Some change may be simple or take advantage of existing modernization
efforts; much change will be very difficult, complex and/or costly.
Strategies to prepare for this change, and catalyze it, are not yet part
of the government-led discussion – but they are now part of the
industry-led discussion, per this new Executive Report from ACT-IAC, co-authored by Oracle: “The DATA Act – IT Infrastructure Guidance Change Facilitation for IT Departments”.
8 years, 3 months ago
Implementing SOA through TOGAF 9.1: The Center Of Excellence
This is the first blog in a three-part series discussing the implementation of a Service-Oriented Architecture initiative through TOGAF(R) 9.1 Continue reading →
8 years, 5 months ago
Helping Your Helpdesk
Over the past couple of weeks, our American University of Sharjah IT teams have been working on creating a simple Service Coverage Matrix. We found that we had a knowledge gap with the distributed IT support structure at AUS. Not everyone knew who was the primary and the secondary service support analysts for all the technology […]
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9 years, 2 months ago
BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
By popular demand, many companies are shifting ownership of elements of corporate infrastructure onto their employees. This is known as BYOC (bring your own computer) or BYOD (bring your own device).
There are many aspects to this trend.
1. Culture. …
9 years, 2 months ago
BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
By popular demand, many companies are shifting ownership of elements of corporate infrastructure onto their employees. This is known as BYOC (bring your own computer) or BYOD (bring your own device).
There are many aspects to this trend.
1. Culture. …
10 years, 2 months ago
Microsoft Canadian Colleges Exec Briefing – Data Center Management
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 …
10 years, 2 months ago
Forrester Top 15 Technology Trends – Webinar Notes
Gene Leganza (@gleganza) VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Inc discusses and presents on Technology Trends. Gene used the following criteria (Impact, Newness, Complexity) to help describe the trends. In Oct 2010, Gene wrote about the Top …
11 years, 24 days ago
Enterprise Architect: Advisor versus Gatekeeper
A recent conversation with a colleague delved into the complicated world of new technology decisions. At every organization I’ve been at, this has been a source of contention between four major groups: Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Development Teams, and Engineering Teams. I specifically listed Enterprise and Domain Architects separately, because I’ve seen contention between those […]