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Two reasons why good IT architecture matters: IBM's Grady Booch
Good architecture can open up new lines of business from an existing platform.
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Enterprise architecture and enterprise transformation: Related but distinct concepts that can change the world
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...
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Architecture and change: The proper end is fitness for purpose
This guest post comes courtesy of Leonard Fehskens, Vice President of Skills and Capabilities at The Open Group. By Leonard Fehskens The enterprise transformation theme of The Open Group’s San...
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MIT's Ross on how enterprise architecture and IT more than ever lead to business transformation
If you have all the money in the world, you're not forced to make tough decisions. Architecture is all about making tough decisions, understanding your tradeoffs, and recognizing that you're going...
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SOA paves way to 'postmodern' software regime: Gartner's Anne Thomas Manes
Lots of new clients, lots of new databases, lots of new APIs. All need to be service oriented.
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Business-IT alignment: What's next for this 20-year struggle
The most common story I encounter is simply that organizations spent a lot of time in the past creating their processes and then they spent a lot of time feeding technology solutions to those...
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Big Data forces IT to press reset button on architecture
From data warehouse to 'data lake': immersing your company in new depths of information awareness.
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Deep-dive panel discussion on HP's new Converged Infrastructure, EcoPOD and AppSystem releases at Discover
HP has updated and expanded its portfolio of infrastructure products and services, debuted a mini, mobile data center called the EcoPOD, unveiled a unique dual cloud bursting capability, and...
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Enterprise architecture’s quest for its proper identity
Enterprise architecture ought to be about the entire enterprise, because that’s what the name implies. If it’s really about IT, it ought to be called enterprise IT architecture.
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The new 2-tier client-DaaS architecture
Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need...
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Infosys survey shows enterprise architecture and business architecture on common ascent to strategy enablers
The business is taking hold of the value that enterprise architects bring to the table, enterprise architects have been able to survive the economic troubled times, and some companies have even...
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Move to cloud increasingly requires adoption of modern middleware to support PaaS and dynamic workloads
You want your PaaS to be a one-stop-shop for business service production and that means from the very beginning to the very end. You have to tenant and support your customers all along the way. So...
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IBM cooks up new storage architecture
IBM on Friday will detail a storage architecture dubbed the General Parallel File System-Shared Nothing Cluster that's designed to improve analytics and keep crunching numbers even through...
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Want client virtualization? Time then to get your back-end infrastructure act together
When you look at desktop virtualization, whether it’s a server-based computing environment, where you are delivering applications, or if you are delivering the whole desktop, as in VDI, to get...
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Open Group panel: Enterprise Architects increasingly join in common defense against cyber security threats
With openness, come these new threats. The vulnerabilities that we have of operating in cyberspace are magnified by ... identity theft, information manipulation, information theft, cyber crime,...
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New definition of enterprise architecture emphasizes 'fit for purpose' across IT undertakings
IT architecture is about three things: mission, solution, and environment. Both the mission and the solution exist in the environment, and the purpose of the architecture is to specify essentials...
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Understanding the value of reference architectures in the SOA story
Since we can't leave a good argument behind, we're going to use this ZapFlash to explore what reference architectures are all about and what value they have to add to the Service-Oriented...
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Do we need cloud oriented architecture?
One of the criticisms leveled at service oriented architecture is that the 'architecture' aspect has often been overlooked. In one of his latest analyses, ZapThink's Ron Schmelzer wonders where...
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HCM SaaS provider Workday's advanced architecture brings cloud business agility benefits to enterprises now
By using a unified SaaS service as a way to achieve integration across many far-flung services and processes, the so-called "cloud of clouds" principle can be achieved early. This drives down...
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BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is
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