Cloud Standards, Brokerage, and The French Laundry

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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

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  • 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

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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?

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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!

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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…

Government as a Catalyst: Prizes for Tech Innovation

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At this year’s South by South West Interactive (SXSWi) conference, I’m pleased to be moderating a panel on the role of government and prizes in stimulating technology innovation and providing public services. Federal agencies have recently been given the authority by Congress to sponsor competitions for individuals, groups, and companies to develop new ideas and technology innovations for a chance to win potentially lucrative prizes. These competitions can range from […]

Government as a Catalyst: Prizes for Tech Innovation

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At this year’s South by South West Interactive (SXSWi) conference, I’m pleased to be moderating a panel on the role of government and prizes in stimulating technology innovation and providing public services. Federal agencies have recently been given the authority by Congress to sponsor competitions for individuals, groups, and companies to develop new ideas and technology innovations for a chance to win potentially lucrative prizes. These competitions can range from […]

Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Transformation: Related But Distinct Concepts That Can Change the World

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Open Group experts discuss relationship of enterprise architecture to enterprise transformation. Do you need EA to succeed in transforming your business or do you risk conflating two distinct concepts? Continue reading →

Social Collaboration: Four Steps to Success

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Co-authored with Jeff Auker Enterprise software deployments are complex, customized to each customer and incredibly time consuming. To speed rollouts and improve customer satisfaction, one of the largest software companies in the world had a gutsy idea: let customers, partners and employees communicate about implementations. If connected, they could collaborate to uncover consistencies between installations that could be replicated, saving customers money. To make it happen, IT set up ad hoc internal social networking tools […]

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