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Chris Potts will return to Denmark on 24-25 January 2013 to give an exclusive seminar: Driving Business Innovation & Performance With Enterprise Architecture: How to be a Highly-Influential Enterprise Architect. Chris Potts has just published the last book in his trilogy of business novels: “FruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, “RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary …read more
An architect looks at a valley and imagines a viaduct. She then describes this imaginary viaduct in great detail. As a result of her imagination, and the efforts of many engineers and other workers, when we visit the valley ten years later we too can s…
What is Enterprise Architecture?
Accurate. In plain English. Engaging presentation. You don’t need to work in information technology to understand it.
Warning: The visuals in this animation suggest that modularity is the way to reduce combinatorial co…
What is Enterprise Architecture?
Accurate. In plain English. Engaging presentation. You don’t need to work in information technology to understand it.
Warning: The visuals in this animation suggest that modularity is the way to reduce combinatorial complexity. Not necessarily. See the lego fallacy.
I ran across a really good high-level Enterprise Architecture video last week and thought I would share. It’s brought to us by ArchimateMusings blog. This looks to be a video that his company created to articulate EA’s overall function and…
Within a 15 minute walk of Camp Nou (home of FC Barcelona), The Open Group Conference “kicked off” on Monday morning with some excellent plenary presentations. You can see most of these Big Data presentations for yourself on The Open Group’s Livestream page. Continue reading →
Here is a LinkedIn discussion on “What would make TOGAF more usable?” that prompted my post here. A framework, according to whatis.com, is “a real or conceptual structure intended to serve as a support or guide for the building of something…
The Open Group sat down with Dr. Robert Winter, professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, to talk about Enterprise Architecture management and transformation management following his keynote at the Barcelona Conference on Tuesday, October 23. Continue reading →
“There is no significant meaning to the arrows between the boxes”. Ain’t that the truth! Perhaps more readily than any other profession IT architects reach for the whiteboard marker to try and explain themselves. It’s amazing given our limited symbolic repertoire, typically boxes, arrows, clouds and stick men that we so often fail to drive […]
In the last days a great blog post of Gerben Wierda was brought via various channels to my attention which contains a very good video about Enterprise (IT) Architecture: I do not want to add much to the tribal war between Enterprise Architecture and En…
What happens when other people take our cautious ‘It depends…‘ as an explicit Yes or No? What are the risks that we face as enterprise-architects when others force us to give a definite ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in relation to something that’s…
Metamarkets open sources Druid, its in-memory database — Data | GigaOM
Open source alternative to SAP Hana and Oracle TImes Ten:
“Metamarkets is open sourcing its in-memory database technology called Druid. The rationale for open sourcing a key piece of its technology platform is both altruistic (better all!) and a savvy recognition that if the startup doesn’t do it, someone else will build it.”
Cloudera makes SQL a first-class citizen in Hadoop — Data | GigaOM
Good article on the trend of adding SQL engines to Hadoop environments, in the context of Cloudera:
“veteran big data startup Cloudera is fundamentally changing the face of its flagship Hadoop distribution into something much more appealing. The company has developed a real-time SQL query engine called Impala that will sit aside MapReduce as a native processing option within Cloudera’s version of Hadoop. Cloudera is biggest and most well-known Hadoop vendor around, so opening its platform up to the wide world of SQL-trained data analysts is a really big deal — even if Cloudera is a bit late to the SQL party.”
Debates, Politics, and Predictions: Separate the Signal From the Noise | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Less data can be more:
“WIRED: How do we avoid spinning a narrative out of noise?
Silver: If you’re prone to overreact to new data, you should stick to basic models. Without a good framework for weighing information, having more can backfire.”
tags: data prediction
A Bandwidth Breakthrough – Technology Review
“Academic researchers have improved wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude—not by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to banish the network-clogging task of resending dropped packets.
By providing new ways for mobile devices to solve for missing data, the technology not only eliminates this wasteful process but also can seamlessly weave data streams from Wi-Fi and LTE—a leap forward from other approaches that toggle back and forth. “Any IP network will benefit from this technology,” says Sheau Ng, vice president for research and development at NBC Universal.”