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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…
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”.
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 →
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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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. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 […]