3 CIO Questions from TED 2012

Where do you get inspiration from?  How do you challenge yourself, your ideas, perspectives and plans?  An old friend and mentor used to tell me that it’s crucial to commit to learn about a few disciplines that are seemingly unrelated to your own.  The TED experience is one way to immerse yourself in many worlds – some somewhat comfortable and others wholly new.  I’ve been fortunate to attend TED for the last 2 years and […]

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20 Key Concepts Every Enterprise Architects Should Know

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Cloud Standards, Brokerage, and The French Laundry

The emergence and the importance of the role cloud-service brokerages have must be achieved against a complex backdrop that is difficult to negotiate, as it includes: cloud roaming data sovereignty throughput expectations reliability requirements scalability decisions geographical considerations costing models security capabilities interoperability needs integration needs bandwidth availability time-of-day for follow-the-moon provisioning …and the necessary […]

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Link Collection — February 26, 2012

  • Amazon queues up new workflow service — Cloud Computing News

    This is very interesting. Amazon brings cross-border orchestration to cloud(s) and enterprises; and presumably between business partners. Use for scale, flexibility and potentially integration.

    “Amazon Web Services says its new Simple Workflow Service (SWS) will run applications that are distributed between customer sites and Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, further blurring the line between the customer’s data center and their chosen cloud.”

    tags: amazon workflow cloud computing SWS SQS

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Journal of Enterprise Architecture, February 2012

The February number of Journal of Enterprise Architecture (Volume 8, Number 1) will be published early next week, and be available for download by members of the Association of Enterprise Architects.
FEATURES
Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze
Architect in the Spotlight: Mark Perry
ARTICLES
SEA Change: […]

How to Make Work Take Off?

In his best seller book Getting Things Done, David Allen identifies six vertically arrayed perspectives from which to define work. Using an aerospace analogy, he recognizes the following “altitudes”: 50,000+ feet: Life 40,000 feet: Vision 30,000 feet: …

I have no idea what you want!

You’re not being clear. I need you to be clear.

I have no idea what you’re saying. Are you asking me to do something? Is this informational? Why did I get this?

Having a reasonable command of the Engrish language, I fully understand each of th…